The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-10-15
COOPERATION.
from Fast Master VIM. Maxwell.
president at the S0utt,w4sta., -

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operation is to co operal,.
The two branches that are in s
LOUIS and New Orleans are in ru
ming trim.
Custom will make them a era d
balance wheel in business, for III,
! good OF customers.
Is fully demonstrated they c,,
only succeed by getting cash, or
p'o1nc". ,uhjnct to their contro!
! with the orders.
with that the victory ia won.
! lhen the customers can receive the
entire advantage to be obtained in
all the profits IN business withcut
risk and withou. the posi- biIi,y of
ITS being diverted from them by
competition. 1t does away with
competition and introduces honest
weights and measures, and instead
OF evading the truth as to quality OF
merchandise enables all TO expect
and moro, to claim a right to know
just what an article is, so that he
can purchase it on it's real merit.
1t is within the reach Of co oper-
atlonlsts in the bounds of ST. Louis,
New Orleans and other cities where
CO. operation has its associations es-
tabilshed to make them all a success.
individuals who will have their
business In the centers done on that
plan and the retail cooperative
stores, already organized and Or
ganlzng, have only to send their
money to these associations and let
it be placed on deposit in the bank
where they deposit, subject to the
orderof the Manager. This Bank
Book is all he needs as a passport
to the confidence of the factory, the
miller, the grain dealer, the pork
packer, the halter, the shoe maker,
the ciothier, the dealer in horses,
the dealer in dry goods, and the
dealers in all other lines of mer-
chandise. Then he can reach first
hands and become your jobber, and
there is a material Difference in the
profits be will secure for you when
he is your jobber and when he or
You have TO buy from the jobbcr
yourselves and let the jobber have
the profits
But this can only be accomplished
when yon supply him with the
money, spot cash, then You are the
commercial power through your
man in the Association. Till you
do that you never will become the
power nor the great success de-
sired in cooperation. You can
withhold, and it will prove that
kind of Withholding that impover-
ishes.
Experience has demonstrated it
is too slow to send out goods and
await the return of the money after
the receipt of the goods. 1t can
not come in fast enough to keep
pace with the demand; there must
be money, spot cash, to start on, for
all the leading lines require the
cash before letting the goods go
from the store, or require the in
dividual who sends them to become
responsible, and he can not get
them then unless he has an estab-
lished credit in every way correct
on the books of the commercial
agencies who knows every man S
commercial or financial standing
who is proposing to do business.
Give him the money on deposit,
or by investing it as stock in the
business of the Association, and his
Bank Book is standing enough to
enable him to reach first hands and
get all you need SO far as the sue
cess of the business is concerned it
is no difference whether you place
the money on deposit. subject to
the order of the Manager to fill or
ders with. or take it in stock. Do
either, then give the custom and it
is an assured success and the profits
are yours.
Put it there and then do not let
your Manager fill bill unaccompa
MED with the money, or its equiva-
lent, and there is no risk, there is
no loss; then commercial confidence
is established by yourselves and for
yourselves. That can and will
command everything, or any atten-
ton or any respect you ask at the
hands of commerce, legislatures, rail
roads, banks, or governments, in
their relations to the people.
There are men, commercial men,
plenty of them, honorable enough,
with money or commercial credit
enough to fill your orders, but they
are not to be found, or never have
been found, sufficiently philan-
thropic to do so and let you,
the customers, have the profits. If
they use their money or their credit,
they use it for self, not for you.
There is no use waiting for men
to step forth and take these risks or
use their own money for the benefit
Of the customers, they will never
do it. The money must be furnish
ed by the customers themselves,
and they can do it, they are able to
do it by each furnishing enough to
supply his own wants, when that
is aggregated it makes a large sum
that commands respect and gets all
YOU want, and no one man can afford
to furnish enough to do that; that
is, to supply other peoples wants
and give them the benefits Where