Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1910 — Evolution Has No Favorites. [ARTICLE]

Evolution Has No Favorites.

The best is none too good for Business—the best of everything, the best of ideals, the best and highest standards of humane policy in this government of ours it has assumed, says Charles Edward Russell in Success Magazine. Only the very best will keep it and us off the rocks. To preach at it that it ought to do certain things because these things are prescribed in a code of morals, or to threaten It with law, dissolution, fines and other punishments, is just to waste our good time. If it goes down dark alleys after vice and graft alliances; or arm-in-arm with San Francisco and Philadelphiarings, and if it eonfeinuea to let poverty pile up, it will learn in time that these things do not pay. But whether it will learn this fact before it gets crumpled up by a nation where Business is wiser, or before it declines at home among a nation of slum-dwellers, nobody knows and evolution doesn’t care. That’s one beautiful thing about evolution; it doesn’t care a rap and has no prejudices about race or nationality. If the people of one nation desire to get—for a while —outside of its lines, it works on cheerfully in Germany, New Zealand, Denmark or any other old country. And after a time a fold of the stratum topples over upon the reversionary spot pnd crushes it out forever.