CO-OPERATIVE SETTLEMENT 



of failure upon the very institutions they are so anxious 

 to establish and perpetuate. They will even set back for 

 a time the development of the only portion of the United 

 States which now invites them to homes and indepen- 

 dence. 



The time may come when all men will be equal finan- 

 cially, intellectually, morally, and socially. It has not 

 come yet. The many must still seek the leading of the 

 few, and happy are they who can receive it under con- 

 ditions which guarantee to them the full fruits of their 

 individual labor in small things and of their co-operative 

 work and capital in largo things. 



A colony, under modern conditions, is an organized 

 community. Whatever is organized requires competent 

 leaders and obedient followers. No man who followed 

 Dewey at Manila, or Roosevelt to the heights of San 

 Juan, was ashamed to take the commands of his superior 

 officer. Neither in the capital city of the Philippines 

 nor upon the rugged hills of Cuba were there prizes so 

 precious to humanity as those which lie fallow in the 

 voiceless valleys of the West. The man who will not in- 

 cur discipline to plant his flag upon the shores of pros- 

 perity or the heights of success deserves no better fate 

 than to be trampled under the feet of his stronger fel- 

 lows in the struggle for existence. The pride which will 

 not serve in the ranks is a pride that will never wear the 

 star or the epaulet. 



