But people compete with each other and
undersell each other, and those who labor are mulcted of their due, and
instead of turning to the earth--the inexhaustible mother--and working
unitedly for the common weal, they continue that fierce competition and
stultify each other's efforts and reduce each other to wretchedness.
Humanity is a house divided against itself. Those who feel this to be
true must gather round any movement which gives a hope for the future,
which indicates a policy by which the organic unity of society in
Ireland might be attained, and our people work harmoniously to make
beauty and health prevail in our civilization. What each gives up to
society in the making of a civilization he gets back a thousandfold.
Now, the co-operative movement alone of all movements in Ireland has
aspired to make an economic solidarity in Ireland. Whatever the aims of
other movements may be--and many of them have high ideals and are
necessary for the spiritual and intellectual development of our people--
there is none of them which has for aim the unity of economic life.
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