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LIII. N o . 11. Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, Sept. 16,1911
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N business there is constant, unceasing warfare, and everyone is seeking to accomplish his individual
purpose, which means ousting a competitor or his wares from every vantage ground which he may
have occupied.
We see this righting spirit emphasized in salesmen—in merchants and manufacturers—and we
see it emphasized the higher up we go in nations, which, notwithstanding the lovely mouth-filling words
spoken at the peace congresses, are ready to-day to fly at each other's throats. For it must be conceded
that the most advanced countries of our times are engaged in preparations for war on a scale undreamed
of by the great military captains of days agone.
It might be argued that warfare is an inevitable feature of the growth of human societies because it
is rooted in instincts and passions which are modified in only the slightest and slowest way from age to
age without which indeed the race would soon decay and die out.
Still let us reflect!
There is no standing still—it is a constant change, and all modern thoughi points to the universality
of change. We stand on a ball whirling through space, every atom and molecule of which is in perpetual
movement.
Individually, we are aware of being different men and women every day of our lives. The life of the
world has undergone such a transformation even during our- own generation that when we view things
from the standpoint of to-day and years ago we realize the startling contrast.
But in all this advance the nature of man has undergone but comparatively little change.
lie is just as hungry for world conquest—just as anxious to be a victor in a competitive campaign in
the peaceful arts, as ever before.
So, looking back over the procession of ages—the flux and reflux of populations—the building up
and lhe"collapse of states—we are forced to the conclusion that Ihe individuality of men remains very
much the same as years ago—we talk peace, but prepare to fight.
lint another factor is going 1o intervene for international peace-—the workers—a government within
a government. In other words, the party of organized labor which will ultimately seek to dictate terms
to existing governments, for, after all, who are the soldiers of the great nations of Europe?
The armies are made up of the sons of the workingmen, and one day the workers in blouse and uni-
form will be perfectly, leagued.
The leagued millions of toilers will make for permanent peace more than Carnegie's millions of
dollars!
There are changes going on in our social and industrial life which indicate many things; and through
all of it runs a trend from violence to reason; and just as the men of to-day ridicule the methods of trans-
portation of days gone by, so will men of the future laugh at the absurd systems of competition, which
grind men out as relentlessly as if they were ground under the heel of military oppression.
Think of trying to "down'' a man in a piano sale by misrepresentation and fraud after he has placed
an instrument in the home of a customer who is perfectly satisfied with the instrument!
It is small, is it not?
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