Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-07-31
Cooperative Progress.

Encouraging indeed for the we'll being
Of the world Of workers Is the report
from the congress oi cooperative rocie.
ties in Great Britain Tho movement
Is there grand success MS far as coon.
erative stores are concerned. The prob.
lem Of cheap. distribution among work.
Ing people of tho necessities Of life has
been solved. and, best of ell. by the IN.
telllgence and harmonious feeling Of tho
workers thcmsolvcs Two difficult prob.
lens yet face the co.oporators. one Of
these Is how to apply cooperation sue.
ocssfully TO production and the agrioul.
tural industry, tho other is how to inter
es, trades unions In cooperation and
make them understand that their high.
est welfare lies In this direction.
Meantime, there arc already IN the
United Kingdom I 800 cooperative 90.
cietics They have membership II
i,il70j5 Sales Of the cooperative
stores and societies amounted during
1900 to s9l6,O0O. 900 tho profits beings9O..
100000. When It "a remembered that
this sum Is all based on the little savings
put by by poor working people, ono may
begin to understand what corporation
can accomplish. Itis the mighticst lover
In the hands Of working pcoplo today.
These cooperative societies In Great
Britain arc doing for the people there
something Of what the building aud loan
association Is accomplishing IN America.
Harmonious working together aud look
ing for light & tho secret Of itall.
Cooperative dairying O. making rapid
progress, In Ireland So successful hayB
tho stores been that the question now
before their managers Il, What shall b.
dono with tho surplus capitalg To nm.
swer this question Mr. Alfred Bakery
read papers
A. to tho way the work might b. carried
out, he suggested that, int, any LARGE estate in
| tho market might DO purchased b. The Whole.
Z halo Tor the pupusn ~ hullllnE uu Il ~ manu-.
factory Tor some particular olasa " sy1ds
either flr homo ~ foreign trade. mud huusol
l and stores frr tho uurt mrnie should De- erect.
d
I s.On 81 Tho Wholesale, and the wuriizslpir Do
[ under tAcir uunirol, bat the worker should
| have the Opportunity ~ gradually becoming
/ Tho owners OF Che houses, aiorrs and Ga. pif'
I ton VI tl|c laud t0t required hy tho Wholesale.
/ An undertaking lilo that could easily ia inHdr
| IN pay Interest on the outlay NJ ut least Q pUf
| Cuut pcr anuun. SECONDLY, tho WHOLESALE
| cuuld assist "a large society or q number ~
! small societies who wished 10 purchase fIun
| Tor themselves hy lending them tao.thIrl. "
/ thc pufrha.e money nt . per cent Interest,
/ such loan ~ De- int charge uu Che lrnI.
1 Thirdly, anumhnr ~ c1-upvftlnrf connected
| with a,eiciy miIht D. ucslrpua OF purchasing
alarm i1r the p1tpusf ui dividing 70 iniu .ulu
Building or sardru nlluimcats, or laulur hold.
/ lngs Cor agricultural purposes ur mHr.et ri.r'
/ drnllg, tho Wholesale could assist thcm VIII
money In tho same manner. The sum all
,ancgd could b. repaid By yearly instalmoni|
] uf principal and interest IN all c1aob IL mu
ho nn undcritood condition that the land mu't
be- purchased outright and not rratcd. Thusf
various methods ~ dealing with the land
would. he contrLfod, gradually but surely o.,
tain ON the land the agricultural workers who
NOW migrated 10 large towns. lie wua CON
WINGED thnt " such programme ns he bal
sk,ichcd wcrc carfiei uutau Immense impciuI
would NJ once be- given To the cu-oporatiii
movement. and tho strife between capitalist
and worker cease, and pcncc, contcatmgut aud
pfoapcrlty DO the common lot.