The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-21

The constitution Of this Society viii
0e read before adjournment for infor.
nation, and while the r4embers present
have quite definite ideas OF the purposes
we have in view, ID is due 10 the intellj-
gent and distinguished visitors who
have favored as with their presence,
that our aims and hopes should be more
fully explained than they are ia our
constitution.
This Society is one of the natural
sequences Of the College Ii is based
upon the principle of cooperation.
Those of us who have grown up since
che close Of the disastrous civil war. are
assured that we live in a different age
and with totally different surroundings
from those that environed our mothers.
In The young days OF their womanhood
the wealth of the country was invested
n plantations and slaves, and the spirit
of ,he institution tended to separation.
not aggregation. La the rule Of our
fathers each plantation was "a separate
dynasty. The master was the focus Of
The despOlism. In him was centered
the judicial executive and legislative
power, governing his territory, often
times measuring miles in circumference.
sary and ordnance department were ap-
pendages 20 the big house." as the
family home was called ia plantation
parIauce. The owner was not only Com
manding General, but chief staff officer
Of all these departments. He was best
satisfied when receiving the fewest
number Of orders in the shape of legis-
laiiye enactments. Sell-imposed isola-
ton contributed TO suboTdination, obe-
dience contentmeut. The system tended
% the development of rare individu-
atty, in which were mingled the noblest
traits OF manhood and womauhood. This
individuality WIS adverse 10 co opera
ton. Its individual pride was unfavor-
able to the growth OF associated effort;
and the benign principle of Strength
Ia Union was seldom invoked. In
other modern communities Of the high.
est type Of intellect, this principle has
been the most potent factor in the de-
velopment OF greatness and prosperity
OF empires. | say modern communities,
for while the principle of cooperative
society probably formed part of the
legacy of the Romans 10 the Iutonic
conquerors of Europe, il did not become
prominent prior To Anglo Saxon Eng
land. These societies struggled through
languishing existence for several cen
turtles in England; but the fostering
legislation of William ", in 1886, gave
them a bound, which has, under the
stil friendlier legislation Of Vici oria,
greatly widened the sphere of their use
fuiness.
In 1872, the paid up capital of cooper
ativc societies in England had reached
40 millions il money, with so millions in
mortgages, and an annual income from
their investments of II millions. Roch-
dale Society was organized in 1874,
with a capital of only $40. In 1877 it
had 1922 members and the profits
amounted to two hundred and tiftg
thousand dollars In Philadelphia alone
there are more than five hundred of
these societies with capital of one hun
dred million of dollaro. They have
given homes To sixty thousand working
men, and they hold more than eighty
thousand mortgages. Mr.. Calhoun was
an active member of the society of far
mers of Pendleton, and it proved to be
most beneticeut institution to that
portion of South Carolina in which it
was located. 1t was in speech before
that association that Mr.. Calhoun ex-
pressed his opinion that combinations
govern the world.
Most of the worlds great enterprises
are debtors to this principle. Compa
MES sink their shafts for yellow dust,
aud companies, IN the name OF banks,
furnish the ratious with circulating me-
dium. Companies with submarine ca
bles bring within speaking distance peo
pie and empires separated by oceans.
The East India Company 1t WAS that
Hr-f /. l,fxbf ! bO
ineXhaustible resources of Hindoostan.
Companies on land and sea are the
worlds PACK horses. The chief Of the
Knights Of Labor, if the order over
which he presides will adhere to his
promised programme of moral suasion,
viii have a larger following than the
far-famed kings of the East. All classes
of business men now have their associa-
tions, and the truth of Mr. Calhoun's re
mark is much more apparent now than
when he uttered it fortytivc years ago.
The members of this Society are im
pressed with the conviction that gradu-
alton does not mean exemption from
further industry; but like the graeu-
b ates Of the National Military School,
they leave with a commission 20 enter
on active duty. The knowledge they
gain here must be utilized; and this
Society means that every young lady
having the Will shall have the opportu-
nifty oil making herself useful to the no
bic State of Mississippi. Should one of
our sisters aspire to authorship, we will
beseige the publishers and the reading
public in her behalf. Should editorial
life, with its collisions and frictions, its
exci;ements and esponsibilities, fire the
ambition of another, she will have to
support her a legion more devoted to
her interests than was the tenth legion
to Caesar.
Situations as book-keerers, stenogra'
pliers, designers, tpye-writers, printers
dress makers may be wanted, and this
Society, having organized q systematic
intelligence Office, proposes to act as IN
termediary and quickly supply the nee
essary information and secure what may
be mutually wanted by employees and
employee. We propose further to es
tablish bazaar storeroom for the worl
fashioned by the students of the sesera
Art and Industrial departments Fol
lowing the example of our senior broth
ers, the Agricultural aud Mechanica
College, we propose at each returning
Commencement 10 have many usefu
aud ornamental articles placed on salt
by those members who have not so goot
market at home as this is likely to be
In other words, we desire to establish al
Educational Bureau and Woman
Exchange, whose central office shall D.
located IN the industrial Institute ans
College. The founders Of this Coileg'
nave BY its endowment virtually prom
ised more independence to the girls Q
the Safe, and this Society promises 9
aid aud give shape and form 70 tha
honorable, industrious Independence
Wherever there il demand for the sers
ices of a working girl-girl workini
with hand or brain-shis Society design
70 see to it that the demand shall .
supplied
As an dn.ational Agency we sllal
soon court the recognition Of the publ
throughout our own and other States 9
the South West. Editors and publish
ers may be supplied with sober and e.
pert printers Telegraph and railroa
companies with accurate and reliaol
teIegraphers merchants with hones'
faithful book keepers; schools and tam
lilies With music teachers; colleges an
academies with welI-trained instructor
0f course Ne are not prepared "a 80
this At the cIose If our 6rst se1slQny =!
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