The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-08-18

oped.
But" says some one, haven't these
institutions sometimes been failure p
Yes. Every great movement has been
failure at some time. Application of
the steam power a failure. electro-teleg-
raphy failure, ralroading a 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 la
boring classes of America for rum and
| tobacco. and will establish cooperative
associations in all parts of the land,
some of them mightier than any fnan-
cial institutions of the country. We
| spend in this country over S1O0.OOO,O0y
every year for tobacco. We spend over
$1,5O0,0OO,OOO directly or indirectly for
rum. The laboring classes spend their
share of this money. Now, suppose the
lahorng man who has been expanding
! his money in those directions should
! just add up how much he has expended
| during these past years and then sup
| pose that that money was put into a CO.
operative association and then suppose
he should have all his friends in toll,
who had made the same kind of expend-
iture, do the same thing, and that
should he added up and put into CO.
operative association. And then take
all that money expended for overdress
, ana overstyle and everything ON the part
of toiling people in order that they may
appear as well as persons who have
more income-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
| think of trades unions. ! think they
are most beneficial in some directions,
and they have "A specific object and in
this day, when there are vast monopo-
lies-a thousand mohopolies concern
trating the wealth of the people into
the possession of a few men, unless
the laboring men of this country and ali
countries band together they will 90
under. There is a lawful use of trade
union, but then there is an unlawful
use of trade union. If ii means sym
pathy in time of sickness, if it means
finding work for people when they are
out Of work, if il means the improve
ment of the financial, the moral or the
religious condition of the laboring
classes, that is all right. DO not artists
band together in an art union? DO rot
singers band together i'm Handel and
Haydn societies? DO not newspaper
men band together in press clubs? Do
not ministers of religion baud together
in conferences and associations? There
is mott al the land city where clergy
men do not come together, many of
them once a week, to talk over affairs.
For these reasons you should not blame
labor guilds. When they are doing
their legitimate work. they are most
admirable, but when they come around
with drum and fife ana flag and drive
people oil from their toll. from their
scaifodings. from their factories, then
they are nini.istic, then they are COM
munistic, then they are ba.haric, then
icy ul' ru'S'' II " mar wants 10
sop "oIN' l'' MN s'"P work. put ne
''n"o' S'oP me from WORK,
Hu' HOW suppose 'ilat al 'he iaporing
ei'sS's p"uoeu 'o8e'ner Tor oehtncieht
Pun PoS's III co-opera'iNe association un-
,'' "',''e,I' i'i'ie '"el put 'he'r
money that they waste in rum and to-
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'"'Iurcii' lor 'helr moral intellectual
s'.u rem 'ouS improvements "hat a an
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