The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-06
SUGGESTION TO ALLlANCEMEN.
Mr.. John S. Bird, OF Alabama. on Co
operation.

Cooperation is one of the principal
powers desired to be utilized by the
Alliance; and each primary should
have committee to make suggestions
to it on where, by what and on what
cooperation can be successfully lnaug-
urated. Get down to business by CO.
operation. Use it for all it is worth.
Use it now. How about your neigh
bornood gin? Who owns it? Who
patroniZes it? What is made by its
operation? In many localities forty
All;ancemen have thousand bales
ginned and packed on that neighbor-
hood gin. Say they pay 500 per bale.
That is $500. A ginnery OF that
capacity is only worth 81 600. It would
not cost over $500 to operate it so as to
gin the 1000 bales. Let each man take
$3.50 stock for each bale he will have
ginned in a stock company. Organize
it under the law. Have the paper fixed
right Get your charter. Buy the gin
or put up another. Operate it and at
the end Of the season it is your gin.
Next year your ginning will cost you
nearly nothing. This year you will
have the cost of your ginning in a
good investment that costs nothing,
but is good for every cent you would
have paid out. Every neighborhood
gin should belong to the Alliance of
the neighborhood. DO not wait until
September, but commence now. Get
everything ready by the first of August.
You can get money on your joint note.
Each signer has stock for his security.
Every share is worth $3.50 per 500 as
soon as the gin starts. DO not put this
off by having a committee. Put down
for as much stock as you would pay for
ginning, each and every one, and
sutficiency Will be subscribed. Then
on that basis, have a committee to
carry the work to conSummation. If
you nave the ginnery, then move fer
ward on the warehouse. Have an Al
lance warehouse with every Alliance
man taking stock in the ratio Of bales
be stores. Charge a fair price and get
your money back in dividends either
in warehouse property or cash at the
end Of the season. DO not put in charge
of it a man who is clever and honest
but incompetent. Select one who is
honest and competent and viii do the
work faithfully. Run it on business
principles, not favoritism. If to be
built put your warehouse as near the
railroad as possible and arrange for a
railroad switch before you start its con-
struction. Ii not on railroad, put at
the steamboat landing so as to facilitate
handling at least cost. See about this
before you start. It's the principal and
most important, point to be looked
after. Put your means in improved
methods for handling rather than beau
ty or appearance of building. Look at
the expense and costs. by reducing
these to the minimum you increase the
profits to the maximum. In all under
takings select men who are competent
and reliable-have adoption and fitness
for that kind of work. These two un-
dertakings should first command your
consideration. With them accom-
plished, have your committee on CO.
operation Investigate and report what
other plan should be adopted to assist
and benefit the primary. Get down to
business, brethren. THE gods help
those who help themselves"
JOHN S. BIRD.