The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-05-06
FOR COOPERATION
The Government Should Cooperate
a With LabOr-..The American Farmer
Must Compete With India.
THE ADVANTAGES OF Cooperation
The Removal Of the NOn-PrOduCers
in Shape Of Standing
Armies.

Inc senate having unuer conSluera-
ton the bill to encourage cooperation
and to provide for the formation of
associations in the District of Columbia
for the purpose of conducting any law
full business and dividing the profits
among the members thereof-Mr
Stanford said:
Mr.. President: The bill which l
have introduced provides for the asso-
citation and organization of individuals
with Or without capital. 1t gives no
exclusive privileges, and is intended
only to aid the natural right of asso.
citation.
In large sense, civilization itself
rests and advances on the great princi-
plies of cooperation. The industries,
the thoughts, the great ideas which
produce vast and beneficial results,
find their full development in assoeia-
ton. Thus the discoveries in art and
in science are distributed or availed
of; and they inure to the benefit of the
whole COMMUNICATION to the whole
civilized world.
COOPERATION STRENGTHENS THE WEAK.
So the organization of individuals
for a common purpose gives the
strength, the capacity, of the ablest to
all in the association. The weakest,
and the one Of least capacity, is brought
up in advantages to the level of the
best. The result of this association is
to bring the individuals of the associa-
ton closer to the entire fruits of their
united industries. With greater
intelligence, and with better under
standing of the principles of co-opera-
ton, the adoption of them in practice
will. in time, | imagine, cause most of
the industries of The country to be
carried on by these cooperation asso-
Citations. The cooperation of individ-
uals in kindred pursuits would have
the effect of furnishing, from their
variety OF labor, continuous employ,
menJ. Thus combination of men
could do Misunderstanding for hire
their services to the farmers-and
might find that continuity of labor so
important to the laborer and conduc-
tive to the maximum power of produc-
ton which arises from constant en-
ployment.
PROPERTY DEPENDS UPON PRODUCTION.
A country's prosperity must always
mainly depend upon the power of pro-
duction. This is to be brought about
by the most intelligent direction and
application of labor. Abundant illus
trations might be given to show that
the value Of the labor of an individual,
like the wealth of the country, will
depend upon the power of production,
The most notable example of this is to
be found in the production of wheat in
Egypt, in India, and in America
Wheat is raised in all these countries
to compete in the same market-Eng-
land. The compensation to the laborer
on the banks of the Nile is red radish;
in India about 5 cents a day. In my
own state, California, the harvester
receives $500 per day-forty times as
much as his competitor receives in
India. Now, these comparatively high
wages could be paid except upon
comparatively large production. The
man in California receives forty times
as much for days labor as q man in
India; or the wages of one man in Cal
ifornia equal those of forty men in
India. And yet he completes success
fully because he avails himself of the
genius of inventors-cuts and Lhreshes
and puts into q sack hundred pounds
of wheat for cent and halt.
THE LAW OF COMPENSATION.
And so in every other field of labor
the compensation will always be in
proportion to the production. The
earth yields abundantly, through labor,
to supply the wants of mankind. Her
yield of supplies for the necessaries,
the comforts, the elegancies, and the
splendors of life are only measured By
the amount of intelligent labor that is
applied to the cultivation of the soil,
to the working of mines, of quarries,
and of forests and their products; and
if there is want among the provident
and industrious it may be for the lack
of the intelligent direction and appli-
cation of labor. How far these wants
may be supplied by Legislation is a
problem; but l believe much aid may
be given.
In the history of the nations, want
Of the commonest necessaries has been
the rule. Hitherto governments have
been founded in force, maintained in
force, and the principal thought has
been to increase the force. or to so
organize it as to preserve the govern
ment. Hence the large standing armies
Of Europe today. The theory of our
government is that it was instituted
fol- the benefit of the people; that there
are inalienable rights-rights which
are superior to constitutions and laws,
securing the individual in his rights Of
liberty, property, and the pursuit Of
happiness, even to the extent Of COM
handing the support Of every other