The Grenada sentinel., 1899-08-19

rightly carried on anu inisn'"S
oped.
But" says some one, "haven't these
institutions sometimes been n failure!
Yes. Every great movement has been a
failure at some time. Application OF
the steam power failure, electro-teleg-
raphy failure. railroading failure,
but now the chief successes OF the
world. /
But" says some one. ''why talk OF
surplus being put by laborers into CO.
operative associations, when the vast
multitude of toilers in this country are
struggling for their daily bread and
have no surplus?" reply: Put into
my hand the money spent by the Ia
boring classes of America for rum and
tobacco, andI will establish cooperative
associations in all parts of the land.
some of them mightier than any finan'
eial institutions of the country. we
spend in this country over $10O,OOo,OCS
every year for tobacco. We spend over
81, 500, 900, 900 directly or indirectly for
rum. The laboring classes spend their
share of this money. Now, suppose the
laboring man who has been expending
his money in those directions should
lust add up how much he has expended
during these past years and then sup
pose that that money was put into a 90
operative association and then suppose
he should have all his friends in toll,
J who had made the same kind OF expend-
iture, do the same thing, and that
should be added up and put into CO.
operative association. And then take
all that money expended for overdress
and overstyle and overliving or the part
of toiling people in order that they may
appear as we'll as persons who have
more ineome-gather that all up, and
you could have cooperative associations
all over this land.
am not saying anything now about
trades unions. You want to know what
I think of trades unions. l think they
are most beneficial in some directions,
and they have specific object and in
this day, when there are vast monopo-
lies-a thousand monopolies concen-
trating the wealth of the people into
the possession of few men, unless
the laboring men of this country and all
countries band together they will GO
under. There is lawful use of a trade
union, but then there is an unlawful
use of a trade union. If it means sym
pathy in time of sickness, if it means
finding work for people when they are
out of work, if it means the improve
, ment of the financial, the moral or the
religious condition OF the laboring
classes, that is all right. Do not artist!
band together in an artunion? Do mo-
: singers band together in Handel ant
| Haydn societies? Do not newspaper
: men band together in press clubs? D'
e not ministers of religion band togethe
D in conferences and associations? Their
: is not in all the land city where clergy
S men do not come together, many o
e them once a week, to talk over affairs
n For these reasons you should not blam
r labor guilds. When they are doin
t their legitimate work, they are mos
y admirable, but when they come aroun
h with drum and fife and flag and driv
t. people off from their toll, from thei
|. scaffoldings, from their factories, the
IS they are nihilistic, then they are con
IT munistic, then they are barbaric, the
h they are a curse. If man wants
l. stop work, let him stop work, but b
t. cannot stop me from work.
it But now suppose that all the laborin
A. classes banded together for beneticier
s. purposes in cooperative association III
d, der whatever name they put the
C. means together. Suppose they take tt
Is money that they waste in rum and It
e bacco and use it for the elevation
Id their families, for the education of the
,e children, for their moral. intellectu
,e and religious improvement, what di
e. ferent state of things we would ha
r. in this country and they would ha
rt in Great Britain!
.l- Do you not realize the fact that mi
work better without stimulant? "
r say, "Will you deny the laboring mi
Is this help which they get from strol
es drink. borne down as they are wi
,s many anxeties and exhausting work
or would deny them nothing that is go
~ for them. l would deny them stro1
10 drink, if l had the power, because it
No damaging to them. My father said:
30 became temperance man in early i
- because I found that in the harye
r.. r. field, while was naturally weaker tn
w the other men, l could hold out long
"a than any of them. They took stim
w liant and l took none."
- l know a gentleman very well "
" ~ has over 1000 hands in his employ.
': '.' said to him some years ago when the
:" was great trouble in the labor mark'
n How are you getting on with yo
TO- men?" "Oh." he said, II have
as trouble." "Why," said, shave not y
.s I had any strikes?" "Oh, no." he sa
nu Il never had any trouble" "What pl
e. ee'' do you pursue?' He said: II will I
M 'a- you. All my men know every year j
We how matters stand. Every little wh
l call them together and say: NC
nc nc boys. last year made so much; t
~ year l made less; SO you see CAM
~ pay as much as did last year. Ne
"s' want to know what you think ous
'u' to have as percentage out of this