Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1874-02-19
The Sweep Of Co-opera-
tiOn.

J an order to which we nave re-
ferred several times, is said to
be making astonishing progress
State oranges have been organ
lied in many OF the States,
and there are seven subordinate
oranges in Canada. The indi-
vidual accessions to the order
number several hundred per
day. The object is to promote
by cooperation the interest of
producers and consumers
They say: I've are all either
producers or consumers, and as
such are materially Interested
Let all commercial bodies, all
farmers organization, all eastern
and western manufacturers, and
and all merchants unite in this
great work"
This isa steptowMrdthe organ
cation Of the industry of the
world, i'll It's own interest, and
IS destined to work as great
changes i'll the distribution of
wealth as the great political
movement Of the last century
has worked in the distribution
of political power, The con-
ception which the modern world
was SO many centuries in arri-
wing at, that political power O.
originates only with the people,
and has no Legitimate origin OK
cept as they delegate it, has de
stroycd the divinity Of kings. 1t
has made loyalty to rulers and
contentmcnt with scryitudc al
most inconceivablc sentiments
to-day. And yet, less than a
hundred years ago, the highest
socia! morality taught was 10y
atty. At every social gathering
the King was the first toast
The pulpit, the press, what there
was Of it, the teachers OF all
kinds were endless in their en-
forcement Of lis necessity as
the very foundation Of social
order. The leading men in cv-
cry community were heartily
convinced Of it, and in their en-
thusiasm for loyalty were ready
at any time to risk their lives and
their fortunes in its support
The destruction Of this senti-
mcnt seemed to them the inau-
guration Of social chloS, and
they believed in the possible
ity OF this chaos as firmly as
they believed that the present or
der Of physical phenomena a
rose from physical chaos.
Slowly, at times it has seemed
too slowly, the industry Of the
world has commenced to arrive
at the conclusion, that similar
necessity exists for supplanting
our present industrial and linan-
cial systems, with such an organi-
Zltion as shall lead TO a Just distri-
button Of the wealth created by
labor in which paupeIism shall
become impossible; in which the
grasping tyranny Of monoPolles,
individual or corporation, shall be
a record of the past as the vaSsal-
dom of England has become
The most certain evidence Of the
approach Of this phase of social de-
Velopement, is the fact that the in
dustry of the world is everywhere
discussing its possibility, studying
the methods of its realization, and
moving toward their practical a.
doption.
Meanwhile, to many such a L.
topia seems as visionary as the e.
nunciation of a social order which
should free his vnssals, would have
appeared to feudal baron while
others it simply exaspcrates, and
they Indignantly attack it, with
the handiest weapon at hand, much
as the late respected Mrs. Par
tington attacked the encroaching
ocean-tide with her broom. But
no one whose heart is more than
simple forcepump, to subservea pur,
pose in his own personalcirculation,