The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-04-16
COOPER
Letter from Past Master VIM
Maxwell, of the Tennessee State


OFFICE S. w. COOPERATIVE Assn.
NEW ORLEANS, April +.
HISTORY OF A COTTON BALE IN
MARKET AND ITS RESULTS CON
TINUED INTO THE CONSIDERA-
TION OF WHOLESALE HOUSES, AS
WELL AS RETAIL.
Editor Patron. Why hesitate, do
it at once, pay yourselves 10 per
cent interest on the capital stock in
the business, and put in all the
money needed for your wholesale
business and you will see it is what
the noted Thos. Hughes of England
has we'll said, sit is new creation"
creating an income to you who
patronize it, without any care,
thought or trouble on your part
only start it and give your custom.
Now see here, bought this day
articles from a wholesale house for
cents that | never bought at retail
in the country for less than 10 cents.
Though I bought it at that price
the wholesale man made profit on
it. Now if you had the money asso
ciated here and in St. Louis and
wholesale stores of your own in
which that bill had been filled the
present wholesale mans profit
would have been an income to you
who sent the bill.
Then in every neighborhood as
sociate enough money, some from
every one in reach, to start a retail
store on the same principle and
every one in reach go to that store
and buy, and pay the usual retail
price for what you buy, the income
or profit in it to be returned to the
one who bought it. In that there
is another creation; SO in this, be-
cause the wants of one alone are
not large enough to get the article
at Wholesale If he were to send it
to the city one mans order for the
article bought this morning would
not get it at cents. And all of a
neighborhood can not come to-
gether every time one wants an ar
ticle that only costs 2 cents; aud
more, all do not want such an article
at the same time Therefore there
is a necessity for a retail store to
buy in quantity and keep all the
articles needed at various and differ
ent times by neighborhood, in
stock, so such can go and buy at
retail when the need comes up.
1t is fact known to everybody
that commerce as now conducted
and as it ever has been conducted
as to that, is constantly creating
wealth to a class who are non-pro
ducers, but merely occupy the place
of exchangers and distributors, al
at the expense of customers.
There is science in CONNIE &c, anC
the application Of it on the cooper
alive plan is the elimination of tina
science to the salvation of the Gus
toners.
Fail to do these things and all thu
planning you can do will neve
make the present system OF bushes
take any less from you than it ha
} always done, nor make it return an,
of what it does take from you. Ant
!, more, you will finally drive T. ]
, Carver and others who have beer
, wing their time and what talen
1ey may have TO helping you star
aud perpetuate business on the co
operative plan through necessit
| to do exactly what other commits
sion men have always done, G
: into business on the competitiv
, plan, and get all the business the
5 can influence and keep all they &c
/ out of it. He and his co-laborer
= have not, or were not, forced int
t this way of doing business for war
7 of ability and means to control an
] influence a business of their owr
!. Nor for the want of offerings t
t them of large salaries. But it WE
e Of choice and upon principle the
j did this. Neither are they now d.
t pendent upon cooperation. But
d has been done in the spirit of mi
e sionaries, teaching as they went. n,
S for the loaves and the fishes.
! And great work has been a
5, complished and thousands in diffe
e ent 10 calities are now the benefic
: aries, because they have acceptt
: and are practicing CO operation, ar
1t is still spreading and new plac