The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-12-10

proposed partners is seIec,od
those investing and sent oS ~
goods, and when they come Il, 'f
people all around in reach 90 tb ,ue
and buy, and the new store tre
comes the centre of attraction NJ W
new merchants sell out and :. ue
plenish as fast as the demands -
the people will justify. The penn%
buy and pay a profit on ali tb p'e
buy, besides enough to pay All ~
cost of goods and expenses OF ~, ,p
business. The. profits all 20 To ae
crease the wealth Of the nar,; a.
whose business it is, because ,b"1
are the ones who furnished ~
money for the business, and He
customers reap none of the benas,.
of the increase though they nav :
all. They are not made partDo.
in the business, and it is 90 lv nas,
ers who reap the profits.
Now all there is in co operate,
differing from that joint-staek hn.;
| ness rs IOi SNo'9 oho III reach 0f a
place where business Is conve,i.nr
to invest some money to start ,ho
business, as any Other firm. ara
all become partners in place of tue
or three, and like any other firm
select one of their own number r.
take charge OF the business and
manage it, send him off for good
let him bring them and open m
and then every partner do Jus, Ike
every partner does, when the parl
nership is only two or three, 20 to
that, your own store, and buy eva.
rything you need that the store
has, and if it does not have il have
your own man to send for it; and
more than that, not only buy there
every one OF you but do like the
partners in all partnership business
have always done, solicit every
body else, il there be any who have
not taken stock in it, TO do their
trading there.
You never find the partners of a
business going TO any body else's
store to buy such things as their
, store has in it. And what do tbey
/ care if they pay two dollars for an
, article that cost but a dollar? The
, dollar profit is their own, and comes
! back to them on settlement day.
But if they bought it from some
: other store that dollar profit would
a belong to the other store. Every
. one knows this is common serse;
> and that no other store would ever
9 think or expect TO get the custom
of the partners IN another business
for such articles as their own store
keeps. This is the common sense
way to think of, to speak Of and 70
act in regard to cooperation. Il
, is but another name for some thing,
; another name for partnership ID
= business; it is only Il larger parten-
;. ership than is usual TO be found, for
it contemplates a partnership by s.
=. many as will Of choice become part.
4 ners. Usually partnerships will
y admit bat a very limited number
!! to the partnership, so that the
> profits may not be distributed by
- long division; the few want it. The
70 principle in both is the same-'o
q make money to the partners 10
: the one-that of usual jOint-stock
= partnerships-the spirit is TO make
- it tor the few at the expense of tbt
= many. In the other, cooperation
r is to make money not off of tht
h many for a favored few but to MAXI
,a it by saving it to the many and lie
n the many have it by extending tn
~ membership to as many as WI
a, take mem bership, and then returI
20 to every one of them who trade
N with the firm not the profits
"a other peoples trade, but the prohl
n of his own trade, and in addluc
~ distribute half the profits of all non
,s partners trade among the partner
of besides the profits on the trade
~ every partner, returning the olhe
90 half of the profits TO the non-par
% ener customers, which Is cqn'
III Justice to both parties because u
70 non partners can better AFFORD
he buy from your firm at the san
'as price than he could buy from o'O
H. firms upon condition he is TO &
halt the profits on his trade return
IN ed to him than he could buy ire
49, the other firm at the same PR
~ with none of the profits returhe
or And your firm can better afford
90 give him half his profits than D
na to get his custom, because hall u
profits from the n-partners Gu
tom is often enough, and may
he made enough, to pay ali tbe {
!. penses of the business. ana
that event all the partner cuSIo'
ers get their goods at actual coS'
!. the end; whereas, it their store
co. no custom but that of the parIhts'
nd it would take part of what W
,de paid above the cost for thelr CIV
ms. to defray the expenses OF the W.
ness. Consider not to thine " "
n a but to thy neighbours fortune
of the spirit of the one; that OF n \
other is to consider thine own =
the one obcys the command; the ",
raj is disoheying. Obedience 70
yb, law brings its blessings; disoU, :,
n,v ence a so has reward. lah1 :
the sim pie, plain, common sense ~
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