Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-26
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Observation-Disclosures 26, 19l
THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH.

Is it not cooperation. in various
forms, but on a vast scale, toward
which the world as whole is driving,
or at which it virtually has arrived
within the short period of four and Il
half years?
The late Earl Grey, one time gov
ernor of Canada, left a dying mes
sage, in which, peradventure, he
struck off the note of the new time.
Here are his words quoted in a re-
cent issue of the London sunday OBJ
server:
II am certain Of this--charaeter is
poisoned by self -intcrest. ! don't care
how good u man is, when it is his in
terest to cut down wages or 10 give as
little of his Skill as he can, that man
will inevitably lose his sense of justice;
he'll deteriorate. Give him another
principle; make him feel that he owes
n duty to his fellow men, convince nm
that he is responsible for the welfare
of others. and all that is good in that
mans nature will grow and expand,
The principle of cooperation makes
for this condition. It draws the whole
community together. 1t breaks down
barriers. IT unites the state. 1t gives
hope to the humblest toiler. And II
strengthens the great moral ideal of
duty. without which no state can en-
dure.'
This might be taken as the ideals.
tic, the moral. the Christian state
ment. There is a corresponding eco
monte statement Necessity--precip-
itated by war but operating mere
slowly before war urged it on-is
compelling cooperation if men are
not to starve, if civilization is to en-
dure, if society is to be preserved.
Cooperation upon a scale never
supposed practicable is necessary to
preserve us from the extreme of m
dvidualism--ana Society that
will not become cooperative, threat
ems to be a society that can no longer
exist Unless men cooperate they
are in danger of revertins 10 III" ia
dividualstic estate Of every man for
himself and devil take the lnnd
most" But that is irtGossiblc, re
cause it would be TO perish.
so complicated has society become,
so interdcpendent its units, that moth
ing can serve short of complete CO.
operation among all the units. OF
these corporations there are two
kinds: cooperation secured by conf
plete subsection to a directing master;
cooperation secured through the will
ingness Of all free men to work to-
gether for the common good The
two sorts of cooperation We're APP
proximated before the war. the first
IN Germany. the second in France.
We of America will not have the
German sort. We have seen the other
extreme working its ruin in the an
archy of Russia. We are cropping to
find ourselves in America. Not many
years ago capital sought to employ at
the lowest possible figure, and labor,
in turn. sought to get the largest
wages for the least possible work.
The American capitalist must agree
that employees and consumers In ="
rights which limit the profits on in
vestment. The American laborer
must understand that he cannot be
permitted to have higher wages thai,
he can earn honestly. His wages
must be based on production, on SER
vice to society. Only so much can De
produced. and each man is entitled to
his proportion of that production, and
no more.
If we take over the railroads and
the mines and the land, the liVes.ccH
and the packing plants. then comes
the problem of management ard by
what means all of US shall lie COM
PEELED to work IN order that enough
may be produced TO enable all of us
to live with some degree of comfort.
IL the billion and half human re-
ings in the world are 10 he able TO
feed clothe, sustain themselves, and
TO live in security, to pursue any sor.
Of happiness, they will have TO CO.
operate as citizens within states, as
sister states.
Such is the necessity and the ideal
of the new world in'o which we are
come.