New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-27

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State, to our homes. We see in your visit re
ciprocal advantages to you and to ourselves
We will answer truly all your questions
that you may adopt no wrong impressions
OF our country its condition We beg yol
to 60 among our merchants, our mechanics
our planters and our laborers. We ask yor
to note the peace which pervades our coun
try, and the regularity which inspires on,
industry. You can then report to your con
stituents your Impressions. We will show
you that our ocean voyage is safer than any
other; that our country offers winter har
vest in which the immigrant will find EN-
ploynuent, so that if he intends to locate
himself in the upper West. his most econ
omlcal plan will be to aid US with his labo:
IN our cotton harvest rather than incur the
lnactiOn and expense Of winter in the
northern 1atitudes.
Again, in the name of the people Of Lou
isana and the citizens OF New Orleans, W
bid you welcome, and tender you all the
aid in your mission which it is in our power
to command.
DR.. Rutherford. in behalf of the Euglisf
delegation, replied as follows:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen-i thank
you for the very cordial welcome yon have
given us to your famed city, and have
70 thank you for the very instructive and
interesting address which has just beer
read, putting before us, very fully, some
facts which we. have to investigates. We
are here as the representatives of the CO.
operative societies OF the United King lom
Those societies have sprung out Of deeply
felt wants among the people; indeed. some
times out OF their sOrrOws and difficulties.
The number of eo.Operatcrs in the United
Kingdom is about 100000. but you must re-
member that each one represents whole
family, so that we have between 1900, 900
and 100000 of people represented in onr
cooperative congress. These people are
striving to solve come great problems that
lie at the foundation of society-sOme of
those problems that can only be solved by
peaceable, quiet Industry, thrift and sell.
sacrifice in the correlation of man to man.
The whole process, as presented in our
stores, is a very simple one; it is that of
dealing upon cash principles. A co-opera-
tor departs from the principles of his faith
when he takes anything on credit, and
think it will be an advantage to the Coop
erative societies Of Great Britain and the
people of the Mississippi valley, that these
principles should be adopted in their trade
relations. There are other principles to
which we always adhere-one of which is
never to have any adulterated articles,
neither to buy nor sell such. We have
wants that you in the Mississippi valley can
supply better than any one else on the face
Of the earth, and as We can furnish many
commodities which you require, better than
any good reason why mutually profitable
trade relations should not be established
between US.
The dUctrine of carrying our own goods
in our own ships is an old doctrine which
has been regarded as dream Of those len
who laid the foundation of the cooperative
They saw in it something to
cheaper the wants of their families and to
bind them to their fellows.
There is a word which awakens echoes on
this as well as on the other side of the At
lantic-the word independence" There is
another word that as co-operators is not
We can not do without each
other; we are mutually related, and will
best succeed when we work well together.
We shall be told in our own country that
this direct trade which is proposed between
the cooperative societies aud the Mssis-
sippi valley is a matter that has occupied
the minds of the commercial community on
both sides OF the Atlantic for many years,
and that if it were profitable it would have
been carved out before. We know that
almost all the trade between England and
United States goes from tie great cities on
your Eastern seaboard, principally from
New York. 1t may be that this is in order
that the goods may be delivered very
promptly, or it may be- because you have
not provided the necessary warehouses and
the railroad connection to the river that is
necessary to ths trade.
The Mississippi Valley Trade Company is
the outcome OF our principles. We have
wants that you can supply, and it is for you
to investigate whether We can supply your
wants and build up a. trade prof table to
you and not less SO TO ourselves.
Out of the small beginnings of the CO.
operative societies in England we have q
is to say the capital used in
that trade is something like $l5, 900 600; the
turn over per annnm Is something like $75,-
boo, 600 to O,0OO, 900, and tho amount Of
money that is annually dispensed in profits
ls about S2, $50 600. My friend on my right.
MIR: Thomas, represents very prosperous
society in the to Hn Of Leeds-the Leeds
fadustrial Co operative Society," society
that is distinguishe not only by its i'm
mense trade but by the broad principles
which govern it. We always contend that
our success depends upon the principles of
and education as much as upon
been enabled to pass the Oxford and Cam
bridge examinations through tho aid Of tho
society.
These societies are no doubt . great
money power; there is great capital at their
Jack, and, what is better than capital, their
willingness to push their principles to their
legitimate consequences, to do away with
everything that stands between the pro-
iucer and the consumer, and to bring those
wO great forces into intimate correlation
Ind sympathy.
DR.. Rutherford, in closing, expressed his
urprise at the almost boundless extent Of
lands which he had seen on
'is journey from New York, and in refer
ing to the mining interests Of the country,
aid that he hoped they would be promoted
y the scheme he had the honor to sepre-
ent.
In the evening the delegation was visited
y deputatlon Of Orleans Grange No. 53,
ompoeed of IIessrs. S.oddard Howell,
master; s. NJ. Wiggin, secretary; William
|. Shropshire, George Nicholson, J. P.
mith and NICK. Gibson.
The ofice Of 4. H. May was visited, eAd
he following programme was arranged:
his morning tho Cotton Exchange, ele-
atof and oil mills will be visited. In the
vening tho fire department will be in
pected, Hon. I. N. Marks exposing it to
lew. Wednesday the ietties will be visited
nd several rico plantations taken in ON
he way. Thursday the party will return.
'riday morning the docks will be examined,
nd in the afternoon the slaughterhousea.
aturday is undisposed of.
Coure items.
In the Superior Criminal Court the bonds
, the case against members Of the hoard
liquidation have been signed, a. follows: