Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-02
INDUSTRIAL REFORM
And the Great RefOrmsr, General Holy.
cake, of England, Who is Now in
New YORK City.
His Plans and Purposes-He Wants "a
Explain Them 10 the People Of
America

NEW YORK, Septe mber 1.-George Jacob
HoIyosk Ike, the well known promoter OF indus
trial reform in Eugland and author of sew
eral works on cooperation, who arrived in
this city on Wednesday morning on the
steamer Scythia, of the Cunard Line, is az
companied by his daughter, Mrs Emily
Holy oske, and by Mrs. Ethel Leach, mem
Der of the great Yarmouth School Board
and prominent advocate of the extension
OF civil rights of women. Mrs. Leach's OBJ
ject in visiting this country is particularly
to examine the system of the American pub
lie schools, which che has heretofore sd
mired from afar. Mr.. HoIyoake and his
travelling companions were welcomed at the
pier by General Crooks, DIR. Winterburn,
DR.. BroughtoD, and Mrs. Lamb came on be
half of Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson to receive
him and offer their services Mr. Holyoake
went 10 the house of George s. New alters,
at 221 East Eighteenth street, where he re-
manned few hours, going in the afternoon to
Manhattan Beach for the purpose of seeing
Mrs. Thompson, who is staying there. He ex-
poets to be in this country until the middle
of November, when he will return to En-
gland. Mr.. Holyoake has visited the United
States once before, in 1879, when he deliv-
cred a number of lectures through the coan-
try. He has been engaged for many years
in the endeavor to secure the publication, by
for emigrsnts, which will contain informa-
ton regarding the character OF different
parts of the country, and the comparative
inducements which various regions offer to
settlers. Twelve years ago he submitted to
Lord Clarendon, who was then in the foreign
Office, a plan for book of this kind, con-
tanning information about the industrial
classes abroad, and he afterward promised
TO furnish the plan OF this book to the Amer
lean government.
The first object of his present visit ia the
fulfillment of this promise. He has already
written to Secretary Frelinghuysen, and hopes
before his return to visit Washington, where
he will present to the British minister let
ter OF introd uction from the English foreign
Office. Mr.. Holyoake had already spent G1o0
upon this enterprise, when, upon the repre-
sentatIon of Mr.. Gladstone, Parliament I'M
dertook TO relieve him of that expense. A
contribution of the same sum from Mrs.
Elizabeth Thompson enables him to carry
on his work. After a stay OF few days at
Coney Island, Mr.. Holyoake expects to go to
Long Beach, where he will pass a week in
company of his friend, Colonel IngersolL
Then he will go to Canada TO examine the
ways Of the colonial government. He car
ries letters from Lord Kimberley to the mar
quis of Lorne. After visiting Canada he
expects 10 travel through the United States,
delivering lectures IN Boston, Philadelphis,
Chicsgo, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and othe r
places. He will confer with the leaders OF
the cooperative movement in various places
where he goes, with a view ito the promotion
of Information about cooperative and in
dustrial enterprises in EngI and. Among the
subjects on which he proposes 10 deliver lee
lures, "The Peculiarities OF Parliamentary
Orators in England" is one, and THE Ec-
centricities of the Public Men Of England"
another. He is fond, he says, of it'll
good-natured laugh at the expense of those
whom he likes best.
"The people of America" Mr.. Holyoake
said to-day, shave not learned the of CO.
operation. Some one subscribes the capital
here, and cooperative association is formed
as commercial venture, which is seldom
found to succeed. In England, the capital
is subscribed by the workingmen, and The
enterprise is of gradual and sui staptia
growth. Even the law in A nerica has been,
until recently, at least, against cooperation,
no associations being organized unless it had
cau begin with i've shiliipgs. There are sev-
eral stores, however, in Philsdelphia, con-
Quoted substantially on the English plan,
and Boston has a few OF a similar ch aracter
In Washington there are some stores on the
same plan those established in Greai
Britain by members of the civil service
These are inferior to the cooperative stores,
sure the quality of what is sold, only pro-
Tossing to sell as nearly as possible at cost
In England almost every town and village
has a cooperative store.
There is central wholesale establishment
at Manchester, which distributes produce to
over 600 cooperative societies in The United
Kingdom. The sgenIs of this central asso-
citation are scattered throu- n all the markets
of the world, buying supplies wherever they
can be secured most chesply.
Cooperative unions for manufacturing
purposes, such as have attained prosperity
in France, have never succeeded in gaining
a foothold upon English soil. There is mol
one purely manufacturing cooperative So
ciety in England, though several approach
that character.
Mr.. Holyoake is now in his sixty sixth
year. He is the author OF number of
works, the principal of which are the History
of Co. Operation in Rochdale, which has been
translated-into various Languages, and the
more general history of cooperation pub
lished in 1875 He has also been for many
years editor of Radical paper called the
Reosoner. He has written besides great
many letters to American journals.
Mr.. Holyoake's friends propose TO give
him a dinner before his return to England.