Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1875-12-16

tenn. Cooperation seeks to bring about
a more equitable distribution of all things.
Certainly Capital and Labor ought to be
friends.
4 man going West went to the foundry
and bought a plow. He paid $29 for the
plow, and paid the freight Oh it to his west
ern farm. Three months aftey he went to a
retail store near his home, saw a plow OF the
same starap and quality as the one he had
purchased. He asked the price and was
told S26. Thus the manufacturer had been
compelled by the commission merchants to
ask at the foundry two dollars more than
the retail price, so the purchaser might be
obliged to purchase it after going through
two. three and four hands. Such a system,
/ contend, is rotten and corrupt, and ollal
lenee any person to the contrary. Alargf
building is going up in st. Louis for thf
Singer Sewing Machine Company, the cost
of which is $3.50, O00-$250,0 GOO? Where che
this golden surplus money come from: "
with me into the attics of some of Il cities
and see that poor, starving sewing woman
laborino far into the night. For what? nc
nav for this golden affair of the Singer Ma
chine Co!
"In the past twenty-five years the ricf
have been growing richer, and the poor
poorer. II it goes on this way what are W.
coming to? Unless we learn the pow
er of organization from those coming
middlemen, we shall certainly go tc
ruin. It is purely impossible for a MAJ
at the present in Auburn to eat an unadult
Grated dinner.
II is a universal agreement among spice
manufacturers for the brand pure pedper
to be put upon their boxes of pepper, whcl
in reality 20 per cent of that article is adult
Grated. Nine and a half yards Of ribbon are
put up by competition every time fol
twelve yards. You have found this oul
now and expect to get no more, but how
many thousands of dollars was made before
it was discovered? Who, but you and |
have to pay for the services of this army O
middlemen between the producer and con
sumer. In short, competition gives us
adulteration, shoddy, shortweight, and takes
the humanity, honesty and justice out o.
man.
Now, What is the remedy for this? Or
ganization and Cooperation. Competition
gives us 500 lbs. of coal per ton, while co.
operation gives us 1900 lbs. per ton. The
consumer, under the system of competition
pays 80 per cent. profit on his goods, while
under the cooperate system he pays but !
per cent.
Friends, we must Danish the cursed credit
system. This should be one of our great
life works. Let every young man as he
goes out of this hall to-night-resolve in his
heart, not to spend a dollar for anything I'M
til he has the money in his hand.
What is this our beloved country ruled
and governed by but capitalists. The labor
ing men are scarcely represented. We have
men who are continually legislating fol
what? Not by any means for equality
and justice, but for capital and power, which
brushes uIder foot the honest man. We GER
tainly have too much law and too little lust
ice in our land. When, I ask, will
the time come when our laws shall
be made in humanity, reason and Justice
for man and not for money? But there is
light ahead.
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