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V O L . LIII. N o . 1 4 Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, Oct. 7,1911
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Equality—Harmony—Business
OME writers affirm that the unrest which is almost worldwide is due to the ever increasing demand for equality
which is working up from the lower strata of human society.
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That may he true, and if true it denotes an unhappy phase of modern civilization, hecause equality never has
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nor never will exist; and, just so long as there are inequalities of hrains there will he inequalities of wealth; and,
no forced or artificial condition which can ever be created by man can undermine certain basic laws, chief among
which is the law of competition.
The desire to compete is emphasized at a very early stage for we observe among small boy a a dominant desire to surpass
other boys in various sports. lint, they are not all equal ami never will be.
Some are stronger, some are weaker, some are shrewder, some are duller, but duties await each and every one.
There must be those who direct and those who obey.
An army must have its chief who also must have a competent staff; and, there must be men to carry on departmental work-
straight down the line to the rank and file.
Hut the doctrine of equality and equal rights would mean to change the entire nature of man and centuries have not been
able to accomplish this nor never will be; and all the teachings—all the societies—all the organizations and all the universities can
never accomplish a complete reversal of the ingrained principles of man.
We can prate equality but we do not mean equality after a ll % f,, ri there will always be superior intellects. There will al-
ways be Kdisons in the creative line—Rockefellers in the competitive line; and there will always be some men who are wholly
unfitted either by temperament or ability to wear shoulder straps denoting financial or industrial rank.
They can never occupy high positions more than a Hottentot can conduct an art store. Hut, there can be harmony between
all parts and there is nothing more conducive to the development of business and intellectual strength than harmony.
And, there is nothing that is more destructive than discord.
Xow, what we should desire to create are harmonious conditions and to remove the discordant environment as far as
possible.
If irore men would study harmony and less prate about equality we would reach higher points more easilv.
A great many persons in various walks of life express dissatisfaction and surprise and wonder why they derive so little
benefit from their work.
If they would spend time and trace the matter back they would find perhaps conditions of discord existing all about them.
In other words, they would find that their mentality was not attuned properly.
The man who lives in an environment of discord will become irritated, whether it is in the workshop or the office and he un-
consciously imparts it to all with whom he comes in contact.
If efficient work is to be accomplished then harmony must prevail. And, this is just as true in business as in the social
world.
Let an employer be peevish, irritated or inclined to fault-finding and he will disrupt his force of employes as nothing else
in the world can. It is because, perhaps, that discordance prevails in many circles that we cry equality.
l>ut, we can continue to cry, for the equality which it is impossible to obtain while harmony is possible; and, there is no
industry in the world wherein harmony should more properly exist than in a trade which disposes of a product which appeals
to the sentimental side of man.
I have known men who have been conducting retail establishments with such a perfect system of harmony that every ware-
room attache was in sympathy with his chief—with his work and with the product sold.
Tt was indeed a pleasure to be associated with such an org a n j z a ti O n and to note theresults obtained through an observance
of harmonic laws, showing that there is a commercial side to be considered in matters of this kind.
I have known others in whose business establishment strife, disagreement, intrigue, petty spite and jealousy prevailed and T
have known a number of such institutions to reach the shores of financial disaster; but, before they arrived at this unhappy
point everyone connected with them was discouraged and embittered.
VV'h\ not place a stronger emphasis upon the harmonic side of life and of business.''
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