It will be found that the great danger did good as well as harm,
and that, on its overthrow, only good was left behind it.
The diseases that once destroyed men forced them to live a decent
life of cleanliness. Those diseases frightened human beings out
of filth into respect for themselves as the rulers of the world.
We owe the cleanness and decent temperate living of to-day, as
well as our knowledge of medical science, to the diseases that
formerly destroyed the people.
The hideous travesties called religion which relied for their
power on superstition, fire and sword appeared to block all
spiritual development among men. These religions have passed
away; only the vital, true religious principle is left--the
command laid upon men to feel toward each other as brothers, to
worship the ONE and benevolent power that rules the world.
A few years or centuries from now the trust problem will be
solved, and that particular monster will lie dead on its ledge of
rock back in the pages of history. And men will know that to the
great danger and brutality of to-day they owe much of their
progress and happiness.
When the trust goes commercial greed will go with it. It will
have killed the hideous theory of competition, with its swindling
of the public, its cutting of wages, its general mean, petty,
treacherous tradesmen's warfare.
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