The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-07-02
COOPERATE
From Past Master VIM. Maxwell.
President of the Southwestern
Co.onpratiVe Association.
orc,rr ST. Louis BRANCH on rur G


Give pleasure, but not profit. Cor
rect theory reduced to practice re
ceives the benefit. The way to do j
IS this: Get your retail cooperative
store. or Joint stock store, or indi.
vidual store to send to this branch
of the South Western Cooperative
Association for furniture enough to
keep in stock for the neighborhood
demand, and we will fill the bill al
manufacturers prices. Best patent
safes, $40 to $500; bed steads
from $50 to as high as they are
fine. Few people in the country
buy them of finer quality than the
factory furnishes at $500, and they
will pay from 5000 to SII.oo for it
if they get it in the retail trade, or
they pay S. for one that cost $3.25.
There are some who buy one at
from $40 to $50, on such the differ
ence between the factory price and
the retail priceis even greater than
on the more common and less snowy
furniture. We can fun nish individ
uals, but it saves in freight to make
larger orders. If you want shoes,
we car furnish them at manufac-
turers' prices. The masses of the
people, as a rule, never buy shoes
that the manufacturer gets more
than $I2 to $50 a dozen for. The
masses do not get them at those
prices. Think for yourselves what
you do pay for them! and count the
difference, see if it is worth while
to do it!
Ifyou want pork we can send it
o-day at $I7; if bacon sides, we
can furnish it at % cents.
IF you want wagons we can fur.
nish them at from $4I to $62. Who
else does it?
1t is unnecessary to go on with
the whole catalogue of merchan-
disc; and it is unnecessary for
you to wait and enquire, at the ex-
pense of time and postage, of this
a business established for the peo-
pie and by the people, if we can
furnish this or that; and if we
can furnish it in this or that guam
tity, large or small And don't ask
US to send and 1--WE will remit on
receipt of goods" but send your
money with the order, by postoffice
order, express or draft. 1t is less
expense to you and is every way
safe, and it keeps up the business,
no article is sent from here that the
money is not paid when we receive
it,-so then the Association is out
of the use of the money till yours
would get here for the goods sent
you; and that at a cost of 10 per
cent. per annum to the Association,
hence the Association must keep it
turning or it can not pay that inter
est; and you would no doubt every
one complain were the Association
to add 10 per cent. to your bill sent
without the money. We are not
lacking for money to run the bust
ness, but the money can't pay for
itself when invested for your &C
commodation without pay for it.
Besides co operation can run
successfully only on a cash basis.
The benefit of cooperation is in
buying things at these prices, at the
manufacturers prices where it is
possible, and this system makes it
possible.
The merchants would all do it if
they could. But generally they have
to buy from johbers, and the job
bers' prices are higher than the
manufacturers. prices. l..E
Consider what you are doing.
When you get this information go
with the paper and show it to your
dealer in your neighborhood, and
he will tell you it is false, or he will,
II a little more respectful and will
ing to admit that other men can tell
the truth, propose to furnish you at
the prices given, if he thinks that
you are disposed to send your
money away. If you believe him,
rather than this writer, or accept his
proposition, you only, so far as your
individual action goes, destroy the
possibility of perpetuating this sys-
TEN. As soon as you break up the
system the possibilities of its ben
ehts vanish forever. And it is in.
ulVidual acts of which the world
acts are made up. And the man
VIII Justify himself by saying, if he
DON'T do it somebody else will. Il
every one waits to let somebody else
establish this system of benefits il
VIII never be done. The responsi
olIlty for its failure, if it fails, is upor
You. Yes, you!
Inc greatest benefits come of es
taolshlng your retail cooperative
stores. Give it plenty Of money tc
ouy IN quantity every article needed
IN ITS stock, and then every one il
reach go there and buy at retail
prices what is needed and pay retail
prices for it, and pay the cash al
you go, and at fixed periods return
the profits all to the customers
every cent of it. Otherwise you
must buy here or from other mer
0hants m your reach, and buy th'
same articles and at retail price
from him, and more OF them will
SELL as a rule, without a profit; ant
ti'e one you buy from will keel
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