The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-09-24

w. COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION,
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 20.
Friends to cooperation, / greet
you as friends to yourselves and to
your neighbors, without injustice to
any one and with no determinations
and no robbery of the rich.
The theory of cooperation has
been we'll set forth and defined by
many most excellent writers in Eng
land and America, and to- day it has
many advocates on both continents,
and to be uniformed of its theory
now is about equal to saying, 81
only read papers devoted to party
or monopoly begotten of money and
IN the interest OF money owners or
money getting to the favored and
fortunate few"
But it is not theory alone that
makes success, it is practice Ii is so
in every thing. SO cooperation is
no exception.
The people are practicing it more
than ever before, 30 much so at
these headquarters is it centering
from the Southwest and occasion
ally from the Northwest that we
have no time lately for newspaper
correspondence, While we love to
practice cooperation and serve our
growing patronage, we regret we
can not have time to meet them
weekly in the columns of the peo-
piles own strong and able friend,
The PATRON OF HUsBANDRY.
Let's all heed the admonition and
follow the example Of the Secretary
of the Tennessee State Grange. He
has lived long enough and observed
closely enough to learn what is
right; as a past editor himself, his
opinion of what paper is best suited
to the interest peoples is entitled to
high degree of respect. He says,
by his action and in SO many words,
THE PATRON OF HUsBANDRY is
that paper" and SENDS his dollar and
says, come, do ye also. For one,
am willing to follow an example
so we'll deserving to be followed,
and aid him and his State Grange
in their late and proper resolves to
help on cooperation, to help do
what the National Grange at an
early day saw was necessity to
the success of our Order, so here
goes my dollar in imitation and in
support of the cause, for what sup
ports THE PATRON, and such pa
pers, supports the cause. Rally, all
of you every where TO the support
of your papers and to the supper:
of cooperation. They are your
support, and your only real support
and defenders.
Money with bought papers and
bought writers can show you much
on the other side and much in words
that is we'll calculated to drive you
from any good resolve you may
make to break off and think and
act for yourselves. Not because all
they present to you is correct, but
because it comes so often in the
papers you do take and is said with
so much emphasis by men who are
often we'll paid to say it, that you
would be laughed at were you to
presume to think and act for your
selves. And to be laughed at, or
the fear of it, deters from doing
right more often than many would
be willing to admit. More people
can stand physical pain better than
they can stand against a laugh.
See the barefooted school boy stump
his toenail off-which now nearly
makes YOU faint even to think Of
but his pain is driven entirely away
1T the modification of the hearty
laugh the boys join in at his ex-
pense. That's the part we can't en-
dure
Ifyou undertake cooperation and
make a little mistake somewhere,
as in selecting the wrong man to
attend to your business or by turn
ing out a good man, who is serving
you we'll, to put in some one whom
few friends, with more partlallty
for that friend than for the good OF
the cause, have ' some way worked
up his interest, or an interest tor
him, till your good and tried man
is changed off for that one with the
! few partial friends. This has been
the main and leading cause OF draw
backs in cooperation, where it has
had any draw backs. l say, if you
undertake and make partial fail
ure, how soon you weaken under the
great guffaw of the lockers on? :
Determine in yourselves to do
right and all to act together,
Though the heavens may fall, then
success comes. Acting together IS
cooperation; all act in unison and
act alike; all go to your co-opera-
tive store for what you must have,
and what is not there at the store
send to the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
in the great centers for it, 1t that