st of their kind. The editorial talent
must be of the highest order, the ablest in the land. Every State in the
Republic, must be made a department of the Crusade. A select army corps
of teachers, organizers and leaders, must be assembled, trained and
thoroughly prepared, to take charge of these departments. They will be
the executive and recruiting officers of the Crusade; rendering weekly
reports to the headquarters in Washington. Every co-operative farm, will
become an outpost and a recruiting station; every State, a grand
encampment.

"In recruiting crusaders from the ranks of the wealthy, a special effort
should be made, to have them take up the cause as a fashionable fad.
They can be diplomatically led, where they cannot be coaxed or driven.
In the face of any opposition they may display, it must ever be borne in
mind, that the hearts of nine-tenths of the wealthy, are good and true.
Their natural promptings are to do right; to use their riches for the
advancement of science, and for the cause of humanity. They would do
better, if they only knew how. They must be educated. The competitive
system, under which they were born, trained and made rich, is at fault.
By it, they have been taught, that poverty is a necessary and permanent
state; to which, a large majority of the people of the earth, are
assigned by the action of a divine law. Therefore, any attempt to banish
poverty would be not only useless, but actually sinful. Nevertheless,
prompted by a higher law, many of them annually dispense large sums in
charity. Under the competitive system, charity only aggravates the
malady. It is money thrown away! As the recipients are thus enabled to
work for less wages; increasing the gains of competitive masters; and
finally, swelling the ranks of the helpless poor. After a few trials,
even the most persistent alms-giver soon discovers, that as an antidote
to poverty, charity is a wretched failure. Taking it for granted, that
the competitive system is a permanent one which is to endure forever, he
gives up the problem as hopeless.

"It is to be the business of the New Crusade, to show why the
co-operative should be substituted for the competitive system. It must
teach the wealthy classes, the vast importance of the great lesson
taught at Solaris. Namely, that by organized, unselfish co-operation;
independent self-employment, producing an abundance for all, may be
speedily and practicably substituted for every form of pove