The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-02-11
ST.. Louis Feb q

| n a O'iVi branches Also
one OF the eneouragements, which
IS not tae least but on the contrary
is OF the first inlportahGc, is that tlIa
principle OF CO operation is be;no
unused from these great centers
TIL II is as little leaven. and The
whole lump is being leavened till
mere is rising in favor OF CO cpe.
lation extensively developed, and
constantly new Associations are
opening in business upon the plan
practiced by the centers. and j.
they form, they generally become
members of the cooperative family
by taking stock in the central As
sociations.
More encouraging still is the fact,
that the CO. operative ASSOCIATIONS
are realizing it is to their interest TO
SEND the business thsy must have
done in the centsrs to the senttal
associations, whether It be consion.
ments of produce to be sold or Or
ders tor goods. lAnd more, they
are coming to understand the i'm
Portance of sending cash or pro-
duce with their orders. Because
when they think properly over the
matter, they come to know thew
have not placed associated MONEY
enough in the centers to carry a
stock in store from which their
orders can be filled direct, and they
come to know also that the met,
managing the central associations
are placed there by the country as
soclations and by individual mem
oers to manage and do the business.
not to furnish their own money and
keep stock on hand out of which
the orders can be filled. They have
learned to take this sensible view
OF the mater, that is to know that if
a man furnishes his own money to
establish in business he would very
naturally claim all that he might
make out of the business as his own,
and very justly so, for the risk and
labor, for then it would be mis- indi
vidual risk as we'll as his invidual
labor in conducting the business
and his individual effort to secure his
Gu tom.
Not so in cooperation; the Gus
toners are to furnish the money,
and by voluntary act, give custom
and voluntarily solicit custom to it,
because it is their own business,
therefore directly interested in
securing all the custom to it posi-
bic, as we'll as to give their own
business, and by vote they select
or appoint some one of their own
number to whom is given the
charge and management of the bust
ness on salary out of what the
business earns, and all that it makes
above the salary and expenses re-
turns to the customers, and properly
so, because they are to furnish the
money that does the business and
voluntarily give and solicit custom,
and in that voluntary work each
helps the other and saves the ex-
pense of drumme1s. and every body
is entering protests against that
enormous expense, and co-opera-
ton offers the only way yet offered
to dispense with them. All these
things are coming to be better I'M
derstood, because more thought is
bestowed upon them.
And the more they are thought
of the greater the number who pa
tronize cooperation at home and in
the centers. And the more they
think of the fact that they have not
placed sufficient money under the
control of their managers to carry a
stock in all lines the greater is the
number who send money or pro.
duce with their orders. Realizing
the fact, when they ask themselves
about it, l have only placed five
dollars in the association at the
center and | know unless at least
100, 900 others had placed five dol
lars each there, or some large
moneyed man with Peabody
heart had placed it there, | know
our manager has not got the money
to carry stock out of which to nj
my order, therefore l know l mus
send the money, for without it oui
manager up there will have te
have an established credit of hi.
own, upon his individual standing
in commercial circles, or use his in
dividual money to fill my ordel
with. and | know if | ask that
am deprivng him Of the use of his
individual credit or money for my
use and only allowing him salary
for using that credit or money to-
nv use and benefit, or for the us'
and benefit of the association L rep
resent, and [ know, in justice II
himself, he will ultimately be driver
) from that way of doing in self de
Tense, for if he has the credit o
money and the business capacity t
) do business when he finds we onl'
) use his credit and money and capac
!, itv, at the expense of his credit an
money and time and talent, and tina
we intend to continue to do SO Il
place of furnishing the money our
selves. :.
True co-operationists are reall
ling all of these things, and the
+, know it is a fact that when the
send an order in order that it ma
I he filed some ones credit or none