The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-29
THE ENGLISH AND AMERlCA1H
WORKINGMEN AND CO-or E
DA TIVE LABOR

life.long friend of the work1ngmen OF NO
country. who opened the Cooper oii,on
lecture season on Saturday evening" na'
been spending some weeks III 1Alne .Ia
and observing our own WoIklhs PG;f +
While he was watching them with d
friendly prejudice, his experience ana
1ono habits of trained and keen ooserVa-
ton have prevented him from beIng oe
ce;ved bv surface appearances. ms III
o,;r;es have not been made hastlly, OUT ,
q,.,;th every facility at hand for securing !
exsct information. With all these facts
:, ,,;aw the favorable results OF extenoeo
+royal cannot fail to be hattering to every
| American and to every workinglnan III
the country, whether native or 1oreisll
horn His work here has been largely
connected with possible cooperative EN-
ioration from England, and consequent
10 c.nnot fail to be of as much importance
- An,ar;ca as if is to the industrious far
,,oars and laborers of England who are
DESTROYS of adopting some intelligent
means of improving their own condltloh
and the condition of their class.
Mr.. Holyoake's work has been that OF
lifetime. and he was identified with the
first of the English cooperative societies'
whose work has since proved SO success
ell He has always been Liberal IN his
, v;ews. though a Conservative among MS
: Radical friends, and although the views
/ which he advocated quarter OF cen.u.
t nv ago were regarded as so extreme ina,
he suffered the penalty OF imprisonment
in York Castle for blasphemy, inc SAM
Y views are now, not unfrequently adVoca-
n fed even from the pulpit. The times nave
il cbanoed and not the advocate, ana peo-
: ME of all classes have been educated IN
S opinions that not long ago were CONSIDER.
ed extreme. Although never member
n of Parliament, he has been constant at
IF tendant on IFS sttings and constant ad-
d wiser with it's Liberal members. At one
v fine he did 1t miss session ct the House
n Of Common, for eight years and 1t was
N said of him, laughingly, that without his
IS presence the House would be unable to
l. organize.
i Il have been more forcibly struck du-
or ring nv visit to America" he said IN con-
ut versation day, s'by the bright, energetic,
Id self-reliance and intelligence OF the people
ur of all classes than by any other one thing
Ill T will admit that their selt-rellance is OF
n, fen AGGRESSIVE and to some people often
y, sive. but it is fault OH the right side and
e I like the symptoms. 1t is sign of sue
n. cessful people-of working, confident
let people. Where it is wanting the sign is
n a bad one, and the people are wanting IN
CHI that prime essential-the ability to help
ny themselves | have been surprised, too,
ne at the extent to which the people are IN
nd formed and the way in which they read
ng and think, although do not know that
nd should be. Cooperation is an old story
he now with us in England and one thor
rth oughly we'll understood. l had supposed
nd that little was known of it here, but find
IN that it is both understood and its merits
ills appreciated, and so far advanced are the
4l,o the CnhIRcf that
les have been asked not a few question:
ose which | have found it puzzling and diff
the cult to answer. | have scarcely been IN {
our city where I have not been asked to speak
er- and so general has been the interest tina
nd [ have often been requested to dehve
nd addresses in the churches The characte
the and quality of the audiences has been re
ice markable. and the number of ladies wht
the have been present and who seemed to fee
ng a direct interest has astonished me. have
of met young girls here in their teens who
md displayed an intelligent interest in matter
nes of social economy, of which Englis
da, women know nothing and in which the
md feel no interest"
the "Do American operatives seem to b
ial- better off than English operatives?"
md Undoubtedly. They are better fec
of better clothed, live in different atmos
ON phere have different bearing, are bette
and educated, earn more money, and are IN
ang telligent and ambitious enough to spen
'are some portions of their earning in bette
any places than beer houses.Io the America
,ry- mechanic all things are possible, and h
is ambitious to be better than he is, an
ays shows natural pride in himself and HI
mes family and his surroundings. The Englis
we workman has never been able to see whs
and were the possibilities of improvement, an
any his only desire is to get along as comfo
ess tably as possible, and to have none
tied enough to spend good portion of h
ded time in the public house. He has nevt
are been taught to read and think, or to kno'
that there is something better in store fl
our him. He has lived as his father did befol
ear him, worked for somebody else and NJ
of for himself and been slave to the Ian
anne He could save nothing, and has seldo
here tried to-
''set "Where have you been and what ha,
find you seen9
.reat II first went East to Boston and SON
here intermediate points, and then throue
S of New York to Canada, and so West to s
Louis and Kansas City, making sho
lam carriage trip in Kansas, SO as to see som
sent thing of the farming interests of tn
sion; country. l had intended to go throug
1ded Alabama and some portions of the Sout
look but prudent regard tor the yellow few
the prevented me from carrying out that pa
Sis of my plans. saw the Republican co
very vention at Saratoga, and desired is see I'll
lison Democratic meeting at Syracuse, but w
high unable to do so. The experience w
TEEN something new to me- and l was surpris,
tern at the high character of the represent
ehalf tlves. There was evidence enough hoy
theirs ever, that all the proceedings of the CO
you. vention were prea1ranged, which detrae
ed to some extent from the interest. | sa
anoe Niagara, and found that il grew upon n