y well, that in competitive
business, he can utterly ignore honor, conscience, and self-respect,
without losing the approval of competitive society. Can such a rotten
society ever become a safe foundation for the government of a true
republic?

"It is to be the mission of the New Crusade to teach and to demonstrate,
that under the reign of a co-operative system, and society, these
conditions would be reversed. All incentives to cheapen goods, or to
adulterate food products, would vanish. The co-operators would then form
the bulk of the market. Buying at wholesale collectively, to sell to
themselves individually; they would be in a financial condition to pay
remunerative prices, for whatever was genuine, pure, wholesome, good,
reliable and lasting. Inferior articles, they would not purchase at any
price. The demand for cheap stuff would cease. The dominant motive of
the commercial world, would be revolutionized. Among manufacturers and
producers, the cry would be, not how cheap, but how excellent, can we
make our goods! The long-practiced, skillful chicanery of competitive
methods, would be at a discount; they would be worse than useless!
Honest men could then engage in business, without violating either
honor, or conscience! Cheating and lying, would no longer form a part of
the business code! At all times, and under all circumstances, to respect
the sacredness of life, and the natural rights of man, would become the
universal watchword! Justice would dethrone charity! The high moral tone
of the industrial and commercial world, would pervade the social and
political. The injury of the weakest, would become the concern of the
strongest. The rising tide of humanitarianism would submerge poverty.
The fires of ignorance and crime, would be extinguished by its
conquering flood.

"Than this, no lesson more important, could be taught to the people. The
scales of selfishness having fallen from their eyes, they can be made to
understand, that all of these wonderful things may be accomplished,
quickly and easily, by the plain, practical methods of unselfish
co-operation. Methods, whose assured results are as easily demonstrable,
as the solution of a mathematical problem. Once convinced, they will
make haste to discard the wasteful methods of the competitive system;
substituting therefor, the co-operative conservation of national wealth.
In this conservation, the wealth of the unit, will be the measure of the
wealth of the natio