The Coconino sun., 1923-12-21


\ this is. 1t forms a greater part of
the foundation of our government and
a OF our country and no doubt an able
\ writer could fill volumes on the sub
4 ject. believe that Rotary Internat-
ional is acting most wisely in recon-
/ mending that all the Rotary clubs
Il give some attention to the propound-
ing of ideas relative to business meth
4 DDS, and in subdividing this into the
many points which contribute to better
business methods. One of these is the
duty of the employer to the employe,
1 and in the few brief moments allotted
/ me / beg to read the following as ex-
pressing my ideas ON the subject:
The discussion of this subject is
/ not easy nor is it free from danger.
1t IS not easy to define the relative
rights and the mutual duties of the
/ wealthy and Of the poor, of capital
/ and of labor, and the danger lies in
this, that crafty agitators constantly
make use OF these disputes to pervert
mems judgment and to stir up the
4 people to sedition, but all agree there
can be no question whatever that
some remedy must be found and quick
II found for the misery and wretch
edness which press so heavily at times
on the large majority of the very
poor. By degrees the working mer
have been given over, isolated and
defenceless, in many cases to the
callousness of employers and the greed
of unrestrained competition. The evil
has been increased by racapcious
usury, which although condemned by
all fair-minded men, is nevertheless
under different form but with the
same guilt still practiced by avaric-
ious and grasping men, and to this
must be added the custom of working
by contract and the concentration Of
so many branches of trade in the
hands of a few individuals, SO that
small number Of very rich men have
been able to lay upon the masses of
the poor q yoke little better than slay-
cry itself.
To remedy these evils, the social
lists, working on the poor mans envy
Of the rich, endeavor to destroy pri-
vate property and maintain that in
dividual possessions should become the
common property of all, to be admin
tiles. They hold that by thus trans
ferring property from private persons
to the community the present evil
state Of things will be set right be-
cause each citizen viii then have his
equal share of whatever there is to
enjoy, but their proposals are so
clearly futile for all practical pur-
poses that if they were carried out
the working man himself would be
among the first to suffer F'urtl1er-
more they are emphatically unjust be-
cause they would rob the lawful pos
SCISSOR, bring the state into a sphere
that is not its own and cause COM
plete confusion iii the community.
However, it is not my purpose to dis
cuss socialism. Merely let me add
that the remedy they propose is man
ifestly against justice because every
man has by nature the right to pos
sess property as his own; this is one
of the chief points of distinction be-
tween man and the animal creation.
Let it be laid down in the first place
that humanity must remain as It is.
It is impossible to reduce human so
ciety to a level. Socialists may do
their utmost but all striving against
nature is vain. There naturally exist
among mankind innumerable differ
ences of the most important kind;
people differ in capability, in dill
gence, in health and in strength, and
unequal fortune is necessary result
of inequality in condition. Such in
equality is far from being disadyan
tageous either to individuals or to the
community. Social and public life can
only go on by the help of various
kinds of capacity and the playing OF
many parts, and each man as a rule
chooses the part which peculiarly suits
his case. As regards bodily labor,
even had man never fallen from the
state Of innocence he would not have
been wholly unoccupied, but that
which would then have been his free
choice, his delight, became afterwards
compulsory and the painful expiatlon
of his sin; as we read in Genesis,
/ "Cursed be the earth in thy work; IN
thy labor thou shalt eat OF it all the
days of thy life" In like manner
the other pains and hardships of life
will have no end or cessation on this
earth, for the consequences of sin are
bitter and hard to bear, and they
must be with man as long as life
/ lasts. To suffer and to endure there
4 fore Is the lot of humanity. Let men
try as they may, no strength and no
artifice will ever succeed in banishlng
from human life the ills and troubles
which beset it. If any there are who
pretend differently, who hold out to
] d hard-pressed people freedom from
pain and trouble, undisturbed repose
/ and constant enjoyment, they cheat
/ the people and impose upon them and
! their lying promises will only make
/ the evil worse than before. There is
nothing more useful than to look at
/ the world as it really is.
We hear much of the dignity of la
/ Dor and we know that it has much of
/ this. For those who do not possess
! the gifts Of fortune we are taught by
our churches that in Gods sight pov,
erty is no disgrace and there IS moth
| ing to be ashamed of in seeking ones
bread by labor. Much could be said
about the duties Of the state and the
! lahorer's rights, the saving OF them
l.