Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-02-04

the whole experience Of the different
Oranges IN the county; and it is
through cooperation through the
Oranges OF tho State that we have
been enabled to get wholesale prices
with the merchants in the cities and
it is through cooperation that brothers
Barnes and Brinker have been enabled
to get "bottom prices" both in buying
our goods and in selling our produce
that is shipped to them and now we
say, stand by them who stand by
you And, as the Irishman said, never
condemn the ship that brought you
safe over, and carried you by the rocks,
shoals and quicksands, and landed you
safe in the harbor Stand by the
houses that have given us terms to
deal with them, and stand by our
agencies If it was not for them, we
would be at the mercy of the travelling
agent and the middleman, charging
at the rate of 200 per cent. for all we
had to buy or sell through cooperation.
We have done away with this class OF
people in our dealings, and we are en-
abled to receive the rebate ourselves
that we used to pay these travelling
"bummers." We have become some
what educated since we Joined the
Grange-so much so as to know that
we must be educated before we know
our rights, and stand up to defend
them so much so as to know what we
want to buy without the aid Of one OF
these travelling robbers TO tell us what
we want.
As an illustration Of cooperation, !
will quote from the history of the
Roehdale system in England, which
has been in operation for number Of
years, and the system from which the
Grange organization originated A
set of men get it into their heads that
if there was so much in the Rochdale
system of cooperation, that through
the Grange the same thing could be
done for it appears that during one
of the great panics in England, the
factory hands in London were so hard
run as to be obliged, after getting the
other necessaries Of life, to only have
money enough left to buy onc-half
an ounce of tea and, as you know,
grocers all charge so much on every
sale they make, be it ever SO small, and
by buying an ounce they could got it
cheaper than they could by the
halfounce; and by getting it by the
fourth OF pound, it was still cheaper.
So by getting enough to cooperate and
buy it by the pound, they were saving
money ana shortly they were enabled
to buy it by the box, at wholesale
prices, and dividedit il out amongst them
selves-buying it at great saving OF
their wages 80 much 80 that they
commenced cooperating in different
ways. Finding that they could make
money in the operation, and saving
what they made, they were still ena-
bed to proceed further at purchasing
and building manufactures. They have
carried on the business 10 such an ex-
tent that to o-day there is over 100000
of them in the business Of cooperation,
and asking the Grangers TO cooperate
with them. and send them their pro.
duce and wo will send you our manu-
factured goods in return.
Now farmers and laborers, organize
in Farmers Clubs, or in Oranges, or
in any way, so that you become organ
lied for without organization it is
impossible to have cooperation
eUnited we stand, but divided we fall"
and then we will be at the mercy Of
everything that is opposed to us. If
every farm is Grange, then why should
not every farmer be Granger, and
blend our united strength in an effort
to save our country from its inevitable
doom, and make our farms to blossom
like the rose.