The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-07-24


the grangers dismiss, and then We do our
otcr, business. The home is n kingdom-a
little world to every family. II is the
centre Of the universe t. us-not Wash
ington, nor any State capital.
COOPERATION KILLS MONOPOLY.
Let us understand that CO operation
Kills all monopoly Ii is home enterprise.
We want cooperative industry, co-opera-
tive stores, and cooperative voting. The
grange saves the farmers, and all should
therefore come into oranges and lodges.
Dairy factory associations are co-opera-
tive. and when the COWS cooperate, then
all may eat cheap butter and cheese. The
world IS a big monopoly Of kings, lords,
presidents, governors, money, and probes
sions all IL he subdued oy co-oPt ration.
The postal system Is magnificent ex-
ample of universal cooperation, most per
feet and beautiful 4 letter goes &. :
sands ut miles for one cent. ar three cents,
when. If each man carried ms own naiI,
his correspondence would cost a fortune
50 all things are cheapened by co-Opera-
ton.
Banks are cruel mouopolIes. The few
are rich, the many, poor. IL Is not the
wealth of production, So much as manlpu-
lAtlon. But, apply cooperation to finance,
and every workIngman will have plenty OF
work and plenty Of money. such plan
is needed tor the hundreds of thousands
nov unemployed. Every one will cooperate
to eat good vlctuals then why not coop
crate III IdJvr to produce II Every child
would then be fed and clothed, and every
woman dressed to her taste. Learn the
lesson, good brothers and sisters.
Love is operative. Marriage coop
crates the sexes. and equal rights make 1t
happy Nomans ballot will equalize.
Monopoly of wives Is Brigham Younglsm.
Death, death to monopoly Lawyers mon
opolize Ian aud Doctors medicine, and
rob the ignorant masses. The clergy mon
upoIze rehgi III, and live nice and easy, fine
and coy, with very little work CO-opera-
ton viii rectIfy these things. There is no
monopoly IN Heaven all are IN the
grange Aut-monopoly Is the essence of
grange politics and grange Religion
Behold, nov, What mighty revolution
in a single day, as It we're, and that with
out blood Now. instead Of a king, with
his sword, to awe his subjects, We have
thousands of farmers, with the pillow, me
chanics with their tools, and women with
their needle. broom, cook stove and cradle.
each and all armed with the ballot, and
all cooperating The hand that holds the
bread is the power that makes the law.
The farmers granary is his bank, and he
holds the key, and should govern the
transportation Under Potter Jaw, or no
Law, the right belongs to the people the
common people. That is the true de-
muCracy.
Now, It is quite plain, that such discus
sion IS eminently appropriate to the grange,
IN its county councils, and IN the newspa-
per 1t is friendly and brotheriy, and re
duires unchecked and unlimited free
speech. Let it rouse up the sleeping
apathy Of all drudged laborers over the
whole land The idea is strange and alb
surd, that grangers have tied their own
hands or stopped their own mouths, in
any true sense Of politics. The reform
movement Is really both political and re-
liglous, practically and theologically,
only free religion is suited TO the order.
liberation Is freedom.
CBAMPLIN, Minr, July, 1879.