The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-09-09
Cooperative Business Idea.

The Mississippi Valley Trading com
pany has five hundred thousand live
working members in England, with m
active business capital OF twenty five
million dollars. This company is the
natural outgrowth of new ideas in re-
gard to productive industry, and the
exchange Of the fruits OF labor by the
producing classes OF one nation and enc
continent with those Of the same c!aSseE
living in another nation, perhaps on
different continent. The managing
director of this company is Mr.. L. ID.
Worrall, who, by invitation with
others recently addressed large meet.
ing in ST. Louis. He said "the plan OF
corporation was the salt which was to
SAVIOR this country. The grange oper.
alton began by buy ing at wholesale ana
distributing to its members. Tho plan
will do harm. If the patrons OF nus,
bandry will adopt the Rockdale plan 1t
will prosper AS people, Americans
want TO do too much a. once. Begin
with a small amount Of capital; but be-
gin. Hire a clerk; the committee, how
ever, must run the machine, They
must meet once q week with great
punctuality," etc. Mr.. Thomas, prcsl'
, dent Of the Leeds cooperative socle'
tv, 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. lie re-
marked, that 'as soon as man be
comes co.operator, he begins to think
and to save, and the result IS that nc
becomes better citizen. lie felt con
fident that CO operation, II faithfully
carried out, would result in incalculable
good to the people of America.
Co.opcrative ideas have taken a
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 i'll the admins
tration of government affairs, will bt
among the first fruits of the cordia
union of the industrial classes OF Grea
Britain ard this republic. 1t is the be
ginning of changes in agriculture, man
ufacturea, trade, transportation and o
reforms in government, OF unknown
extent, and Of inestimable value
These representative men are OF typ
that has never before visited TIN
country. and will carry back to Englan'
information gathered in New Orleans
Memphis, Georgia, st. Louis ami othe
places in the south and wesJ, OF tellini
influence on the minds of both capital
lists and operatives III land which ha
redundant population. business IN
tercourse and confidence betweel
millions of labOring people living partl.
in Europe, and partly i'll America, arr
Il new feature in the progress OF moderl
civilization, and in the distribution ant
accumulation of wealth. The Valley o
the Mississippi is beginning to be bette
understood, and more appreciated II
London, the center OF the worlds com
merce and capital. The agricultural
resources of this vast watershed o
more than million square miles, Cal
for an industrious, Cnterprlsing peopl
of at least one hundred million to ow
and cultivate the soil. One English
man (Mr. Grant, has purchased /
Kansas, and is settling with immigrant
over 300, 600 acres in one body. W
have no doubt of the success OF III
effort to deepen the water at the mout
of the Mississippi, so that ultimatel
4 some 90 900 miles OF river front ca
+ shin direct to any part of the CONNIE
:. cial world. Scientific engineering
= backed by co operative industry an
o capital, will in lew decades show viii
J. the waters of the great lakes and rive
of North America were made for. Thef
waters are placed by nature in positic
to have a thousand fold greater a8r
l. cultural and mechanical force than
D. now appreciated. Such lakes as y
h perior and Michigan, placed 80 hig
'r above sea.level, do not elscwhere exl
m on the globe. The sfiluents OF the Mi
in sissippi are constructed not only hal
ID by on the same continent. but on q
same magnificent scale. The intel
:. gence, industry, enterprise and capt
! Of the best parts of the Old World fiji
=" in the Valley of tho Mississippi roo
s aud verge enough to invest their lab
III and money, and plant their offsprll
n- 10 become n part of nation who
lie fnture is 80 full of promise. Dire
n trade with the south and west Is VIII
as Mr.. Morrall and Mr.. Thomas seek.
IL Nashrike american.