Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-17

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| cues that question. But refer TO thar
plan by which laborers become their own
capitaiiste, taking their SURPRISES and
putting them together and carrying on
| treat enterprises. In England ana
Wales there are 7G5 cooperative asso-
/ Citations, with 100000 members, with a
capital Of Sl4 900, 900, doing business IN
one wear to the amount of $51O0, 600.
In Troy, N. Y, there was cooperative
iron foundry association, 1t worked well
long enough to give an idea Of what could
be accomplished when the experiment IS
/ fully developed Thomas Brassey, one
Of the first OF the English parliament, de-
clared: Incorporation is the one ana
only solution OF this question ;
lit is the sole path by which
the laboring classes as whole, or any
large number Of them, will ever emerge
! from the band TO mouth mode OF living,
and get their share in the rewards and
honors of our advanced civilization"
Thomas Hughes, the ablest and most
brilliant friend of the worklng-man ;
Lord Derby, John Stuart Mill, men who
gave half their life to the study of this
question, all favor cooperative assocla-
ton.
The principle was illustrated in Ireland.
One day mail coach traveller found q
man standing in the water repairing a
dam. care you working by yourself2"
INQUIRED the traveller. "Yes,n was the
answer. "Where is your steward?'
owe have no steward" "Who is your
master?" awe have no master, we are on
new system.n "Then who sent you to
do this work?n "The committee - "Who
| Is the committee?" "Some of the men,
bers." "What members do you mean?"
asked the visitor "The ploughmen and
laborers who are appointed by us as a
committee. ! belong TO the new system
ites.n
You say that there have been great fail
ures in that direction. | edmit 1t. Every
great movement at the start Is a failure.
The application of steam power a failure,
electro-telegraphy a failure, railroad a
failure, but after awhile the worlds chief
successes. hear some say: "Why, it
il absurd TO talk OF surplus to be put
into this cooperative association, when
men can hardly get enough to eat and
wear and take care OF their families"
reply: Put into my hand the money spent
in the last five years in this country by
the laboripg classes for rum and tobacco,
and | will start cooperative institution
of monetary power that will surpass any
financial institution in the United States
Again: remark that relief will come
to the working classes through more
thorough discovery on the part of en-
ployers that it is best for them to let
their employees know just how matters
stand. The most of the capt.
talists of to-day are making less
than per cent, less than per cent,
less than per cent. ON their investments.
Here and there is an anaconda swallow
ing down everything, but such are the
exceptions. 1t is often the case that en-
ployes blame their employer because
they suppose he is getting along grandly,
when he is oppressed to the last point of
oppression. knew manufacturer who
employed more than thousand hands.
said to him: ''Do you ever have any
trouble with your workmen? Do you
have any strikesf' "No," said he.
"What In this time of angry discussion
between capital and labor, no trouble?"
"None Mt all-none" said, "How is
that?" "Well," he said, 81 have a way
OF my own. Every little while call my
employees together,an say, Now, boys,
| want to show you how matters stand.
What you turned out this year brought
so much. You see it isn't as much as we
got last year. | can't afford to pay yod
as much as did. Now, you know put
all my means in this business. What do
you think ought to be my percentage,
and what wages ought pay you? Come,
let us settle this And" . said that
manufacturer, "we are always unani-
nous. When we suffer we all suffer to-
getber. When we advance we advance
| together and my men would die for me-.
But when man goes among his en-
ployes with supercllious air, and drives
up to his factory as though ne were the
autocrat of the universe, with the sun
and the moon In his vest pockets, moving
amid the wheels of the factory, chiefly
anxious lest creased or smircned hand
should touch his immaculate broadcloth.
he will see at the end he has made an
awful mistake. think that EMPLOYERS
! will find out after awhile that it is to
their interest, as far as possible, to ex.
plain matters to their employees. You be
frank with them and they will be frank
with YOU.
again; l remark, relief will come to
the laoorlng classes through the religious
recillcatlon OF the country. Labor is APP
prechted and rewarded Just in proper.
| 49, W NNuhbig ~ ANtlStlh0lLeQ. M0V
Is our smallest coin penny, while in
China 1t takes SIX or dozen pieces to
make one penny, the Chinese carving In
4 MS own country the "cash,n as ii is
called, around his neck like string of
beads, a dozen of these pieces nece ssary
to make the value of one of our penniesY
Ia this country, for nothing do we want
to pay less than a penny. In China they
often have to pay the sixth of a penny, or
the twelfth of penny. What is the dif
ierenceS Christianity. Show me a
community that is thoroughly intidel,
and will show you com
muniiy where wages are small
SNOW me community that
Is thoroughly Christianized, and | will
show you community where wages arc
comparatively large. How do | account
Tor itr The philosophy is easy oar
religion is democratic religion. l.
makes the owner of the mill understand
ne Is brother to all the operatives in that
null. Born Of the same Heavenly
Father, TO lie down in the same dust ~
be saved 10y the same supreme mercy. M
putting on OF airs in the sepulcher or in
the Judgment.
An engineer la New England fsctory
gets sleepy, and he dOeS not meet -