Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth CenturyEdson, Milan C. (Milan Chappel)
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Solaris Farm: A Story of the Twentieth Century
Edson, Milan C. (Milan Chappel)
Agriculture, Cooperative; Cooperation; Utopias
"The inspiring motive of this co-operative system, will be the elevation
and perfection of human lives. To this end will tend the invention of
every labor-saving machine; increasing the product and shortening the
hours of labor. With the physical man thus properly nourished and
developed; the intellectual and spiritual man, will for the first time
in history, have the necessary conditions in which to expand, blossom
and bear fruit. Under such circumstances, life in the country will be
both altruistic and idealistic. By comparison, life in cities will
become a hardship which few will care to choose. The few, it may be
taken for granted, will be so bound to the wheels of Mammon that they
cannot get away.
"The larger independence and better education of the co-operative
majority of voters, will soon enable them to find a relief for the
imprisoned populations of cities, which are now confined by the pressure
of land monopolies and railroad combines. They will see to it, that
these railroads become the property of the government; well knowing that
they can never be made to serve the public honestly, until the public
owns them. As for the land monopolists, they will find their holdings so
burdened with taxes, that they can no longer keep them out of use. The
erection of fine buildings will be encouraged. Costly mansions,
dwellings, or factories, will not increase the tax. With these barriers
removed, the densely packed populations will quickly expand. They will
fly from center to circumference of the city. Later, they will be
attracted to the country village, where more congenial homes and
employments await them. Then educated and emancipated, they will no
longer pay rent.
"We have seen that the economics of society vitally affect the status of
human lives; physically, morally and spiritually; industrially,
financially and politically.
"We have seen, that rural society, based on the co-operative farm colony
as a unit; answers every demand for the protection and development of
human life. We have seen that the inspiration of this society, is to
secure for all, a lasting reign of peace, plenty, harmony and progress;
a most convincing proof, that it is the ideal society on which to build
a true republic, that shall be self-sustaining.
"We have seen that the perfect emancipation of woman, and the exalted
motherhood, which is made possible by the advantages of the co-operative
system, insures the permanency and the dominancy of a republic so
supported.
"In analyzing the workings of the competitive system, we have seen that
its methods are those of war. In the never-ending struggle of competing
strife, opposing armies of human beings slowly grind each other to
death; leaving unaccomplished the real object and purpose of life. This
enormous waste of life, violates every principle of a republican form of
government. It aborts even the efforts of planetary evolution.
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