The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-05-31

the present force will not iujurt any
one. The two thirds eliminated would
be added to the industrial class to be
producers, and would produce the
same result now accomplished in less
h ours and reduce the burden of tn
wealth producers AS it is, the wealth
producers must support the unneces
sary middlemen; and to do this they
must work more hours each day. The
el ergies of the nation is not half
utilized. It is conceded by the best
students of the labor question if every
able bodied man worked four hours
each day, in conjunction with labor
saving machinery, and we had q correct
syst m OF distribution, we could furnish
every man woman and child the neces-
saTies and luxuries of life. Through
he co operative system we will save
and add to the wealth of the nation
six thousand million dollars annually.
Under the co operative system the poor
store keepers would stand the same
chance as all other wealth producers.
Can anything be worse than the pres
ent competitive system, when 95 per
cent. Of those who go into the mercan-
tile business become bankrupts9 The
two thirds that will be eliminated of this
per ccllU. become OdukTuDbS.
Think of a system that bankrupts
95 per cent. of those who go into it and
costs the wealth producers one thou
sand million dollars annually more
than it would under the cooperative
system! Then think of all these un-
fortunate middlemen transferred to
the industrial class, and each fixing a
living price on the fruits of their labor.
ho
no failures Under this simple CO
operative plan we will produce double
the wealth in a given length of time,
and each will receive his share All
will receive equal and exact justice,
according to their merit. If do not
receive as much as others, it will be be
cause of my deficient merit. If have
ambitions, / will struggle to reach a
highes grade, and if there is anything
in me the cooperative system will
bring it out. Under the present system
an Individual may possess merit of a
high order and be defrauded out of
that his genius and labor has produced.
You may invent a meritOriOus4nach
and being poor, or others having the
money, either rob Or buy for song,
for a corporation, manufacture and
sell at an advance over cost four hun
dred to one thousand per cent.
Under the co operative plan the gov
ernment of the people will establish a
board of patents and the inventor of
meritOrious machinery will be cOmpen
sated for the same and the people will
receive the benefit of the invention. In
| this way we will save three hundred
milliens annually.
Think of the misery and degradation
that will be done away with by this
cooperative plan of each class fixing
price upon the products Of their labor
No longer ten thousand little babies
starve to death in one city In year,
neither will one hundred thousand WO-
men in the same city be compelled to
sell their bodies for sustenance. Neither
will one million women and girls In the
United States be compelled to work
sixteen hours at sewing for measer
subsistence. Under this co operative
system there will be work for ali and
all will be we'll paid. No longer will
the well to do be able to fix starvation
prices upon others labor We Will
have few paupers, brandy houses, no
biting poverty, and no criminals. we
will have crystali1ed into law the
Alliance principle of equal and exact
justice TO all and special privileges to
none. To secure this result what must
we dO7 Issue fifty dollars per capita,
establish sub-treasuries at central dis
tributing points, place a prohibition
tariff on all the farmer produces for
export that comes in competition with