Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-03-26
BY C. L. SHOLES.
A S S OCIAT ON

The following is extracted from an article
in the last Phalanx,' under the head of Con-
siructve and Pacific Democracy by Parke
Goodwin:
PRACTICAL EXAMPLES.
We have said that industry alone has re-
NAMED incoherent, but we are reminded Of
one or two instances to the contrary, which
may be regarded in the light of those excep-
tons which confirm the general truth. We
refer now particularly to an eXempliticatlon
Of unity of interests that grew up among the
cheesc-makers of Jura, and still more re-
markable instance discovered by DIR. Urqu-
hart, among the Turks of Ambelaka. The
former case is told us by M. Considerant, of
France. who speaks from his own knowledge
to this effect. In the mountains of Jura,
where The climate interdicts the cultivation
of the vine and grain, and where milk can
not be sold in its pure state owing to the
distance from the cities, it is converted into
cheese. 1t was the custom not long since,
in every village of this region, where there
were some twenty or thirty families, owning
SOIIlc TWO nun IlCu OONS, lOl tdSAl ~
make its cheese for itself, and to send TO
market for itself, thus every day making use
ofsome twenty or thirty utensils, some TWEEN
ty or thirty dairies, and of the labor of some
twenty or thirty men, both IN producing the
article and conveying it to market. And IN
most cases, to say nothing of the waste, the
cheese produced was of an inferior quality
while each family coming into competition
when they came into the market,was obliged
TO sell at the lowest possible price, so that
none gained by the sales, while the majority
were losers. What did these brave mountain
GERS do under these circumstances? Why,
they fell upon the rational principle, that II
was not wise in them TO be picking each 9th
ers pockets, and it would be much better
could they assist each other as friends and
neighbors. So they hired a small house in
the centre of village, composed of two rooms
.one of which they converted into diary,
In the shop they erected a huge brass kettle,
large enough to receive the daily milk pro-
duct Of two hundred COWS, VIII Gu m TX was
made into cheese by the labor Of a single
man, called the fruiterer, without further
trouble on the part of its owners. Tho guam
| tty of milk deposited by any family each day
was notChed upon two pieces of wood, one
of which was kept by the truitcrcr, and the
other taken by the family; by which simple
method the strictest account was kept.
When the checscs were sold, they were sold
| by wholesale, without losses through Compc-
ttion, and with a comparatively 81 GIT charge
! for conveyance to market. From the gene
raj sum received from them was sabu2Ctcd
the rent Of the house, the price Of fuel, III
strumcnts, carriage, and of the work OF the
lruite!cr, after which the reminder WAS d.
vided among the families of The village, in
proportion to the amount of milk contributed
| 10 the dairy. Thus, with onc-thi.tieth par
Of the labor, and one thirtieth part Of The cX-
pense, they were enabled to receive thirty
fold return for their product. The practice
begun in the hamlet Of Salncs, is now the
common custom through all the h, CHER pro-
vinces of the A ps 1t is a simple but signi
ficant illustration of "a great truth.
The other example for the details ofwhicI
we must refer to DR.. Urquhart's noble work
the spirit ofthe East" is found in the com
mercial municipality Of Ambelakia. There
with population of four thousand people, all
the manufacture and trade was carried on
according to a Joint stock principle, 10 dis
tjnctions of interest existing between capita
lists and laborcrs. 1t grew rapidly in mpoT-
lance; It's fabrics became so celebrated, as
shortly 10 absorb the best markets; and 1t an
nualv divided from sixty to one hnndrcc
per cent. upon all its investments. Thus
weak, insignificant hamlet, in what is com
monty called the most dcspotic OF nations
without single field in its vicinity, with n
advantage of position, with no local industry
with no commelc al conneXion, in the ne Oh
borhood ofno manufacturing movement, nel
Their situated on navigable river nor on The
sea. accessible by a goats-path among prec!
pices. its industry unaided by the secrets o
chemistry or combinations ofmechlncai pow
er-did, by the simple fact of unoa of inter
ests, and union of sympathes, rise to de
gree Of outward prosperity and internal hay
mony, unparalleled in the history of com
mercial enterprise. External causes Of VIC
lenco. and the invention Of spinning jennje
in England, Contributed TO the dispersion
of this hive OF labor and ploductiyeness.
SUGGESTIONS AND PROJECTS.
Is there any reason why similar combina
tons should not take place among the work
men capitalists of this day. when industry i
; so much more developed, and the facjlitie
l of intercourse so many and Important Is i
not the plaincst matter imaginable, how I'm
5 melsurabiy the laboTers Of any trade or Graf
] would be the gamers, il, instead of workin!
against each otheras they do now,they shoal,
contrive toconcentrate their energies in ODE
, dience 10 some law of mutual interes
, We can easily conceive of variety o
modes in which the principle of common
| interest might be realized. The shoemlkers
or any other class of mechanics IN ght, with
out much .ficuhy, form themselves into al
union. under discreet and liberal laws. 70
the prosecution of the different branches o
their trade. With single large building
somewhere in the centre of trade, with
proper distribution of labor, allowing eacl
man a payment proportioned to the kind anc
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