The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1880-10-09
COOPERATION.
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Letter from Past Master VIM
Maxwell, OF the Tennessee Stat

Eaii9T Pq 1:l,9 ,:-!Eib5gi st Of s SAP
temPer, 1882, WALL be marked as al
day Of the beginning IF pr,pgrffss
and, of ihdepenqenfe, Of thought
and action in Madison county, Ten H.
On that day. were assembled IN
Temperance Hall at Jackson, men 2, ] Of
thought, of progress, WHO feel bur :
deps and desire an equitable and
honorable relief from them, Some
we're there of their in diYiid 1.i eellqd =
ton, and others by appointment as
committee, men appointed by Gran =
ges to collect and c9llate informa.
ton on co-operation If, business.
T. 7, Carver, General Manager Of.
the SonthWe sterp, Co-operatiYe AS
ISOLATION, was there by appointtn ent
and soIii,c7i!tat.ioq l4H Il. im J.? r.
those present, and they were there
from all parts of the County, with
the necessity Of Something, Being
done BY the Industrial. Wealth pro
ducing CLASSES: and that, pot in a.
spirit Of antagonism nor OUT of spite,
nor nor from ENVY nor Of covetousnes$,
But of necessity; neither must there
be any communism nor any spirit of
it in What is done 1t is only that
help may be reendered to The Helpless
offspring Of tie Industrial Glasses,
and that the rich Shall no longer
grow richer T out Of THE labor Of the
| poor, and the poor grow poorer and
Bro! Carver pteeSehted GO GO, opera
ton, and showed its Beautiful theory
for the relief Of The Industrial GLASSES,
and addicted the results, as SHOW b.
| by'its p,raactiGa1 Workings in England
for 81 early forty years, and its practi-I
cal WORKINGS in Am'erica, though
! less i III extent but no less. satisfactory,
/ in proof of the theory. :" go 49,, '''''
IT, The writer of this was there by
REQUEST, and made some stdternehts
reafhed by otganiziHg Co OPERATIVE
| Associations, to Show how the the
'ory presented By Bro. Carver .cah be
REDUCED 70 practice, and gave Som
ILLUSTRATIONS, learRed by obsefVations
upon theft PRACTICAL workings,
showing w'diffitulties or hihdef
ancestral occur IN practice may be
obviated, OF that what Seem at first
to be hinderances are In fact a
real help when properly understood.
To start d cooperative business,
it is only necessary for a 'eoi11r11unl-
stV to resolve, each for himself or her
self, that 81 want and am deter
/ filmed to have business'tiat I can
call my own; WhenI buy an article
from which the profit on it may be
my own. And l am not Only will
ing but desirotis fot all who Will to
be associated With me in the bust
nessnori the same ctJhtfitzons and fof
the same reasons, that is, that each
I one, like myself may have the prot
! its on. what each may buy, and thai
no one may .hayeito payial therex
4 .penses of the BUSINESS norhaVe al
!, the profits of THE business agrowThs
out, Of fHe custom Of the neigh Il b93r
: hood collectively, r..,o e.d,i.tj,r., l.,
q Let each resolve to- pay tore,tht
number of shares" for which ae %
she subsctibes, az share being SIS, 'fd
the purpose Of easstabiis hing and c9Inl
tducting a retail co. operative. buslnefs
in, dry goods, groceries and genefa
merchandise at some suitable POM
t rto'be con Quoted" on the lRochd :
! plan. tet any one WIS feels an IN
! terest in ,th,e matter and is detet
: mined to strike. for. sindepepdenc q
? +aLe naner with heading contain
Jog the labqYf, points, 81 and Present
e fol, SIGNATURES to ANN am and ,e1ysa fye 9n
3 in reach, of the Place WhQ can p
come customers. to a gwen iqcalll,ll
e but do not take it to any one Wn
i cannot OF. will not ,iPecGfme cupssto1