The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-11-05
COOPERATION
COOPERATE
From Past Master VIM. MaxweIl
Manager OF the st. Louis Rraneh
OF the southwestern CO-opera-
tive Association.

49, AOOAS, OCt. 40.
Edttor Parton. Inundation and
connagratIen no more surely de-
stroys than consumption. Iii only
a difference in the time.
But no more surely do thew re-
duce their victims to state of
weakness ard finally to helpless
ness, physically, than docs the retail
gain system of the world reduce It's
customers to dependence financially.
The love of gain drives on with
as little mercy as to be expected
from the flames.
lie individual who buys an arti.
Gle for IS cents and sells it for ST.
seems to gain applause, he streng-
thens while. his victums This Gus
TONER'S, weaken. The one is es-
teemed for his success; the other
may be pittied, and it is said of him
consumption is slowly but surely
doing its work upon him." See
him, poor fellow, how he weakens
as he goes and comes; he went out
with dollar and he returns weak
ened. And 0, Why! What can be
the matter with him? He is indus
trious; he is honest; he is not ex-
travagant, and his family are as nice
as can be and they do all that they
can to save and to help him, but n
spite of all this he is weakening,
and it is apparently contagious. See,
every body around here have a de-
jected look, they say that they are
not as strong and vigorous as they
would like; they say that they had
their usual strength through the
fore part of the season, but at the
close they find hardly strength
enough to stand alone.
Well, what is the matter?
81 am sure | don't know. NY
merchant says money is plenty; he
told me yesterday he would be able
to buy his entire stock this time for
cash, and l don't know why it is, |
havn't got any; 7 had enough to
pay him what [ owed him, but ]
have none to help me over another
season and I told him so, and told
him that | did not know what |
was to do. I told him he had
plenty and l would have to depend
on him"
90 well, he said, that is all right.
L have plenty of money" said he,
lust as matter of form you exc
cute a deed of trust on your crop
you are going to make to me and
to keep any one from troubling you
just include in it your stock and i'm
plements, in fact you had better, to
save trouble, include your wife's
household goods and poultry. No
telling, some unprincipled fellow
might want to take them for some
old claim he might rake up, and
when it is all included you are in
no danger of any other one troub-
ling it.''
BY the end of next year the poor
consumer is ready to "go West" if
modification has not carried him to
the tomb.
There is desolation and mourning
in the land, an inquiring is institu-
ted to find the cause and a remedy.
1t is found TO be consumption, con-
umption of the lion S share of labor,
paying 81 for an article that cost
Is cents, or perhaps cost as much
as Is or SO cents. The inquiries of
the people brought them to that
knowledge. In the Grange mainly
was this inquiry instituted, but it
was not confined there. After they
began the investigation it spread
and most all assemblages of people
inquired into the system of bust
ness and it is found by all that the
business system is at fault, so far as
the interest of the producers of
wealth is interested. This system,
though it was inherited from the
days of the father of history, is in
deed as a consuming fire, or con-
sumption that renders its victims
helpless and powerless so far as
wealth to them is concerned, yet
remedy is found possible. And
while the Grange did not originate
the system they found it, and it is
through them that its value and
certainty as a cure for the consprn-
ing monster has been almost uni
versally taught and by many of its
members taking the remedy them
selves they are fast establishing its
all sufficiencv. The remedy is CO.
obeyatiOn in business. But it is only
those who take it that are cured. 1t
is found that it is business not pro
duction which decentralization
produces and that which is produced
pays the expense of the business out
of itself, and it pays the profits in
business as we'll as the expense aud
the original cost of all the producer
consumes. And the business sys-
tenn of the world practiced and i'm
proved upon from age to age by
industrious, energetic and deter
mined men devoting one life after
another of father and son and sons
son to practicing and improving
and finally by associated or co
operative effort in Boards of Trade
of as many business men as Will
meeting and working in concert
with the combined wisdom, expert
ence and associated effort and asso
ciated capital if necessary to "Bull
or Bear" there is established sys-