ABSTRACT
In commercial or industrial issues our governing ideas are too crude to allow at present any growth of clear international conceptions, for people have not yet escaped from the primitive stage of competition for private gain, much less from competition between national groups for separate wealth. The general principle that co-operation between nations is better than rivalry, aloofness or hostility, is granted by many who in no sense adopt the worker's point of view. The international organizations of the workers indicate that, as political life has been democratized, and as industry must soon cease to be an autocracy, so international life is beginning to feel the will of the common man. The civilization which people have inherited-our arts and sciences, as well as their material resources-are all the results of international intercourse. The increase of civilization by international intercourse in every sphere of human life is therefore essential to the liberty of the workers in all countries.
