The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-12-25
COOPERATION.
Letter from Past Master VIM.
slaxwelI, as the Tennessee state
Grange.

ton HAS brought the writer lhto TIE
office of the Southwestern co oper-
alive Association at 4S Carondelet
street. In this office there is evil |
dence of an increasing interest in
Cooperation. The business is
larger to date than that of any pre-
vious year. Most all the letters, in
response to business, express very
gratifying results to Customers.
Friends. make the business large,
it is your interest to do 50. When
we say friends, we include every
body Bow no longer TO money.
1t seems you have allowed others
to think and to charge at their dis
cretion, and to keep what they |
charge. What they charge be-
comes the salary OF wages you pay |
them for the labor performed for
you; what those wages shall be, is |
a matter about which you are never
consulted. L is to all intents and
purposes a one-sided contract.
though the worlds axiom is, it takes
two to make bargain. Shall com
mercial business, in which YOU are
interested form the exception?
None of YOU who have need to en-
ploy labor GLOW it to make the con
tract and charge what it may see
proper-should money be allowed
special privilege? If it chooses to
charge YOU $I2 or $24 for the bread
and meat that costs but IS you have
no remedy in your individual ca
pacity; such becomes II e wages of
capital.
The land owners, because they
submit to be the servants of money,
are loosing their lands, and fast be
coming the tenantry of their former
homes, or going to other parts,-
going West" to Kill their feelings
of modification, at that changed con
dition, and when they get west they
want to get further west. He loses
what labor be once had because he
lets capital charge his labor 100 to
800 per cent. for the necessaries Of
life.
What matter is # to YOU. If you
pay S per bale more for your cotton
at home than You would get in the
city if you pay at home $23 for
goods that cost but $40: And who
of You do any better, except it be
when you persist in a determination
TO ship your cotton or to send to
your CO operative commission house
in the city for your supplies, or to
buy from your retail CO operative
store at home?
Some landowners say, my part
of the crop is in the bale with nv
tenants. Their merchant pays them
a high price for their cotton. and ]
get the same price for mine And.
| therefore, | had better let it go that
way than to buy their part and ship
it all. True, the merchant has sold
the fenants their supplies at large
profits, and the tenant very often
: can't pay out; and often he becomes
dissatisfied and leaves, and | am
often troubled to get tenants again
| know that kills the goose, but
how can | help it,"
Do Ike many could be named
Make arrangements to supply your
labor at reasonable per cent on
their supplies. Secure yourself, for
them, as the tenants merchant does
You are safe in your rents as well
as for supplies, and the labor is CON
tented.
Some neighborhoods have COM
bined their capital till they have
enough to buy in the wholesale
market, through /. |. Carver, Gen
eral Manager Of the southwestern
Cooperative Association, from time
to time as they need, and thev, be
ing acquainted with the condition
of the people at home and where
they can look after that interest,
take securities for supplies furnish
ed at retail and give the labor the
profits on their purchases.
Again, individuals who are mem
hers of retail cooperative stores
| have money which they loan to
other members at the usual interest.
take securities satisfactory to them,
and deposit that loaned money in
the store to the credit of the one to
whom it is loaned, and he takes il
. up in goods, as he needs them, dur
ing the year. 1t may become at any
time a part of the purchasing funds
t of the store if necessary to supply
demands.
r Send T. J. Carver 10000 bales
: | before the season is over, and the
r dividends will be astonishing. There
7 must be business to be dividends.
It takes certain amount of bust
ness to pay expenses. Therefore
there can not be dividends till ex-
! penses are paid-every customer
therefore becomes an interested
:, drummer. The more the business
: the more dividends.
Some have said, III bet Carve1
gets a rebate or discount on the OF
Il ders sent him"
II Who says this? Business mer
E say it. Why DO they say it? Be
e cause they know when a frienC
a sends an order by them to the cit,
II that they get rebate. That is al
$ so. But do they give their frien,
the benefit of the rebate: Never
!, Who is benefited by that rebate
d The merchant to whom YOU CAV
IS the order. Who is benefited whel
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