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ence. Men in the same county were farther apart 

 then than are men now in widely severed states. 

 Now. organization implies some closeness of touch. 

 Men must know something of one another; care 

 something for one another; have common interests 

 and also a realization of the fact that their interests 

 are the same. 



A few illustrations will serve. Capital can com- 

 bine easily because capital moves freely from one 

 point to another. It can be, and is, handled in large 

 masses. A dollar in Indiana is as close of kin to a 

 dollar in New York as is the nearest neighbor of the 

 New York dollar. Laboring men even yet find it 

 difficult to migrate from one section to another, but 

 capital flows freely to the place where there is the 

 greatest demand for it. Distance is no barrier — the 

 ocean is no barrier. A man may live in Kansas and 

 have his capital working for him in the Philippines 

 or in Wall Street. The natural tendency of capital is 

 toward combination. And it knows nothing of iso- 

 lation. Turning to labor we find that labor combi- 

 nations are easily effected because laboring men live 

 in cities, and close together. Thousands of them 

 work in the same factory or on the same railroad. 

 They meet constantly and talk over things affecting 

 their condition. It is natural and easy for them to 

 cooperate; indeed, they can hardly help doing so. 

 Each man feels — and he would feel it whether there 

 were an organization or not — that he is the member 

 of a vast body, and he gets the daily encouragement 



