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crops and gives him a motive for the study of world problems which 

 adds to the general love of study. 



He is also confronted with sociological conditions in which there is 

 an effort on the part of all great leaders of industry to eliminate the 

 waste of competition by the organization of trusts; to increase efficiency 

 and build great industrial institutions by the centralization of the 

 capital. He finds these trusts fixing the prices on everything he buys 

 and everything he sells. What does he do? If he is ignorant, he rails 

 at the trusts, curses the railroad companies, fumes, frets, and nurses 

 his acidity of temper until there results chemical -changes in the blood, 

 disease germs multiply and break out in boils or some other physical 

 disorder. If he is very ignorant, he doesn't even fret, he simply accepts 

 it; perhaps believing it an order of nature or a dispensation of Provi- 

 dence due to a "weak unworthy worm of the dust" who "can not 

 afford to take the papers and hasn't time to read." 



THE FRUIT GROWERS' ORGANIZATION. 



If he is wise, he advocates a large fruit growers' organization, big 

 enough to meet successfully other great industrial organizations, as army 

 would meet army, in the military movements of the world. He knows 

 that industrial organizations are an economic necessity and that the 

 industrial class that will not organize will be exploited, despoiled, and 

 robbed by every other. He would meet combines with combines, cen- 

 tralized capital with centralized capital, and extortion with a power 

 strong enough to whip the extortioner. 



Many mariners were driven by winds upon the rocks and found 

 watery graves, before it occurred to tlie survivors to lift their sails, 

 harness the winds, and make them do the work of oarsmen. In like 

 manner, many farmers will be crushed by tribute to trusts before they 

 learn how to utilize the trusts and change from the habits born of 

 individualism to those of collectivism, where they feel that they are 

 not alone, but are one of a class, and the class must struggle together. 

 Later still he will learn that all classes are inter-related and that the 

 good of one is the good of all. The trend of the whole struggle is in the 

 direction of the universal brotherhood of man. The age of military 

 wars is nearing its close. The age of commercial war is approaching its 

 noon. Conditions that compel us to organize as fruit growers, educate, 

 broaden and moralize us. The lesson we must learn or die is cooperation. 

 Cooperation means brotherhood and brotherhood is the essence of 

 morality. 



THE WORLD'S LESSON. 



The world's military leaders in their lust for power have taught us 

 our first lessons in organization. The great captains of industry in their 

 lust for wealth have taught us a series of lessons belonging in the next 

 higher grade. Labor organizations of wage workers and farmers are 

 defensive. International courts of arbitartion will settle international 



