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"World Corporation" 
 
 By KING CAMP GILLETTE 
 
 Discoverer of the Principles and Inventor 
 of the System of "World Corporation" 
 
 
 ^T'HE message herein con- 
 -*• tained is Truth; nnd 
 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. 
 
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 THE NEW ENGLAND NEWS COMPANY 
 BOSTON 
 
 DISTRIBUTORS TO THE TRADE 
 
Copyright, 1910 
 By king camp GILLETTE 
 
 Entered at Stationers' Hall 
 
 Oeo. H. ELLIS CO., PRINTERS, 272 CONaRESS »T., aaiTON. 
 

 NOTICE. 
 
 Mr. Gillette, the present mriter and inventor of " World Corporation, " has for 
 many years been interested in social and industrial problems, and has published 
 three books upon these subjects; namely, "The Human Drift," 1894, "Gillette's 
 Social Redemption," 1907, and "Gillette's Industrial Solution," 1908. The 
 last two books were tcritten by Mr. M. L. Severy. 
 
 These three books in their exposition of Mr. Gillette's ideas of " World Corpora- 
 tion" outlined and proposed certain protective details of organization then con- 
 sidered advisable, but which Mr. Gillette does not now consider necessary. There- 
 fore, the following Charter, By-laws, and Prospectus, and the opinions expressed, 
 should be read as a self-contained proposition, separate and apart from any previous 
 writings, and as exhibiting Mr. Gillette's individual tiews and final conclusions, his 
 personal judgment being that the people can be best protected and safeguarded by 
 Publicity and the World-wide Character of " World Corporation." 
 
 This statement is written at request of Mr. Severy and to guard against any 
 misunderstanding by those who have read any of the previous works. 
 
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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vi TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 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 167 
 
 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" 
 PROSPECTUS 
 
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. 
 
 tC^^C. 
 
 
WORLD 
 COR PORAT ION. 
 
 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 
 
6 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 
 
8 ''WORLD CORPORATION" 
 
 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 
 
"WORLD CORPORATION'' 9 
 
 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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'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 Phcenix, but offices may be 
 established, business transacted and meetings of the 
 
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16 "WORLD CORPORATION 
 
 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, 
 
18 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 
 
"WORLD CORPORATION'' 19 
 
 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- 
 
20 ''WORLD CORPORATION 
 
 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 
 
22 ''WORLD CORPORATION 
 
 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 W^orld Corporation has reduced 
 to its possession and control, all agencies for 
 production and distribution throughout the world, 
 
WORLD CORPORATION'' 23 
 
 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 
 
24 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 VHI. The private property of the 
 Stockholders of the Corporation shall be forever 
 
26 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 exempt from corporate debts of any kind what- 
 soever. 
 
 In Witness Whereof, We hereto aflSx our 
 signatures this 8th day of June, 1910. 
 
 R. M. PEABODY [seal.] 
 M. T. STONE [seal.] 
 
 Territory of Arizona 
 County or Maricopa 
 
 
 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,) 
 
 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 
 
 Phoenix, Arizona. 
 
 W. C. FOSTER, 
 
 Territorial Auditor. 
 
WORLD CORPORATION" 
 
 BYLAAVS 
 
"WOKLD CORPOEATION" 
 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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32 ''WORLD CORPORATION" 
 
 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 
 
34 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 
 
36 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 
 
38 "WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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- 
 
40 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 
 
 railrofids 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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WORLD CORPORATION'' 43 
 
 and nationality and combine in one brotherhood all 
 the people of the earth for one common purpose. 
 
 "WoKLD 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, and 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 resalts. 
 
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 corp orated 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- 
 
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 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. 
 
48 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 "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. 
 
"WORLD CORPORATION'' 49 
 
 "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," avhen 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. 
 
50 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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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52 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 of 
 
 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. 
 
Btdaration of ^rinciple0 
 of Corporate ^artp 
 
 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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"WORLD CORPORATION'' 59 
 
 After careful consideration of information in 
 regard to different securities and circumstances 
 that might affect their vahie, 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. TheSC 
 
 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. ScCOnd, 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 
 
62 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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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''WORLD CORPORATION'' 65 
 
 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 
 
"WORLD CORPORATION'' 67 
 
 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 ]VL\RKET 
 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 
 control 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 would 
 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 
 
 THE AUTOMATIC LABOR 
 
 SYSTEM 
 
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 modem intelligence 
 will take root and blossom, and the fruit 
 thereof will be deeds and actions, and the 
 glorious dawn of an earthly millennium. 
 
^V O R L D 
 CORPORATION." 
 
 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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76 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 
 
80 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 
 
82 "WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 CONSIBIPTION 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 v/ill 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 
 
84 "WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 OF 
 
 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 providcs 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, UO 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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 The above pjTamid 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, — 
 
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 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 full. 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. 
 
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 It is a world-wide University of Progress, a 
 path ever upward, flooded with the loiowledge 
 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 biUion 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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MAX 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 MiND, THE ChILD OF THE GREAT OvER- 
 
 sorL OF Creation is Infinite and Eternal. 
 
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 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 
 speciaHzed intelHgence 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. 
 
 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 aflfluence, 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 w^ith 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, followcd 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- 
 
''WORLD CORPORATION'' 105 
 
 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- 
 PORATE BoDY .^ "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 
 
108 "WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 hnes 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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"WORLD CORPORATION'' 111 
 
 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 planet^ : 
 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 
 w^ilderness. 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," 
 
112 "WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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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114 "WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 
 
116 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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: for 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 insuflicient 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 advantages 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 P^^RT 
 OF THE PEOPLE TO OWN THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM AND 
 
 PART BE SLAVES, as is uow 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 
 
"WORLD CORPORATION" 121 
 
 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 
 
122 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 diflFerent, 
 all have different desires. You cannot evolve a 
 system that will be compelling without destroying 
 everj^ 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 w^ere 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 inteUigence, fear begins 
 to disappear. We begin to see that corporation 
 has power to join in harmony milHons and milHons 
 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 
 
''WORLD CORPORATION'' 137 
 
 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 
 
138 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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- 
 
''WORLD CORPORATION'' 139 
 
 ceive what a power for good this change would 
 mean. 
 
 Knowledge is infinite in its power to make men 
 happy, infinite in its possibiHties 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. 
 
142 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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. 
 
146 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 
 
148 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 press, the lathe, the engine, the railroad trains, etc., 
 are all parts of the Great World Machine. We find 
 buildings, ofiices, 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 
 efiFort. 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 bom 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 stcp has cvcr 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 milHon 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, lie 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 aflSrm 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- 
 
164 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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.f* 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 
 
168 "WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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, do 
 
174 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 
 
176 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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- 
 
''WORLD CORPORATION" 177 
 
 comes, the more diflScult 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 
 
178 "WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 foutain 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 dangeroui, dis- 
 turbing element of industrial life. 
 
 The Board of Directors and Officers of the United 
 States Steel Corporation stand in the same relation 
 
182 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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, 
 
"WORLD CORPORATION'' 183 
 
 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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WORLD CORPORATION" 185 
 
 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 
 
186 "WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 a ad 
 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- 
 
''WORLD CORPORATION" 189 
 
 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 compHcated 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- 
 
190 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 of property and 
 
 PROPERTY RIGHTS WOULD BE ABROGATED or beCOmC 
 
 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 diflFerence 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 
 
''WORLD CORPORATION'' 191 
 
 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 
 
192 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 Gravitation would have operated just the same. If 
 you wish to reaHze 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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194 "WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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- 
 
''WORLD CORPORATION'' 195 
 
 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 yOU 
 
 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 w^eight 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 
 
196 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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- 
 
"WORLD CORPORATION'' 197 
 
 BILITY OF NOT GETTING ENOUGH APPLICANTS FOR 
 LABOR TO MEET ANY DEMAND; for by the "AUTO- 
 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 appalHng, — 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 macliinery of production and distri- 
 bution to its most economic point. 
 
 There are now upwards of seven milHon farms 
 in the United States, with an average of five people 
 on each farm, or thirty-five milhon 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 
 
200 "WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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. 
 
''WORLD CORPORATION" 201 
 
 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 oflScers 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 
 
202 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 
 
''WORLD CORPORATION'' 203 
 
 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.f^ 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 
 
204 "WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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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206 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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 
 
"WORLD CORPORATION'' 207 
 
 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 
 
208 ''WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 )■ 
 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 
 
''WORLD CORPORATION'' 209 
 
 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- 
 
212 "WORLD CORPORATION'' 
 
 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, IVIADE 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 
 
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 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 a 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." 
 
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 w^e 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 
 
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 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 Nearing Completion in 
 
 New York City. 
 
 Reproduced by courtesy of Scientific American. 
 
WORLD CORPORATION'* 227 
 
 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 systena proposed. Then, if he 
 
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 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 of 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, suflficient 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 
 
"WORLD CORPORATION'' 237 
 
 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 w^e 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. 
 
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