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Today wt- figure as easily in terms
of billions as a few years ago we
rei koned in millions. Financial mag
nitudes are advancing beyond the
oldtime scale. It is evident that we
will have to re-adjust our stand
ards. While it >s true that the mi
nimum is still the same, the max
imum has passed the older appraise
ment. Today not only governments
but privat • undertakings are capi
talized in the billions. Loans, expen
ditures. budgets, consolidations, new
enterprise are written up in the bil
lionth terms.
Kusih enough the majority are a
unit minded people living in a bil
liot scaled age easily enough be
( iuse tor tie- majority the old sy
stem is still more than enough.
Or shall we put it that the earth
is reach,is.e the fourth dimension
period and the people thereon are
still tor, •(! to abide in the second
dimension stage?
It's a picturesque idea tc revert
to the am- when human beings lived
in an it Mil.tr provinciality and the
lev. mih- journey from Jonesville to
Smitherton seemed like walking
from o e end of ttie earth to the
other: vie ti the stage coach seemed
the embodiment of sweating switf
ni . .o when the silver piece pur
< has.-i a month's supplies: wlnm
neither extremity of poverty nor
(■'remit' of v iltlt oppressed; when
ili , voyage or, tlu hooker across tilt
straits seemed to he a greater than
Columbus voyage and one knew not
what sort of tm Atlantis or.c might
not find. Those wort- strange <ta\s;
and since Hun stranger changes
have be n accomplished liy the pass
age ol time. Since then Iwiman be
ings have explored Ihe wilderness
and entered the unknown, human
ingenuity and human labor have
solved the secerts of space and span
ned the great distances with whirl
ing steam engine or witli electuvii
mechanism. We have been drawn
nearer to the ultimate distances a >d '
:n a twinkling mystic rays transn.i
our thoughts afar. The change is;
searching, deep, impendrahh .
But all has- :
same archaic coin. ■ - 11 i nt-r
tv. the same ancient legal insiitu-;
i ions, tire sane social bondage i
silll to a great extent maintained
There has not been a sociological
progress with the pi ogre-a of tech-!
ideology. Tm.e his been no t ion
made to change the propriet: ry legal
M stem to tv* changing industrial
and social economy that developed
>n . nr midst.
The machine took the place of the
tool, tl e aggregation of machines
the operation of a single mechan
ism; the labor of the craftsman is
taken by hundreds of machine tend
ers. Wealth production slow, ardu
ous and laborious, became intensi
fied in its ease and increase. But
humanity profitted little or nothing.
The vast majority remained in the
minimum of ownership while the
slender minority increased their pro
perty and their wealth beyond the
maximum. From age to age tlie
maximum passed the thousands, the
tens of thousands, the millions, the
hundred of millions, the billions
and still the majority fret and stew
and fluster in the same miserable
state of poverty that was theirs in
the era of rushlighs, of spades, of
hand looms, of spinning wheels, of
stages, of insularity and exclusive
ness.
While technical progress has been
sweeping beyond the confines of in
dividual effort and taking in tlie
collectivity of humanity, those in
contrcl of the individuals alone were
empowered to advantage them
selves of that progress while main
taining rigidly the conception that
the principles, institutions, ideas,
habits, customs, legal procedure that
had accomolatpd themselves to the
economy of tlint past age were fun
damental and eternal ami could
brook no change in the present.
Keallv when we pass beyond the
controversial insufficiencies of argu
ment as to the causes of the war.
is it not a fact that the war is today
because of the fact that the social
system is not adjusted to the social
economy? Will we not recognize
that because today the masses, the
vast majority of human beings are
still immersed in their individual
istic concepts or rights and privi
leges, or duties and property, wars
ar-:j possible?
We have been compelled to main
tain ourselves first or second dimen
sion people in a fourth dimension
age.
Consider that enormous, oppres
sive and sinister fact that all the
great inventions of the human mind
ha^ 1, r.efitted the masses but very
little if at all. In the great cities
of tie- world ore discovers as foul
smelling vicious and degrading pov
erty as in those places existed hund
I reds of years before*, but with far
greater numbers suffering irom its
existent.• in the present.
Today hundreds die of extreme
he.i*. extreme cold, tack of sufficient
clothing. unsanitaiv housing To
in< i ise tlie territorial holdings of
tin- nation or that human lives are
sc i ji.ced with r. ckless indifference
-to open up ami to develop a tradi
route the world is plunged in an
inferno of war. “Pain still crawls",
as it did hundreds oi years ago.
"from the corpse of pleasure, a
worm that gnaws all day and at
night creeps hack again to tlie? heart
■ I the sleeper and stings him back
to the curse of the light": and that
millions ma> minister to this mag
got breeding Pleasure of the few or
the equally insensate ambition and
pride of power of another small
coterie, thev must still remain chain
ed to the milestones that have been
left long behind in the progress
that has been made by the brain of
mankind.
this is an age of billions. But
those billions are for the few, for
ill' many there is the sfill scanty
store that is reekoend by the mind
with too rnip li ease to have any stim
ulating standing in the complexitv
of present day things.
Il is thi- self evident mal-adjust
ment everywhere, summed up !n the
statement that some have too much
while the most have too little, that
th" beginning and the ending of
our struggling, lighting, strife, and
difficulties may he noticed. Nor
will there be any improvement until
this is finally adjusted. The earth
produces a plenty. There should ho
room for all as there is sufficiency
for all. This may be admitted. No
one sees the blessing in bloody
strife save those who realize that it
is in it that they may obtain a pro
longation of possession. With an
adjustment of human society to the
economy so that human activities
may contribute not to the comfort,
pleasure and redundancy of the few
but the happiness and welfare of all
engaged in those activities, the pro
gress will then have achieved re
ality and perfection and all mankind
will reap the benefit of the those
things, to which human beings have
all, more or less, in some degree
contributed.
It is not impossible that we are
nearer such a state of things than
most will admit. The present civil
and military turmoil, the incessant
agitation, the profuseness of ideas,
the general recognition that there
must come soon a period of general
reconstruction in many lands—allot
these things indicate the approach
of such a time when the past and
present mal-adjustmcnt will no
longer be tolerated and instead of
having the earth and the fullness
thereof for «lie benefit of the few,
it will exist and have its being far
all, in full tide of happiness.
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LUMBER BARONS ARE
HOUI
SEATTLE, Aug. 7.—With mills
re-opening for the season and con
ceding the demands of the men for
the eight hour day. the lumber ba
rons generally are going down in de
feat before the timber workers of
the state.
There i3 said to be a greater
shortage of logs and sawed lumber
than in a decade in western Wash
COPPER REPORT AWAITED.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 7.—
The report of the Federal Trade
commission on the price of copper
is expected shortly. It will be re
collected that the copper companies
offered to supply the I'nited States
in case of war, with all the copper
they wanted at sixtene cents a pound, j
When war broke out they swob bed
on this proposition and demanded a !
minimum of 2>i cents a pound. !
Union miners have guaranteed the!
government that if it takes over the |
copper mines they will he able to
pay eigtit dollars for six hours
work and still get ail the copper
needed for 22 cents a pound.
The miners claim that the cards
are stacked against a square deal
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ington.
There are some of the mills
which are holding out and believe
that when the strikers get work,
they will be able to rustle up a
sufficient number of strike breakers
who have been displaced by union
men upon the resumption of work
in other places.
MEANS NOTHING.
LONDON, Aug. 7.—The fact that
the German Chancellor has spoken
three times and at three different
places upon Germany’s readiness for
an honorable peace has no signifi
cance, is the final criticism of the '■
metropolitan papers this evening
commenting upon the latest utter
ances of the Chancellor.
The view that both sides under
stand that peace will be determined
by the standing of the powers when
such negotiations open, will not be
-overlooked in properly appraising:
tho statements now issued. None of j
the London papers see any singns of.
peace in sight and are reluctant to
engage in what is considered a use
less discussion.
MEETING IN PEKING.
PEKING, Aug. 7.—A war council
is being held here between the En
tente diplomats and the Chinese gov
ernment officials and war leaders.
The upshot of this conference will
not be made public, although it is
admtited that China's entry into the
war is being discussed.
BERLIN, Aug. 7.—The entry of
China into the war is being discus
sed in all the papers, but it is being
treated with indifference. A vein
of irony pervades most of the com
ment. it is taken to indicate the
weakness of the Entente.
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