WORLD
RPORATION
BY
KING C. GILLETTE
A MACHINE WHICH HAS THE ECONOMIC POWER TO DISPLACE
ANOTHER MACHINE IS BETTER THAN THE MACHINE DISPLACED
World Corporation
By KING CAMP GILLETTE
Discoverer of the Principles and Inventor
of the System of "World Corporation"
CTT'HE message herein con-
tained is Truth; and
Truth is law, no matter in
what dress it may be found or to
what it may apply. When dis-
covered to the mind of man, it
must be accepted, and become
a part of the great superstruc-
ture of knowledge and prog-
ress. It is immortal and
infinite.
THE NEW ENGLAND NEWS COMPANY
BOSTON
DISTRIBUTORS TO THE TRADE
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PART ONE.
"WORLD CORPORATION" PROSPECTUS.
WORLD CORPORATION 2
ENTERING WEDGE 3
"WORLD CORPORATION" CHARTER 12
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 15
"WORLD CORPORATION" BY-LAWS 31
SYNOPSIS OF "WORLD CORPORATION" . . 42
PUBLICITY 51
POLITICS 54
LAUNCHING OF "WORLD CORPORATION" 58
"WORLD CORPORATION" REVOLUTIONARY 64
PART Two.
THE AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM.
SOWING THE SEED 74
THE AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM 75
MAN CORPORATE 94
PART THREE.
THE WASTE OF OUR SYSTEM.
"WORLD CORPORATION" NOT A DREAM 98
THE PROBLEM 99
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SHOULD LABOR BE A SLAVE? 110
KINGS AND SLAVES 113
REASON 118
ECONOMIC LAW 123
THE CHAIN OF EVENTS 128
KNOWLEDGE THE ASSET OF A NATION 133
INDUSTRY A MACHINE 140
PROGRESS DEPENDENT ON BIRTH OF IDEAS 152
NINETY PER CENT. WASTE 157
TRIBUTARY INDUSTRIES 166
POLITICS IS BUSINESS 172
CONSERVATION 184
THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY 187
UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION 193
ECONOMIC LAW APPLIED TO AGRICULTURE 198
A PREDICTION 205
COMPETITION FOR WEALTH IS CRIME . 210
PART FOUR.
THE OPEN DOOR.
A THOUGHT 216
ENTHUSIASM 217
METROPOLIS 220
OMEGA . 238
PART ONE
WORLD
CORPORATION.
To The Public:
The following Board of Directors and Officers
have been elected at the initial organization
of World Corporation.
DIRECTORS.
KING C. GILLETTE, President and Treasurer.
EDWARD S. CROCKETT,
Vice-President and Secretary.
CHARLES A. GAINES.
The first offices of the Corporation have been
opened in the
BEACON BUILDING,
No. 6 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
Rooms 416 and 417,
where all communications should be addressed.
WORLD CORPORATION.
t
WORLD
COR PORATION.
ENTERING WEDGE.
The writer takes it for granted that the reader is
familiar with the principles of Industrial Corpora-
tion, whereby any number of individuals may sub-
scribe varying amounts of capital to a common fund
for a definite purpose, on a basis of equity. The
questions, — How many individuals may thus be
bound together? — How large may be the capital
stock? — How varied and extensive the field of
operations? — are no longer questions of speculation
or doubt. Experience teaches us, and cumulative
evidence proves, that the perfect mechanism of
industrial corporation keeps pace with its growth,
individuals and parts being fitted in, at the right
time and in the right place. IT is RECOGNIZED BY
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WORLD CORPORATION
CORPORATIONISTS THAT ECONOMY, STABILITY, AND
ABSENCE OF FRICTION ARE STRIKING CHARACTERISTICS
OF LARGE CORPORATIONS, and the larger the cor-
poration is and the more diversified and extensive
its field of operations, the more these characteristics
stand forth, and the more National the corporation
becomes in character, until, reaching out to other
lands, it partakes of a World System. Thus the
trained mind of business and finance sees no
stopping-place to corporate absorption and growth,
except final absorption of all the World's material
assets into one corporate body, under the directing
control of one corporate mind.
If a corporation depended for direction and man-
agement upon one INDIVIDUAL mind, and it con-
tinued to grow and absorb indefinitely, it would out-
grow his capacity, strength, and endurance, and fall
of its own weight of individual responsibility. But
this is not the case, for in large modern corporations
responsibilities of management rest on all the indi-
vidual parts that are necessary to its operation,
from the highest to the lowest, each in that propor-
tion commensurate with his position in the cor-
porate machine,
WORLD CORPORATION"
The larger a corporation is, the less is it disturbed
by the dropping out of one or many individuals,
vacancies are quickly filled, and no effect is observed
in operation or management of the corporation as
a whole. It has its own individual life, separate
and apart from the individuals that make up its
corporate body and mind. These individual units
may come and go in endless procession over an
endless period of time without affecting the con-
tinuous life of the corporation. There are many
corporations in the United States that were formed
during the middle of the last century which to-day
are more extensive in their operations and better
managed than ever before in their history. Yet
not a single stockholder or employee is alive who
was with these corporations when they were organ-
ized. One by one they have dropped out, and
others have taken their place, and through all these
changes the corporations have lived and flourished,
have extended, absorbed, combined, and consoli-
dated until to-day they are great systems, — giants
that pulsate with life, over whose arteries of steel
sustenance and wealth are carried to a whole
nation, and the day is fast approaching when these
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great corporations, the Railroads of the United
States, will be one comprehensive system.
The economic value of corporation is being recog-
nized more and more by the business world, and
resulting in rapid changes, from a competitive sys-
tem of cut-throat guerilla warfare to a scientific cor-
porate system. During this evolutionary process the
opportunity to make large fortunes is possible. Men
of quick perception and great financial and executive
ability become the seers and prophets of their genera-
tion. They see far into the future, and discount
that future by coming to the front as promoters,
and by securing options on competitive plants of
industry and bringing them together into great non-
competitive corporate bodies they are able to make
enormous profits. As an example, in the flotation
of the United States Steel Corporation, the pro-
moters' profits were, in round numbers, one hundred
million dollars ($100,000,000). This profit was di-
vided among the promoters, and was the difference
between the purchase price of the different plants
and the price paid by the public in the purchase of
the shares and securities of the new corporation.
This one hundred million ($100,000,000) profit to
WORLD CORPORATION"
promoters represents an estimated annual saving
secured by corporation of $5,000,000 capitalized
twenty times. These profits are legitimate under
our present system, and these far-seeing men not
only deserve what they make, but they deserve
the thanks of every individual in the world, for
their work of organization is that of the pioneer
who blazes the way for greater things to follow.
Graft, as far as the United States Steel Corpora-
tion is concerned, is at an end. No matter what
profit was made by the promoters, its securities are
now listed and quoted at an apparent legitimate
value based on earnings. To-day it is a National
Corporation, and every year will see it less and less
in danger of individual control. It is too large, too
much in the public eye to permit of dishonest man-
agement or manipulation.
Bringing together by corporation a large num-
ber of competitive plants effects great economies
in management and cost of production and distri-
bution, and incidentally eliminates many tributary
industries of a competitive system that are in no
way necessary to a corporate system. These econo-
mies which would accrue to the benefit of the
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people, under different circumstances, are absorbed
in the profits to promoters.
Notwithstanding these seemingly crooked ways of
making large fortunes, the underlying principles of
corporations are right, and a great step in advance
over competition. Each corporation formed is a
more economic machine for accomplishing some
definite result and a step nearer a definite economic
goal, and any obstruction by law or otherwise which
retards their formation or growth is the insanity
of inexcusable ignorance, and criminal. It is tanta-
mount to using the sledge on the reaping machine,
the printing-press, and dynamo, and going back to
the primitive ways of our forefathers.
We had better stand for graft in consolidation of
industries by individuals rather than oppose cor-
poration, for IT IS ONLY DURING THE PROCESS OF
CHANGING FROM ONE SYSTEM TO ANOTHER THAT
GRAFT is POSSIBLE. Individuals are necessary fac-
tors in bringing together the scattered competitive
parts of industry, for by corporation they organize
industries and get them in shape to be listed on our
exchanges and within reach of the people to absorb.
Tendency towards corporation is the operation of
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the same economic law that displaces a machine in
a factory because a more economical machine has
been invented to do the work. To believe this
law will cease to operate, or that man can legislate
barriers to prevent its operation, is equal to be-
lieving that man could enact laws and thereby
prevent terrestrial gravitation. CORPORATIONS
WILL CONTINUE TO FORM, ABSORB, EXPAND, AND
GROW, AND NO POWER OF MAN CAN PREVENT IT.
Promoters are the true socialists of this genera-
tion, the actual builders of a co-operative system
which is eliminating competition, and in a practical
business way reaching results which socialists have
vainly tried to attain through legislation and agita-
tion for centuries. To complete the industrial
evolution, and establish a system of equity, only
requires a belief in the truths herein stated — and
the support of "WORLD CORPORATION."
WORLD CORPORATION
CHARTER
THE CHARTER.
On the opposite page is given a reduced fac-simile
of the cover sheet of " WORLD CORPORATION" Char-
ter, and in the pages following the Charter is given
in full, word for word, as granted.
Particular attention is called to Article IV., in
which it will be noted that THE CAPITAL STOCK OF
"WORLD CORPORATION" is NOT A DEFINITE STATED
AMOUNT, as is the case with every other corporation,
but is PROGRESSIVE AND UNLIMITED, and, at any
present moment, is represented by actual dollars
that have been paid into the corporation, for which
shares have been issued, less the number of dollars
paid to stockholders, by "WORLD CORPORATION"
for shares which have been surrendered and can--
celled.
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erritonj of Arizona
Sfcrrttartal Auditor
WORLD
COR PORAT ION.
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION.
BE IT KNOWN, That we, the undersigned, do
hereby associate ourselves together for the pur-
pose of forming a corporation under and pursu-
ant to the laws of the Territory of Arizona and
do hereby certify to and adopt the following Ar-
ticles of Incorporation: —
ARTICLE I. The name of the Corporation is
WORLD CORPORATION.
ARTICLE II. The principal place of transacting
business in Arizona is Phoenix, but offices may be
established, business transacted and meetings of the
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Stockholders and of the Directors held at such places
within or outside of Arizona as the By-Laws of the
Company shall provide. Notice of all annual or
special meetings of the Stockholders shall be given
by printed notice in the WORLD CORPORATION
NEWS, a weekly publication which shall be issued
by the Corporation for the information of its Stock-
holders.
ARTICLE III. The general nature of the business
proposed to be transacted and the objects for which
the Corporation is formed are: to acquire by pur-
chase, subscription or otherwise, and to hold as an
investment, any bonds or other securities or evidences
of indebtedness, or any shares of capital stock
created or issued by any other corporation or cor-
porations, association or associations, of the Terri-
tory of Arizona, or of any other place; to purchase,
hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge or other-
wise dispose of any bonds or other securities or evi-
dences of indebtedness created or issued by any
other corporation or corporations, association or
associations of the Territory of Arizona, or of any
other place, and while owner thereof, to exercise all
"WORLD CORPORATION" 17
rights, powers and privileges of ownership ; to pur-
chase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge or
otherwise to dispose of shares of the capital stock of
any other corporation or corporations, association or
associations of the Territory of Arizona, or of any
other place, and while the owner of such stock to
exercise all the rights, powers and privileges of
ownership, including the right to vote thereon; to
aid in any manner, any corporation or association
of which any bonds, or other securities or evidences
of indebtedness or of stock are held by the corpora-
tion, and to do any acts and things designed to
protect, preserve, improve or enhance the value of
any such bonds or other securities or evidences of
indebtedness or stock; to acquire, own and hold
such real and personal property, anywhere in the
world, as may be necessary or convenient for the
transaction of its business, and to mortgage and
convey the same; the business or purpose of the
corporation is from time to time to do any one or
more of the acts and things herein set forth, and the
Corporation shall have power to conduct its business
in any and all parts of the world. The Corporation
shall have full power to make contracts, to purchase,
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lease, option, locate, or otherwise acquire, own,
exchange, sell, or otherwise dispose of, pledge,
mortgage, hypothecate and deal in mines, mining
claims, mineral claims, and lands, coal lands, oil
lands, timber lands, water and water rights and
other property and to work, explore, operate and
develop the same, and to deal in the products and
by-products thereof; to purchase, lease, or to other-
wise acquire, erect, own, operate and sell smelting
and other ore reduction works, oil refineries, saw-
mills, power plants, railroads and tramways to serve
as common carriers, outside of the Territory of
Arizona; to do a general manufacturing and mer-
cantile business; to own, handle and control letters
patent and inventions; to own, cancel and re-issue
shares of its own capital stock and to own and vote
shares of other corporations; to issue bonds, notes
and other evidences of indebtedness and to secure
the payment of the same in any manner deemed
best and advisable by the Board of Directors; to
act as agent, trustee, broker, or in any other fidu-
ciary capacity, and to borrow and loan money; and
in general to do and perform such acts and things
and transact such business, not inconsistent with
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law, in any part of the world, as the Board of Direc-
tors may deem to the advantage of the Corporation.
ARTICLE IV. THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE COR-
PORATION SHALL BE DIVIDED INTO COMMON SHARES
OF THE PAR VALUE OF ONE DOLLAR ($1) EACH,
AND SHALL BE LIMITED ONLY IN NUMBER, FROM
TIME TO TIME, TO THE NUMBER OF DOLLARS PAID
INTO THE TREASURY OF THE CORPORATION FOR
SHARES OF STOCK IN THE CORPORATION, LESS THE
NUMBER OF DOLLARS WHICH MAY BE REFUNDED,
FROM TIME TO TIME, TO THE OWNERS OF ANY
SHARES OF STOCK UPON RETURN BY THEM TO THE
CORPORATION OF SAID STOCK FOR PURCHASE AND
CANCELLATION BY THE CORPORATION. The Cor-
poration shall have the power to purchase its
own stock. No money received in payment for
stock of the Corporation shall be loaned by it
nor used for any other purpose than the pur-
chase of the bonds or other securities or evi-
dences of indebtedness, or shares of the Capital
Stock of other Corporations, or for the purchase of
personal property or real estate only as heretofore
set forth. No SHARES OF STOCK OF THE CORPORA-
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TION SHALL BE ISSUED EXCEPT ACTUAL PAYMENT TO
THE CORPORATION BE MADE THEREFOR IN THE CUR-
RENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OR ITS EQUIVALENT
IN THE CURRENCY OF ANY OTHER NATION. The Cor-
poration shall issue to any person or persons, trus-
tees, corporations, associations or others, as many
shares of stock in the Corporation as they shall
make tender of payment for. Certificates of stock
in this Corporation shall be issued only in the
following denominations, ONE, Two, FIVE, TEN,
TWENTY, FIFTY, ONE HUNDRED, ONE THOUSAND,
TEN THOUSAND, FIFTY THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND, AND ONE MILLION SHARES.
Certificates of stock of Twenty (20) Shares,
or less, shall not be subject to registration and
shall not participate in the dividends of the Cor-
poration.
Certificates of stock of Fifty (50) or more shares
may be registered with the Treasurer of the Cor-
poration and if so registered shall participate in
the dividends of the Corporation. Any certificates
of stock of Fifty (50) or more shares, until so regis-
tered, shall not participate in the dividends of the
Corporation.
"WORLD CORPORATION" 21
All certificates of stock in denomination of Twenty
(20) shares or less and all certificates of stock in
denomination of Fifty (50) shares or more, which
shall not have been registered, shall be redeemed at
par by the Corporation upon presentation and
demand.
Dividends shall only be credited to registered
shares that had been issued for the full term of one
calendar quarterly dividend period.
Dividends shall be credited and payable to regis-
tered shareholders quarterly, on the first day of
January, April, July, and October.
Dividends shall be paid by check of the Corpora-
tion, or upon request of those entitled thereto, said
dividends may be paid in shares of the Capital
Stock of this Corporation at par.
Registered certificates of stock will be redeemed
by the Corporation at par, with accrued dividends
thereon, only at the close of the quarterly dividend-
paying period following the quarterly period in
which presentation and demand of said certificates
are made.
The Corporation's affairs shall be managed by a
Board of Directors, at the present time, but the
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members of such Board of Directors from each
nation shall elect one out of every ten of their num-
ber to a delegate body, which shall be known as the
WORLD CORPORATION CONGRESS.
In said WORLD CORPORATION CONGRESS, consti-
tuted as above stated, shall be reposed the supreme
authority of the Corporation, and all Officers, Com-
mittees, National Directory Boards, and all other
constituted authorities, agents, employees, or ele-
ments of the Corporation shall be subject to the
authority of the WORLD CORPORATION CONGRESS,
which shall have the right, at all times, to assume the
absolute direction and control of any or all of the
activities of the WORLD CORPORATION or of any of
its parts.
The WORLD CORPORATION CONGRESS may at its
option, at any time, in such manner as it shall deem
just and proper, call in for redemption and can-
cellation, any portion of the stock of the Corpora-
tion outstanding, paying par therefor, and the said
WORLD CORPORATION CONGRESS, as soon as prac-
ticable after the WORLD CORPORATION has reduced
to its possession and control, all agencies for
production and distribution throughout the world,
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to redeem all of its stock, after which time, the
assets of the Corporation shall be the joint prop-
erty, in equal shares, of all the peoples of the
earth.
ARTICLE V. The time of the commencement of
the Corporation shall be the day these Articles are
filed in the office of the Territorial Auditor of Arizona,
and it shall endure and be perpetual forever.
ARTICLE VI. The affairs of this Corporation shall
at the present time, as heretofore provided, be con-
trolled by a Board of Directors the number of which
shall be fixed, from time to time by the By-Laws
of the Corporation, but said number shall not be
less than three (3). Until their successors are
elected and qualified the following named persons
shall be the directors: KING C. GILLETTE, CHARLES
A. GAINES, EDWARD S. CROCKETT.
The Board of Directors and the Stockholders of
the Corporation shall have power to hold their
meetings outside of the Territory of Arizona, at
such place as, from time to time, may be fixed
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and designated by the By-Laws or by resolutions of
the Board of Directors.
Any officer elected or appointed, in the Corpora-
tion, may be removed by the body electing him or
her, at any time, by the affirmative vote of as
large a majority as that required for his, or her,
election.
The Board of Directors by the affirmative vote
of a majority of the whole Board, may appoint
from the Directors an Executive Committee, of
which a majority shall constitute a quorum; such
Committee shall have and may exercise all or any
of the powers of the Board of Directors, including
the power to cause the seal of the Corporation to
be affixed to all papers that may require it.
The Board of Directors may elect a President,
one or more Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, a Treas-
urer, and appoint one or more assistant Treasurers,
and one or more assistant Secretaries, and such
other Officers as may be provided for in the By-Laws
of the Corporation.
The Board of Directors, from time to time, shall
determine whether and to what extent, and at what
times and places, and under what conditions and
"WORLD CORPORATION" 25
regulations, the accounts and books of the Corpora-
tion, or any of them, shall be open to the inspection
of the Stockholders, and no stockholder shall possess
the power or right to inspect any account or book
or document of the Corporation, except as con-
ferred by statute of the Territory of Arizona, or
authorized by the Board of Directors, or by a
resolution of the Stockholders.
The Board of Directors may make By-Laws, and
from time to time may alter, amend, or repeal any
By-Laws; but any By-Laws made by the Board
of Directors may be altered or repealed by the
Stockholders at any annual meeting, or at any
special meeting, provided notice of such proposed
alteration or repeal be included in the notice of
the meeting.
ARTICLE VII. The highest amount of indebted-
ness of the Corporation shall not exceed Two-
Thirds the amount of the Capital Stock issued at
the time of incurring such indebtedness.
ARTICLE VIII. The private property of the
Stockholders of the Corporation shall be forever
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exempt from corporate debts of any kind what-
soever.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We hereto affix our
signatures this 8th day of June, 1910.
R. M. PEABODY [SEAL.]
M. T. STONE [SEAL.]
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA
COUNTY OF MARICOPA
A,)
-•
Before me, M. A. Pickett, a Notary Public in and
for the County and Territory aforesaid, on this day
personally appeared R. M. Peabody and M. T.
Stone, known to me to be the same persons who
signed the foregoing instrument and acknowledged
to me that they executed the same for the uses and
purposes therein mentioned.
Given under my hand and seal of office this 8th
day of June, 1910.
My commission will expire on the 16th day of
April, 1914.
M. A. PICKETT,
Notary Public.
[NOTARIAL SEAL.]
WORLD CORPORATION" 27
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA
COUNTY OF MARICOPA
A,)
PS.
I, C. F. Leonard, County Recorder in and for the
County and Territory aforesaid, hereby certify that
I have compared the foregoing copy with the original
Articles of Incorporation of "WORLD CORPORA-
TION" filed and recorded in my office on the 8th
day of June, 1910, and that the same is a full, true
and correct copy of such original and of the whole
thereof.
Witness my hand and seal of office, this 8th day
of June, 1910.
C. F. LEONARD,
County Recorder.
[SEAL.]
Filed in the office of the Territorial Auditor of
the Territory of Arizona this 8th day of June, A.D.
1910, at 1.30 P.M., at request of Stoddard In-
corporating Company whose post-office address is
Phcenix, Arizona.
W. C. FOSTER,
Territorial Auditor.
WORLD CORPORATION
BYLAWS
WORLD CORPORATION'
BY-LAWS.
STOCKHOLDERS.
Stockholders' meetings shall be held at the prin-
cipal office or place of business of this Corporation
in the City of Boston, in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, until such time as the Board of Di-
rectors shall determine otherwise.
A notice of the annual meeting of the Stockholders
and of all special meetings shall be given by printed
notice in the " WORLD CORPORATION NEWS," a
weekly publication owned and controlled by "WORLD
CORPORATION." The annual meetings of Stock-
holders shall be held on the second Tuesday of Jan-
uary at two o'clock P.M.
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STOCK CERTIFICATES.
No shares of stock of the Corporation shall be
issued except actual payment to the Corporation
be made therefor in the CURRENCY OF THE UNITED
STATES OR ITS EQUIVALENT IN THE CURRENCY OF
OTHER NATIONS.
"WORLD CORPORATION" shall issue to any person
or persons, trustees, corporations, associations or
others, as many shares of stock in the Corporation
as they shall make tender of payment for.
DENOMINATION.
Certificates of stock in "WORLD CORPORATION"
shall be issued only in the following denominations:
ONE, Two, FIVE, TEN, TWENTY, FIFTY, ONE HUN-
DRED, ONE THOUSAND, TEN THOUSAND, FIFTY
THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND, FIVE HUN-
DRED THOUSAND, AND ONE MILLION SHARES.
SIZE AND SHAPE.
Certificates of stock in denomination of Twenty
(20) shares or less shall conform in size and shape
"WORLD CORPORATION" 33
to UNITED STATES CURRENT BILLS OF EXCHANGE,
each denomination distinctive in design.
Certificates of Fifty (50) or more shares shall be
of THE SIZE AND SHAPE OF BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES,
each denomination distinctive in design.
REGISTRATION AND DIVIDENDS.
CERTIFICATES OF STOCK OF TWENTY (20) SHARES
OR LESS SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO REGISTRATION
AND SHALL NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE DIVIDENDS OF
THE CORPORATION.
Certificates of stock of Fifty (50) or more shares
may be registered with the treasurer of the Corpo-
ration, and, IF so REGISTERED, SHALL PARTICIPATE IN
THE DIVIDENDS OF THE CORPORATION.
Registered shares of stock will be redeemed by
"WORLD CORPORATION" at par, with accrued divi-
dends thereon at the close of any quarterly dividend-
paying period, immediately following the quarterly
period in which presentation and demand for re-
demption of shares has been made.
All certificates of stock in denomination of Twenty
(20) shares or less, and all certificates of stock in
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denomination of Fifty (50) shares or more, WHICH
HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED shall be redeemed at
par by "WORLD CORPORATION" upon demand.
Dividends will be paid to registered shareholders
quarterly, on the 1st day of January, April, July,
and October.
Dividends will only be paid on registered shares
that have been issued and registered for a full cal-
endar quarterly dividend period. No dividends will
be paid on shares registered for fractional parts of
quarterly periods.
Dividends will be paid by check of the Corpora-
tion, or, upon request, dividends may be paid in
shares of the Corporation at par and credited to
Share Account.
INCOME OF SHARES NOT REGISTERED.
The income accruing to the Corporation from
all outstanding certificates of stock of Twenty (20)
shares or less, and from all outstanding certificates
of Fifty (50) shares or more, which have not been
registered and are not entitled to dividends, will
be applied, First, — To expenses incident to opera-
"WORLD CORPORATION" 35
tion of Corporation; Second, — To development and
expansion; Third, — To increase dividends on reg-
istered shares.
DIRECTORS (GENERAL).
At the organization of " WORLD CORPORATION"
not less than three nor more than twenty -five Di-
rectors shall be elected, the number to be determined
by vote of the organizers at said organization meet-
ing and thereafter at each annual stockholders'
meeting. In addition to the number of Directors
determined upon at said organization meeting, there
shall be elected one Director for each Five Million
(5,000,000) shares of stock of the Corporation which
have been issued up to the date of any such annual
stockholders' meeting, with the exception that any
stock represented on the Board of Directors, by
the method set forth in the following paragraph,
shall not be counted in computing the number of
Directors to be so elected.
DIRECTORS (SPECIAL).
Any Bank, Trust Company, Corporation, So-
ciety, Individual, or group of Individuals in special
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cities or localities, who collectively purchase in one
name Five Million, or any multiple of Five Million
shares of stock of the Corporation, shall be entitled
to appoint one Director to "WORLD CORPORATION"
for each five million shares of stock so purchased,
it being a condition of such appointment that the
compensation and expenses of said Director or Di-
rectors SHALL BE PAID BY SAID DIRECTOR'S CON-
STITUENTS.
AGENTS FOR SALE OF STOCK.
Every Bank and Trust Company in the United
States will be invited to co-operate with this Cor-
poration, by acting as authorized agents for the sale
of "WORLD CORPORATION" Shares.
NATIONAL FINANCE BOARDS.
The members of the Board of Directors of each
Nation shall be constituted a National Board of
Finance, with power to control the investment of
money received by such Nation, from its sale of
shares, subject, however, to the will of the "WORLD
CORPORATE CONGRESS" hereinafter provided for.
WORLD CORPORATION" 37
"WORLD CORPORATE CONGRESS."
The members of the Boards of Directors of Na-
tions shall elect out of their body one National
Representative out of each ten of their number to
a delegate body, which shall be known as the " WORLD
CORPORATE CONGRESS."
In said "CONGRESS," constituted as above, shall
be reposed the supreme authority of " WORLD COR-
PORATION," and all Officers, Committees, National
Boards of Finance, and all other constituted au-
thorities, agents, employees, or elements of the Cor-
poration shall be subject to the authority of the
"WORLD CORPORATE CONGRESS," which shall have
the right at all times to assume absolute direction
and control of any or all of the activities of " WORLD
CORPORATION " or of any of its parts.
SECURITIES.
All Securities purchased by "WORLD CORPORA-
TION" shall be forwarded to the " WORLD CORPO-
RATE CONGRESS" and be deposited with the World
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Corporate Treasury, which shall be the permanent
depository for said Securities.
TERM OF OFFICE.
At the annual meeting of Stockholders all Na-
tional Directors shall be elected for a period of
one year from the date of said meeting, or until
their successors are elected.
All Directors appointed by any Bank, Trust Com-
pany, Corporation, Society, Individual, or group
of Individuals, shall hold office until removed by
the persons or bodies electing them, or until such
persons or bodies shall appoint successors, and in
any event only so long as they shall represent an
independent share allotment of 5,000,000 shares.
As soon as possible after the annual Stockholders'
meeting of the Corporation, Directors shall meet and
elect representatives to the "WORLD CORPORATE
CONGRESS," who shall hold office for a period of
one year from the date of their election or until
their successors are chosen.
WORLD CORPORATION" 39
INVESTIGATION OF SECURITIES.
The various National Boards of Finance shall
appoint Committees, from their number, for the
purpose of investigating Industrial Securities and
obtaining exact knowledge of their value, and to
secure such other information as may be of value
to the Corporation in the purchase of Securities.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES.
The Boards of Directors, the various National
Boards of Finance, and the "WORLD CORPORATE
CONGRESS" shall have the right to elect such Officers
and Committees as they shall deem necessary for
the prosecution of the work for which they are
organized.
FINAL REDEMPTION OF ALL STOCK.
The "WORLD CORPORATE CONGRESS" may, at
its option, at any time, in such manner as it shall
deem just and proper, upon a majority vote of its
members, call in for redemption and cancellation
any portion of the stock of the Corporation outstand-
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ing, paying par value therefor; and it shall be the
imperative duty of said "WORLD CORPORATE CON-
GRESS," as soon as practicable after " WORLD COR-
PORATION" has reduced to its possession and control
all agencies for production and distribution through-
out the world, to redeem all outstanding shares by
the establishment of a sinking fund for that purpose,
after which time the assets of the Corporation shall
be the joint property of the people, — INCORPORATED
AND UNDIVIDED.
NOTE.
IT IS HOPED AND BELIEVED THAT THE NUMBER OF
SHARES ISSUED INSIDE OF FIVE YEARS IN THE UNITED
STATES WILL NOT BE LESS THAN FIFTY BILLION.
This, on the five-million-dollar representative basis
would give a National Board of Directors amounting
to ten thousand members in the United States, less
ten per cent, (or one thousand), who would be elected
to and represent the United States in the "WORLD
CORPORATE CONGRESS."
All Representatives of " WORLD CORPORATION"
would be active workers either on Boards of Finance
Committees or as appointees in the management of
"WORLD CORPORATION" 41
railroads and industrial plants that had come under
control of " WORLD CORPORATION," or be actively
engaged in the consolidation and rearrangement of
the World's Industrial Plant and Machinery.
These ten thousand men and women would rep-
resent the most advanced and progressive intelligence
in the United States, and, combined with other
Nations in the " WORLD CORPORATE CONGRESS/'
would represent the advanced Industrial and Finan-
cial Talent of the World.
SYNOPSIS
OF
"WORLD CORPORATION."
"WORLD CORPORATION" is the birth of industrial
science destined to combine Education, Industry,
and Government throughout the world in one
system, bringing all nations and all peoples into
ONE CORPORATE BODY, POSSESSING ONE CORPORATE
MIND.
"WORLD CORPORATION" will not recognize any
division of the earth's surface into nations or di-
vision of its peoples into nationalities, nor any
divided ownership in the world's industrial ma-
chinery.
"WORLD CORPORATION" will displace all govern-
ments. Nations will be helpless in its grasp. Ab-
sorbing, controlling, and eventually directing in-
dustrial life, it will tear down the barriers of caste
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and nationality and combine in one brotherhood all
the people of the earth for one common purpose.
"WORLD CORPORATION" is a system under which
the world's people unite and co-operate, to tear
down a system under which they are divided and
at war with each other, a»d struggling for individual
existence.
"WORLD CORPORATION" invites the participa-
tion of every individual in the world, regardless of
nationality, race, creed, color, age, or sex. IT
RECOGNIZES DOLLARS, NOT INDIVIDUALS.
"WORLD CORPORATION" is a business proposi-
tion carried forward on business principles, without
sentiment, without weakness, and with no departing
from its purposes, — no compromise with govern-
ments, with corporations or individuals. It will
move steadily onward, without fear, without favor,
— the embodiment of Economic Law.
"WORLD CORPORATION" is forwarded by those
who believe it has the power to accomplish results,
44 "WORLD CORPORATION"
which no system in the world has yet made pos-
sible, these results being the organization of so-
ciety and industry in accord with Economic Law,
thereby eliminating the evils incident to a competi-
tive system.
"WORLD CORPORATION" will not ignore estab-
lished rights and arbitrarily confiscate property
belonging to individuals. It will attain control by
natural absorption, conversion, and growth. It
means the conversion of individual right to a divided
interest in the world's property, into an undivided
interest in property corporated on a basis of equity,
by consent of the individual. It is co-operation by
individuals who believe in " WORLD CORPORATION."
"WORLD CORPORATION" will not complicate its
work with the task of bringing together the scat-
tered competitive parts of special industries. It
will leave that task to individual promoters and con-
tent itself with the absorption of approved listed
DIVIDEND-PAYING SECURITIES in all civilized coun-
tries, which in the aggregate amount to upwards of
one hundred billions of dollars, and includes practi-
"WORLD CORPORATION" 45
cally all the marine and land transportation systems
and leading manufacturing industries of the world.
It will be time enough to consider ways and means
for absorption of unlisted industry, when approved
listed securities have been absorbed and made a
permanent asset of " WORLD CORPORATION."
"WORLD CORPORATION" will assume the man-
agement and direct the policy of all corporations
which come under its control, by reason of hav-
ing purchased a controlling interest in their voting
securities.
"WORLD CORPORATION" represents individual
intelligence and force combined, centralized and in-
telligently directed. Individuals are OF the cor-
porate mind, but are not THE corporate mind.
"WORLD CORPORATION" will possess all knowl-
edge of all men, and each individual mind will find
complete expression through the great Corporate
Mind.
"WORLD CORPORATION" will have life everlast-
ing. Individual man will live his life and pass into
46 "WORLD CORPORATION"
the great beyond; but this great Corporate Mind
will live on through the ages, always absorbing and
perfecting, for the utilization and benefit of all the
inhabitants of the earth.
"WORLD CORPORATION " is a storehouse of
KNOWLEDGE, INDUSTRIAL WEALTH and POWER,
constantly increasing, never diminishing.
"WORLD CORPORATION" will be recognized in
history as the dividing line between INDUSTRIAL
CHAOS and INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE.
"WORLD CORPORATION" Shares are all Common
Shares and sold for One Dollar per share in the money
of the United States, or its equivalent in the money
of any other nation.
"WORLD CORPORATION" recognizes the Dollar,
or its equivalent, in issuing shares, not the individual
who tenders it or the nation from which it comes.
"WORLD CORPORATION" SHARES ARE ISSUED AT
PAR, UPON DEMAND, WITHOUT LIMIT, TO ALL APPLI-
"WORLD CORPORATION" 47
CANTS. THEREFORE SHARES CAN NEVER RISE ABOVE
PAR IN THE SPECULATIVE MARKET; AND, AS PROVISION
IS MADE FOR REDEMPTION OF ALL SHARES AT PAR,
SHARES CAN NEVER FALL BELOW PAR. THUS SHARES
WILL BE A FIXED UNIT OF VALUE.
"WORLD CORPORATION" Shares are only issued
for cash. Each dollar paid for a share either re-
mains in the treasury of the Corporation or is used
for the purchase of approved DIVIDEND -PAYING
SECURITIES, which are removed forever from the
speculative markets of the world. Thus, DIVI-
DEND-PAYING SECURITIES of thousands of cor-
porations coming from every nation in the world
will be converted into ONE DIVIDEND-PAYING
SECURITY.
"WORLD CORPORATION" CAPITAL is PROGRESSIVE
AND WITHOUT LIMIT. The actual number of dol-
lars that have been paid for shares issued, less
the number of dollars returned to stockholders
for shares returned and cancelled, represents the
actual capitalization of the Corporation at any
time.
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"WORLD CORPORATION" Shares will be sold
through established offices of the Corporation lo-
cated in every large city and town of every nation.
"WORLD CORPORATION" makes possible the safe
investment of the savings of the people, by investing
their funds in thousands of money-earning enter-
prises, instead of the individual investing his small
means in but one enterprise, with a consequent
enormously increased liability of loss. "WORLD
CORPORATION" is simply co-operative investment
for mutual safety and profit.
"WORLD CORPORATION" makes the absorption
of industry so simple, and confines the path of opera-
tion within such narrow and rigid lines, that the in-
vestment of the individual inexperienced in business
affairs is as safe as that of the most experienced.
"WORLD CORPORATION" is NOT SPECULATIVE.
Every dollar received from shareholders will be
used for legitimate investments in approved DIVI-
DEND-PAYING SECURITIES. No money will be loaned
or used to promote individual enterprises.
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"WORLD CORPORATION" Shares will be the safest
investment for Banks and Trust Companies, as well
as individuals, and they will return larger dividends
than can be secured by any other investment.
"WORLD CORPORATION" is organized under the
same laws and rights as are conferred upon any
Holding Corporation by Charter, which gives the
right to individuals to combine their capital for the
purpose of purchasing the securities of other cor-
porations. The only difference between an indi-
vidual Holding Corporation and " WORLD COR-
PORATION" being the basis of equity secured to
each subscriber to shares of "WORLD CORPORA-
TION," on account of their progressive and unlimited
issue and fixed par value.
"WORLD CORPORATION," WHEN ITS PURPOSE is
FULFILLED, WILL BE THE ONLY EMPLOYER OF LABOR
AND THE ONLY SELLER OF PRODUCTS, and the CUStO-
dian of individual wealth, represented by dollars,
or their equivalent in units of labor. Thus "WORLD
CORPORATION" will be the world's clearing-house,
giving to each individual opportunity to labor,
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payment for his labor, and sell all products on a
basis of equity.
"WORLD CORPORATION" SHARES ARE A NECES-
SARY FACTOR IN THE CONVERSION OF ALL SECURI-
TIES INTO ONE SECURITY, AND IN THE CONVERSION
OF INDIVIDUAL PROPERTY RIGHT TO CORPORATE
PROPERTY RIGHT. When all property is absorbed,
and represented by outstanding " WORLD CORPO-
RATION" Shares, then will dividends cease and a
sinking fund be provided, for purpose of absorbing
and cancelling all shares. Thus we will arrive at
the true system, when all will be born free and equal,
and THE EQUITABLE RELATION OF EACH INDIVIDUAL
TO EVERY OTHER INDIVIDUAL, SOCIALLY AND INDUS-
TRIALLY, WILL BE BASED ON INTELLIGENCE.
PUBLICITY.
Publicity will be a permanent feature of " WORLD
CORPORATION," and to this end a weekly paper
will be published, to be known as " WORLD COR-
PORATION NEWS," containing a summary of the
finances of the Corporation each week and a list
of the securities purchased. At the close of each
quarterly period a complete list of all the assets of
the Corporation will be published, showing the
aggregate amount of each separate security owned
by the Corporation and its general average cost.
"WORLD CORPORATION NEWS" will also publish
articles giving information of interest to stock-
holders, pertaining to the development and progress
of the Corporation, as well as articles contributed
by writers who have suggestions or criticisms to
offer.
"WORLD CORPORATION NEWS" will be the prop-
erty of "WORLD CORPORATION," and its aim and
purpose will be to give the widest possible publicity
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to every act of the Corporation. Publication will
begin as soon as five thousand (5,000) subscrip-
tions have been received. All subscriptions will be
credited to the Publicity Department and be sep-
arate and distinct from all subscriptions for purchase
of shares. The subscription price to " WORLD COR-
PORATION NEWS " is $2.00 per year.
PUBLICITY AND CO-OPERATION.
To the Public.
After twenty years of study, the author presents
to the public his complete system of "WORLD COR-
PORATION," together with the Charter necessary to
its operation, and has opened the first office of the
Corporation at No. 6 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.
"WORLD CORPORATION" is impersonal in every
way, and the author takes to himself no credit, nor
does he look for reward or profit other than will
come to every individual should the system receive
the support it deserves, and for such service as he
can render in the future he desires no recompense.
There are thousands of individuals who are able
to do much more than the author, — men and women
"WORLD CORPORATION' 53
of such prominence that they could carry the whole
country with them, if they would lend their names
and influence and give their approval to " WORLD
CORPORATION." If Theodore Roosevelt would ac-
cept the presidency of "WORLD CORPORATION,"
not only could he carry the people of America with
him, but he would carry conviction to every mind
and amalgamate the people of every nation. I
will make the offer here, to be one of twenty indi-
viduals, each of whom shall pay to Theodore Roose-
velt fifty thousand dollars in advance, a total of
one million dollars, if he will accept the presidency
of "WORLD CORPORATION" over a period of four
years, it being understood that this money is not to
be a charge against the Corporation in any way, or
ever be returned to the subscribers. I make this
offer, feeling that the position would carry with
it greater honor than to be President, King, or Em-
peror of any nation in the world.
POLITICS.
Politics which we recognize as a necessary gov-
ernmental part of our competitive, industrial
system, will have no place under "WORLD COR-
PORATION." Governments as a factor of national
life will find, their complement in "WORLD COR-
PORATION" National Boards of Control, and in the
"WORLD CORPORATE CONGRESS." Thus will the
whole field of World, National, State, and Muni-
cipal Governments pass out of existence. There
will be no voting, no political campaigns, and no
favorites of fortune, either socially or industrially,
except those who by study, application, persever-
ance, intelligence, and ability earn and by right
attain positions in the World Corporate System.
While it is true that politics will have no place
under " WORLD CORPORATION" in its ultimate
form, still the concrete idea underlying "WORLD
CORPORATION" — i.e., the dissolving of all conflict-
ing elements of our competitive system into cor-
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"WORLD CORPORATION" 55
porate solution — might be taken as a basis for the
birth of a new political party out of the chaos of
Industrial conditions now agitating the people of
all countries. Though separate and distinct from
"WORLD CORPORATION," a political party would
be of immense service in forwarding its purposes.
Such a party, though national in each individual
country and largely devoted to national affairs,
would be international in its scope and purpose,
and amalgamate into a world-wide working force
the progressive and discontented elements of all
parties of all nations. Thus would the reform and
progressive parties of America, England, France,
Germany, and all other countries find a basis for
co-operative effort and community of purpose.
CORPORATE PARTY.
There is no name that means so much and is so
applicable to present industrial conditions and the
tendency of industry to centralize by "Economic
Gravitation " as " CORPORATE PARTY." It is a name
that suggests a definite purpose, a definite line of
action, and a predetermined goal. It is a name
56 "WORLD CORPORATION"
under which all progressive individuals in the world
can rally, irrespective of nationality or previous
party affiliation, for it embodies within its meaning
that for which all nations and all people have been
striving since the dawn of history, — A SYSTEM or
GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY BASED ON EQUITY. It
means, as a definite goal, Corporation of Property,
Wealth, Power, Education, Industry, Governments,
Nations, Continents, the World, into the hands of
the People of the World.
Such a CORPORATE PARTY, brought into temporary
existence for the purpose of facilitating the rapid
acquisition of industry by the people and to sup-
plement the work of "WORLD CORPORATION,"
could do much in Washington in opposing legisla-
tion designed to obstruct and retard the efforts
of the people, and much in opposition to special
legislation designed to protect and forward the in-
terests of individual corporations and trusts.
Bedaration of
of Corporate
I AM A CORPORATIONIST
I BELIEVE in "WORLD CORPORATION"
By the People — For the People, as
opposed to corporation by Individuals
for Individuals.
I BELIEVE in International Co-operation
with all Nations, and all Nations with
each other, for the accomplishment
of Universal Peace through "WORLD
CORPORATION."
I BELIEVE in the corporate acquisition
and final ownership of all property
and control of all industry by the
people.
I BELIEVE in the elimination of lines of
demarkation between nations and peo-
ple, and the establishment of equity
between individuals throughout the
world on a basis of intelligence.
LAUNCHING OF "WORLD CORPORATION."
The launching of "WORLD CORPORATION" in-
volves no departure from advanced business
methods. Unlike changes brought about by legis-
lation, which involve long periods of education of
the people before a step in advance can be made,
"WORLD CORPORATION" WILL BE FORWARDED AT
ONCE BY A FEW INDIVIDUALS AS A NUCLEUS, AND
EACH ADDITIONAL INDIVIDUAL CONVERTED TO ITS
PURPOSE WILL ADD IMMEDIATE STRENGTH TO THE
ORGANIZATION.
The first and most important matter is to con-
vince the public that "WORLD CORPORATION"
shares are safe, and, in the event of industrial dis-
turbance, the safest security in the world. This
should not be difficult when it is understood that
every dollar paid for shares will be INVESTED IN
DIVIDEND-PAYING STOCKS AND BONDS OF ACTIVE
CORPORATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY A
NATIONAL BOARD OF FINANCE.
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After careful consideration of information in
regard to different securities and circumstances
that might affect their value, such will be selected
as are safest from every point of view, and purchase
will be made in the open market on the stock ex-
changes of the world.
Banking, Insurance, and Trust Companies are
making such purchases for investment of surplus
funds every day. And Trust Companies, attorneys,
and individuals, acting as trustees for others, are
thus investing moneys of individual estates for
widows, orphans, and others. In these cases money
is invested upon the judgment of a few individuals
at most; and it is not always true that a sufficient
investigation is made, or knowledge of proposed
investment acquired before securities are purchased,
nor can the honesty of such trustees be always de-
pended upon, the result being frequent losses of
capital, in part or in whole, by innocent investors.
Trust Companies assume no responsibilities for
investments made, and the cost of handling money
by Trustees and by Trust Companies is excessive,
seldom falling below ten per cent, of the actual in-
come of investors, and is usually more. Trustees
60 "WORLD CORPORATION"
are in business to make money, and every transac-
tion necessary to the care of money in their charge
is made an item of expense to the investor. IT
IS ADMITTEDLY SAFE AND PROFITABLE FOR TRUST
COMPANIES AND TRUSTEES TO PURCHASE APPROVED
STOCKS, BONDS, AND SECURITIES WITH TRUST FUNDS.
IT WILL BE EQUALLY SAFE IF THESE TRUST FUNDS
AND SAVINGS OF THE PEOPLE ARE INVESTED IN
"WORLD CORPORATION" SHARES, WHOSE ASSETS
WILL BE THESE SAME DiVIDEND-PAYING SECURITIES.
"WORLD CORPORATION" combines all the good
features of Trust Companies or Trustees, with ad-
ditional features of absolute security, safety, and
maximum income, at the least possible cost of con-
ducting business, the cost being confined to neces-
sary clerical work and incidental expenses, all other
income from the assets of the corporation going to
the credit of shareholders, being paid to them at
intervals in the form of Dividends or credited to
their Share Account as they prefer. Too MUCH
STRESS CANNOT BE LAID ON THE ABSOLUTE SECURITY
OF "WORLD CORPORATION" SHARES AS AN IN-
VESTMENT. No SECURITY IN THE WORLD CAN COM-
PARE WITH THEM FOR SAFETY, NOT EVEN UNITED
"WORLD CORPORATION" 61
STATES GOVERNMENT BONDS. BACK OF EVERY DOL-
LAR ARE ACTIVE DiVIDEND-PAYING SECURITIES, REP-
RESENTING INDUSTRIES WHICH MUST LIVE, GROW,
AND BE A PERMANENT FACTOR OF OUR INDUSTRIAL
LIFE, NO MATTER WHAT SYSTEM PREVAILS. These
industries are the world's Railroads and Steamship
companies and their equipment, Telephone, Tel-
egraph, and Cable companies, the world's Manu-
facturing Industries, Mining properties, and the
great Agricultural acreage of the earth; for "WORLD
CORPORATION" will absorb, own, and control the
whole field of raw production. Shares founded on
these industries will represent the real wealth and
values of the world. THEY CANNOT FAIL, THEY
CANNOT DEPRECIATE IN VALUE.
We now come to some peculiar facts in regard
to "WORLD CORPORATION" Shares. First, THERE
BEING NO LIMIT TO INDIVIDUAL INVESTMENT OF
DOLLARS AND NO LIMIT TO ISSUE OF SHARES, IT
FOLLOWS THAT SHARES WILL NEVER RISE ABOVE A
DOLLAR IN VALUE. Second, THERE BEING NO BAR
TO THE SURRENDER OF SHARES TO THE CORPORATION
FOR CANCELLATION AND THE WITHDRAWAL OF AN
EQUAL NUMBER OF DOLLARS, IT FOLLOWS THAT SHARES
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WILL NEVER FALL BELOW A DOLLAR IN VALUE. We
thus have this strange fact before us, — a currency
("WORLD CORPORATION" Shares) ABSOLUTELY STA-
PLE IN VALUE, NON-SPECULATIVE AND NEVER CHANG-
ING, and by whose value, labor, and every product of
the world will be determined and regulated, includ-
ing gold and silver, which will fluctuate in value in
relation thereto, the same as any product.
This basis of permanent exchange value peculiar
to "WORLD CORPORATION" Shares will become a
fact from the day " WORLD CORPORATION" has its
birth, for their value does not depend upon the num-
ber of shares issued, and WITHIN A FEW YEARS THESE
SHARES WILL BE A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
CURRENCY, THEREBY GIVING TO THE WORLD FOR
THE FIRST TIME A UNIVERSAL EXCHANGE MEDIUM
FOUNDED UPON INDUSTRY.
Opposition to "WORLD CORPORATION" by in-
dividuals, by states, or by governments will be
of no avail. Opposition in any case can only be of
temporary effect, barriers will only centralize power
and cause increased momentum when they give
way. "WORLD CORPORATION" may start slowly;
but the billion mark will soon be passed, and speed
"WORLD CORPORATION" 63
of absorption will increase in compounding ratio,
until it spreads like a prairie fire, through every
nation of the world. Holders of property and se-
curities will turn them into money, and reinvest in
"WORLD CORPORATION" Shares. THUS WILL THE
PROCESS OF CONVERSION CONTINUE, AND CORPORA-
TION AFTER CORPORATION COME UNDER CONTROL,
UNTIL ALL INDUSTRY is ABSORBED IN ONE CORPO-
RATE BODY UNDER ONE CORPORATE INTELLIGENCE,—
"WORLD CORPORATION."
"WORLD CORPORATION" REVOLU-
TIONARY.
"WORLD CORPORATION" is different from other
corporations. It is a Corporation of the people and
of the people's wealth. ITS CAPITAL is PROGRES-
SIVE AND WITHOUT LIMIT, represented at all times by
actual dollars paid into the company's treasury.
ITS ASSETS ARE APPROVED DiVIDEND-PAYING SE-
CURITIES OF OTHER CORPORATIONS purchased in the
open market at their market value. Speculation
feeds on floating securities and their rise and fall
in value. WHEN THESE SECURITIES ARE PUR-
CHASED BY "WORLD CORPORATION," THEY WILL
NEVER AGAIN BE SOLD OR FIND THEIR WAY INTO THE
SPECULATIVE MARKETS OF THE WORLD. Corpora-
tion after corporation will come under control, and
the people will come into ownership of every rail-
road in North America, without recourse to law or
legislation, and into possession of all manufacturing
industries without friction or disturbance. "WORLD
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CORPORATION" is a business plan of ABSORPTION
BY CONVERSION, — a simple means of transferring
the world's wealth from individual control to owner-
ship and control by the people.
"WORLD CORPORATION" is independent of all
other corporations and of all individuals or nations,
and its success is not dependent on the time in which
any number of shares shall be issued. If a thousand
individuals should each pay in one thousand dol-
lars, they would have paid in a total of one million
dollars, and there would be issued to each, one
thousand shares at their par value, or a total of
one million shares. The total dividends from the
securities purchased with this million dollars would
represent the total earnings of their million-dollar
investment, the purpose of their co-operative in-
vestment being to make security doubly secure by
spreading the investment over hundreds of securi-
ties, instead of each individual purchasing one
security. It is simply co-operative investment for
mutual benefit and safety.
What is true of co-operative investment as shown
in the above million-dollar corporation is true to
a much greater degree of " WORLD CORPORATION,"
66 "WORLD CORPORATION"
which will invite the co-operation of every individ-
ual in the world, and should issue fifty billion shares
at one dollar each, inside of two years, which will
represent the purchase and pooling of Dividend-
Paying Securities of thousands of corporations.
If these fifty billion shares were sold in approximate
equal amounts to investors in the United States,
England, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, China,
and India, the financial interest of these Nations
in each other would make war impossible, dis-
armament of Nations would quickly follow, and
armies of DESTRUCTION would be rapidly absorbed
into armies of CONSTRUCTION.
"WORLD CORPORATION" will do more than turn
armies of war into armies of peace; it will turn
the army of speculators into avenues of produc-
tion; and, as it gradually absorbs one industry
after another, it will displace all middle-men, wipe
out the insurance system and all tributary indus-
tries of our competitive system, and so centralize
control of property in " WORLD CORPORATION"
that laws against individual property right will
become null and void.
Let us consider further the possible rapid growth
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of "WORLD CORPORATION." If stocks and bonds
listed upon the exchanges of the world are worth
their quoted values as an investment for banks,
Trust Companies, and individuals, they are just as
valuable to " WORLD CORPORATION," whose Board
of Finance will first pass upon securities purchased.
Under these conditions "WORLD CORPORATION"
Shares will be safest of any security in the world;
and, no matter how you may have money invested,
"WORLD CORPORATION" Shares will be better and
safer. You might to-day sell on the stock exchange
Securities which you hold and the purchaser be
"WORLD CORPORATION." With money received
you could purchase " WORLD CORPORATION" Shares.
To-morrow the money you paid for " WORLD COR-
PORATION" Shares might be paid out by "WORLD
CORPORATION" for Securities, sold by some other
individual who wishes to convert his Securities into
money, with which to purchase "WORLD CORPORA-
TION " Shares. Thus would this process of conver-
sion continue, until one corporation after another
had been completely absorbed and its Securities
removed forever from the speculative field.
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On looking at foregoing table we find that
"WORLD CORPORATION" has in its treasury $5,000
worth of good Dividend-Paying Securities, formerly
owned by Davis, Howard, Rice, Smith, and
Appleton, and has issued 1,000 shares of " WORLD
CORPORATION" each to Allen, Davis, Howard,
Rice, and Smith. We find that these securities,
Pennsylvania, Northern Pacific, Rock Island,
United States Steel, and Telephone and Telegraph,
amounting in value to $1,000 each, have been re-
moved from the speculative market forever, and
have been converted into 5,000 shares of " WORLD
CORPORATION."
Nothing has been lost or gained in these trans-
actions from a money standpoint; BUT, WHERE
FIVE SPECULATIVE SECURITIES WERE ON THE MARKET
BEFORE, THERE IS NOW ONLY ONE SECURITY WHICH
IS ABSOLUTELY FIXED IN VALUE AND NON-SPECU-
LATIVE.
SIMPLICITY OF CONVERSION BY "WORLD
CORPORATION."
It would be impossible for the people to attain
contrbl of industry throughout the world by direct
70 "WORLD CORPORATION'
purchase through government. Such a process
would entail endless confusion, and result in fraud-
ulent transactions by promoters and manipulators
behind the scenes, that would work disaster if not
ruin. To attain control through legislation is al-
most as hopeless, and no individual now living wrould
see its fruition. On the other hand, we have the
process of conversion by absorption through the
formation of " WORLD CORPORATION" which is
perfectly simple, REQUIRES NO SPECIAL LEGISLA-
TION OR APPEAL TO POLITICAL PARTIES, AVOIDS THE
CONFUSION OF DIRECT PURCHASE, FRAUD ON PART OF
PROMOTERS, PROVIDES A MEANS WHEREBY ALL IN-
DUSTRIES MAY BE ABSORBED WITHOUT CONFUSION
AND WITHOUT HARDSHIP, AND ASSURES HUMANITY,
OWNERSHIP OF ALL THE MATERIAL ASSETS OF THE
WORLD WITHIN THE LIFETIME OF FULLY FIFTY PER
CENT. OF THE PEOPLE NOW LIVING.
In carrying out this process of absorption you
have before you two pictures: one is a picture of
the assets of the world DIVIDED AND OWNED INDI-
VIDUALLY BY FOUR BILLION PEOPLE; in the other
picture YOU SEE THE SAME ASSETS OF THE WORLD
GRADUALLY BEING ABSORBED INTO ONE CORPORA-
"WORLD CORPORATION" 71
TION BY CONSENT AND CO-OPERATION OF THESE
SAME PEOPLE.
"WORLD CORPORATION" is the great industrial
absorber of the world. How rapidly it will pro-
gress can only be determined by experience; but,
if "WORLD CORPORATION" secures the co-opera-
tion of the people, fifty billion shares issued in two
years throughout the world will fall far short, of
actual amount, for the wage-earner alone can do
much toward this result by withdrawing his savings
from the banks and investing in " WORLD COR-
PORATION." Instead of contributing money to
banks to be used for his undoing, he would be the
actual owner of industrial securities that would
bring him in a larger income on his investment,
give him greater security, give him voice and man-
agement in the world's industries, and eventually
give to the people of the world ownership and con-
trol of industry. As for the capitalist, fortunate
will he be who reads the writing on the wall and
takes heed before the tide begins to turn.
PART TWO
SOWING THE SEED.
Economic Law as a "Principle" is the
"Universal Law" of Creative Development
and Intellectual and Material Progress. As
a fundamental, it applies to Atoms, Worlds,
Systems, Animate and Inanimate Nature, and
all that is and may be.
"CORPORATION" as now being applied to
the Industrial System is the beginning of the
adaptation of this same Universal Economic
Law to Humanity's needs, and as such it
must be recognized and accepted by man as
a principle of life, and fundamental as a guide
to Spiritual, Intellectual, Moral, and Material
Progression. The day is near at hand when
"CORPORATION" will be the battle-cry from
pole to pole and around the whole circum-
ference of the earth, and under its banner
will march shoulder to shoulder the people
of every nation.
These living seeds of truth scattered
broadcast in the soil of modern intelligence
will take root and blossom, and the fruit
thereof will be deeds and actions, and the
glorious dawn of an earthly millennium.
'WORLD
COR PORAT ION.'
AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM.
The "AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM" of "WORLD
CORPORATION " solves the industrial problem for all
future time. There can be no other answer than
the one here presented. There is no fork to the
road. It is straight and lies plain before us, and
sooner or later advanced civilization must accept
it. This Labor System displaces competition for
wealth, and substitutes attainment of knowledge
as a basis for individual position and advancement
in the social and industrial system and as an in-
centive to progress.
The discovery of this "AUTOMATIC LABOR SYS-
TEM," made by the writer while tracing causes
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and effects in our industrial system, is most im-
portant to "WORLD CORPORATION," for by its
adoption it is possible to bind together every
individual in the world in perfect-working har-
mony in one "WORLD CORPORATE SYSTEM," and
guarantee to each equity, justice, and freedom, in
his relation to every other individual, and to the
Corporate Directing Intelligence. Further, this
"AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM" will maintain at all
times throughout the world, in every department
of industry, AN EXACT BALANCE BETWEEN SUPPLY
AND DEMAND FOR LABOR AND SUPPLY AND DEMAND
FOR PRODUCTS.
This System is attainable without the enactment
of a single law, and without appeal to legislation
or government; and neither race, nationality, indi-
vidual character, nor characteristics of disposition
have any bearing on its successful operation. The
system is Economic Law, which is as fixed and de-
pendable for man's guidance, and as inflexible in
resisting artificial barriers as is the law of Gravita-
tion. It does not adjust itself to individuals; indi-
viduals must adjust themselves to the Law.
This "AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM" will be a
"WORLD CORPORATION" 77
part of " WORLD CORPORATION." The only ques-
tion that arises is, Shall this system be put in
operation in individual corporations as rapidly as
such corporations come under control, or shall
it be held in abeyance until " WORLD CORPORA-
TION" has acquired control of the greater part of
industry?
THE "AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM" INVOLVES THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF A LABOR BUREAU AS A DEPART-
MENT OF "WORLD CORPORATION," this department
to employ all labor of all industries brought under
its control. The reader will understand that
"WORLD CORPORATION," as an employer of labor
through its Labor Bureau, simply takes the place
of present employers of labor, who are displaced
whenever individual corporations or industries are
absorbed. By thus bringing labor under the con-
trol of one employer the "AUTOMATIC LABOR SYS-
TEM" is made possible, and our present system of
chaos will be gradually merged into a comprehen-
sive system of order. " WORLD CORPORATION"
carries to a logical conclusion the results attained
by individual corporations, which absorb numbers
of competitive plants of industry, thereby cen-
78 "WORLD CORPORATION"
tralizing many employers of labor into one em-
ployer of labor.
Under the "AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM" indi-
viduals desiring employment in "WORLD CORPO-
RATION" will go to the Labor Bureau where, upon
application, they will be furnished with complete
tabulated lists of every department of industry
throughout the whole world industrial system.
These lists will be divided into Grand Divisions
such as Architecture, Manufacturing, Mechanical
Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Agriculture,
Mining, Fisheries, Transportation, Food Prepara-
tion, Landscape Gardening, etc., and these Grand
Divisions will be divided into sub-divisions, and
these again into departments and sub-departments,
until each department in the whole field of indus-
try, from the highest to the lowest has been pro-
vided for and properly graded and listed.
Each of these graded departments throughout
the system will have a predetermined entrance re-
quirement based on acquired knowledge or skill,
or both, and no department can be entered except
the requirement of that department is fully met
by the applicant. THESE ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS
"WORLD CORPORATION" 79
WILL BE WORKED OUT AND DETERMINED BY A
SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL BUREAU,
CONSTITUTING A PART OF THE "WORLD CORPORATE
CONGRESS."
It will be noted by applicants for positions in
looking over the lists, that an amount paid per hour,
per day, or per month for labor is posted in figures,
opposite each department. These figures may rep-
resent dollars or units of labor. The name makes
no difference. It will be further noted that the
amounts paid in different departments widely vary
in their greatest extremes. These variations are not
the result of arbitrary laws fixed by man or corpor-
ate interference, but are varying automatic amounts
arrived at by the system itself, as the departments
compete with each other for labor to meet the de-
mand for products in each department. It makes
no difference how wide apart the amounts paid in
different departments may be, the labor and pay
in one department is on an exact equitable basis
with the labor and pay in every other department.
Under an Industrial System there are two great
problems to meet, — Demand for Products and De-
mand for Labor. In order to balance supply and
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demand for labor, so that each department of in-
dustry will be able to meet the demand for prod-
ucts, and at the same time equalize the amount paid
to individuals in each department on a basis of
equity, an "AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM" has been
discovered and worked out which meets every re-
quirement. Under this system each department
of industry is placed in competition with every
other department of industry, in bidding for labor
necessary to meet the demand for products in its
department. Thus the amounts paid in the thou-
sands of departments of industry will vary, and rise
and fall automatically, in competition with each
other to balance supply and demand in each de-
partment, thereby balancing supply and demand
throughout the whole world industrial system. The
application is as follows: —
AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM.
IF A DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY IS NOT MEETING
THE DEMAND FOR PRODUCTS, AND IS IN NEED OF
LABOR, AND LABORERS ARE NOT ATTRACTED, BUT
TURN TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS IN PREFERENCE, IT
"WORLD CORPORATION" 81
WILL SHOW THAT THE AMOUNT PAID IN THAT DE-
PARTMENT IS NOT ON A BASIS OF EQUITY IN COMPE-
TITION FOR LABOR WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
THEREFORE THE AMOUNT PAID IN THAT DEPARTMENT
WILL BE INCREASED BY SYSTEMATIC PROGRESSION
FROM DAY TO DAY BY MARKING UP THE LISTED PRICE
PAID, UNTIL, IN COMPETITION WITH OTHER DEPART-
MENTS, IT BECOMES MORE DESIRABLE, LABORERS
WILL BE ATTRACTED, THE DEMAND WILL BE MET,
AND AN EQUILIBRIUM BE ESTABLISHED. On the
other hand, IF A DEPARTMENT is ATTRACTING MORE
APPLICANTS FOR LABOR THAN ARE NEEDED, OR HAS
MORE LABORERS THAN REQUIRED TO MEET THE DE-
MAND FOR PRODUCTS, IT WILL BE EVIDENCE THAT
TOO MUCH IS BEING PAID FOR LABOR IN THAT DE-
PARTMENT, IN COMPETITION WITH OTHER DEPART-
MENTS. IN ORDER TO OVERCOME THIS INEQUALITY
AND ESTABLISH AN EQUILIBRIUM AND PLACE THE
DEPARTMENT ON A BASIS OF EQUITY WITH OTHER
DEPARTMENTS, THE AMOUNT PAID WILL BE REDUCED
FROM DAY TO DAY, SYSTEMATICALLY, AND THE
CHANGE LISTED, UNTIL THIS DEPARTMENT IN COM-
PETITION WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS BECOMES
LESS ATTRACTIVE, APPLICANTS WILL TURN TO
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OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND AN EQUILIBRIUM BE
ESTABLISHED.
A BALANCE IN THE WHOLE SYSTEM WILL BE
FINALLY ESTABLISHED BY FIRST MEETING THE
FLUCTUATING DEMAND FOR PRODUCTS FOR INDIVID-
UAL CONSUMPTION AND THE USE OF ALL SUPER-
ABUNDANCE OF LABOR IN PUBLIC WORKS DEPART-
MENTS. It can readily be seen that there will be a
fluctuating demand for products of consumption by
individuals, and a consequent fluctuating demand
for labor in those departments devoted to meeting
individual demands, necessitating an elastic medium
to balance the system. This elastic medium will
be the labor employed in PUBLIC WORKS, which
may be increased or diminished by increasing or
decreasing the amount of work being forwarded in
Public Works Departments, or by increasing or
decreasing the amounts paid in Public Works De-
partments in competition with departments de-
voted to meeting individual demand for products.
When this system is established and balanced,
there will be little rise and fall in wages and little
shifting and changing about, except as individuals
advance to higher grades in the path which they
"WORLD CORPORATION" 83
have chosen. There will be no unemployed ex-
cept those who have units of labor to their credit
with the Corporation and are idle from choice.
There is no compulsion brought to bear on the in-
dividual by the system to make him work. But
in order to live he must either have units of labor
to his credit with the Corporation, or must work.
Those whose wants are few need work but little,
for the productive power of the individual will be
enormous under " WORLD CORPORATION." But
whatever his wants may be, he must balance the cost
of products consumed, by his labor on a basis of
equity.
Under this "AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM" every
department of industry will exactly balance supply
of labor and demand for products. THERE CAN BE
NO EXCEPTIONS. Any department, no matter how
dangerous, obnoxious, or objectionable the work
may be, can always be made to attract its necessary
amount of labor, at some price, in competition for
labor with other departments; AND THAT PRICE
WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY REACHED AND PAID IN
ORDER TO BALANCE SUPPLY AND DEMAND. It is
the happy medium between too much and too little
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compensation in each department which maintains
a balance throughout the system, and it is the elastic
use of labor in Public Works Departments which
balances the system as a whole and solves the prob-
lem of the unemployed forever.
THE AUTOMATIC SYSTEM A SCIENTIFIC ADAP-
TATION OF OUR PRESENT SYSTEM.
The "AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM" is the scien-
tific adaptation of our present system. There is not
a single new feature, except that our present sys-
tem results in chaos and waste, while Corporation
establishes order and economy. If, under our pres-
ent system of competition, an industry or a depart-
ment of industry does not attract labor sufficient
to meet requirements, it is forced to raise the wages
paid and keep raising them until in competition
with other departments or industries, it attracts
labor. In such a case Labor holds the whip, and
strikes or arbitrates to force their wages higher.
If business is slack and labor over-abundant, Capi-
tal wields the whip and forces wages down, and they
continue to go down until they can be forced no
"WORLD CORPORATION" 85
lower. The difference between our present system
and "WORLD CORPORATION" is, that UNDER OUR
PRESENT SYSTEM INDUSTRY IS DIVIDED INTO MILL-
IONS OF COMPETITIVE PARTS WITH HUNDREDS OP
THOUSANDS OF EMPLOYERS OF LABOR, and there is no
co-operation between these parts whereby system
can be maintained, and no co-operation between
individual employers of labor, and employers of
labor for Public Works Departments of National,
State, and Municipal Governments. This makes
it impossible to establish an equilibrium between
supply and demand for products and supply and
demand for labor. As a result the system is chaotic,
and there is always a large, fluctuating population
of unemployed that cannot be taken care of. Under
"WORLD CORPORATION" control of industry is cen-
tralized, and there is only one employer of labor,
which makes it possible to put in operation the
"AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM," WHICH PUTS EVERY
INDIVIDUAL IN THE WORLD IN THE LABOR CLASS, ON
A BASIS OF EQUITY AND JUSTICE, and provides for
the employment of all labor by the fluctuating use
of labor in Public Works Departments.
Every department of Industry has its wages listed
86 "WORLD CORPORATION"
by the Labor Bureau and is open to applicants at
all times, provided they meet entrance requirements.
THE CORPORATION ITSELF CANNOT BAR INDIVIDUAL
ENTRANCE, PROVIDED THE PREDETERMINED REQUIRE-
MENTS ARE MET. Therefore every individual can
enter any department he is fitted for, is free to
follow his path of inclination, and is absolute master
of his own destiny, his progress being limited only
by his ambition and intelligence. UNDER THIS
SYSTEM THERE WILL BE NO POLITICS, no disturbing
factors to create friction in the operation of the
great world industrial mechanism, no favorites of
fortune. EACH INDIVIDUAL MUST EARN WHATEVER
POSITION HE OCCUPIES; HE CANNOT BE ELECTED
TO A POSITION; NOR WILL THERE BE ANY POWER
STRONG ENOUGH TO ADVANCE HIM, EXCEPT IN
ACCORD WITH THE SYSTEM OF EQUITY ESTABLISHED.
INTELLIGENCE THE BASIS OF EMPLOYMENT.
Under the "AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM" INTEL-
LIGENCE MUST BE A CONDITION AT THE THRESHOLD
OF EVERY DOOR, else the individual who has attained
knowledge and proficiency by application and study
"WORLD CORPORATION" 87
to fit himself for a particular department, might
find it crowded with the unfit and incompetent.
Such overcrowding would reduce the amount of
wages paid in that department, in competition
with other departments, would lower the standard
of skill and efficiency, and, as a consequence,
lower the quality of product produced. With
equal opportunity to acquire knowledge, which is
the fundamental idea of the system, there can be
no excuse for those who fail to attain an enviable
position in " WORLD CORPORATION." Certainly no
individual* can expect to enter a department for
which he is not fitted. A child in the kinder-
garten might as reasonably demand a position as
professor of Greek in Harvard, as for an individ-
ual to demand a position in the "WORLD COR-
PORATE MACHINE" which he is incapable of filling.
An individual must be perfectly fitted into the
position he holds, whether it be low or high, and
intelligence is the only gauge by which fitness can
be measured. By following this rule, an industrial
machine of highest efficiency will be secured. It
is Civil Service rules applied to a World System.
During the early development of the "AUTOMATIC
88 "WORLD CORPORATION"
LABOR SYSTEM" employment of individuals in any
department of industry will be determined by ex-
amination; but when the system has been established
a sufficient time to give individuals a life record with
"WORLD CORPORATION," then position and promo-
tion will be based on such record, and examinations
will be dispensed with entirely. These life records,
kept by the Corporation, will give the intellectual
and industrial progress of the individual and the
departments through which he has passed.
When the "AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM" is in full
operation, each individual will begin at the broad
base of the Industrial Pyramid, in that grand divi-
sion chosen by inclination, and gradually rise to
higher position by successive steps upward on basis
of intelligence acquired, passing grade after grade,
until the apex of the Pyramid, the "WORLD COR-
PORATE CONGRESS," is attained.
By the law of averages it will be found that in-
dividuals capable of filling positions of great intel-
ligence and technical skill will be in greatest demand,
and there will be fewer and fewer who can meet the
predetermined requirements of intelligence, skill,
and genius as progress is made upward from the
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PYRAMID
The above pyramid is the symbol of the Educational and Industrial progress of
the individual. The horizontal divisions represent the different planes upward
until "WORLD CORPORATION CONGRESS" is attained, whereas the divisions of the
pyramid from base to apex represent the Grand Divisions of Industry — all of which
finally merge into the "WORLD CORPORATE CONGRESS." Under this system the
individual is free to choose his path of inclination, and his progress cannot be
barred.
90 "WORLD CORPORATION"
lower grades. Therefore, the lowest wages will be
paid for common labor, which will be abundant and
easily supplied, and from this point wages will in-
crease in each grade upward until " WORLD COR-
PORATE CONGRESS" is attained. In other words,
the intellectual gradation of individuals will start
from a broad base of COMMON LABOR AND LIMITED
KNOWLEDGE OF THE YOUNGER INDIVIDUALS OF THE
CORPORATION, and gradually rise to a pyramidal
point of MOST ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE OF THE OLDER
AND MORE MATURE INTELLIGENCES, the pyramidal
point being the merging of all the great Divisions
of Industry and all branches of Knowledge in the
great directing mind, — the " WORLD CORPORATE
CONGRESS," which like every other department
of "WORLD CORPORATION," is open to the ambi-
tion of every individual, and to attain which re-
quires supreme knowledge in some one of the great
Divisions of Industry.
Under "WORLD CORPORATION" KNOWLEDGE WILL
BE UNIVERSAL, and intelligence and gradation in the
World System will depend on age and experience,
rather than chance or favorable conditions of envi-
ronment, as is the case now. Therefore, as stated,
"WORLD CORPORATION" 91
the young men and women will do the actual
labor under " WORLD CORPORATION," and the ad-
vanced positions will be occupied by the more ma-
ture intelligences.
INCENTIVE TO AMBITION.
To attain and become a unit in the great direct-
ing mind of " WORLD CORPORATION" will be the
ambition of each individual life: IT WILL TAKE THE
PLACE OF EVERY OTHER AMBITION, and as an incen-
tive to progress will be greater than our present
system of competition for wealth, a hundred to one.
A child of to-day in our public schools passes from
class to class on a basis of intelligence. He has been
taught to know that he cannot pass from one class
to another until prepared for the change, and you
hear no complaint. He accepts the inevitable and
does not expect to rise until he meets the conditions
of advancement. So will children be taught from
birth under "WORLD CORPORATION." They will
be made to understand that Education, Industry,
and Government are one system, — Education pre-
paring for Industry, — Industry for Government, —
92 "WORLD CORPORATION"
and that prepared fitness is the only open sesame
to advancement.
' WORLD CORPORATION " is the same as our
present system of Education, Industry, and Gov-
ernment, except that our present system of com-
petitive industry has no scientific base, and the
three great divisions are not co-ordinated and do
not work in harmony with each other; in conse-
quence of which there is a break between the di-
visions that results in confusion and entails disas-
trous consequences.
"WORLD CORPORATION" is a natural system, for
it is in perfect accord with Economic Law, a law
unto itself, that requires no laws of man to interpret
it or keep it in adjustment. It treats every individ-
ual in the world on a basis of equity. It says to
each: "You are free to choose your field of labor
and your path of inclination. EVERY DEPARTMENT
IS OPEN, NO PLACE IS EVER PULL. BUT YOU SHALL
NOT CROSS THE THRESHOLD OF ANY DEPARTMENT
UNTIL YOU CAN MATCH UP YOUR INTELLIGENCE
WITH THOSE WHO HAVE ENTERED."
"WORLD CORPORATION" is an educational
system that begins at the cradle and never ends.
''WORLD CORPORATION" 93
It is a world-wide University of Progress, a
path ever upward, flooded with the knowledge
of those who have gone before, and is wide, free,
and open.
MAN CORPORATE.
You may better understand " WORLD CORPORA-
TION" if your attention is directed to the Corpo-
rate Man who represents the incorporated people
of the earth, — upwards of four billion human be-
ings. This great body and mind and soul is a
highly specialized individuality with acute and won-
derful perceptive senses. His eyes are the corpo-
rate eyes of the world, and he sees all that they see
that is worth seeing; he hears all that all the in-
dividuals in the world hear that is worth hearing;
he scents all that all the individuals in the world
scent; he tastes all that all the individuals in the
world taste; he feels all that all the individuals in
the world feel. It could not be otherwise, for all
his senses are the combined senses of all the indi-
viduals in the world. His body and brain combine
four billion human atoms which can only find expres-
sion through his highly specialized senses.
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MAN CORPORATE.
HE ABSORBS, ENFOLDS, ENCOMPASSES, AND MAKES THE WORLD HIS OWN. HE WILL DO MORE;
HE WILL PENETRATE THE CONFINES OF SPACE, AND MAKE IT DELIVER UP ITS
SECRETS AND POWER, FOR MlND, THE CHILD OF THE GREAT OvER-
SOUL OF CREATION is INFINITE AND ETERNAL.
"WORLD CORPORATION" 95
Look again at this great corporate body and mind !
See how the brain reasons, sifts, examines, weighs,
and discriminates in its judgment, which, when
given, is final; for it is the judgment of the highest
specialized intelligence of man. See those enormous
arms. They are the arms and muscles of the world
combined in one great corporate body, directed
in their manual labor and skill by the wonderful
corporate brain. Does it occur to you how nearly
like unto yourself is this great anatomical structure?
Like you its mind comes in contact with nature and
nature's laws through its senses of perception. Like
you it reasons, sifts, analyzes, and discriminates
and accepts or rejects. Like you its mind and body
is made up of billions of living cells which live their
life and die and pass away, their place being taken
by other cells. In the case of the great World Cor-
porate Body and Mind, the billions of living cells
are the billions of human beings that inhabit the
earth, who live their allotted time and die, others
being born to take their place, each contributing
its intelligence to the great corporate mind. Thus
does the whole material structure of the great cor-
porate body and mind change every few years; but
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the knowledge, memory, accumulating intelligence,
and soul of this great corporate body, which con-
stitutes its individuality and life, lives on and on,
until the world grows old and night descends.
PART THREE
THE WASTE OF OUR
SYSTEM
"WORLD CORPORATION"
NOT A DREAM.
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Our Industrial System is joined by a
sequence of links with an eternal past.
Each link is knowledge, there are no links
missing, and each step in the future must
be linked with this endless chain.
It is impossible to imagine a new Indus-
trial System different from the one we have,
except it is based on present knowledge and
grows in natural sequence out of the old sys-
tem. The great mistake of many enthusiasts
and writers upon economic subjects is their
tendency to break away from the base of
acquired knowledge, leap across an inter-
vening space of years, and plant their banner
of discovery in an unknown and unknowable
country. To picture Utopia at the end of
such a journey is pure imagination, and of no
value to the seeker after truth.
"WORLD CORPORATION" is linked with
the past, is forged out of present conditions, is
in direct sequence with industrial gravitation
and "Economic Law." It is not a dream.
It is reality.
THE PROBLEM.
Mankind has been seeking a solution of the social
and industrial problem for ages, during which time
thousands of governments have been born, have
lived their brief existence, and have died. Born in
poverty, each passed through its period of youth-
ful prosperity, — the flower of middle age, — and at-
tained a position of wealth and affluence, then at the
pinnacle of its power and greatness, died; — died
as though stricken by some inherent disease that
was beyond the knowledge of man to cure. "His-
tory repeats itself" seemed to be the only answer
to account for this succession of births and deaths
of nations. Yet this was not conclusive or satis-
fying, and it still remained with many a problem to
be solved. Why should death strike like a thunder-
bolt Nation after Nation, System after System,
Government after Government, at a time when they
seemed most prosperous and the productive power
of labor was at its highest point? That was the
question !
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The struggle of man upward through all the vicis-
situdes of the rise and fall of governments has been
a long and toilsome journey, first, roaming bands
whose only law was "Might makes Right," who
fought for supremacy and power over others of
their kind; then to primitive governments of
small domain, at constant war with each other, and
their gradual growth by conquest until nations
became a reality.
Government had its beginning through the maxim
that "Might makes Right" and through the slave
system. Those captured in battle were forced to
become the slaves of those by whom they were
defeated. Thus we see that the distinguishing
feature of early systems of government was compe-
tition for wealth and power by war. The success
•of a nation or a people on the field of battle meant
increase of wealth by slave labor, and consequently
greater power to overcome or to resist the attack
of neighbors. When these primitive governments
began to take form and location, division of property
and slaves and the spoils of war became the great
source of individual income, wealth, power, and in-
fluence; in other words, war, invasion, and pillage
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became a business on which nations grew and thrived.
Men of successful nations were rewarded for valor
and bravery in war by gifts of land, of slaves, and
women; for captured women included in the spoils
of war were a valuable asset to growing nations.
Successful warriors were also given titles of honor
and nobility, and here we see the institution of
individual property right and class distinction estab-
lished, which has lasted to this day. All these primi-
tive governments lacked stability, and the fortunes
of war shifted constantly. All in turn were de-
feated or destroyed by more powerful neighbors,
or, by internal friction and dissension when they
grew rich and powerful and drunk with success, and
placed their iron heel on the neck of the masses.
At a later day competition for wealth between na-
tions shifted from the battlefield to the field of in-
dustry, to the annexing of lands of new countries,
and to attaining dominion, over the highways and
byways of commerce. Trading became the bone
of contention, and armies and navies were strength-
ened and maintained as a protection and to hold
positions of advantage.
As civilization advanced, slavery became a source
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of disturbance until it was finally abolished in all
civilized nations. This brings us to the commercial
or industrial age, when war between nations is still
a menace, but is as nothing in its destroying effects
and results when compared with the civil war for
individual wealth which has sprung into being
throughout the world and made of every man a
hypocrite and liar. We still cling to "Might makes
Right"; but the field of battle has shifted from the
domain of brave men and heroes of history and story,
who pitted strength against strength in the open, to
a civil war that wages on every hearth between
brothers, friends, and neighbors, — a hand-to-hand
conflict that stamps its imprint of destroying pas-
sions, cunning, and crime on every face. The war
is at our door, a hand-to-hand struggle: there is no
rest, and woe betide the man who shows weakness
or pity, or is caught without his knife.
If you analyze the history of nations, you will
find, no matter what their form of government, all
were internally divided into two distinct classes,—
Rich and Poor, Masters and Slaves, — and that the
breach between these factions grew wider and
wider, from the birth of a nation, until, when
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patience ceased to be a virtue, it was finally
destroyed.
Slaves were the spoils of battle in early civili-
zation, and a source of wealth. At a later day,
when slaves could not be captured in sufficient
number to meet the demands of successful na-
tions for labor, then slaves were created by law,
and consisted of the helpless and poorer element
of the social order and their children who were
born to slavery.
Still later, when ownership of human beings be-
came unpopular, the Masters found a better way to
put the ball and chain on labor. THEY SECURED
CONTROL OF LEGISLATION AND ENACTED LAWS
WHICH MADE SLAVES OF ALL LABOR.
For twenty years the writer has had before him
this question of Master and Slave, and viewed it
from every point of the industrial compass, and has
always come back to the same answer, — THE DIS-
EASE WHICH SOONER OR LATER REACHES THE HEART
AND BRAIN OF A NATION AND DESTROYS IT, IS INDI-
VIDUALISM, THAT FORM OF INDIVIDUALISM WHICH
RECOGNIZES COMPETITION BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS
OR NATIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL POSSESSION OF THE
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MATERIAL WEALTH PRODUCED BY LABOR. And the
inevitable conclusion is, that WHATEVER CAUSES
MAY BE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO THE DISINTE-
GRATION AND DOWNFALL OF NATIONS, THE GREAT
UNDERLYING CAUSE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE GRAVITA-
TION OF ACCUMULATING WEALTH INTO THE HANDS
OF INDIVIDUALS, followed by usurpation of power
of government, consequent class legislation, and the
division of the people into two antagonistic forces,
— Rich and Poor, Capital and Labor, Master and
Slave. Like attracts like. Wealth and power at-
tract wealth and power; AND, IF THE INDUSTRIAL
SYSTEM ADOPTED BY ANY GOVERNMENT HAS FOR
ITS UNDERLYING PRINCIPLE COMPETITION BETWEEN
INDIVIDUALS FOR POSSESSION OF MATERIAL WEALTH
PRODUCED BY LABOR, THEN BY THE ECONOMIC
LAW OF GRAVITATION WEALTH AND POWER MUST
GRAVITATE INTO INDIVIDUAL HANDS, AND SOONER
OR LATER HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF, THE
STRAIN BETWEEN THE MASTERS AND SLAVES WILL
REACH THE BREAKING POINT, AND THE GOVERN-
MENT WILL FALL.
This is history. It is not the form of gov-
ernment that has presaged disaster, but the un-
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derlying principle of individualism, a recognition
of the Divine Right of Kings, — not the Kings
on the Throne, but the Kings of Property and
Wealth of Industry, who, by virtue of their
wealth are the legislative power of any nation.
WHAT is THE ANSWER? TURN THE STREAM OF
GOLD FLOWING INTO INDIVIDUAL HANDS INTO THE
TREASURY OF THE PEOPLE. You ask How? —
And I answer, — Look about you. See what indi-
viduals are doing. Look at the United States
Steel Corporation, the Railroad Corporations, the
Standard Oil Company, the Sugar Trust, the Tele-
phone and Telegraph Monopoly, and the thousands
of corporations that are binding together in cor-
porate harmony millions and millions of money,
and thousands upon thousands of individuals, and
centralizing intelligence and power in a manner
unknown in any former history of the world. Do
you learn anything from this? Do not these great
corporations which absorb whole industries, thereby
bringing order out of chaos, suggest any possi-
bilities to your mind — the possibility of INCOR-
PORATING THE WORLD'S PEOPLE, THE WORLD'S
WEALTH, and the WORLD'S INDUSTRIES, and the
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elimination of ALL FRICTION AND ALL COMPETI-
TION?
Individual corporations are but parts of the
machine of industry, and the mass is greater than
any individual part or combination of parts, and
once incorporated, the people will be invincible and
quickly absorb all wealth and all industry. History
only repeats itself because we repeat history. Are
we automatons that we should follow century after
century in the footsteps of folly, disaster, and crime?
What are we given reasoning power for if it is not
to avoid mistakes and to profit by experience?
When we look over the scarred battlefields of the
past where buried cities and crumbling ruins are
silent monuments of man's struggle for knowledge
and light, and realize that civilization after civiliza-
tion has gone down to irretrievable disaster under
the banner of individualism, does it not seem strange
that some mind in all these centuries has not grasped
the idea of incorporating the people of the world
into one Corporate Body, with one Corporate Mind,
THEREBY DIVERTING THE STREAM OF WEALTH FROM
INDIVIDUAL CONTROL TO THE CONTROL OF THE CoR-
PORATEBODY? "WORLD CORPORATION" is quickly
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and easily attained without recourse to legislation,
and scientific in all its bearings of equity and
justice. IT is A SIMPLE PROCESS OF CONVERSION
BY ABSORPTION OF ALL CORPORATIONS INTO ONE,
"WORLD CORPORATION."
Wealth, the product of labor, is the accumulation
of many generations, and no individual has a moral
right to hold as his property that which is the result
of ages of accumulation and the product of the brain
and manual labor of millions of individuals. This
accumulation of wealth of toil is an inheritance which
belongs to the people, not to individuals. It is a
trust that should be safeguarded from pillage and
handed down intact to our children and our chil-
dren's children.
COMPETITION IN THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBU-
TION OF PRODUCTS IS LICENSED ROBBERY, and civil
war with all the horrors of civil war follows in its
wake. Every crime and degrading passion has its
birth here; and sickness, wretchedness, and all the
ills of the flesh cry out against "man's inhumanity
to man." Actual war between nations, or civil war,
such as the French Revolution or the Civil War of
America, were Christmas festivities when compared
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with the disastrous effects of this incessant daily
warfare of competition for wealth, — this hand-to-
hand struggle which never ends, where every indi-
vidual hides the rottenness of his soul by wearing
a mask. Competition fans the flames of hell; makes
cowards, thieves, and liars; breeds immorality,
selfishness, envy, and greed; fosters hatred, and is
responsible for all the crime about us. To this
god and idol of civilization is sacrificed every year
millions and millions of lives, that drop and perish
in the inhuman struggle.
We all recognize that it is the system that is at
fault, not the fortunate beneficiaries of the system:
they only accept what the Goddess Chance has
given them, and which mankind in his blind folly
and idolatry makes possible; therefore the situa-
tion cannot be bettered by acrimonious argument
or by attacking personalities. It is a question for
individual thought, reason, and united action.
We are face to face with the problem of the ages :
the world is divided into two camps, the Masters and
the Slaves, and the breach is getting wider every
hour. How long will it be before the strain reaches
the breaking point?
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We hear the crying of children, the weeping of
mothers; and in the faces of men we see the lines of
care that worry and anxiety have wrought, and the
haunting look of doubt and fear that makes cowards
of us all. It is the system of competition that is
at fault. WE MUST CHANGE THE SYSTEM.
SHOULD LABOR BE A SLAVE?
Should labor necessary to operate the machine of
industry be a slave, be held as in a vise, and forced
to work from year's end to year's end, always within
striking distance of the driver's whip, simply to pile
up wealth for a few? Are these toilers human beings,
or are they screws and bolts and cogs of this wealth-
producing mechanism, to be used until they rust or
wear out, then cast aside for parts that are new?
Cannot man understand that there is a higher and
better field of competition to stimulate ambition
than the making of money and the attainment of
individual power? — an ambition which is rising
as one voice from labor all over the world ; the am-
bition to be free, to live in freedom, freedom of
opportunity to rise to those illimitable fields of
knowledge encompassed by time and space. Under
"WORLD CORPORATION" freedom will take on a
different meaning: each individual will live his
own life, and all the world will lend itself to his
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education and advancement, to the end that all may
benefit by his knowledge. Each mind will be a
star in a constellation of millions of stars and planets :
each revolving in its particular orbit around a com-
mon central sun, — the great orb of knowledge,—
"WORLD CORPORATION." Freedom means depend-
ence on the central sun alone, which says to each
individual, "GIVE ME YOUR LABOR, AND I WILL
GIVE YOU THE RESULTS OF YOUR LABOR ON A
BASIS OF EQUITY."
"WORLD CORPORATION" will lead us out of the
wilderness. The only question is, Are we honest
in our desire to attain a better industrial system?
Are we so strong in our love for what is right,
for what is just, that we can crush those ambi-
tions for wealth and power, which have been a
growth with our growth, and have their roots im-
planted in the very fibre of our being? MY FAITH
is IN MAN, and in the belief that every soul finds
time for true expression when the weary money-
maker rests. Tired, weary, and helpless, he falls
a victim to his better self, which cries out from its
prison and demands the right to live. It is the still
small voice which the world calls "Conscience,"
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the soul's protest against the prostitution of self
to base uses. It is this voice, the voice of Truth,
which in great crises of human progress rises like
a tidal wave and sweeps away the barriers that have
hemmed it in. Truth is mighty and eternal, dis-
honesty a coward, and, when discovered by Truth,
must go down before it. "WORLD CORPORATION"
is Truth; Competition is Untruth; "WORLD
CORPORATION" stands face to face with Compe-
tition. One is individual force throughout the world
divided and sub-divided and at war with each
other. The other is the gathering of all the hosts
of the earth, marching in unbroken rank and
solid body against its foe. Such is the position of
Competition and Corporation, such is the position
of Untruth and Truth, such is the position of
Injustice and Justice, and all the power of man can-
not prevail against it.
KINGS AND SLAVES.
Power begot Kings and Emperors and Titles ; and
laws were made by the rich for the rich, to make
them richer and more powerful. The common
people, or, more truthfully, the actual working,
wealth-producing class, were those who directly
or indirectly by taxation, paid for the maintenance
of government, the cost of maintaining a titled and
wealthy class, the cost of making and maintaining
laws which were intended to, and did, enslave them-
selves, and this system has been handed down as
an inheritance to this day. To the unbiased,
honest, reasoning man or woman NO ARGUMENT is
NECESSARY TO PROVE ANY SYSTEM WRONG WHICH
PERMITS INDIVIDUALS TO BE BORN TO A LIFE OF
NON-PRODUCTIVENESS. When you see millions of
such individuals living, eating, and drinking day by
day, wearing fine clothes, living in beautiful homes,
and enjoying all the pleasures, luxuries, and follies
that life can give, yet never lifting a hand to bal-
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ance their consumption of labor's product, YOU
BEGIN TO WONDER WHO PAYS. Why is labor such a
coward that it submits to be driven to the tread-
mill day after day, year after year, to supply rich
foods, costly raiment, palaces, works of art, luxuries
of travel, and endless amusement to those who
never throughout a long life give back to man a
single ounce of productive energy.
For the sake of making the picture stand forth
clear and definite, let us take a single instance as
an example of the whole system. Here is an indi-
vidual who has lived a long life, yet from cradle to
grave has never labored, has never produced. He
has been a consumer of products only. Now, in
order to maintain this individual, what happens?
He sits on his throne of idleness and luxury in robes
of state, with all the pomp and ceremony of Kings
at his command, and all the laborers of the world
come to him and make offerings of gifts, the product
of their labor. The farmer who toils and sweats
from sunrise to sunset gives offerings of the best that
his farm produces, — wool from his sheep, products
of his dairy, and all the food for his table. What
matters that the farmer, bent and old from toil,
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must be content with the remnants of those products
of his labor which cannot find a market? What
matters it that his clothing is poor and coarse,
his home isolated, small, dull, and cheerless, his
children lacking opportunity for learning and cult-
ure? Is not all this sacrifice a privilege, so that he
may contribute to the ease and comfort and wealth
of the individual on the throne, the elect of the
earth, — The Idle One? Is it not true that the world
would go to smash if it were not for the idle rich?
We see the great mills of the world, — silk, cotton,
wool, and fine linen, — all contributing the best of
their products to — The Idle One on the throne.
Tailors, dressmakers, milliners, bootmakers, gold
and precious jewel producers in far-away countries,
furriers and trappers in the frozen North, and hun-
dreds of others who sweat and labor and freeze and
starve in all parts of the world, all coming and going
in endless procession, each and every one humbly
bending his knee at the foot of that throne, and
giving offerings of thought and toil to — The Idle
One. Why,— tell me why? What has The Idle One
done to earn this homage? What has he done to
earn freedom from toil and the right to absorb the
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toil of others? Everything that heart or mind can
crave or vanity demand is offered in sacrifice by labor
to placate — The Idle One. The procession does not
end, IT NEVER ENDS; from cradle to grave every
minute sees further offerings made at the foot of this
throne. All the labor going on in the world at all
times is contributing the best and greater part of the
results of labor to the individual who never produces,
— The Idle One: FOB A MAN CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT
LABOR, EXCEPT HE LIVE ON THE LABOR OF OTHERS.
Let us look at the picture from another point
of view. Let us suppose that a hundred families
should decide to go West, take up a tract of land
and start a government. Is it possible to imagine
that fifty of these families would be content to do
all the labor and produce all that was necessary to
feed, clothe, and house the hundred families, allow-
ing fifty families to be absolutely idle and simply
consumers? Can you imagine the fifty who labored
being so self-sacrificing and so generous that they
would be content to live in hovels and tenements,
be content with poor and insufficient food and cloth-
ing, be content to see their children denied the
privileges of education and development, all because
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they wanted to build palaces for the idle families,
supply them with rich raiment and foods, and give
their children ad vantages of education and happiness?
Such are the conditions under which civilization
has existed since the beginning. It is the condition
under which we live to-day, and the only answer is,
We are fools.
The only difference between a Monarchy and a
Republic is that we do not call our idle rich, Kings,
Dukes, and Princes. We pat ourselves on the back
and think we have side-tracked the nobility and
made wonderful progress, but we are only fooling
ourselves. WE HAVE PLANTED THE SAME SEED, AND
IT MUST BEAR THE SAME FRUIT. We may call it an-
other name to make it palatable. "But a rose by
any other name," etc. What fools! We know in
our hearts that our whole system is putrid and
rotten to the core, and that sooner or later we must
face the inevitable, when patience ceases to be a
virtue. Did I say "must"? Then I am wrong,
for the people have it in their hands to change the
picture by "WORLD CORPORATION."
REASON.
Under every governmental system co-operation
had been the fundamental idea; BUT SUCH CO-OPERA-
TION HAS STOPPED AT GOVERNMENT. Individuals
have always been recognized as competitive units in
the production and distribution of products, and indi-
vidual owners of wealth derived from labor. This
"Fight it out among yourselves " idea, with constitu-
tional laws supporting such a system, and the recog-
nition of individual right to ownership of any
amount of wealth, has always resulted in the gravita-
tion of accumulating wealth into individual hands.
THERE WAS NO OTHER PLACE FOR IT TO GRAVITATE
TO. Injustice springs into life here, wealth is at-
tracted to wealth, and sooner or later the mass will
be poor and the few will be rich.
Having only material things to deal with, there
should be no mystery attached to an industrial sys-
tem. It is a mathematical problem, and nothing
can be gained by pitting men, women, and children
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against each other in a struggle to see who will
do the work, and who will grab the most of the
product.
The rational system will combine government and
production in one. IT WILL BE MORE EQUITABLE FOR
ALL INDIVIDUALS TO BE EMPLOYEES OF A SYSTEM OF
PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION, WHERE THE PEOPLE
OWN THE WHOLE INDUSTRIAL FIELD, THAN FOR PART
OF THE PEOPLE TO OWN THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM AND
PART BE SLAVES, as is now the case. I would rather
work for a " WORLD CORPORATE SYSTEM" than be
a large proprietor or capitalist under a competitive
system, or a large stockholder in any individual
corporation. I would rather take my chances on
an intellectual basis with all other individuals under
a corporate system, than in this inferno of compe-
tition, where crime most often takes the place of
intelligence in the accumulation of wealth.
The Standard Oil Company is an example of a
rational governmental industrial system, IF YOU
ELIMINATE STOCKHOLDERS, WHO AS SUCH ARE NOT
NECESSARY TO ITS OPERATION. It is a govern-
ment within itself, far in advance of any gov-
ernment to-day. It is a government of order, a
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machine whose every part is necessary to a purpose.
In its operation it involves a hundred thousand
employees in different parts of the world, and com-
bines thousands of stockholders; yet within itself
it requires no lawyers to keep it in operation, and
no laws except a few by-laws to determine rights
of individual interests. It only requires use of
lawyers when it comes in contact with the chaotic
system around it.
Standard Oil is always reaching out for greater
power and absorption of new industries. Very
few have any conception of the many fields which
have been invaded and to a great extent absorbed
by this octopus of modern times. And it is good!
I believe with all my reasoning it is good ! For the
wrongs that have been laid at the door of Standard
Oil are nothing when compared with the benefits
derived by the whole human race from economies
secured. Corporation is the system of the future,
and in the evolution from one system to the other
individual promoters are necessary in rounding
up scattered plants of different industries, and under
our present competitive system of war and strife
men do not handle men with gloves or stop to
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pour balm and comfort into the wounds of those who
fall in battle, for competition is war in which com-
batants neither give nor ask for quarter. Evils
resulting from corporation during this process are
real, but are more than balanced by the substantial
economies permanently attained by corporation,
just as economies are attained by invention of any
machine, which, by economic advantage, displaces
another machine. Individuals may be tricked, may
suffer, stocks may be watered and insiders profit.
These are all evils, but they are evils which cannot
be entirely avoided; for our government is unpre-
pared for the great evolution that is taking place.
Its laws are inadequate and adjustment slow and
difficult.
The monumental blunder of the century is the
restraint put upon centralization by the Sherman
Act. The proper course for our government to
pursue would be to allow the consolidation and cen-
tralization of industry and assist it in every way —
not put barriers up to prevent the operation of
Economic Law. It is time enough to bring the
restraining influence of Government to bear, when
such consolidated corporations are being operated
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to the detriment of public interest. The Govern-
ment can never make permanent headway in op-
posing Natural Laws.
LAWS IN RESTRAINT OF CORPORATION WILL NEVER
BE EFFECTIVE, and, the sooner we recognize good
in corporation and its final utility as a World
System, the better off we will be. Mankind has
always recognized co-operative effort by govern-
ment as a factor of community life, yet never given
his sanction to co-operative effort in industry.
THIS is WHERE HE FAILED. Misled by false rea-
soning on question of incentive to ambition, he has
followed the will-o'-the-wisp competition for ages, and
never seemed to realize that poverty and crime were
effects of an underlying cause in his system, THE
CAUSE HE BELIEVED IN, COMPETITION FOR WEALTH.
Thank God for Corporation! Thank God that
out of all the chaotic conditions of past govern-
ments— their rise and fall — that CORPORATION has
been born! Thank God for Standard Oil, United
States Steel, Amalgamated, our great systems of
Corporate Railroads, and all the hundreds of large
and small industrial corporations! For out of all
these corporations is born "WORLD CORPORATION."
ECONOMIC LAW.
Economic Law is that law of life which dominates
the mind and directs the reasoning intelligence into
paths of least resistance, in arriving at desired re-
sults. THIS LAW DOES NOT DETERMINE WHAT
SHALL, OR SHALL NOT BE PRODUCED, OR WHAT
SHALL, OR SHALL NOT BE DONE BY LIVING INTEL-
LIGENCES; BUT IT DIRECTS OUR EFFORTS TO PRO-
DUCE, AND TO DO THAT WHICH WE WANT TO PRODUCE
OR DO, AS INDIVIDUALS OR AS A PEOPLE, BY THE
LEAST EXPENDITURE OF BRAIN AND MANUAL LABOR.
When this law is disregarded, either through igno-
rance or by intention, Nature exacts her penalty, and
man individually and collectively is the loser. To
live in accord with Economic Law is to better under-
stand Nature and Nature's laws, thereby making
it possible to bring into more harmonious relation
man and his environment. Recognition of this law
and the adjustment of individual and community
life to its demands is essential to rapid progress,
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and the degree of such recognition determines in
like degree man's health, happiness, and material
welfare.
Constancy in Nature in its conservation of energy
gives to knowledge a scientific base, and brings the
whole universe within the sphere of mathematics.
What is true of Nature in its conservation of energy,
should also be true of man. Individually we un-
consciously recognize Economic Law and its re-
lation to life when we do what we have to do in
the easiest way, and with the least expenditure of
brain and manual labor. When two or more of us
combine in a business partnership, we recognize
Economic Law by joining our intelligences for a
common purpose. We unconsciously recognize the
progressive power of concentrated force. This is
still further true when a corporation joins together
many individuals for a common purpose. These
individuals may widely differ in their likes and dis-
likes, their beliefs and nationalities, their habits
and their intelligences; but in a corporation they
find a common ground of meeting and a practical
way of joining forces. This is to a greater extent
true when a trust is formed, which becomes almost
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invincible in power on account of the concentra-
tion of intellectual force and wealth to a common
purpose; AND THERE is ABSOLUTELY NO LIMIT TO
THE EXTENSION OF SUCH POWER AND FORCE EXCEPT
THE COMBINATION OF ALL PEOPLE AND ALL WEALTH
IN ONE CORPORATE BODY. We see from this that
the individual lives in accord with Economic Law.
We see the same when two or more combine for
a common purpose, and, again, when individuals
combine in a corporation, and to a greater extent
when corporations combine with corporations in a
so-called trust. BUT, WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR
NATION OF INDIVIDUALS, WE FIND THERE IS ABSO-
LUTELY NO RECOGNITION OF ECONOMIC LAW, COL-
LECTIVELY, IN ITS INDUSTRIAL LIFE.
No government has ever attempted to organize
industry as a whole and bring it under control of
the Corporate Mind, ELSE WOULD GOVERNMENTS
HAVE LIVED AND BEEN PERMANENT.
Our nation of industry is like a large manufacturing
plant. It has hundreds of thousands of separate
departments which are interdependent one on the
other, and should work harmoniously as one mecha-
nism, but cannot because parts are in conflict with
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each other. They are not organized, there is no
over directing mind. As a result of this, conflict
takes the place of harmony, and chaos and waste
is the result. It is organization of the thousands
of departments and branches of the Standard Oil
Company which results in harmony throughout
its whole mechanism and gives it its power. In
like manner all the individuals in the world can live
and work in perfect harmony under a Corporate
System, no matter how widely they may diverge
in intelligence, ambition, habits, desires, beliefs,
or characteristic conditions of mind.
Corporations and Trusts are a direct sequence
in the evolution of industry; and Economic Law,
always a permanent active force in directing man's
efforts to more economical results, is the power
behind the throne. It is the power which brought
into existence United States Steel, Standard Oil,
Sugar, Leather, Rubber, and all other large cor-
porations and trusts; for, without economic results
to be secured, there could be no motive or reason for
centralization. Whether the people reap the bene-
fit of increased economy resulting from corporation,
or whether they do not, does not alter the fact that
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economy is secured, thereby demonstrating that cor-
poration is in accord with and brought into existence
by Economic Law. It is this same law which is
behind " WORLD CORPORATION."
Economic Law, the unseen but ever-present power
behind intellectual effort, demands that industry
shall be centralized, and no legislation or opposition
of the people can prevent this logical consummation.
The people must decide whether they shall continue
to allow industry to centralize in the hands of indi-
viduals by corporation, thus dividing the nation
into two opposing forces, or whether they will in-
voke the invincible power of Economic Law by
corporation, and centralize the power and wealth
of industry into the hands of the people by " WORLD
CORPORATION."
THE CHAIN OF EVENTS.
From an Economic, therefore, from the humanity
standpoint, every national industrial system has
been a dismal failure. Leaving out societies, sects,
and socialistic or social colonists, who have made
isolated attempts to establish, in a small way, new
social and industrial systems, all of which have been
failures, we find that every nation has founded its
social and industrial system upon individual com-
petition for wealth. Out of these conditions has
grown the capitalistic or favored class, who, attain-
ing power, maintained their position by enactment
of laws favorable to that end.
Those who do not reason on this proposition
dismiss the subject by saying: "Well, things have
always been this way and always must be. You
cannot change human nature. We are all different,
all have different desires. You cannot evolve a
system that will be compelling without destroying
every incentive to ambition." This is not so, for
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no system could be more compelling than the system
under which we live. It is so compelling that you,
who read this article, are a slave. You are sur-
rounded by conditions you cannot escape from, and
your freedom is confined within very narrow limits.
You may be one of the fortunate with wealth where-
with to surround yourself with the luxuries of this
material age. Still you are a slave, — a slave to
customs and conventionalities that are disgusting,
absurd, and ridiculous; a slave to vanity, selfish-
ness, and money; a slave to your servants and to
your foods. If you are rich, you escape the ne-
cessity of manual labor; but this is slavery, for work
of mind and body insures health, active mentality
and love of life, all of which are necessary to real
happiness.
The mistake of many is their willingness to refer
to precedent for an answer to industrial problems.
This is an easy way to shift the responsibility to the
shoulders of your ancestors. It is the recourse of
the man who is too lazy to think. We are all liable
to make mistakes and accept continued errors of
judgment as facts; for it is hard to root out of the
human mind those seeds of belief that have been a
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part of our education from childhood, and which
have precedence in centuries of belief, use, and prac-
tice. We find minds of whole nations riveted to
particular religious beliefs, to particular social cus-
toms, to patriotism, all of which is fatal to progress,
insomuch as it limits the mind's horizon and closes
it to truth; for, if we were all content with the way
our fathers and mothers believed, then we would
not progress at all, and thinking and reasoning would
become unfashionable. We have got to think, and
think hard, to get below false ideas that are a part of
us. Precedent has its place in reason and logic.
It is a stepping-stone, and we should consider its
value from every point of view. By so doing, we
may conclude that we have followed this or that
precedent too long, or we may conclude to go on.
We may conclude that what was good at one time,
and a necessary part of the chain of progress, can
now be dispensed with in view of changes in our
physical or mental environment.
Competition between individuals has been the
basic idea underlying every government. The ques-
tion is, Shall we remain faithful to a competitive
system because we have always had a competitive
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system? Or shall we refuse to longer follow an
idea that has always proved a failure? For no one
can call that system a success, which entails so much
misery and so little happiness, and which has always
gone down in disaster.
During the last twenty years there has appeared
on the horizon a new light, and, as it has risen toward
the zenith, there has come a feeling of fear to many.
Never before in all history had such a phenomenon
been seen. Heretofore men had been content to
work alone, in competition with each other. Pull-
ing together, instead of fighting one another, never
occurred to them. It is true that large capital
and numerous individuals were joined by corpora-
tion previous to twenty-five years ago, but in
these cases it did not seem to have any significance.
It was looked upon as necessary that many indi-
viduals should join capital and brains for develop-
ing cables, telegraphs, transportation systems, etc.;
but opposition sprung to active life as soon as the
field of individual competitive industry was invaded.
Yet in the face of opposition, corporation of industry
has entered many fields and is now going forward
at a rapid pace.
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CORPORATION OF COMPETITIVE INDUSTRY is THE
NEW LIGHT ON THE HORIZON, and every day it grows
brighter, and, as its rays penetrate deeper and
deeper into the reasoning intelligence, fear begins
to disappear. We begin to see that corporation
has power to join in harmony millions and millions
of individuals, and, where chaos reigned, order and
system takes its place. As we look into the future,
we see these corporations growing larger and larger.
We see new ones springing into existence, and, like
a dissolving view, we see the chaotic conditions of
industry gradually, almost imperceptibly, merge
into a beautiful mechanism, scientific in all its parts
and under perfect control. A step further in advance
and we see another change, — corporation is absorb-
ing corporations, and the new machine is more
perfect than all that have gone before. And so we
continue to follow, step by step, the chain of events
in the future, link by link, until we arrive at what?
What can it be other than the corporation of the
people — "WORLD CORPORATION."
KNOWLEDGE THE ASSET OF A NATION.
A government is an individual made up of in-
dividual units, and its position in the world of na-
tions is determined by the sum of its knowledge, not
by the number of individuals. Therefore, THE
FUNDAMENTAL ASSET OF A NATION IS KNOWLEDGE.
This being true, the first purpose of any nation
should be to acquire knowledge. To this end the
child from its birth should be considered an asset of
the nation, and placed under its fostering care dur-
ing its development; and, as the education of the
child is for usefulness in the field of industry and
administration of government, there should be no
break between these departments. The system
should be a sequence of steps by which the individ-
ual rises from one plane of intelligence to an-
other throughout his life. Thus would a nation
subserve the greatest of all interests, the intellect-
ual advancement of the nation as a nation, and pro-
vide the means whereby each individual would have
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the opportunity to acquire knowledge, advance to
industry, and finally to the direction of government
by systematic progression. Under this system
there would be no break in the progress of the in-
dividual. He would be an intellectual asset, to be
encouraged and assisted in every way by the nation,
in the hope and anticipation of his developing
genius, and giving birth to ideas of improvement or
discovery that would broaden the base of knowl-
edge and benefit mankind. If only one in thou-
sands so educated should prove to be an Edison,
interest and principle on total investment would
be compounded many fold.
The intent of our present educational system is
to prepare the individual to take some position in
the industrial machine. The child, plastic and
mobile to the minds of his elders, does not rebel
against the necessity placed upon him, but obediently
takes up his burden of labor (for to learn is labor);
and he would continue to follow the task of learning,
and pass from grade to grade, through educational,
industrial, and administrative system, without
thought that it could be different, were he taught
in childhood that such was to be his life work, and
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that along his chosen path he must erect his super-
structure of knowledge and individuality.
We find, on analysis of our educational system, that
advancement of the individual from kindergarten
to primary, primary to grammar, grammar to high,
and from high school to college, is all dependent
upon intellectual standards; that he can pass from
grade to grade only as he attains that standard
required at each forward step. It will also be found
that all children do not advance with the same
rapidity, that many will absorb knowledge and
progress much faster than others. For this reason
no system can be just that allows age to enter into
the question of promotion. An established in-
tellectual requirement should be the only standard
of promotion; but that standard should be based
on daily, weekly, or monthly reports, averaged over
a period of time, rather than a superficial entrance
examination which at best can only touch upon
points of ground covered, and is not a fair basis
by which to determine the intellectual qualifica-
tions of the individual. Such examination is un-
just and arbitrary, and destroys the basis of equity
for which we are striving.
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A child of to-day, upon entrance to school, finds
himself in an atmosphere of competition, — not
competition for wealth such as is encountered later
in life, when every evil passion is brought to the
surface, but competition for knowledge which brings
out all the nobler qualities of mind. To stand at
the head of his class, to receive that legitimate
praise and homage due to ambition, application,
and success, is the incentive to all effort. And, if
the educational stage were to merge impercept-
ibly into the industrial without jar or break, no
other incentive to further advancement could be
stronger than this natural ambition to excel and to
acquire knowledge.
That man is naturally ambitious and progressive
is demonstrated by the child, who, at school, has no
incentive to ambition except that which is based on
intelligence. School is preparatory to industry,
and by every law of equity and economic law of
progress should be an integral part thereof. If
this were so, the individual at the close of his pre-
paratory period of learning would merge into the
first grades of industry, which would be only a
step higher in learning; and from this position he
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would continue along his channel of inclination
without hindrance from others, being advanced
from time to time to higher grades of industry
upon his own record and qualifications. It would
all be education, all be a part of the school of life.
Though education is a preparatory step to in-
dustry under our present system, we find no co-
operation or physical connection between the two.
As a result, a break comes between education and
industry, and in most instances the prepared fitness
of the individual for advancement along a path of
inclination is lost, because of lack of opportunity.
After years of preparatory work and study he finds
himself aimlessly cast adrift and forced to struggle
for existence. The ambition that carried him
through school must now give way to ambition
to make money. Very few are so situated on
leaving school or college that they can choose their
life work. By far the greater number find necessity
their taskmaster, and are obliged to take up any
kind of work that offers. The education they
have received is of value to them under any circum-
stances, but its great value is lost from lack of oppor-
tunity to use it. Natural genius and ambition is
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crushed and smothered in the struggle, and the world
of progress and mankind is the loser, the loss falling
with greatest force on the nation, and, secondly, on
the individual.
Industry and Government should be higher edu-
cational planes, and it should be possible for the
individual to advance by successive steps from the
lowest to the very topmost round of life's ladder,
where he would have earned the right to be one of
the administrative and governing body of " WORLD
CORPORATION."
Under a system of competition for wealth, selfish-
ness is born; for material wealth is not divisible
without loss. But knowledge is divisible to in-
finity, and suffers no loss; and the giver is made
richer, for it returns to him increased a thousand -fold.
Wealth is accumulated at the expense of human
misery and suffering. The attainment of knowledge
deprives no one of individual rights or happiness.
Under "WORLD CORPORATION" the whole brain
power of the people, instead of being concerned
in the struggle for wealth, would be turned
as by magic into the channels of scientific prog-
ress. It is impossible for the imagination to con-
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ceive what a power for good this change would
mean.
Knowledge is infinite in its power to make men
happy, infinite in its possibilities to guard against
the ills of mind and body, infinite in its justice, is
the soul of truth and the essence of individuality
that remains with us here and hereafter. IT is THE
GREATEST ASSET OF ANY NATION AND PAYS THE
LARGEST DIVIDENDS.
INDUSTRY A MACHINE.
Very few appreciate or understand the signifi-
cance of those oft-repeated words, "MACHINERY
OF INDUSTRY." They fail to grasp the fact that
industry as a whole throughout the world is one
vast mechanism; that its operation requires all
the world's governments, all the armies and navies
of the world, all the lawyers, insurance companies,
and financial systems, all the mills, workshops,
stores, brokers, agents, speculators, and all the
transportation systems; all the scattered cities,
villages and farms; and every man, woman and
child, either as working parts, consumers of products,
or both. And there are fewer still who stop to reason
on the overhead charges of our industrial machine,
the brain and manual labor which is absolute waste,
and must be added to necessary industry and its
products. This handicap of life with which our
whole system is loaded down, we carry on our back
as a burden and tax simply because we believe in
the individual competitive system.
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The real purpose of the machine of industry is to
supply the necessities of life, and those things and
means necessary to our progress and happiness.
Those industries which do not contribute to these
ends are waste, and are referred to in these articles
as tributary industries, meaning industries that
have reason for existence under our competitive sys-
tem, but no reason for existence under a corporate
system.
The construction of the World Industrial Machine
should be founded upon the same Economic Law
as underlies the construction of any individual part.
That is to say, WE SHOULD APPLY THE SAME COR-
PORATE INTELLIGENCE IN THE ARRANGEMENT OF
CITIES AND TOWNS IN THEIR ECONOMIC RELATION
TO PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION AS THE INDI-
VIDUAL DOES IN THE ECONOMIC ARRANGEMENT OF THE
DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS OF A MANUFACTURING
PLANT.
When we think of a machine, we have in mind a
mechanism for accomplishing certain results, and
a machine is not considered perfect unless it is
stripped to the fewest parts and reduced to most
economical arrangement for the purpose in view.
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If we look upon industry in the aggregate as a single
machine, we must, in order to arrive at best results,
eliminate from its mechanism all those parts and
industries that are not directly concerned in sup-
plying the individual and collective wants of the
people. This would mean the elimination of the
army and navy, and all industries tributary thereto,
and the turning of the brain and manual labor now
consumed by these parts into productive channels.
Instead of building several hundred million dollars'
worth of battleships, we would turn the brain and
manual labor used in their production, and the brain
and manual labor of all those who directly or in-
directly get their living from the profession of war,
into necessary avenues of industry. The army
and navy are a burden and a tax which, if turned
into an asset, would make every individual in America
independent.
The building of a scientific industrial machine
would also mean the turning of all lawyers, bank-
ers, brokers, commission merchants, wholesale mer-
chants, retail merchants, and all those employed
in insurance companies of every kind and nature,
into productive channels. These are only a few
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instances of useless mechanism and waste of brain
and manual labor, necessary to our present system,
which would have no place in " WORLD CORPORA-
TION.'
We have not considered the question of rearrange-
ment of the machine of industry which will follow
after useless industries and parts have been elim-
inated. This rearrangement will mean wiping out
and blotting off the map 50,000 cities, towns, and
villages in the United States, and the building of
one great central Metropolis; for under Corporation
the same Economic Law of centralization will apply
to scattered cities and towns, as applies to the cen-
tralization of scattered parts of a competitive in-
dustry when brought under corporate control.
MAN CANNOT OBSTRUCT THIS LAW. There can
never be any waste in following Economic Law.
The abandonment of a whole city by force of this
law must be a gain, for of necessity something
better and more economical will take its place.
And, reasoning further, the abandonment of 50,000
cities, towns, and villages can only be brought about
by the substitution of something better, as was the
case with the centralization of the steel industry.
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The building of a new World Machine of Industry
also means the reclamation of all lands by the people
by conversion or purchase, the elimination of seven
million individual farms, and the scientific exploita-
tion of the field of raw production. It means the
building of a perfect city to be projected, and designed
in accord with up-to-date ideas and most advanced
knowledge, by the co-operation of the people, as
they would co-operate in planning and forwarding
a World's Fair. From this great city the Corpor-
ate Mind of the people will control, direct, and
manage the whole industrial field of the world.
They will know every acre of ground and for what
purpose it can best be adapted or used, and will
direct all manufacturing and all labor.
This is a strictly business view of a mathematical
business proposition and should be interesting to
every man, woman, and child in the world; for a
comprehensive knowledge of the field of raw pro-
duction by a Corporate Mind is absolutely necessary
if we desire to arrive at greatest economy in the
production and distribution of products.
As farming is forwarded to-day, it is a cumber-
some go-as-you-please mechanism. Seven million
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farmers are raising anything they please without any
knowledge as to how much of any particular product
is being produced by others. Under these conditions
it is impossible to devise any plan whereby supply
and demand for products can be balanced. About
one out of fifty farmers, on an average, is intelli-
gent and progressive as far as our competitive
system will allow. The rest have no thought of
progress. They plant any old seed in any old way,
without thought of improvement of quality, and
plant in any soil without considering its adapta-
bility to the product to be raised; and the people
are dependent on this unscientific, uneducated mass
for the food they eat. Individually farmers make
little progress, and, because of our competitive
system where there is no co-operation, the adoption
or application of progressive ideas is slow. Under
"WORLD CORPORATION" intelligence and scientific
knowledge will be planted with every seed, and
improvements in methods, machinery, and products,
will find instant adoption throughout the whole
world system.
In looking over the Machine of Industry, we find
individual machines like the plough, the printing
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press, the lathe, the engine, the railroad trains, etc.,
are all parts of the Great World Machine. We find
buildings, offices, manufactories, stores, homes, and
public buildings all parts of the machine. They
each have a purpose in this great mechanism. We
find that buildings in which manufacturing is car-
ried on are economical or extravagant, depending
upon their adaptability in structure to the purpose
in view, the arrangement of the machinery they
contain, and their relation to the transportation
system, and to the source of supply of raw materials
used. The laborers are all parts of this machine,
as are the foremen, superintendents, and proprietors.
We find these buildings with their human parts
and machinery connected by roads, railroads, water-
ways, or other means of transportation with other
parts of the machine, therefore all these connecting
links are parts of the machine; and so we could
continue, until it would be shown that there is
no separate part, either animate or inanimate, in
the whole world industrial system.
Thus are connected in one mechanism all the
cities, towns, and villages; all the buildings they
contain, no matter for what purposes used; all
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the contents of these buildings, whether goods or
machinery; all the farms; all the individuals, and
all that constitutes the environment of man.
Yes, Industry is one vast mechanism, BUT IT HAS
NO GUIDING INTELLIGENCE, other than the divided in-
telligences of ninety million individuals who are in
competition and at war with each other. For this
reason there is no unity of purpose in the building
of cities, which are ugly and lacking in beauty of
environment. There is no co-operation in the
location and arrangement of manufacturing plants,
or in the arrangement, number, and disposition of
cities and towns for the purpose of securing greatest
economy and maximum results from labor expended.
The result is a system of distribution and redistri-
bution of products between cities and towns and
seven million farmers that makes the map of the
United States a network of lines at cross purposes,
that no mind can follow or understand.
Our government is the only co-operative part of
our industrial machine, but it takes no part in
organization of industry or in directing industrial
effort. It stands aloof and lets millions of individual
parts fight and wrangle and quarrel over the pro-
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duction of milk, sugar, salt, pepper, oranges, grapes,
potatoes, wheat, cotton, vinegar, shoes, clothing,
and the thousands of other necessary things which
could be produced better and far more economi-
cally, if the machine were a comprehensive mech-
anism under corporate control. In dealing with
things, we are dealing with mechanics and mathe-
matics. There is no mystery about it, yet our
cut-throat system of competition is considered pro-
gressive, that it promotes progress.
Under our competitive system the machine of
industry is intricate and loaded down with millions
of unnecessary parts, beyond the comprehension of
man or government. It is a runaway mechanism,
with no brain at the throttle. Under "WORLD
CORPORATION " the machine will be comprehensive,
understood in all its parts, and under perfect control.
Every part will be designed to fulfil a predetermined
purpose, and only such mechanism will enter into
its construction as is necessary to the end in view.
The Corporate Mind, combining all individual
minds in every department of knowledge, will
consider and pass upon ideas that are the ad-
vanced thought of specialists and scientists. The
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needs of a great population will be uppermost in The
Corporate Mind, and the machine will take form
and grow. Such a machine and such a civilization
can only be grasped in a crude way by the in-
dividual. THE REAL MACHINE, THE MATERIALIZED
EMBODIMENT OF MILLIONS OF MINDS, CENTRALIZED
AND WORKING IN HARMONY, WILL BE SO WONDER-
FUL AND SO BEAUTIFUL IN ITS MECHANISM THAT
ONLY ITS REALIZATION CAN BRING IT WITHIN RANGE
OF OUR COMPREHENSION.
To-morrow if war were declared between the
United States and any great foreign nation, millions
of men would offer their services and sacrifice fort-
unes and lives. Why should not this same spirit
prevail should the people call for these same men,
for the purpose of building a new industrial machine?
The first would mean war, destruction, and loss of
life. The second would mean peace, construction,
and the birth of a new civilization. One would
Destroy, — the other would Build. One would cost
as much as the other, and in either case the people
would have to pay the price.
PROGRESS DEPENDENT ON BIRTH OF
IDEAS.
IMPROVEMENT of the industrial machine, in
whole or in part, or IMPROVEMENT in products,
is separate and distinct from the brain and manual
labor involved in a machine's operation, or labor
involved in production and distribution of products.
IMPROVEMENT MEANS TO CHANGE TO SOMETHING
BETTER; that is to say, to improve the machinery
or products of industry in some direction. This
requires individual thought, reason, concentration,
and study. The picture of the artist finds expression
in his soul before he puts it on the canvas, the archi-
tect sees his building in his mind's eye before he
starts on his plans. Putting the eye near the point
of a sewing machine needle was the birth of an idea
in the mind of Elias Howe. The steam engine
was an idea born in the brain of Watts. The cotton
gin was born in the brain of Whitney. The in-
candescent lamp, in the brain of Edison; the tele-
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phone in the brain of Bell. In fact, ideas that
change things from what they are to something
better, is progress. IDEAS MUST BE, AND ARE, FIRST
BORN IN THE INDIVIDUAL BRAIN, AND ARE SEPARATE
AND APART FROM THE MECHANICAL BRAIN AND
MANUAL LABOR INVOLVED IN OPERATING A MACHINE,
OR PRODUCING AND DISTRIBUTING PRODUCTS, OR
DOING MENTAL OR MANUAL LABOR WHICH IS A PART
OF KNOWLEDGE. No step has ever been made in
the material progress of man, NOT ONE, except
it first had birth as an idea in an individual brain.
If individual minds should cease to give birth to
ideas of improvement or discovery, the progress of
man would cease. We might still continue to op-
erate the machine of industry on a basis of present
knowledge, but that would be all we could do.
A man might operate a dynamo, a lathe, a printing-
press, a rolling mill, or be a superintendent of a
mill, shop, factory, farm, or railroad, yet never give
birth to an idea of improvement of the machine or
products produced. In his position he is an in-
tellectual mechanical part of the machine: he ful-
fils a necessary purpose, which, as far as his labor is
concerned, is mechanical in use of both brain and
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muscle. He might be displaced any day as a part
of the operating mechanism by the birth of an idea
in the mind of some individual, which would so
improve the machine that the man would no longer
be required.
A man might feed a printing-press all his life
and never give thought to its improvement. He
would expend brain and muscular labor all this
time, but he would only be a necessary mechanical
part in the machine's operation. On the other
hand, some individual might be brought in contact
with this printing-press and almost instantly devise
a feeding mechanism that would do away with the
services of the man. This would represent the
birth of an idea, this would be improvement,
this would be progress.
Again, let us take as an example a large modern
shoe factory, with its hundreds of employees and its
numerous, wonderfully ingenious machines. This
factory is turning out thousands of pairs of shoes per
day, and they are of many styles, various sizes, and
of different materials. The production of these
shoes from day to day, from month to month, and
from year to year, is simply a mechanical and mathe-
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matical proposition. In other words, the proposi-
tion involves only the use of knowledge that we have,
which has been acquired through birth of ideas in
individual minds, covering a long period of time,
and which have found embodiment in the wonderful
machines, the beautiful leathers used, the styles that
have been designed, and in the intelligence of the
management and the employees who are the in-
tellectual mechanical parts of this factory. If
in this particular shoe factory no further ideas were
forthcoming, progress would cease: they could keep
on making the same kind of shoes in the same way,
and utilize the knowledge they have in the machine's
operation, but no progress would be made. What
applies to the manufacture of shoes applies to every
industry in the world. Progress is separate and
apart from the brain and manual labor necessary
to a machine's operation: it has a domain of its
own, and its throne is the reasoning intelligence
which gives birth to ideas resulting in improvement
in machinery or products, economic changes in
process or system, or new discoveries of benefit
to man. This is progress. As soon as an idea is
embodied in our industrial system it becomes a
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part of it. If it is an economic change in machinery
or the improvement of a product, ITS REPRODUC-
TION IS A MECHANICAL OPERATION AND NOTHING CAN
BE GAINED BY A NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS COMPETING
TO PRODUCE IT. Individuals fighting to do the same
thing in opposition to each other can never produce
as good a product, or so cheaply, as these same
individuals combined together in harmonious co-
operation. COMPETITION ADDS TO COST, AND THE
PEOPLE AS A WHOLE ARE THE LOSERS.
The great blunder of all the centuries of civiliza-
tion has been the persistent belief that progress
depended on competition in the production and dis-
tribution of products; and to-day a large per-
centage of the people still believe in that system,
even in the face of the rapid elimination of competi-
tion by corporation.
NINETY PER CENT. WASTE.
The building of a machine of production and
distribution by ninety million people who are work-
ing independently and in competition with each
other, and the building of a machine for the same
purpose by the same people who are incorporated
in one body with one corporate mind, are two
widely different propositions. THE DIFFERENCE BE-
TWEEN THE TWO SYSTEMS REPRESENTS NINETY PER
CENT. WASTE UNDER COMPETITION, AND THE SAVING
OF THAT WASTE AND TURNING IT INTO NINETY PER
CENT. GAIN UNDER CORPORATION. This is a general
way of stating a fact than can be demonstrated
mathematically. Under corporation we would pro-
gress to a greater extent in one year than we do
now in ten years under competition; and, if
"WORLD CORPORATION," or a similar corporation,
were to receive the support of the people, fully fifty
per cent, of those now living would see this perfect
system in actual operation.
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In order to more readily understand the state-
ment that ninety per cent, is wasted, I will enumerate
some of the principal industries that are tributary
to our competitive system, but would have no rep-
resentation in a "WORLD CORPORATE SYSTEM."
Cost of maintaining and keeping in repair 50,000
cities, towns, and villages.
Cost of National Government.
Cost of State Government.
Cost of Municipal Government.
Cost of Town and County Government.
Cost of City and Town Development and Main-
tenance.
Cost of Maintaining Army.
Cost of Maintaining Navy.
Cost of Maintaining Lawyers.
Cost of Maintaining Speculators and Brokers.
Cost of Maintaining Insurance Companies.
Cost of Maintaining Financial System.
Cost of Maintaining Political Parties.
Cost of Maintaining Agents.
Cost of Maintaining Commission Merchants.
Cost of Maintaining Wholesale Merchants.
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Cost of Maintaining Retail Store Keepers.
Cost of Maintaining Advertising.
Most of these and hundreds of other industries
are now parts of our industrial system and only
TRIBUTARY TO INDUSTRY. They neither produce nor
distribute any product, but they all must live and
are an overhead burden which must be added to
cost of products. It must be understood that wives
and children of those employed in any tributary
industry must be added to the aggregate, as they
are maintained and supported out of money sup-
plied in maintenance of these industries.
FIRE INSURANCE WASTE.
Fire Insurance is a distinct product of competition
between individuals in the production and distri-
bution of products. Under our competitive system
business is divided and sub-divided into hundreds
of thousands of parts, and these separate parts in
the form of stores and stocks of goods, houses, and
personal effects are, in the majority of cases, the
capital and stock in trade of the individual. If
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it burns up, he is done for. That which has been
the accumulation of years of privation and toil
is lost in a moment. To provide against this, fire
insurance was devised, whereby corporations were
organized for the purpose of taking this risk from
the shoulders of the individual for a consideration.
As a result a great tributary industry has sprung
into existence, supporting thousands upon thou-
sands of men and their families, demanding the
construction and occupation of enormous buildings
in all of our cities. Fire Insurance covers only one
form of disaster, but there are others which cover
almost every form of possible catastrophe to prop-
erty. No one can for a moment affirm that any
one connected with the insurance system is a pro-
ducer.
A corporate system would have no insurance sys-
tem, and the labor of those now employed in this
industry would be turned into productive channels.
This is an item of saving that will apply in liquidat-
ing the claim that ninety per cent, of brain and
manual labor is wasted under our present system.
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LIFE INSURANCE.
Life Insurance is a form of protection which a man
secures to protect his family and leave them pro-
vided for in event of his death. This is wide-spread
and almost universal, and the finest office buildings
in the cities of the world are built from the profits
of life insurance and are largely occupied by life
insurance companies. Nearly ten billions of dol-
lars of life insurance was in force in the United
States in 1900; and the cost to maintain, expenses
and dividends paid, amounted to two hundred
million dollars, all of which represents waste brain
and manual labor, for under a corporate system
life insurance would not be necessary.
LAW.
Law is a necessary factor of a competitive system.
If the production and distribution of products and
the wealth derived therefrom is made a basis of
competition between individuals of a community
and the individual can have all the wealth he may
acquire, law immediately springs into existence
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to protect him in these rights. The constitution
of a nation becomes the foundation of the system
and the final court of appeal. From constitutional
law, as a foundation, springs the endless system of
laws which pertain to property and the rights of
individuals, differing more or less in different states
and territories, but all subject to constitutional law.
Its birth, life, and very existence depend upon
chaos, — the more confusion, the more law; the more
order, the less law. The United States Steel Cor-
poration has no use for lawyers within the corpora-
tion. It is only when it comes in contact with and
finds itself obliged to adjust itself to the chaos
around it, that it requires the use of a lawyer.
" WORLD CORPORATION " will not require the
services of a single lawyer. Therefore, the brains,
intelligence, and labor of these men will be turned
into productive channels.
POLITICS.
So-called politics and government, national, state,
and municipal are a part of the tributary system.
Now think for a moment and grasp, if you can, the
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amount of brain and intelligence that is wasted in
these channels. None of these would have any
place in a corporate system. Government and poli-
tics as we understand them would be wiped out,
and the board of control would constitute both in-
dustrial and governmental management. The same
loss of brain and manual labor that is lost in housing
insurance and law must be reckoned with in cal-
culating loss by reason of establishing and main-
taining a governmental system.
BANKING AND FINANCE.
Banking and Finance have their birth and being
under a competitive system. They have come into
existence to facilitate the exchange of products be-
tween individuals and nations. Such a system, as
understood here, would have no place under a cor-
porate system.
FIFTY THOUSAND CITIES AND TOWNS VERSUS
CORPORATION.
Under a Corporate System, the field of raw pro-
duction and the machine of industry will be ex-
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ploited and operated from one city by one great
Corporate Mind. This Metropolis will be a per-
fect automatic mechanism in all its parts, with
its millions of human beings, and will take the
place of our scattered plant of industry, consisting
of fifty thousand cities, towns, and villages, and
our seven million farms. Any of our great Cor-
poration Managers who have had the experience
of bringing together a number of scattering small
competitive plants of a particular industry, and
merging them into one large perfect mechanism,
will readily understand the system and economy
that will result when all industry is centralized and
brought under the comprehensive grasp of a Corpo-
rate Mind. Those who have the faculty of grasp-
ing industry as a whole in its broad meaning, who
understand the great underlying formulative laws,
and can watch their operation under the separate
conditions of competition and corporation, will
readily see two pictures, — one, the scattered and
incomprehensive plant as we have it. This is a
picture of Competition. The other is Corporation,
— a beautiful picture of system and perfect con-
trol, where every part is connected with the great
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Corporate Mind by nerves that communicate every
heart-beat and every emotion. One is centraliza-
tion of wealth into individual hands; the other,
centralization of wealth into the hands of the
people. Such are the pictures of the two sys-
tems, and between these two pictures lies the
ninety per cent, waste.
If CONSERVATION of the remnants of coal and
forest lands belonging to the people is a good polit-
ical move by Government at the present time,
why not go a step further and apply CONSERVATION
to all Individual and National resources and wealth,
and to waste of Brain and Manual energy? Not by
legislation, which necessitates so much loss of time
in education of the people politically, but by the
direct method proposed, — of conversion of individ-
ual wealth into Corporate Wealth by " WORLD
CORPORATION."
TRIBUTARY INDUSTRIES.
Ninety per cent, of all brain and manual labor
is wasted in arriving at results under our system of
industry. We labor and think ten years to accom-
plish that which should be done in one. If the
average working years of man are forty under the
present system, he would accomplish as much in
four under a corporate system.
Looked at from a different point of view. If we
had a corporation system in place of our present
system, and we all labored as much as we do now,
the production of those things which contribute
directly to man's welfare would be multiplied ten
times, and the poorest individual in the world would
command more luxury in his environment than can
be secured by the wealthiest individual to-day.
Why? Simply because a corporation system would
do away with tributary labor and industries, and the
ninety per cent, wasted would be made productive.
The questions might be asked: "What are tribu-
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tary industries?" "Are not all industries necessary
to the system?" "Is not the fact that so-called
tributary industries flourish and prosper, sufficient
evidence of their value and proof of their being
necessary?" The answer to these questions in
brief is this: There is something radically wrong in
the fundamental principles of a machine that re-
quires loading down with parts that increase the
friction and cost of operation, while in no way per-
forming any functional part in the production and
distribution of those products which are the ostensi-
ble purpose of the machine.
Thus, if we could dispense with the armies and
navies of the world, and all those dependent upon the
armies and navies for support, the production and
distribution of NECESSARY PRODUCTS (the real pur-
pose of the industrial machine) would not be reduced
an ounce. Therefore armies and navies are tribu-
tary to the necessary machine of industry, and are
a part of it; but they perform no function in pro-
duction and distribution.
The burden of brain and manual labor they neces-
sitate is lost to man, and the cost of necessary prod-
ucts is increased the equivalent of all their cost of
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maintenance. In other words, armies and navies
are a permanent overhead tax or burden that we
carry and pay for in sweat of labor. At least any
good business man would consider it a tax if he
were compelled to surround his factory with an army
and obliged to feed and clothe them. An army puts
the brakes on the progress of any nation and is a
handicap in the race with other nations. If, in
addition to above, we could dispense with all those
who are dependent for a living on production of
army accoutrements, ammunition, war vessels, guns,
etc., we would not reduce the production of nec-
essary products an ounce. If we could dispense
with every government official and employee of
all the governments of the world and every poli-
tician of nations, states, and municipalities and all
dependent upon them for support, we would still
find the production and distribution of necessary
products had not been reduced an ounce or dis-
turbed in the slightest degree.
If we could dispense with every banker, broker,
and commission merchant in the world, and their
families dependent upon them, we would still find
production and distribution had not been affected.
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If we could dispense with every lawyer and all
those dependent upon them for support, it would
not reduce the production and distribution of prod-
ucts. If we could dispense with every man, woman,
and child dependent upon any kind of insurance
industry for support, no effect upon production
and distribution would be noted.
These are only a few of the tributary industries
of competition, only a VERY, VERY small fraction
of the total sum of energy, brains, and skill that is
misdirected and lost under our competitive system,
which we pay for, but from which we get no return.
Tributary industries are like enormous fungus
growths that gradually surround and destroy the
vital functions of the industrial body: they are
national cancers that live and thrive on chaos and
competition. To-day these growths constitute nine-
tenths of the industrial mechanism. They are a
fixed expense on necessary products, and every year
sees the disease increase. This is why necessary
products rise in value, why we complain of hard
times; for, as tributary industries increase, necessary
products must carry the burden of cost. Under a
corporate system the cause of the existence of tribu-
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tary industries, COMPETITION and DISORGANIZATION
will disappear, and they will disappear with it. If
we were to employ ninety per cent, of all labor in
building a Tower of Babel, something which could
have no earthly use or purpose, and put the burden
of feeding, clothing, and providing for the whole
population upon the remaining ten per cent., it
would not be more foolish than to keep up our
present system.
IT SHOULD BE PLAIN THAT WE COULD STILL PRO-
DUCE AND DISTRIBUTE A QUANTITY OF NECESSARY
PRODUCTS, EQUAL TO WHAT IS PRODUCED NOW, after
dispensing with fully ninety per cent, of the popu-
lation of the world, and that the remaining ten per
cent, would have the actual useful wealth of the
world to divide, its houses, lands, and all forms of
necessary material wealth, provided they would
incorporate. But we are not aiming to dispense
with any one: we want them all, and more. We
are aiming to direct the full hundred per cent, of
productive energy, so that it will count for collective
wealth and happiness. We want to change this
ninety per cent, from an army of civil war and waste
to an army of Corporation and Wealth. "WORLD
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CORPORATION" will not only increase the productive
power of the world tenfold, but a hundredfold; for
under a corporate system the ninety per cent, of
loss of mind, brain, and reasoning power which is
now concerned in TALKING MONEY, THINKING MONEY,
and DREAMING MONEY, thereby being inoculated
with the diseases of MONEY, CRIME, WORRY, SELFISH-
NESS, INHUMANITY, and BRUTISHNESS, will be turned
into productive channels of knowledge and industry.
Instead of there being a few Edisons, Bells, Marconis,
and Wrights, there will be hundreds — yes, thou-
sands; and we will advance by leaps and bounds,
and live in an atmosphere of healthful ambition
and happiness ten years in every one. Men and
women who are satiated with wealth and realize
the helplessness of purchasing true happiness with
money, can, during the remaining years of their
life, live a thousand years in the pleasure that will
be theirs from helping humanity to attain the true
system.
POLITICS IS BUSINESS.
Politics is business, — nothing more, — and poli-
ticians are individualists, who are in politics to make
money or attain through public life power or social
position.
Disinterested patriotism is a fiction, or at least
so small a percentage enter public life from patriotic
motives, as against those who do so from selfish
motives, that it is not worth considering in balancing
causes and effects that make men seek public life.
Men like Abraham Lincoln are so few and far
between that they are like drops of spring water
in an ocean of corruption.
The Houses of Congress and officials of our gov-
ernment are to all intents and purposes a Board of
Directors of the United States Corporation, who
are elected by the stockholders — the people (only
males twenty-one years of age and over being elig-
ible)— for the purpose of managing and conducting
public business.
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Looking upon National, State, and Municipal
government from this point of view, OUR NATION is
A CORPORATION, and each voting citizen is an equal
stockholder, differing from individual industrial cor-
porations, where dollars or shares of stock take
the place of individual voting, each share of stock
being a voting unit.
The division of the business of the people into two
great factors — GOVERNMENT BUSINESS, conducted
by the people collectively through its representatives,
on the one hand, and INDUSTRIAL BUSINESS, con-
ducted by individuals in competition with each
other, on the other hand — makes it impossible to
harmonize the energies of the nation as a whole;
for the power of wealth of individual industrial in-
terests is constantly brought to bear at all elections,
to influence the returning of such representatives as
are favorable to capital. And labor plays into the
hands of capital by selling its vote or being over-
powered in argument and reasoning. As a result,
representative government is under control of capital
or that corrupt element termed Bossism which seeks
control of National, State, and Municipal affairs for
the graft that is possible. The people, as a people, de
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not get any representation whatsoever; for pol-
iticians are not patriots and saints, but men who
make the nation's business their business and are in
the game for what there is in it for them — first, last,
and all the time.
The question arises here, Where do the rights of
the people as a whole, corporated under our Govern-
ment, begin and cease in the field of industry, and
where do the individual rights of these same people
in competition begin and cease?
If we look upon the Postal System as legitimate
Government business, where do we draw the line
of demarkation between Postal Business and the
Telephone, Telegraph, Express, Freight, and Rail-
road business? And, if reason admits the right of
Government to own and forward these lines of
business, where do we draw the line of demarkation
between these lines of business and those businesses
and manufacturing industries which contribute all
the material plant necessary to the conduct and
forwarding of these businesses? In other words, if
the people owned and conducted the railroads, is
there any reason why it should leave the building
of its cars, engines, and equipment to individuals?
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Should it not enter into the manufacturing of all of
its equipment? Cannot the people, as a whole, save
the individual profit by doing its own business?
If it is the business of the corporated people,
either National or State, to project and develop
great irrigating plans, thereby bringing millions of
acres in the domain of fertile lands, why should
they as a corporated people be so unbusinesslike as
to disregard the great value of these lands to them-
selves and give them away to Rail Roads or dispose
of them for nothing or for a song to individuals?
No one can believe that the nation can receive the
same benefit from a miscellaneous rabble of incom-
petent settlers and farmers, who are given these
lands, as would accrue to the people if they them-
selves continued the good work of ownership by
the scientific exploitation and development of these
lands, retaining ownership and raising crops in the
name of the people. Can the people individually
deny the right of the people collectively (corporated
as they are under the United States Government)
to do as they think best with what they own? Are
not the whole people greater than any individual
part or parts? There is not an individual in any
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walk of life who can draw the line between the
rights of the people collectively and individually,—
under our system there is no place for a line. The
rights of the people are first in every case, whether
it is the operation of the railroads of the United
States or the growing of potatoes. The only ques-
tion that arises is, Can the people as a whole raise
potatoes better and more economically than a hun-
dred thousand individuals on the competitive plan?
If the answer is in favor of people raising their own
potatoes, not a day should be lost by the people
in entering into the business of raising potatoes;
AND THIS APPLIES TO ALL PRODUCTION AND DISTRI-
BUTION.
The most serious obstruction to material progress
is our present Government and its political parties
and machinery, acting separate and apart from the
industrial machine, and presuming to dictate to
the industrial world how it should operate its machine
and the path it should follow.
The Government is not in touch with industrial
progress and never enacts laws coincident with in-
dustrial needs; and, the larger the machine of indus-
try grows and the more intricate its mechanism be-
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comes, the more difficult it is for legislation to keep
pace with its needs.
At the present time the Government, in the making
of laws, is hopelessly in the rear of industrial progress,
and, in its efforts to rise to the situation, its ideas
are a jumble of doubt, fear, and incompetence; and
many of the laws which are on the statute books
are an evidence of these facts, for they are obstruc-
tive laws, intended to check the natural economic
gravitation of industry by the erection of legislative
dams enacted simply because those who were in-
strumental in their enactment were not business
men, and did not appreciate economic gravitation.
These same men would have been among the en-
raged mob who destroyed the looms in an English
mill less than a hundred years ago.
The Sherman Act is a case in point, — a criminal
blunder which could never have passed to enact-
ment, had the representatives of the people been
business men. Its cost to progress can never be
estimated. In like manner Interstate Commerce
Laws are a mistake, for they complicate and disturb
the natural flow of industry. And our Tariff Laws
are but a part of the selfish competitive system of
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Individualism which makes enemies of the peoples
of the same planet and the same ancestry. Such
lines of demarkation and barriers of caste and na-
tionality could not be possible under a Corporate
System.
The truth is, the Republican and Democratic ships
are manned by professional politicians, grafters and
thieves to whom Captain Kidd and his pirate crew
were saints and prophets by comparison, and are
weighted down with pre-Adamite ideas and prece-
dents and the fossil remains of old customs and
laws that have made men slaves. They are an-
chored to the old school of thought, and in their
gold and lace of pomp and ceremony they act the
Harlequin part of civilizations long dead and buried.
They are navigating the same Sargossa Sea of
Individual Competition that has been the grave of
every nation, and are hopelessly adrift among the
derelicts and wreckage of governments that have
failed, and the ninety million souls on board are
hypnotized and put to sleep by the same tune
that Nero played when Rome was burning, the
siren song of Individualism.
Place-seekers of these old parties are not business
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men, except as representatives of individual business
interests who need their services in opposing adverse
legislation, or in promotion of legislation favorable
to class interests. They have no conception of or
interest in industry in its broad sense, and have no
thought of the country's good or the people's honor in
view when seeking office. Politics with them is busi-
ness, a means to personal profit for themselves and
those whom they represent. It is competitive in-
dustrial individualism at the f outain head of power
carried to its logical and most debasing extreme.
If it were possible to compile a volume of names
of Municipal, State, and National political betrayers
of the people (directly or indirectly, for the accept-
ing of money is only one form of betrayal), the
volume would be as large as Webster's Unabridged.
Such a compilation would be monumental in com-
parison with criminals in the business world, and
worse, for it would represent betrayers of a nation's
confidence. The exposures in San Francisco, Minne-
apolis, St. Louis, New York, Chicago, Pittsburg, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, are only a mere tallow dip of light
in a wilderness of political darkness and crime that
penetrates to every corner of our governmental system.
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These are things that the people are beginning
to know and understand. Further, they begin to
realize that there is no hope of relief from old
parties or their policies, and that it is imprac-
ticable to launch a new ship and put the same crew
on board, with the same old chart and compass,
and expect them to steer a new course.
The political situation at the present time is
unique, insomuch that there has probably never
been a period in our history when there was such a
wide divergence of opinion, so much at stake, and
so small a peg on which either the Republican or
Democratic party can hang an issue. They are
committed to ideas which they must uphold and
advocate, and these ideas are not in harmony with
advanced thought or present Industrial conditions.
For these reasons the business world is in revolt,
and there is much doubt and uncertainty as to their
future.
If competition between individuals for wealth is
right (which the writer disputes), then at least there
should be some co-ordination of parts between
Industry and Government, whereby right conclu-
sions could be arrived at and be acted on quickly,
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instead of this antagonism and conflict of interests
which entails so much litigation between Govern-
ment and Industry with its enormous cost and dis-
turbance.
If industry were allowed to take its natural course
of gravitation to more economic results in produc-
tion and distribution, and government were only
to co-operate to see that such economic results
accrued to the people in just proportion with those
who brought about such economies, then would in-
dustry throughout the United States quickly cen-
tralize both industry and people into closer and
more harmonious relations. But, when all branches
of National, State, and Municipal Government are
in the hands of professional politicians who look
upon politics as the business of a nation, and a
legitimate means of plundering the Treasury of
Industry, instead of looking upon Production and
Distribution as the legitimate business of a nation,
then Politics and Government become a menace,
a stumbling-block to progress, a dangerous, dis-
turbing element of industrial life.
The Board of Directors and Officers of the United
States Steel Corporation stand in the same relation
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to their stockholders as do the Houses of Congress
(which are the people's Boards of Directors) to the
people of the United States.
In the case of the United States Steel Corpora-
tion the Board of Directors is in touch with the
corporate needs, and acts instantly, and for the good
of the business.
In like manner the Representatives of the People
in Washington should make it their business to un-
derstand the Machine of Industry as a whole, and
minister to its needs quickly, for Industry is the
business of this nation, not Politics, and Politics and
Government, as a part of the business world, should
adjust itself to Industry, and not compel Industry to
adjust itself to Politics.
To-day hundreds of thousands of voters are only
waiting the call to arms by a Napoleon before de-
serting the old parties, and this is true of many party
leaders who read death to political ambitions if
they continue to cling to these water-logged and
sinking hulks, which are years behind the industrial
needs of the nation, and have not the courage or
the intelligence to re-chart their course.
The time has gone by when flowery language,
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honeyed speech, or kissing babies can be the bell-
wether to lead the business man's and labor's vote
to the slaughter, or be causes upon which the des-
tinies of nations turn, for from the disorganized
and disturbed industrial condition and the dis-
satisfied elements of all parties A NEW PARTY MUST
BE BORN. It is a necessity to the life of the Nation.
It must be a new party, — new in every part, fear-
less in its declaration of principles, and founded on
industrial progress and the necessities of the people;
and the palsied and atrophied intellects of decaying
political parties, weighted down with maudlin senti-
ment of past deeds and ossified traditions, must
give way to the progressives of all parties, — THE
WORKMEN AND BUSINESS MEN WHO DO NOT UNDER-
STAND POLITICS, BUT DO UNDERSTAND BUSINESS.
CONSERVATION.
Conservation, so much heard of at the present
time as a Government policy, means the economic
use and saving of those natural resources that are
still a part of the public domain, a tardy recogni-
tion of the rights of the people as a whole, as against
the people as individuals, to own and control those
natural sources of wealth that are in the people's
name, by virtue of being owned by the Govern-
ment. By sequence of reasoning backward, we
will find that, had this policy of conservation been
made a part of our Constitution at the time of
seceding from English Rule, the people in these
United States would be the richest in the world,
for the wealth of lands, mines, and forests, and all
the Natural Water Powers would be corporated in
our Government and belong to the people collec-
tively instead of individually.
Conservation by Government at the present time,
while commendable, is a farce comedy in view of
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the reckless and scandalous way in which the Nation
has been stripped and left naked of its wealth and
resources by thieving representatives of the people.
By what right a Corporate Government gives to
Jim Smith a section of land in Oklahoma without
return of any kind, without being obligated to give
to every citizen in America a like amount on demand,
is beyond comprehension. Why shouldn't the Gov-
ernment give Jim Smith a thousand dollars out of
the treasury of the people just as readily as to give
him a thousand dollars' worth of land? In either
case the Government (the people) is giving away
to individuals what belongs to the people. Is it
likely that the United States Steel Directors would
give a thousand tons of rails to the Pennsylvania
Railroad for nothing without a protest from the
shareholders? And are not the people shareholders
in the Government, and what it owns?
It might be argued by the Government that giving
away lands to railroads and opening up districts to
settlement developed the country. On the other
hand, as a business proposition, it can be argued that
the Government could have done much better for the
people if it had retained possession of all lands and
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natural resources, and gone into partnership with
settlers, miners, and operators in the development
of these natural resources. By so doing, the Govern-
ment could have guaranteed prosperity and assist-
ance to all its working partners, and received in
return a vast and growing income for the people.
World Corporation means conservation carried to
its economic limit, both in Natural resources and
in use of Brain and Manual labor. It means the
instant stoppage of the giving away of anything that
belongs to the people, the quick acquisition by
conversion of what they have lost, and the readjust-
ment of industry on an economic basis.
THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY.
WHAT DOES IT TEACH US?
The mass is greater than any individual part,
even greater than the Standard Oil Company, which
is only a part. When we look upon some of the latest
fighting machines of our Navy, they strike us as
being the very impersonation of concentrated power
of mind and matter. The very thought of the energy
sleeping within the steel walls of these great battle-
ships and the organized intelligence ever ready to
direct it to a purpose, is enough to paralyze with
fear the mind that would rouse them to action.
Yet they are but childish toys compared with that
other monster, ever in action, that is silently floating
over our industrial sea, seeking whom it may devour,
—the Standard Oil Company.
Born about forty years ago, the Standard Oil
Company has steadily grown, until to-day its in-
fluence is felt throughout the industrial world and
in the Halls of Congress. It is the most progress-
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ive and economic industrial machine the world
has ever known. It is a machine moving in
every part with mathematical precision and ac-
curacy; and every human being concerned in
its operation is a part of its mechanism, from the
man in whose mind it was born, down to those
who are but human cogs. Each has his place
in the machine, the same as bolts, nuts, screws,
and pulleys.
There is no friction, no appeal to law, and no
lawyers required to adjust its interior working; and
it is built and operated upon as perfect a sys-
tem of industrial economy as its environment
will permit. From the date of its birth until the
present time ITS PERFECT MECHANISM HAS KEPT
PACE WITH ITS GROWTH, and year by year it has
strengthened its position and extended its field
of operations.
The Standard Oil Company combines within its
corporate body and by-laws, with a few modifica-
tions to nationalize it, all that is essential to con-
stitute a perfect government and a perfect industrial
system combined. Within itself its parts operate
together as smoothly as a watch, and just as accu-
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rately. IT is ONLY WHEN IT COMES IN CONTACT
WITH THE SYSTEM OF COMPETITION AROUND IT,
TO WHICH IT IS COMPELLED TO ADJUST ITSELF, THAT
IT REQUIRES THE ASSISTANCE OF LAWYERS. This
shows that LAW is A NECESSARY CONSEQUENCE OF
COMPETITION, and ABSENCE OF LAW THE CONSE-
QUENCE OF CORPORATION.
If any machine gets out of order, it requires
some one who understands its parts to rectify the
trouble. And the more complicated a mechanism
is, the more difficult it is to adjust. Our present
industrial and governmental system which con-
stitutes our industrial machine is a mass of conflict-
ing parts that defy analysis or understanding. And,
because of this, it is necessary to employ nearly
half a million EXPERT MECHANICS CALLED LAWYERS
to adjust the difficulties that constantly arise be-
tween the individual parts of the machine and keep
each in its proper place. If the Standard Oil Com-
pany were extended until the whole field of industry
was brought under corporate ownership and con-
trol, then all parts of the industrial machine would
work in harmony, and lawyers would no longer be
needed to adjust property rights to keep the ma-
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chine in order; for all property would be corporated,
and individual interest would only be an undivided
stock interest.
Let us suppose that the Standard Oil Company
should continue to absorb, until the whole machinery
of production and distribution were under its con-
trol, and it had acquired all property. It would
still be individual. It would be THE ONLY INDIVID-
UAL. It would no longer come in contact with other
individuals under a competitive system; and, as a
consequence, ALL THE LAWS or PROPERTY AND
PROPERTY RIGHTS WOULD BE ABROGATED Or become
inoperative, because each individual interest would
be merged into an undivided corporate interest;
there would be No Lawyers, — No Politicians, — No
Government. The Standard Oil Company would
be the whole thing, and its by-laws would be the
whole constitution. So will it be under "WORLD
CORPORATION" in its ultimate form, and laws as
regards individual property right will be void.
The difference between final control by Standard
Oil or by the people is apparent. If Standard
Oil succeeded in such a purpose, it would mean a
continuance of Capital and Labor, — Stockholders
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on one hand, and Labor on the other, — whereas,
"WORLD CORPORATION" will mean eventual elim-
ination of shares and establishment of a system of
equity.
The Standard Oil Company, on account of its
great earning power and rapid accumulation of
wealth, finds it necessary to seek new channels
of investment. And, WITH THE ABSORPTION OF
NEW INDUSTRIES, IT ABSORBS MORE INDIVIDUALS
AND BRAINS and grows stronger every day. It
is like a constantly increasing, well - disciplined
army marching against a disorganized mob. It
is a modern twenty-inch gun against a bunch of
fire-crackers. Where will it stop? The machine
is perfect, its power to advance is irresistible,
its only opponents an incompetent government,
and a mob whose effective force is minimized
in fighting each other. Can we be sure that the
Standard Oil Company will not absorb the whole
field of industry? The only power capable of
checking its advance is "WORLD CORPORATION."
Centralization of wealth is not a result brought
about by special individuals. If our great trust
magnates had never lived, the Law of Economic
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Gravitation would have operated just the same. If
you wish to realize how small a cog you are, no
matter who you may be, step aside, and instantly
another cog will be fitted in, and not a ripple will
disturb the industrial sea.
What would result if the Standard Oil Company
should capitalize the present market value of its
shares on a basis of Dollar Shares, make their cor-
poration progressive and unlimited in capital, and
issue additional shares for each dollar offered, it
being understood that the money received for shares
was to be used in purchasing shares of other cor-
porations? Being progressive and unlimited in
issue of shares at one dollar each, shares could
never rise or fall in value. In the writer's judg-
ment, such a proceeding would result in the very
rapid absorption of industries throughout the world.
It would be "WORLD CORPORATION" by the Stand-
ard Oil Company.
The Standard Oil Company is an object-lesson
well worth analysis and study: it embodies prin-
ciples of government and industry that are worthy
of imitation.
UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION.
The United States Steel Corporation employs
225,000 people, and this represents 600,000 people
who are directly or indirectly dependent on wages
paid by this Company. When you come to analyze
this great machine, you find that it is a wonderful
mechanism. Its 225,000 employees are graded in
intelligence from the Presidential head down through
the Board, the Managers, Superintendents, Fore-
men, Skilled Workers, and Laborers. In this Cor-
poration, as in many other large corporations,
favoritism does not enter into question of grading
employees: efficiency, fitness, and intelligence are
the qualifications that determine each individual
position, therefore such corporations are in a meas-
ure operated on a plan of intellectual fitness, and
to an extent its working force is positioned on a
basis of equity, as is proposed for " WORLD COR-
PORATION." Occasionally an incompetent by some
pull may slip by; but if he fails to make good, sooner
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or later he will gravitate to the bottom or to some
position he can fill. Taken as a whole, the United
States Steel Corporation is just as careful in fitting
a man to a particular position in its mechanism
as in fitting the proper sizes of bolts and nuts in
their train rolls or determining the right amount
of carbon or silicon in their steel. In other words,
no misfits are wanted anywhere.
Thus we see in United States Steel an effective
mechanism, employing endless complicated ma-
chinery, transportation systems, and mining in-
dustries, in which are fitted 225,000 human parts,
all graded on a basis of intellectual fitness, work-
ing in perfect harmony, whose only opportunity
to rise is by increasing their intelligence, by which
they incidentally increase their money value and
earning power; for it must be understood that
intelligence and fitness have a value, and, the more
skilled an individual is in any particular work, the
more he receives for his services. This is exactly
the way individual fitness and position will be
graded in " WORLD CORPORATION."
If we consider the United States Steel Corpora-
tion from the standpoint of mechanism and pro-
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ductive power, and having no outstanding shares,
we have in miniature " WORLD CORPORATION";
that is, co-operation of individuals, AND THESE
INDIVIDUALS GRADED BY INTELLIGENCE. When VOU
get outside the President, Officials, Board of Di-
rectors, and the Managers, Superintendents, and
Employees, who are the only ones necessary to the
company's management and operation, you divide
the result of labor's product with more than 400,000
people (stockholders), and you begin to wonder
what these people do, or have done, to be so gen-
erously treated. In other words, stockholders are
a part of tributary industry, a dead weight that
labor carries on its back. The real capital invested
in this business is brain and manual labor which
so-called capital (money) buys at a price, and turns
around and sells at a profit (the labor) by selling
the goods produced by labor at an advance in price.
If the stockholder did not exist as such, both the
laborer and the community would benefit to the
extent of the gouge, and a further benefit would
accrue in that the stockholders would be compelled
to become producers. " WORLD CORPORATION"
proposes eventually to do away with stockholders
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by creating a sinking fund with which to purchase
its own shares, after which dividends will cease.
United States Steel is like a Military Organiza-
tion. It has its Major General in the President, its
Military Board in the Board of Directors, its Gen-
erals in the different Officers of the organization,
its Captains in its Managers and Superintendents,
its Lieutenants in the Foremen of Departments,
and its army in the Employees. In everything
but name it is Military, as everything should be
that involves operations of numbers of people who
are combined together for a specific purpose.
"WORLD CORPORATION" is like the United States
Steel Corporation, stripped of stockholders and ex-
tended to infinity, and combining in one vast or-
ganization all the people. This permits of the ex-
ploitation of industry by scientific process. It is
perfectly feasible to imagine our government order-
ing a regiment to plant wheat in Dakota, another
to mine gold at Camp Bird, another to pick
oranges in California, another to plant cotton in
Texas, another to survey Alaska, ALWAYS REMEM-
BERING THAT UNDER THE LABOR SYSTEM PROPOSED
THERE WILL BE NO COMPULSION AND NO POSSI-
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BILITY OF NOT GETTING ENOUGH APPLICANTS FOR
LABOR TO MEET ANY DEMAND; for by the "AlJTO-
MATIC LABOR SYSTEM," labor for any purpose must
be available at a price. What our present govern-
ment can do in war we can do in peace. Organ-
ized industrial armies, instead of going out to kill
and destroy, will go out to produce and build up.
One army is the exact complement of the other, ex-
cept for the purpose organized. The laborers will
be the common soldiers of the industrial armies, and
they will be supervised and directed by competent
officers. These armies will cover every depart-
ment of industry, some moving from one part of
the field of raw production to another, others being
permanently established in the great manufactur-
ing plants of the people.
ECONOMIC LAW APPLIED TO
AGRICULTURE.
In the production of wheat and its distribution
under our present competitive system the waste
is appalling, — the farmers, the elevators, the mills,
the scattered cities and towns, the commission
merchants, wholesalers, retailers, bakers, and the
great division of interests which entail an end-
less system of handling and transportation by rail-
road cars, steam and canal boats, by horses and
wagons, and the endless tributary system of in-
surance, law and banking, and the world-wide net-
work of confusion, loss, and extravagance, to all
of which tribute must be paid by every pound of
wheat before we get bread to eat. Under " WORLD
CORPORATION" there will be no handling of prod-
ucts more than absolutely necessary between the
wheat field and the table. We will calculate the
necessities of the people and take the path of least
resistance in meeting these necessities, thereby
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reducing the machinery of production and distri-
bution to its most economic point.
There are now upwards of seven million farms
in the United States, with an average of five people
on each farm, or thirty-five million in all. Of this
number about ten million are actually employed in
field work, AND THEY ARE ONLY EMPLOYED ABOUT
FOUR MONTHS IN THE YEAR. During EIGHT months
these farmers are confined to odd work about the
farm, waiting for crops to grow or killing time
through the long dreary winters.
Under "WORLD CORPORATION" farm labor to
the number of five million organized into armies,
and moved in companies and detachments under
the supervision of skilled agriculturists, directed
from the Central Bureau, will cover the whole
agricultural field, and produce in products many
times the amount now produced by thirty-five
million people isolated on farms. Under " WORLD
CORPORATION" there will be no cities and towns
in the agricultural sections to be maintained, and
their cost will be saved. Cities and towns tribu-
tary to farming sections under the present sys-
tem, which equal in population the whole farm
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population, are an overhead burden upon products
produced.
It is only necessary in imagination to wipe a
town off the map to prove that it is only a tributary
part of industry. The farmer could produce just
as much without the town; and, if he could skip
all intermediate grafters and jump direct to the
consumer, and in return get back other products on
a basis of equity, he could produce enough by his
own labor in one season to keep him in luxury
many years of his life.
Under " WORLD CORPORATION" agriculture will
become a science. North America and the rest
of the world will be a field to be exploited systemat-
ically and with intelligence. Every square mile
of territory will be known, the quality of its soil
and the products for which it is best adapted will
be scientifically studied and utilized by the agri-
cultural department, to give the greatest possible
returns. Progress and success in agriculture does
not depend on the manual labor employed, but
upon the intelligence displayed in producing qual-
ity and yield, and in the knowledge of soil, climate,
environment, and tools and methods used.
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Under "WORLD CORPORATION" wheat will be
planted in enormous tracts, in locations best adapted
for growing same; and, by the elimination of small
farms and small fields and the passing away of
the farm fence, machinery of large capacity and
great accomplishment will be possible, thus sav-
ing time and labor in accomplishing results and in
gathering and shipping wheat to its destination.
It will be found an economy to project rail-
roads direct into the enormous fields, and the
wheat will be loaded and transported direct to
the city or cities of the people. That which ap-
plies to wheat as an economic feature in produc-
tion and distribution will apply to every other
product.
Military methods applied to agriculture means
bodies or groups of individuals directed in their
labor by those experienced and high up in this
great Department of Industry, — men who have
attained positions in the industrial field analogous
to officers in the army. Such an army will go into
the field fully equipped with its railroad trains,
carrying all the machinery and tools required in
their particular field of labor, and food and sleeping
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accommodations necessary to care for each indi-
vidual. Under this system an army could be organ-
ized to plant a million acres of wheat in less than
ten days, if properly equipped and handled, and,
when considered from a business standpoint, this
is not a visionary view of farming: it is what a
practical business man would do if he had the
power to direct the energies of the people and con-
trolled the land in the United States. He would
first survey his lands and secure expert and scien-
tific knowledge in regard to soils and climates.
When this was done, he would select his lands for
wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, cotton, oranges, grapes,
apples, etc., and at the proper season send his armies
or groups of laborers under proper supervision into
the sections where work was to be done, and from
time to time, as different steps were needed to be
taken, other groups or armies would follow, until
harvest time, when the crops would be gathered
and sent direct to storehouses of the people. This
is how a business man would exploit farming in
America. There is nothing wonderful or strange
about this. It is a simple business proposition.
It does not require knowledge beyond that which
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we now have. It is simply a different way
to farm — a better way. It is "WORLD CORPORA-
TION."
Because farming has always been a go-as-you-
please, brainless proposition, scattering the people
of the earth broadcast without design or purpose,
is it any reason why we should continue in the
same rut? If it is more economical and better
to Corporate, — why not do it?
Under " WORLD CORPORATION" the farm, the
town, and the city, as we know them, will pass out
of existence, and the people will gradually begin
to gravitate to one great living centre, from which
armies of workers will be constantly coming and
going, covering every part of the world, remaining
only so long in any particular field as the labor
demanded required.
Under " WORLD CORPORATION" the farmer, the
miner, and others moving in armies over the earth
will be able-bodied young men, and the women
and children and men of middle age and maturity
will be living in the great city — the heart of the
world, whose every beat will mean progress, and
whose arteries extending through the whole world
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system will send life to every part and bring in
return all the material gifts of a boundless nature,
a fitting reward for man's intelligence and recog-
nition of Economic Law.
A PREDICTION.
The absorption of industry by Corporation is
increasing rapidly in the United States, and every
year it compounds in ratio of speed and magnitude
of interests brought under control. There are rea-
sons for this. The larger a corporation grows and
the more extensive its operations, the greater be-
comes its economic power over industries in com-
petition with it. Sooner or later these industries,
crowded to the wall, are compelled to seek absorp-
tion into the greater corporation through fear of
total annihilation. If they resist too long, their
opportunity passes and never comes again. Any
industry divided into many competitive parts is
extravagant and wasteful, when contrasted with
the same industry under corporate control. Take,
for instance, the Grocery Trade of the United States,
which is in three great divisions, — Manufacturing,
Wholesale Stores, and Retail Stores. The waste
of this system is so enormous and its machinery so
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intricate that the consolidation and corporation
of fifty of the largest manufacturing corporations
that are now contributing to the Grocery Trade
would permit of an economy so great by the form-
ing of a chain of Retail Grocery Stores in the cities
and towns of this country, that the Grocery Trade
as now conducted would be absolutely destroyed:
the wholesale grocer would pass out of existence,
and a majority of the retailers would be forced
to the wall. This condition also applies to
hardware. Only twenty-five of the largest manu-
facturers of shelf hardware need be taken into a
consolidation, to control absolutely the hardware
trade of America. The wholesale trade would be
side-tracked, and the retail shops be compelled to
come into the consolidation or be destroyed by com-
petition. The possibility of such consolidation
seems remote to those interested, but the day is
fast approaching when corporation will enter every
field. THE LAW OF ECONOMIC GRAVITATION MUST
BE RECKONED WITH, NONE CAN ESCAPE IT. The
outcome is not dependent on individuals, but upon
a force that is driving men before it.
Ten years will see the more important lines of
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retail business under absolute corporate control
throughout the United States, — i.e., Dry Goods,
Groceries, Drugs, Hardware, Stationery, Meats,
Fruits, Tobacco, etc., — and these in turn will be
absorbed by each other.
If word should be sent broadcast that some of
our great promoters and financiers, who in them-
selves and their following control millions, were con-
templating the absorption of twenty-five or fifty
of the more important manufacturing industries
that contribute to the Grocery Trade, with the idea
of forming a chain of retail distributing stores
throughout the United States (without giving the
name of any manufacturing plant they had in
view), the applicants for absorption would be far in
excess of necessary requirement to give a complete
variety of goods belonging to the Grocery Trade.
The promoters could pick and choose whom they
would absorb and the price they would pay; for
any far-seeing Board of Directors of any Manufact-
uring Plant would understand the precarious
nature of their position, were they left out of the
combination. Consolidation of the Grocery Trade
is much easier to carry out than was the formation
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of the Steel Trust. IT DOES NOT REQUIRE THE
PURCHASE OR ABSORPTION OF THE RETAIL STORES
OR THE WHOLESALE STORE. The absorption of the
more prominent manufacturing plants of differ-
ent products, whose goods are advertised and
known and whose reputation is established, would
be all that would be necessary to give the retail
shops of the corporation a complete line. Any one
familiar with the Grocery Trade can run over in
mind fifty that would cover the whole field. Add
to these the direct importation of such foreign goods
as were in demand, purchased in such quantities as
would insure the lowest cost.
The invasion of the Grocery Field is near at hand.
Its consolidation offers too tempting a profit to
promoters to be left for long in its present divided
state. Already the Tobacco Field is covered, and
the Drug Trade in New York is rapidly being ab-
sorbed into great corporations. The ordinary re-
tailer cannot compete with these great and growing
combinations of capital. The larger they grow, the
further they reach out and absorb. They sell
their goods cheaper, and the public will go where it
gets the most for its money. The economies of
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large corporations are enormous and their profits
in proportion. They limit their dividends, and their
surplus is used to broaden their field of operations.
Stockholders in large successful corporations make
profits more from the increasing value of their
shares than from profits paid in dividends on origi-
nal investments.
There is no way to stop the consolidation of in-
dustry, no law that can stand as a dam for any
length of time and hold back the economic force
of centralization by corporation And it would be
the crime of the century to enact an obstruction
law if it were possible, for in Corporation we have
discovered the open sesame to a system based on
science, which must eventually bring all industry
under comprehensive management and control.
COMPETITION FOR WEALTH IS
CRIME.
When we consider the terrible social and indus-
trial conditions through which mankind has
struggled upward, — the groping in the dark, century
after century, for an outlet from the conditions
under which he lived, the incessant civil war for
existence and bread, — the wonder is, not that man
is as bad as he is, but that he is as good as we find
him.
Man is naturally honest and inherently progress-
ive; but his struggle for life's necessities and wealth
has brought to the surface every evil passion and
supplied him with every incentive to crime. Self-
ishness, under our system, is the corner-stone of
success; and, no matter what a man's outward
seeming may be, in order to win he must be cold-
blooded and heartless, and a criminal in whatever
path he follows, for selfishness and crime are in-
separable.
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All crime, all vicious and immoral tendency, has
its cause, birth, growth, and propagation in the
selfish foundation of our system, and man's de-
generacy is a direct consequence. The writer
wishes to emphasize in the strongest possible lan-
guage these great truths, ALL crimes, ALL im-
moral tendencies, ARE ATTRIBUTABLE, AND CAN BE
DIRECTLY TRACED, TO OUR COMPETITIVE SYSTEM,
AND, — WE CAN WIPE OUT ALL CRIME BY CHANG-
ING THE SYSTEM.
As soon as you inoculate a nation with the virus
of selfishness, by adopting competition for wealth
as a basis of industry, and make individual welfare
dependent upon cunning, trickery, lying, cheating,
false witness, bribery, and all manner of deception,
just so quickly do you turn every individual into
a brute. The necessities and luxuries of life be-
come the spoils of civil war in which each individ-
ual is set against every other individual. In this
battle families become estranged, friends become
enemies, and nations war with each other. In this
struggling Inferno crime has its birth, men sell
their honor for gold, and women barter their virtue.
Individually man only differs in degree and direc-
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tion of development one from the other, and in
every instance he would be honest and progressive
if he had a chance; but in this war for life's neces-
sities millions are trampled under foot and com-
pelled to resort to any means to live. As a result,
the law of survival of the fittest does not apply.
Its place is taken by the law of cause and effect,
which, under a competitive system, operates to
have those survive who have the least humanity
and the most brute. How could it be otherwise?
Does not individual competition for wealth offer
a premium on selfishness, and, with selfish desire
dominating the mind, is crime far off?
Our present Government is founded on consti-
tutional laws, MADE TO FIT AN INDIVIDUAL COM-
PETITIVE SYSTEM FOR WEALTH, and boiled down
to a few words, — these are the laws: "You are born
free and equal. Go out and fight for your bread,
and God save those who can't fight. You can have
all the land and all the material wealth in the world
if you are strong enough and smart enough to get
it." Is it possible to believe that justice can spring
from such laws, that from such a foundation we can
build a superstructure of honesty and virtue? Our
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present system is cold, heartless, debasing, and
animal in all its features. It breeds crime, misery,
unhappiness, and sorrow, and fills our insane asylums,
jails, penitentiaries, and almshouses with its vic-
tims, and lowers the best of us to the instincts of
the jackal, with cruelty in our eyes, sensuality
in our features, and our jaws dripping with warm
blood. It is a wonderful system, — wonderful in the
range and variety of crime and misery turned out
of its hopper. Have you the courage to stand with
"WORLD CORPORATION" and fight this system,
with the certainty of emancipation, — not the
emancipation of a race, but the emancipation of
All Humanity?
PAET FOUR
THE OPEN DOOR
A THOUGHT.
"WORLD CORPORATION" will result
in a new civilization, new in every part
of its structure of mind and matter. The
whole aspect of nature will assume new
meanings and ends, for it will be seen by
new senses of interpretation. With our
present individual knowledge, we cannot
conceive it; or, if we could, we would
not believe it possible.
ENTHUSIASM.
Who is there wise enough to predict what will
result after " WORLD CORPORATION" has been
launched, after the people realize what its success
will mean, what the outcome will be! Who can
foresee to what degree of enthusiasm the people
will rise in their desire and hope for emancipation!
Man is emotional, and quickly carried forward
upon waves of popular excitement; and it is these
great tidal waves of emotion that mark the revo-
lutionary changes throughout history. The gradual
growth of a thought, an idea which has within it
a germ of human progress, finds its culmination in
emotion, and change is brought about quickly and
decisively.
The thought that humanity is on the borderland
of a new system, a new epoch-making period of
the world's history, is spreading from mind to mind,
and rapidly changing preconceived ideas of life
and man's relation to man and to nature. The
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fever of excitement is already beginning to course
through the veins, and only waits on conviction to
burst into flame.
The elimination of competition by the centraliza-
tion of industry into Corporations and Trusts, and
its resulting economies, has set the individual to
thinking. He begins to doubt his old belief that
competition is necessary to progress: he asks him-
self questions and seeks the answers in his own
mind, and, when these answers are not forthcoming,
he asks others. Discussions are heard on every
hand in regard to corporations and trusts, and
newspapers and magazines are largely devoted to
this same subject. All are asking: What is the
outcome of this evolution that is taking place?
What is a Corporation? What is a Trust? Are
they not miniature corporate governments of capi-
tal and individuals? And gradually the thought
begins to dawn, — the thought which is going to rise
to a culminating point within the next few years,
and carry men off their feet; which will crowd
out every selfish idea, — THE THOUGHT THAT THE
EMANCIPATION OF THE HUMAN RACE IS IN OUR HANDS.
By a single stroke humanity can change a system
of extravagance, disorder, injustice, and crime into
one of order, equity and virtue. Nothing stands
in the way; for where is there any difference between
the control of va part of industry by a few individ-
uals and the control of all industry by all? This
is the thought that will be acted upon: this is the
thought that will make men forget self and pour
their minds and wealth with equal prodigality into
the treasury of " WORLD CORPORATION."
Enthusiasm is the foundation of power which
centralizes force and destroys every barrier between
itself and its purpose. It makes an army out of
scattered parts. It leads to "WORLD CORPORA-
TION.'1
METROPOLIS.
"WORLD CORPORATION" must gradually central-
ize the divided manufacturing industries of North
America at one centre. This is not a question for
argument, but a fact. There may be industries,
which, because of their peculiar nature and require-
ments as to climatic conditions and environment,
must be located at points best adapted to their
needs; but of such there will be few when compared
with the great mass of industries that will gravi-
tate to one centre. The same law which centralizes
and brings together the scattered parts of a par-
ticular industry when brought under Corporate
Control, applies to the centralization of all plants
of industry when brought under control of "WORLD
CORPORATION." This means the building of a cen-
tral city, for we cannot maintain and keep intact
the present cities and towns if we withdraw from
them the present manufacturing industries and the
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scattered farming interests which are the very foun-
dation of their existence. There will be ports of
entry in various parts of the world, and beautiful
cities for rest, recreation, health, and pleasure,
wherever the natural surroundings and climatic
conditions are an attraction; but the real home of
the people will be where the activities of life and the
seat of learning are centred.
Scattered cities and towns are parts of a competi-
tive system, and, like scattered plants of industry,
they are wasteful and cannot be retained under a
corporate system. When manufacturing begins to
centralize and the control of the agricultural field
and field of raw production come under the direc-
tion of the Corporate Mind, the people will begin
to gravitate to the industrial centre and the great
Metropolis will be born. Acquisition of the agri-
cultural field and its organization will be in direct
line with control of manufacturing, and organiza-
tion, or army methods, in the field of agriculture
will take the place of the present divided system,
movements of these organized bodies being di-
rected from the Central City. This means the de-
population of all cities and towns that are depend-
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ent on, and tributary to, farming sections. Thus
scattered cities and towns will disappear, for there
are very few buildings in America that will long sur-
vive after they are deserted.
When we speak of ninety per cent, waste, it
will be better understood when centralization of
the people and industry by Corporation, into one
or a few cities, is considered in contrast with the
maintenance of fifty thousand cities, towns, and
villages scattered over the continent, which en-
tails so much waste of energy in keeping them in
repair and in the handling and distribution of
products. Ninety per cent, of our present indus-
trial plant is tributary growth that contributes
nothing to actual necessary industry, but multiplies
the cost of necessary products to consumers ten
times. In this plant, consisting of thousands of
cities and towns and millions of small stores, fac-
tories, mills, and workshops, there is no co-ordina-
tion of parts, no predetermined purpose, and each
individual is a go-as-you-please entity. It must
be so under a competitive system, for there is noth-
ing to hold people together, no means of deter-
mining the wants of the people or supplying such
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wants: in consequence of this, our whole industrial
system is chaos.
It was not the Author's intention to attempt a
picture of " WORLD CORPORATION" as it might be
when the people had attained control of the world's
assets, and the rearrangement of the machine of
industry had begun. His reason for not desiring
to do so was because it would be a speculative in-
dividual idea, and give an opening for unfair criti-
cism, and, again, because a single intelligence can-
not grasp or picture by words, even in faint de-
gree, the possibilities of a World Corporate Mind.
A World's Fair is the co-operation of Nations,
States, Cities, and Individuals for the purpose of
representing man's intellectual and material prog-
ress. The whole is carried forward on a co-opera-
tive plan, by which all parts are blended together
in harmonious relation, the idea aimed at being to
centralize and show in miniature the progress man
has made in the arts, sciences, mechanics, and in-
vention, thereby disseminating knowledge to the
mass of individuals, and raising the general average
of intelligence. Individual exhibitors undoubtedly
have the ulterior motive of private gain in thus
224 "WORLD CORPORATION"
bringing before the visiting public their products;
but the exhibition, as a whole, is educational and
impersonal, and carried forward upon the supposi-
tion that it will promote progress.
The White City in Chicago in 1893 was material-
ized into life from a Corporate Mind, made up of a
few individual minds. Though designed for tempo-
rary purpose and constructed of wood and plaster,
it was a wonderful conception of architecture, art,
and beauty that brings forcibly to mind the possi-
bilities of a World Corporate Mind building a city
and home for the people, — not a city of wood and
plaster for temporary use, but a city built for per-
manency and made beautiful because it was to be
the home of the people.
Our present knowledge and our present tools are
all we need to build a city to accommodate all the
people on this continent, that would be beyond the
imagination of any mind in the world; for such a
city would embody the best imaginings and ideals
of millions of people working in harmony with a
common purpose in view.
Such a city would draw upon all the science, art,
and engineering talent of the world, and the knowl-
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edge accumulated would be sifted and refined by
the Corporate Mind, adopting always the best,
until the city as a whole and in every minute de-
tail combined the most progressive ideas of man.
Every building, for whatever purpose designed,
would be a sparkling gem set in a diadem of gems,
each standing alone, separate and distinct, an ex-
ponent of architectural progress and artistic beauty.
As I see these buildings, they are small cities in
themselves, accommodating in comfort and happi-
ness thousands of individuals, containing all the
conveniences and luxuries of the most advanced
conception of home life, but with the absence of
that part of home life which entails care, worry, and
anxiety. FOOD OF EVERY KIND, SCIENTIFICALLY
PREPARED AND SERVED, WOULD BE A PART OF THE
INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM OF "WORLD CORPORATION,"
AND ALL THE LABOR INCIDENT THERETO WOULD BE
SUPPLIED AND MAINTAINED BY "WORLD CORPORA-
TION" UNDER ITS GENERAL SYSTEM OF LABOR AL-
READY DESCRIBED. The building of such a city
is simply the extension of the same economic idea
that induces a manufacturer to abandon a badly
located, old, worn-out plant, machinery and build-
THE NEW MUNICIPAL BUILDING NOW NEABINQ COMPLETION m
NEW YORK CITY.
Reproduced by courtesy of Scientific Amtricmn.
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ings, and build a modern, up-to-date plant in a good
location. It may seem like a waste to abandon the
old plant, but in reality it is a great gain. In New
York City at the present time a new municipal
building is being constructed which, it is said, will
accommodate eight thousand people in its offices.
This building is built by the co-operative effort of
the people and paid for by the people. What it
is possible for the people to do through its munici-
pal government in New York for accommodating
eight thousand employees, it is possible for the
people to do in the building of home structures
under "WORLD CORPORATION." It would only take
ten thousand buildings, holding ten thousand peo-
ple each, to accommodate one hundred million
people. Under our present system it requires
50,000 scattered cities, towns, and villages to accom-
modate between eighty and ninety million. If the
reader will contrast the economic, mechanical, and
sanitary perfection of a building holding ten thou-
sand people such as described, with a town of ten
thousand population, under the present system,
he will get some idea of the wonderful utility and
economy of the system proposed. Then, if he
228 "WORLD CORPORATION"
will contrast the economic perfection of a city con-
taining ten thousand of these perfect buildings and
their possible automatic and mechanical system
of distribution, with the scattered fifty thousand
cities and towns and their intricate system of dis-
tribution, he will be able to understand some of the
ninety per cent, loss under competition. Would
it not be worth while, even to the wealthy class,
to give up time and money in order to forward the
building of this city? Would it not be a period
of interest in the history of the world that would
make the blood race through one's veins with pleas-
ure and excitement, — a period in advance of all past
periods and in advance of any period of the future,
because it would mark a turning point in the his-
tory of man? To see this city rise like a beautiful
picture sentient with life, reflecting the very es-
sence of progress in its embodiment would make
life worth living. As I see this city, it radiates in
all directions from a centre, — the great "WORLD
CORPORATE CONGRESS." Around this great Con-
gressional Building, but distant from it, would be
the circle of Administration Buildings, each Ad-
ministration Building specializing one of the great
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divisions of industry. The next circle would con-
tain the great Chemical Laboratories and buildings
of Technical and Experimental Science and Re-
search, which would cover every field of human
endeavor in its effort to understand nature, nature's
laws, and the combinations of material substances
and their relation to each other.
The next circle would be the great Manufacturing
Industries; then the circle of Warehouses of the
people, for there would be no stores; then Edu-
cational Buildings, Art Buildings, Museums, Nurs-
eries, etc.; then the homes of the people radiating
outward in every direction.
This construction of a city permits of a most
economic system of transportation from any part to
the centre, where all the activities of the people are
located, also for convenient distribution of products
outward from the centre to the great home build-
ings. The water, sewage, and transportation sys-
tems SHOULD BE ABOVE GROUND, and means pro-
vided for the protection of individuals from
weather or climatic conditions, when moving from
one part of the city to another. Both of these
objects could be met by the construction of two
PLAN OP BUILDING SHOWN BY THE AUTHOR IN THE "HUMAN DRIFT,"
PUBLISHED IN 1894.
''WORLD CORPORATION" 231
open chambers throughout the length and breadth
of the city, the lower chamber to be used for the
water system, sewage system, electric wires, and
the transportation system; the upper would be
the means of intercommunication of the people in
moving from building to building or throughout
the city. The transportation system of the lower
chamber would provide the means of distribution
of incoming raw materials to the mills and facto-
ries, the incoming products of consumption, and the
systems whereby food and other products were dis-
tributed to residential buildings of the city. All
parts of this city would be lighted, heated, and its
machinery, elevators, and transportation systems
operated by electricity from a central power plant.
The upper or outdoor platform above the cham-
bers would have depressions or pits made of steel
and lined with concrete supported on steel foun-
dations. These depressions would take up all the
outdoor space between buildings, except such as
was utilized for walks and roadways, and, in many
instances, be several acres in extent, at least ten
feet in depth, and filled with prepared earth. The
whole outdoor part of the upper platform would
232 "WORLD CORPORATION"
thus be made into a beautiful park system with
avenues, roads, and walks lined with trees, and
lawns made into gardens dotted with beds of flower-
ing plants and shrubs. In this park system would
be the buildings of the city, each standing sepa-
rate and apart in its setting of nature, a gem of
architecture and art.
These homes of the people would be real homes,
not hotels or apartments as we understand such*
and would combine everything for comfort, econ-
omy, convenience, and freedom from care that a
Corporate Intelligence could think of. Light, air,
and roomy expanse would be the first considera-
tion, and their only likeness to our modern apart-
ments would be that individual homes would be
parts of vast structures operated on the plan of
most advanced modern hotel methods, the service
throughout being maintained as a department of
the "AUTOMATIC LABOR SYSTEM."
The location selected by the Author for this city
is that portion of the United States and Canada
surrounding Niagara Falls, for there does not
appear another spot in the world so well adapted
to a large and increasing population. Such a city
"WORLD CORPORATION" 233
requires an inexhaustible supply of pure water,
and we have it here in the great Watershed that
feeds Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie,
whose waters find their outlet over Niagara Falls
into Lake Ontario, — 330 feet below Lake Erie, — and
from Lake Ontario to the Ocean by way of St.
Lawrence River.
By striking a circle at Buffalo of forty miles radius,
as shown on the accompanying map, a territory
is outlined that is perfectly adapted to the needs
of a great city: first, because the water supply
is inexhaustible, and flows uncontaminated from
the Great Lakes; second, because the city lies
from one to three hundred feet above Lake Ontario,
which would give a perfect system of drainage and
sewage; and, third, because the difference between
the level of Lake Erie and the level of Lake Ontario
is 330 feet. The difference in level of these two
lakes and the amount of water now passing through
Niagara River means millions of horse power, every
pound of which could be harnessed and used in the
great city. The plan proposed is to direct the
water of the four upper lakes in its course to Lake
Ontario (now forming Niagara River) through
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canals or conduits across the narrow neck of land
lying between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, which
is 20 to 25 miles wide. Welland Canal is now
operated across this neck by a series of locks. Water
directed through canals or series of conduits would
utilize the power of the water now going through
Niagara River, and even the water used in the city
for domestic purposes would render up a tribute of
hundreds of thousands of horse power in its dis-
charge as sewage or waste into Lake Ontario.
How long would it take to build the city, and
could we afford to build it? These questions are
important, but the answers are dependent upon
how much embellishment we are willing to dis-
pense with, in order to save time and labor. It
could not be expected that we should arrive at as
beautiful a concept in attempting to do the work
in a few years that should have taken a hundred.
If we sacrifice embellishment to a future time and
content ourselves with putting up steel and rein-
forced concrete structures, we could put up ten thou-
sand buildings for the homes of one hundred million
people, in ten years at most. To put up as many
such buildings per year as we desired, would simply
236 "WORLD CORPORATION"
mean a multiplication of the labor and material
used in erecting the new municipal building in New
York. One thousand structures per year would give
us ten thousand in ten years, and these would ac-
commodate one hundred million people.
It should be possible to erect one of these build-
ings in a year with five thousand workmen. If so,
it would require five million workmen to complete
one thousand buildings per year, and ten years
to complete ten thousand, sufficient to care for one
hundred million people. In addition to this it
might take five million more workmen during that
period to erect the Hall of Congress, the Admin-
istration Buildings, Departments of Industry, Edu-
cational Buildings, Manufacturing Establishments,
Power System, Transportation, Telegraph, Tele-
phone System, Lighting, Water Supply, Sewage
Systems, etc.
In considering question of cost, it is not neces-
sary to figure in dollars, but in labor; for we
would have millions of men to employ who are
now non-producers. It would cost no more to supply
these millions of men with food, clothing, and habita-
tion than it does now. It would simply mean that
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labor in building the city and its industrial build-
ings would be paid for in dollars or units of labor,
or in shares of " WORLD CORPORATION," AND THESE
WOULD TAKE THE PLACE OF THE DOLLARS NOW
BEING PAID TO PEOPLE IN UNPRODUCTIVE CHAN-
NELS. In one case you would have at the end of
ten years the most beautiful city and industrial
plant the world has ever seen. On the other hand,
you must pay out the same money to a non-pro-
ducing class, and at the end of ten years your money
is spent and nothing to show for it, except an aggra-
vated picture of the Hell we are now living in.
OMEGA.
"WORLD CORPORATION" means the absolute
emancipation and freedom of woman. All that
woman has attempted to do for centuries to throw
off the yoke of man's dominion will be accomplished
at a single stroke; for it must be self-evident that
under "WORLD CORPORATION," where intelligence
is the only factor that determines position in the
corporate body, sex cannot be considered with-
out arbitrary laws and the destruction of the equi-
table basis of adjustment. Woman, under " WORLD
CORPORATION," and under its Labor System, will
have the same right as man to enter any depart-
ment of industry which she is capable of filling. It
is true, however, that under the refining influences
of "WORLD CORPORATION" and the absence of
those features of our present system, which destroy
the true feminine qualities of mind, that woman
from choice will confine her industrial labor to
avenues of feminine character, such as education,
art, and the sciences, as distinguished from the
rougher fields of labor.
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"WORLD CORPORATION" 239
Under "WORLD CORPORATION" man and woman
will be free and equal for the first time in the history
of the world. From birth to old age each will fol-
low their path of inclination, — an open path, as broad
and free as though it were trod by no other individ-
ual,— and the whole world will lend itself to their
progress. EACH WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE TO THE
CORPORATION ALONE; NO INDIVIDUAL WILL BE
MASTER; NO INDIVIDUAL CAN BAR THE WAY. As
they advance, every door will open to the pass-word
"Intelligence"; and the desire to acquire knowledge
and rise to places of preferment in the Corporate
Body will supply every incentive to ambition and
intellectual competitive effort.
What might we not hope for if our great philan-
thropists and our self-sacrificing givers, of whom the
world has millions, in greater or less degree, were
to pass through this door of "WORLD CORPORA-
TION" and invite others to enter? Think for a mo-
ment what influence their actions would have upon
the decision and actions of others. Under such
conditions confidence in "WORLD CORPORATION"
would rise to compelling force, and man would be
emancipated within the hour. It might take time
to complete the evolution, but the emancipation
240 "WORLD CORPORATION''
would be now, for fear would die when we could see
the end. There is nothing to fear: man can suffer
no deprivation or want in the great evolution.
THE SAME PRODUCTIVE FORCE MUST STILL EXIST,
and production must multiply many fold when the
stream of unproductive labor is turned into pro-
ductive channels.
"WORLD CORPORATION" stands forth the cham-
pion of equity and justice in accord with Economic
Law. Its birth must, and ever will, determine the
great dividing line between the reign of brute and the
reign of soul. It is the triumph of mind over
matter and the birth of divinity in man. Who can
conceive of the wonderful possibilities of untram-
melled ambition and the unfolding of the human
mind under a corporate system! Life will be worth
living. Heaven will be on earth, and God will
reign in the heart of every individual and find ex-
pression through the great Corporate Soul. Such
is "WORLD CORPORATION," such is the world which
is ours for the asking. It is not a vision of the
future, it is a vision of now. It is at our very
door, and the door is open. The dawn of a new
era streams across the threshold and lights the path-
way of the future.
HN Gillette, King Camp
"World corporation"
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