The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-06-04


servient to the well,b,ing Of its
possesSor.
N minute knowledge of the vari.
Gus channels Or Hands tbronob
which articles pass from the fac.
tory ~ the consumer will serve to
show the d ife ence between the
manufacture Prise and tn price
the CONSUMER pays, sul The fea.on
OF that difference, and heio solve
the problem of how that price to
the consumer can be brought below
what it is by CO. cooperating.
In COMMERCIAL circles there is
what is called '.jobber," known
more commonly by the name of
wholesale merchant" The manu-
facturerS are compelled to dispose of
their manufactured articles TO get
the money in them to run the fac
tory. The general consumers of
the world declined or never organ
lied to bulk orders and send to the
factory to bly, direct and distribute
for themselves what each wanted.
The manufacturers did not have
money enough to ship the goods to
the vatieus neighborhoods where
they are constituted aid await the
slow process of distributing them.
Hence to get money out of the arti-
cles the goods are deposited in the
great centers in the nadds of either
brokers, or jobbers,-both plans are
practiced. They furnish the factory
motley to run the machinery.
The factory obllgates to let no
other party have the same goods in
certain bounds of that broker, agent
or whatever name he is known by.
This is a necessity, to enable the
man who takes the articles in large
quantities to make money, IN con-
slderation Of the fact he furnishes
the factory money to run OH. Hence
| the reason that the factories decline
to let other merchants or individuals
have certain. implements, fertilizers,
machinery, wagons, boots and shoes,
prints and domestics; and always
refer an applicant to that local man
! for prices and for articles. And
the only remedy in such locality is
to select some other factory to deal
with which is making the same line
of goods that agent has, but of a
| different factory, and seek till a
factory is found who has no agency
established within your bounds.
And some of you, or all combined
| as individuals or as retail merchants,
can get from the other factory 1t
factory prices if you will agree to
| continue to take the goods as the
! factory makes them or as you need
them, and agree not to quit his
| goods as long as he makes or can
supply your demands. That is what
agents have to agree to before they
can get the exclusive control of an
article in certain bounds. Some
! shreWd retail merchants from some
| GOWNS make similar contracts with
certain factories in shoes and other
lines of goods, and have a brand of
heir own selection put on the shoe
n other article so no one else can
| ind where he gets it 1t becomes
popular brand end he makes a
big run on it. The maker obligates
| himself to let no one else know
where that brand comes from; and
more not to let any one else have
the article with that brand, and
gives the merchant the article at
low figures on the condition that he
will not sell any other shoe but that.
| Other merchants in that town may
| get the same shoe from the same
factory, but not the same brand nor
at the same low price; and sharp
as many conceive their judgment
to be they can not adjudge two
shoes of different brands to be the
same shoe. This IS some of the
peculiarly of trade Such are the
facts in all competitive business, and
all the profits in it accrue to those
who secure the custom to the goods
they handle.
Cooperation, which is now m ede
possible in St. Louis and New Or
leans and some of the other great
centers as we'll as in very many
localities and towns throughout the
country, offers a remedy not for the
system of business, for that is well
devised and successfully executed
by the many shrewd and successful
and good men in business operating
capital and conducting business on
the idea of money for self.
The change offered by co-opera-
ton is to give the profits in the bu-
siness to the customers, and inviting
every body who will to become
customers.
Place men to do business for the
customers wherever they need to
have business done.
PAY the expenses of the business,
which is no more than when the
business is done by some other man
set up for himself Let him become
the agent to do business and let
him take the place of the present
self const tuted agents of factories,
or retail merchants; let him.contract
with the factory; or, as retail man
in neighborhood, buy as nearly
from first han as any other retail
man can do Then sell, like others
at profit, and the co operative
man in the center, furnish at a