The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-22

| the prejudice of our goods we bound our.
selves ta4declare tito the purehaser.uaWe.
did more-we said that we would sell pure
food, and in order to- be.enabled to do this
we had to train buyers and even to buy
them, for to be able to buy food with
judgment is a gift of nature. Such experts
have priceless faculty. Our buyers go
| into Scotland, Ireland, Holland-all over
Europe. They come to this country; we
have one in this city, we have them in va
rious parts of America, and we have two
vessels constantly coming to this country
and carrying away the produce we pur-
chase. We have spent heap of money
in experimenting upon the opening of the
! mouth of the river at New Orleans, so
that -we9can strike the produce of the
Mississippi, and by that road convey it to
England, and we are prepared to spend
millions on it if we see success as back
ground to our efforts. We commenced in
a small, miserable den-our object was to
supply means for ourselves only, but that
the state of things in which the man hir-
ing himself for labor should be done away
with and he should become his own en-
ployer.1 To-day, we come into the mar
kets of the world with twenty-five mill
lOuo VI ICddy IIlOHC1, anu ldhC iiO AiCoit,
| and want none 1 would say great deal
more to you," added Mr.. Holyoake, 'but
your space is limited and so is my time.
\ on sec what cooperation has already
done: and depend upon it, the principle
of cooperation as extended to COLOMBIA
| ton is bound to prove an immediate and
an abiding success.
AS | was about to take my leave. zone
| word more" said Mr.. Holyoake, ''on the
moral effects of cooperation. You may
preach and you may pray, but you will
not have moral people while you have
starving people. We have done this:
we have supplied ordinary wants in SUBJ
stantial way, and have increased the earn
ings of the people by putting into their
hands money making scheme. And we
have given these people more than money,
my dear sir, we have given them charac-
ter. We have made them more honest,
and we have made them open their eyes
to the fact that the best policy is to pay"
"What are your estimated profits?"
ave make ten per cent. profit upon
every pound sterling expended by mem
bers of the store. The money is saved for
him. At the end of the first year he re-
ceives is, or $25; at the end of the second
year fIo, or $50. For the first is we give
him five per cent, so that at the end of
the second year he has fIo and 10 shil-
lings interest, and so on. A man by this
system actually acquires the art of saving,
and there are instances of men coming
into our society who have begun on the
expenditure of three pence. The best of
the system is-and / made them laugh at
the Cooper Institute the other night when
| stated that-the larger mans family
the more he saves, because he spends more
in the store"
"Do the savings of some accumulate to
any considerable amount?"
eyes; we have frequently to tell man
to take his savings out on account of their
having grown so large. At the Rochdale
store, for instance, we advised the men,
bers, as we could not afford to pay more
than FIVE per cent. for the money, to take
it out and invest it in something paying a
higher rate of interest"
'What do political economists say?'
"They may say what they like of the
scheme, but they have nothing to offer
that is in any way equal to it. Your po-
| litical economists say that if a man buys
| for tenpence that for which he ought to
pay shilling, he can save the twopence
himself He can, my dear sir, but he
doesn't! By the innovation we brought
out, ne save the money, and he needn't
exert himself in the least, in fact he is
getting rich while he takes his forty
| winks." ..-
"John Bright is one of the approvers of
| this cooperative movement"
ayes; he resides in Rochdale, the little
town where our store is, and he saw it
grow under his own eyes. In the House
of Commons he has bestowed upon it the
noblest eulogy. That little Rochdale store
has grown to such an extent that we get
$4,000 a year profit from it, and of this
half per cent. is devoted to education.
We have library which the hall of the
Cooper Union would not hold and the
printing of our catalogue of books cost
us not long ago no less than $4,000. Now
we are growing every year, and we would
have extended our operations to America,
but you are to opulent too need any help
of the kind" @ e
| After charming eulogy on the coun-
try, its climate, and its glorious sunlight,
the interview with Mr. Holyoake ended.
THE "NEW PROCESS" OF MAN
UFACTURING COTTON.