The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-04-29


The charges of the last Is wears
socially, industrially and economical.
~ have been great. yet believe they
are infinitesimal compared to the
changes that are coming.
believe these changes are min, N
deal most largely with the relation
ship of man to man.
The Day Of Individualism Gone,
In this country we have been living
In an age of the utmost freedom to
the individual. 1t has been the indiyid.
ualistics period. when the order of the
day has seemed to be every fellow for
himself and the devil take the hind.
most"
We have gloried in the freedom Of
the individual and have practieed this
freedom to a point where, in MANY
phases of our life. It has Amounted tn
license to do almost anything that we
pleased or that brought profit or fan.
cied renown, regardless Of its effect on
ones fellowmen.
IN the carry days. when instantan.
eous decentralization did not ex-
ISL, ~hen education was meagre and
science undeveloped, what the individ-
ual did was of comparatively small
consequence. for his deeds did not
reach very far and did not affect MANY
people.
with REORGANIZATION drawing
the world together in one centralized
community. the act of the individual
can affect large number Of people;
therefore, that form of freedom which
is simply another expression for H.
cense to do a. one pieases can no
longer exist.
When Manhattan was sparsely set
tied and most of the people lived on its
southern end it would noS have mat
tered much had there been a case of
smallpox Mt the north end. The pa
tiept could have done pretty much as
he pleased without cndangering any
one else.
But a case OF smallpox in the north
ern end. Of Manhattan today must be
Immediately to protect
other people.
When was boy there was no So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, and had any one suggested
that man could not whip his horse
as much as he pleased he would have |
been ridiculed. Indeed, in those days
the idea that a man had not the right |
to beat his own child as he pleased !
was given little attention.
When we were all driving horses and |
buggies there was no speed limit and a |
man did not have to procure license
to drive horse. With the advent of |
the automobile a license has become |
necessity. The public must know that |
the man who operates an automobile |
ond. to control it,
Society Is finding it necessary to |
take away much of what has hitherto |
been called freedom of the individual"
In my judgment this process is only
in its infancy
Relation Of Capital and Labor.
The freedom of tho business man to
do as he pleascs Is now being seriously |
and most heartily agree
with what MIR: John ID. Rockefeller, Jr
said recently at Cornell university to
the effect that ono of tho chief quail |
fications for a manager Of a large bus
mess concern is rapidly coming to be
the human quality and ability to adjust
differences between capitalist and la
borer and to understand their relation
ship.
Until recent years little broad think
ing was given to this problem and diff
ferences were settled on the basis OF
might makes right" All this is rap
idly changing and we are entering a
period of new Industrial relationships.
In the long ago the relationship be- |
tween capital and labor was that of
owner and slave, then came the period
of master and man. then the period of
employer and employe. each period be.
ing a decided step forward.
In my judgment we are just now en-
tering period Of partnership,
where the tool user will be part tool
owner and where capital and labor will
share more equitably In the profits of
the business in which they are jointly
engaged.
This advance is inevitable because Of
our educational system, which teaches
the working man to think for himself.
1t is inevitable because intercom-
munication has told the working men
In one community what the working
men in other communities are striving
for and achieving.
It Is inevitable because strikes and
lockouts can never be settled satisfac-
torily or permanently by merely rails
ing a mans wages.
1t is inevitable because 1t gives sta
bility to business and because it 10 a.
advantageous to capital as to labor.
AZ a matter Of fact, when q work.
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