The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-12-22

1 reach a great halo of happiness and ! glory in the world to come.
 Hence it is that so many persons i deprecate any analysis of this doing good. In point of fact, if the good ness of some persons is investigated terial basis indeed. But that is to be avoided exposure at all costs, and in consequence cant and hypocrisy are stamped for currency and meet mutual approval.
 Nowadays much more practical | idea has found approval, and that is that by promoting individual happi- ness, the collective happiness is pro- noted, and accordingly the happi- ness of society is to be estmiated in the happiness of it's individual members.
 The unfortunate fact about this and which renders it so unpopular with the higher-ups is that it shows no favorable balance in the ledgers, and cannot be written up and eX- pressed in dollars and cents.
 Moreover it is one that calls upon those higher-ups who have a sur felt of those things which contribute to the gratifiation of human needs. desires, necessities, 10 explain if in truth their surfeit has not been ac- quired at the expense of their fel- lows.
 In consequence we see those higher ups closing their eyes com pletely to actual facts of their lives and endeavoring to persuade society that they emit an order of sancity and goodness when socially it is an odor of the animal zoologists class | ify as the mephis mephitica. They found churches, charitable institu- tions, buy stained glass windows, do- nate high altars, pension schools, establ hospitals, and have some of those wonderful things pass by | been gouged out of every cent of it. And society, so many of us are parasitic, closes it's eyes to the source of all this charitable" dona- tion, and praise the donator as one who does good.
 There is hardly any question that the only reason why good is better than evil is that it rebounds more to human happiness, and it is also true that things are good for us or bad for us as we find them conduce to our happiness. But our happiness is collective thing. It is no longer individual and personal. Our lives are collective lives, lives in associa- tion, labor in the collective. organiza- tons in industry, social activities all it is that the individual happiness can only be properly realized in the collective happiness, and the individ- ual that seeks it's happiness in the collective misery or at the expense of the social collectivity is per se immoral, anti-social and, whether we are compelled to honor him be- cause of his great wealth, his life is wholly evil even if he makes effort to conceal the fact by charities.
 If human welfare and happiness were the inspiration and the incen- tive of industry and not private pro- fit, there would be no need for any charities. If labor was not footed at the point of production relief" funds and charitable cares would not be required.
 Society finding its fulfilment in the collective happiness would look after itself. But it does not. It al- lows the individuals to loot it, to make it miserable, to rape its well fare, to poison it with slums and slumeries, to sicken it with vile dis ease, to smash the health and main the physique of it's individual mem- bers for the benefit of the few, and then when the few turn round and establish foundations and establish a chapel and chaplain on their private estate. society is expected to fall over itself in rapturous admira- tion of these men who do good.
 It may well be doubted whether the wholly vicious man who makes