The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-13

If in water, float on the back, with
the nose and mouth projecting.
For apoplexy, raise the head and
body; for fainting, lay the person flat.
The Cooperative Movement.
Bat it is impossible to bring before
you in the space 1 have at my disposal
any thing like proofs of a tithe of the
good which this movement has done ::
how it IS steadily strengthening and
purifying the daily lives of a great sec
ton of our people. I wish [ could
induce all here to look into the matter
carefully for themselves. Meantime [
may say that it has in the first place
delivered the poor in a number of our
great towns from the credit system,
which lay so hard on them twenty years
ago, for the cooperative system is
founded scrupulously on ready-money
dealings. Next, it has delivered the
poor from adulterated goods and short
weight and measure. It has DEVELOPED
among them honesty, thrift, fore
thought, and made them feel that they
cannot raise themselves without help
ing their neighbors.
The management of business concerns
of this magnitude has developed an ex-
traordinary amount of ability among
the leading members, who, in com
mittees, and as secretaries and BUYERS,
conduct the affairs of the stores through
out the country. As their funds have
accumulated, they have been invested
in cOrn-mills and cotton-milIs, most of
which have been managed with great
ability and honesty, and are returning
large profits. There have been failures.
of course, as there must be in all move
ments but in scarcely any cases have
these been owing to the deep-seatcd
dishonesty, the lying, the putting, and
trickery, which have brought down in
disgraceful ruin so many of our Joint
stock companies. have been speaking
hitherto chiefly of the societies known
as cooperative stores which are con
cerned with distribution; but associa-
tiOns for production are now multiply
ing, and at least as great results may be
looked for from them. In those few
which 1 have bad the opportunity Of
watching, I can speak with the greatest
confidence of the admirable influence
they have exercised on the character
and habits of the associates. But ]
prefer to call in here the stimony o.
one who has had as much experience
and done as much work for the Co
operative movement in England as any
living man. II, - writes Mr.. Ludlow
"a cooperative workshop has sufficient
elements of vitality to outlast the in
evitable storms and struggles of its frs
few years, it begins to develop a mos
remarkable series of results. Co-opera
ton first expels from the shop drunken
ness, and all open disorder, which are
found wholly inconsistent with its sue
cess :; introducing in their stead a mum
Der of small adjustments and contri
vances of a nature to facilitate work. OF
promote the comfort of the worker. By
degrees it exterminates, in turn, the
small tricks and dishonesties Of work
which the opposition of interests be.
tween the employers and employed toe
often excuses in the workers eyes it is
felt to be the interest OF each and all
that all work should be good-that no
time should be lost. Fixity of employ
ment meanwhile, coupled with a com
mon interest, creates new ties between
man and man, suggests new forms of
fellowship till there grows up a sort OF
family feeling, the only danger of which
is, its becoming exclusive toward the
outside. Let this state of things last a
while and there is literally developed q
new type of working men, endued not
only with that honesty and franIzness,
that kindness and true courtesy, which
distinguish the best specimens of the
order wherever they may be placed, but
with a dignity and self-respect, a sense
OF conscious freedom, which are pecu-
liar to the cO-operator. The writer met
with such type first in the Associa-
tons Ouvrieres of Paris. He has since
had the happiness of seeing it repro
duced, with variations as slight rs the
differences of nationality might render
unavoidable, in English cooperative
workshops and he therefore believes
that its development may be confident
~ looked forward to as a normal result
of cooperative production. '-AfacnliE-
tan's Magazine.
THE fifteen-year old daughter of a
prominent citizen of Memphis sold some
valuable iewelry last week and eloped
for New Orleans, intending, as she said,
when overtaken at station in Mississip-
! Pi, to go to some distant place and then
turn up two or three years later as an
authoress Of mark. She had been read
I ing Onidas works.
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