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


w. COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION,
Sr. Louis, Sept. Al.
Editor Patron: The organizati )n
and setting to work this Branch,
through the heated season and at
tending to the business, has been
a labor OF no small moment and one
not unattended with cost.
It is now at work and ready for
any purchasing and the supply Of
any thing to be had in ST. Louis,
and as fast as the demands present
the commission department will
have all its wants attended to.
So now send on your orders and
the cash, or-its equivalent, and any
article you wish sold in this market
you can get, and all the profits in
any department will 90 to the GUS
toners ers,-remembering all the while
there is no profits without business,
and the more business the more
profits, because expenses do not
increase in the same proportion as
the business increases.
You need not write letters of en-
quiry to know if the Association
can furnish this or: that it Gao fur
nish anything that is for sale in
St. Louis To answer letters is
pleasure, but it is "a heavy expense,
in time and money, to answer such
a large correspondence. 1t can not
be done without a special CORES
pondent at the expense of the As
sociation
The modesty Of most people pre-
vent them from inclosing a three
cent fer a reply TO business in
qairies on business of their own.
Indeed many of them make the en-
quiry on "a posta! card, through
commendable economy, and most
OF such inquiries need q letter to re-
port in full. Well, the postage on
one letter would be a small matter,
but on twenty-five to one hundred
d day; count that for "A week only
and then do not thiuk hard if some
day all letters can not be answered.
When you send business it is not
expected that a stamp will be in
closed. Oar experience thus far is
that time and money spent in an
swering many such inquiries have
resulted in no good to any one with
lew exceptions. Usually when men
mean business they do not stop to
inquire. All they want to know is,
'is our man there?" Have we got
a man there in our interest ready
to do for us?" That is the sort that
makes a success; that is the sort
that can be satisfied with business
done for them.
We'll, your man is here and in
New Orleans, and in Galveston, and
in Cincinnati.
If you desire to be independent
send to them. In whatever you can
be served best in either of these
| center5, send to that center. We
would not havo you send an order
to St. Louis, nor to ship your cotton
or any other article here simply be
cause we are here. That is not what
we arc and have been working for.
! It is for the interust of the custom>
| er we work.
If you need articles you can get
on better terms in Galveston, sead
there for them, or to Cincinnati, or
to New Orleans, but to which ever
place you send, send TO the Coop
erative Associations. And by all
| means, if either OF these Associa
tions wants business transacted in
either OF the other cities send it to
the Association. Why, my dear
good people, cooperation does away
with setishness; seifishness and
co operation can not exist in the
same man at the same time.
1t is the business of my every
day life here to serve my friends
and patrons Of CO. operation, ard TO
get ,.s near as possible to the mill,
the factory and the work shop, and
the butcher, Or the slaughter and
packing man. And | am there in
many things, and if you will put
more money here, or in every order
send the money or the produce, [
will get nearer and nearer, and
finally you may, through your own
men here, be the mill men, the
packers, .the clothiers, the wagon
makers, &c, &c. Then you will al
ways have full weights and meas
ures, and wagons and every article
np to your own standard. AS it is
now, the standard is mainly how
deception can be practiced to sell