The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-03
So LONDONDERRY, VT. THURSDAY, JUNE g. 1886,

over. Do you know who will be the million.
nires of the twentieth century, They are, In
this last fourteen years Of tho nineteenth
century, with foot on the shuttle, hand on the
pickaxe, or doing some kind of hard manual
work, Do you know out of that class are
coming the poets, the OIL ators, the philan-
throphists of the world' Henry Clay, tho
the mill boy of the Slashes; Hugh NJ ilsr, a
ouarryman at Cromartic,' Scotland; Colum-
bus weaver: Arkwright, abarber; Haw-
ley, a soap boiler; Bloomfield the glorious
theologian, shoemaker; and Hora'e Greely
started life in New York with sl0.75 id his
pocket. They arc crossing over
the laborer to become the capitalist
ard the capitalist to become the,
laborer, and this day wave flag of truce bs-
provement in affairs when we shall realize
that the old tent maker was right when he
said: THE eye cannot say to the hand have
no nead of thee.n
There is also go:ns TO come great ll-vin-
tion on this subject. by cooperative inst tn.
tions am not referring now 10 labor or
pani2ations, l am not referring to trades
unions but to that plan by which laborers
put what money they can save in an
enterprise and conduct it themselves.
1t has passed beyond experiment.
10 no. say it is experiment. In England
and Wales there are now 765 cooperative in
stitutions, with 800, ,00) members, with d cap
ital of $4,000, ,0)0. doing business one year
Of S57,00J000. The first experiment in this
country was the Troy Cooperative Foundry
| which had large success and went on long
enough to demonstrate possibilities. But
there are scores and hundreds of these coop
erative institutions, and they are going to do
vast improvement They have ceased
to sre tssorv be an rb,a1p srpeHmSns Hnrsss tho most
! brilliant friend of the laboring men in Eng
| land, says the cooperative institution Is the
path out of these trouble; Lord Derby and
! John Stuart Mill gave half their lives to the
discussion of those subjects Sir Thomas
Brassev said in the English Parliament CO.
operation is the one and only solution Of this
question. 1t is thu sole path by which the
laboring classes as whole, or any large
number Of them, will ever emerge from tbs
hand to-mouth mode of living and get their
| share of the rewarls and honors of our al
vanced civilization. The principle was
illustrated in ireland where traveller left the
mail coach and saw a workman standing up
to his waist in the water repairing dam,
mill dam. He said to this workman: why,
yol seem to be alone-nobody to watch you.n'
The workman replied: II am all alone, |
ave have no steward" "Where is your
master!" I'VE have no master" Why,
who sent your THE committee" Whose
committee" We'll, l belong to an
associa ion and we elect certain
members as a eonmttee and they
regulate this whole thing We belong to the
new system of LABOR, the new system of as
you ask me if sometimes these Efforts have
not been a failure! Oh, yeH all great move
ments have been failsre at the start. The
application Of steam power failure, electric
te e2rlphing failure, Tailroading failure
at first: but af 'warl the chief success OF
the century. Cooperative institutions will
20 ON to larger success. You say-soiue one
says to me: why It is absurd to talk about
laborerS who cannot get enough wages
to support the nSclves and ther families,
putting their lrplus into an institution of
this kind" My reply is, chat il you will put
int my hand the money which during the
last five years has by the laboring classes of
America been spent for rum and tobacco.
will ejtabl;sh cooperative institution might
ier than any monetary institution in Amerc1.
There VII also be alienation of this wlole
sub ;ec. when emp oyers find the importance
OF telling their employees just how matters
stand You know as we'll as | do
that here is the difficulty in q great
many sahlishments-whileth the )aborerS arc
at their wits ends the capitalist is al'o. How
he shall pay the rent, how he sha meet the
tave' and how he shall keep the ma machinery
going. Meanwhile the laborer thinks this
man is rolling up large fortune. 1tcanrot
be so at all in that Ca5. The vast ma jority
of the CAPITALISTS of to-day are not making
out of ther Investment 10 per cent, nor 8 per
ceat nor per cent, nor 7per cent, nor
per cent, nor 4 per cent, nor per cent.
| labcratit'S wits Is because of small wages
t,l a Rs ifo' lie | I'm tl,aT a n y
ceptions. There are great anacondos that are
swallowing down everything. am not rc'
ferring to them. | am referring to the great
mass Of capitalists. Now do you not think it
woald alleviate this matter if the capitalist
should say: III explain this whole matter
to m men, There is an immense amount OF
common sen abroad in the worll. There
/; an inmens, amount of good kindly feel
ing l do not eljeve th9re would be one
strike, VIII +, there are ten strikes, If it were
the universal Plan that capitalists shou Id lei
their laborers know Just how matters aud
l had friend who had a thousand men in
his employ. Some years ago when thert
were strikes often said: How do you gel
along.' He said Very we'll" 81 suppose
you had strikes" ""Oh, no; | never have any,
fNever ave any' What do ycu meanF
"Well," he said, II call my men together
every little while and say: 'Roys let us sct
how matters stand. Last year | made Sc
much. This year you seq we arc making
less. l want to know what you thins
about it, what you think your wages oush
to BE- and what orght to get on my invest
thing in this thing and have got to keep il
going. want you to tell me, looking owe
iha who.e affair, what your wa res Gu hit Il
be. and what nv interest on tie inN estmen
ought to be- We are ways lniuous AM
my men would die for me-" But suppfs S
q capitalist acts with supercilious ar
and dii.es up to his factory as though b
were the autocrat Of the universe, tn
sun and the moon in his yes
ocket, chiefly anxious lest some greasy o
smir2hed hand should touch his Frcn"l
broadcloth That man will fiud his awfu
mistaie. In the vast ma iority of cases be
leve there would be but little OF 70 troubl
if the men who own i'm establishment
fairly and frankly told their employes al
aoont it.
Then there is going to come great alte.a
ton of this through the religious iuNuen ;
which is to be brought upon the eou try
Why is it that in this country we have nota
ing less than penny, while i'll China the
have the money they call cash Put on thread
and put around the neck, and this CASH.
takes ten, fifteen, twenty OF them to make
penny2 The only difference is that which
made by Christianity. Heathenism dcpre sc
; everything; keeps everything down. Chri'
! tanity enla"gts everything; lifts people W
, You 20 through community where infdeit
is abroad and controlling everything; wage
are down, and employers are hard on the
laborers. Lt the religion of Jesus Christ
the old fashioned rel giol-do'ninate con
muuity. and you viii fiud the employer
Kind and the wages good, comparatively; Tt
religion OF Jesus Chr ST is a democratic n
. lgion. It teaches tho employer That he
brother TO all the operators in hi; m H. Dor
, of the same Heavenly Father, led enc b
the same siperl al Oh ist to i, down in II
same dust No'mr ch chane 70 put on nj
/: IN the se2ulchre, or at tAe Judgment IN
!, engineer in New England factory gel
sleepy. lie does not watch the steam gang,
+ Then there is wild thunder of explosion,
whi h the owner of the mill is killed an
0 one of the poor workmen in some pal
: o, th, facsoiy. III, two slain me
7; come up toward the gate of Hsaver
$ TIE owner of the mill knocks at tt
/ gate. Tie eek sial gatekeeper says: who
q ihere.n he says: Il owned mill at Fa
9 Fiver: there has been great explosio
y there and lost my life; came uD here an
/ expect to enter heaven What rigt
. have you to enter heavenf' says the celest''
{ gatehecper. The other says: II wa' a gret
t man down there and | employed 2OO hand-
t "Enployed two hundred hands, did yol