The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-10-14
nn,cK OF SUBSCRIPTION:
noes Cooperation Payr

Editor Patron. Does Co opera
Lon nav? Let experience answer.
= correspondent, who is an agent
"a cooperative association, writes
"s. "The, general advantages of
Generation are but poorly appre-
lated by the masses of the people.
Where the facts are told them and
tbe figures are shown them they
are incredulous, its results are be-
rond their comprehension" He
.svs further: 81 did not do one
h.If the business of our Patrons"
ard adds: 81 have made 354 per
cent net profit on business for the
cast s65 days, all of which has been
rfeturned to the Patrons. And our
net profits for the year, ending Tuly
1882, were $I2, 900. tbs, bear
IN mind was made and paid after
deducting all expenses OF the bust
ness and after paving 10 per cent.
interest on the money placed in the
business as stock by the stock
holders.
Reader, with these figures given
ss facts and the result of actual
business, do you, can you see that
Cooperative pays?
The same writer SAYS: "When
facts are told them, y (meanine the
people)-"and figures are shown to
them, they are often construed and
converted by them as snares to
inveigle them into the cooperative
aSsocistions."
Then hear you, who are in the
chains of bondage, how gladly CO.
operation would burst the bonds
that now chain you to concen-
trated capital, if you will concen-
trate your mites and cooperate.
Bear in mind for ever, that to sue,
coed in cooperation you must co.
operate!
There is not a neighborhood in
the United States that can not, if
the people will concentrate money
enough, by getting some from ali,
to buy and keep in stock all that
the neighborhood needs in every
line of goods and place it in store
of their own in the neighborhood
where each can go and buy as
need be. Buy from themselves. as
any other merchant would do who
needed articles kept in his own
store. In SO doing he saves to him
self on what he buys the profits
some other merchant would make
were he to buy from some other.
1t is that profit that cooperation
leaves to every one who gives Gus
tom to cooperation which makes
it his own business by taking stock
or putting money in it and becomes
a customer. This do and let every
manager or agent of such stores
send the money placed in the bust
ness with his orders for what he
he needs to the central association
where business is done on the same
principles, and at once the chains
are sundered and complaint of hard
times will be at an end, unless in
undation or conf1agration or wars
or droughts or epidemics are
upon you.
If you would have peace and
plenty and fraternity and ''good
will to men" to reign supreme and
to learn how best to do these things
and to learn what progress is being
made toward these ends, and to
learn wholesome and just law ma
kngyou must leave off your patron
age to all partisan papers-which
are conducted mainly in the inter-
est Of few who desire office only,
and which few think perhaps no
more of you after election day until
another approaches-and introduce
IN every farmers family THE Pa
IRON OF HUsBANDRY. The most
serious and gravest charge against
!HE PATRON is, that it is obeying
IN all its power and intellect by
which it is guided, and through its
colaboring correspondents, the first
command of a Triune God, record
ed IN Genises I. CHI, and cd v. $50
mote It be-" "Why stand We here
idle all the day."
Fraternallv, WIN. maxwell,
PaStMaster Tennessee StateGrange.
St. Louis, Sept. Il.