The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1875-09-25
Cooperative Business Idea.

The Mississippi Valley Trading CON
pany has five hundred thousand liv
working members in England, with a
active business capital OF twenty. fiv
million dollars. This company is th
natural outgrowth of new ideas in re
gard to productive industry, and th
exchange Of the frnits OF labor BY tn
producing classes of one nation and on
continent with those of the same classe
living in another nation, perhaps on
different continent. The manaQin,
director of this company is Mr.. T. d
Worrall, who, by invitation (witl
others) recently addressed large meet
ing in st. Louis. He said "the plan G
cooperation was the salt which was I,
SAVIOR this country. The grange oper
alton began by buy ing at Wholesale anC
distributing TO it's members. The plar
will do harm. 1.-THE patrons of hus
bandry will adopt the Rockdale plan il
will prosper. AS a people, Americans
want 10 do too much at once. Begin
with q small amount of capital; but be-
gin. Hire clerk: the committee, how
ever, must run the machine. They
must meet once a week with great
punctuality," etc. Mr.. Thomas, presi-
dent Of the Leeds cooperative socie-
ty, gave an interesting account OF the
rise and workings of that organization.
From very humble beginnings the
profits of the society were now twenty
five Thousand dollars a year. He re-
marked, that "1 soon as a man be-
comes q co-operator, he begins to think
and 70 save, and tue result is that he
becomes a better citizen. He felt con.
fident that cooperation, il faithfully
carried ont, would result in incaleulable
good to the peopleof America.
Cooperative IDEAS have taken q
strong hold of the people who speak the
the English language on both sides of
the Atlantic. They number some
eighty million souls. including the
British Provinces north of the United
States. Fraternal sympathy, free trade
and greater economy in the admins
trstion of government affairs, will be
among the first fmits of the cordial
union of the industrial classes OF Great
Britain and this republic. II is the be-
ginning OF changes In. agriculture, man.
ufactures, trade, transportation and of
reforms in government, of unknown
extent, and of nestimable value.
These representative men are OF type
that has never before visits<. ~fii:E
and will carry back to England
gathered in New Orleans,
Memphis, Georgia, st. Louis and other
places in the south and west, of telling
influence on the minds of both capital
lists and operatives in land whicn has
a redundant population. Business in
tercourss and confidence between
millions of laboring people living partly
in Europe, and partly in America, are
q new feature in the progress of modern
and in the distribution and
of wealth. The Valley of
the Mississippi is beginning to be better
and more appreciated in
London, the center of the worlds COM
merce and capital. The agricultural
resources of this vast watershed of
more than a million square miles, call
Tor an industrious, enterprising people
Of at least one hundred million to own
and cultivate the soil. One English.
man (Mr. Grant, has purchased in
Kansas, and is settling with immigrants
over 300, 600 acres in one body. We
nave no doubt of the success of the
sffort to deepen the water at the mouth
If the Mississippi, 80 that ultimately
|ome 5000 miles of river front can
hip direct to any part Of the CONNER
nal world. Scientific engineering.
packed by cooperative industry and
'apital, will in few decades show what
he waters of the great lakes and rivers
# North America were made for. These
waters are placed by nature in position
o have thousand fold greater agri.
cultural and mechanical force than is
low appreciated. Such lakes as Su.
,erior and Michigan, placed 80 high
hove sea.level, do not elsewhere exist
N the globe. The ailments of the Mis-
issippi are constructed not only hard
y on the same continent. but on the
anne magnificent scale. The intelli.
,ence, industry, enterprise and capital
4 the best parts Of the Old World find
n the Valley of the Mississippi room
nd verge enough to invest their labor
nd money, and plant their offspring
o become q part of nation whose
uture is 30 full of promise. Direct
rade with the south and west is what
dr. Morrall and Mr.. Thomas seek
Nashville american.