Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1877-01-18
NATIONAL GRANGE CoNVENTI0N-ITs
ACTION ON COOPERATION.
CONTINUED from last week. ]

tween companies already formed. But tnl>
would be more like individual effort thar
cooperation. 1t wonld entail numerous
separate transactions, and very much COM
plicate matters, as a glance into its details
at once reveals.
One company on your side. and an entirely
distinct one on ours, would be an improve
ment on the direct trade of numerous in
dividual companies. But this arrangement
would leave us almost as much at the mer-
cy of certain interested and not over friend
ly parties as we have been in the past.
A single cooperative company, like the
Anglo-American, as now proposed, by weld
inc together the strength Of co-operators
in our two friendly nations, recommends
itself above every other plan, from file fol-
lowing advantages: /. It best unites the
three elements CT successful trade, namely.
confidence, combination and influence. 2.
It simplifies transactions and diminishes ex-
penses. 3. 1t secures safest and most eco
nomic transfer from shore to shore and be
yond. 4. AS societies would share all prof
its in proportion to their stock ana trade III
the international company, it would be more
lucrative 20 them than Il separate trade to
the same extent, for their expenses would
be less. 5. The risks of loss are better dis
tributed. 6. 1t can best prevent conflicts
i'll different branches of our trade. z. L
promises, in every way, not only more UNI
ty of action, bat Il more uniform and fuller
development of every part of the business.
Nor does it threaten to become q power
full and dangerous monopoly. For not only
will the numerous branch companies TAX
ing stock in it share its profits, and thus di-
vide its strength, but by their right to..with
draw from its support they can always checl
any tendency to faulty or tyrranical man
agement. 1t will only serve as a val
liable corrective to any hurtful irregularitie:
Of trade.
The whole plan is intended to fully ex
emplify the admirable motto already Sc
lected for the %company's seal Aqai5N
justitia, cuiquc snune - or, in plain English
"Justic for i'll, to each one his own"
There is a grave fact connected with thi
whole matter, OF which our members should
never lose sight in judging or acting upon it
When our worthy master, with the approx
al Of the executive committees concluded
thatthe interests Of order would be serv
ed by sending Our commissioners to En-
gland and for some time before the scheme
for direct trade, as presented by DR.. Worral
and his co-Workgrs through their organize,
ton, called the Amerieas. Cooperative Uniol
at Louisville, Ky.-an organization based
no doubt, on sound principles, but formed
in spite of and antagonistic to the wishes 0
Our grange leaders, and really against the
interests of our orler-was attracting great
attention and likely 10 receive the support o
a large number Of our members.
Every inducement was offered orr mem
bers to make them disregard their iealt,
to our own constituted authorities, and tt
secure their support Of this organization
outside of our order. Many, unaware of it
real a%ntagonisin, We're corresponding ant
actually preparing to unite with it, unit
warned by our worthy master and execu
tive committee to desist.
Be it said, to the credit of our members
generally. the great mass OF them, When thu
cautioned, let that really uniriendly scheme
Of DR.. Worralrs alone.
But, observe we'll, they did so only for
time-only because they were promised ant
expected something better.
But the hearty manner in which they &C
cepted the plan, crude and defective as i
then Was, proved how earnestly they wish
and are determined to have. direct trade il
some form with our English friends. Il