The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-20

1t all pays in dollars and cents and II you
can suggest any new way Of spending
more money by which the health happi-
ness or enlightenment Of the community
can be increased, he will act upon it and
pay you for the suggestion. The fame Of
this system and the marvellous results II
is producing have so spread abroad that
during the past year over 5000 presidents,
directors and superintendents of factories
and large business houses have visited
there to investigate. Without exception
these visitors have endorsed this syste
of conducting business and most of them
are adopting it as rapidly as its features
can he introduced. Mr. Patterson hes
proved that So, 900 year spent in common
for the mutual benefit of all, under wise
management, viii change disrep-
utabe locality known as sly
der Town" into beautiful
and progressive community recbristened
South Park and give to every man with
a family in the neighbOrhood the equva-
lent Of a salary of 5000 a year besides
his wages. For there is no other place
where he could live in such a region Of
bowers and enjoy similar social and edu-
cational advantages on less money than
that. 1t is even doubtful If there are
many places where such an atmosphere
can be secured at all.
Cooperation Sure 10 Come.
Another striking illustration of this new
movement Is furnished by y. o. Nelson Of
st. Louis. Mo. He has also established
a successful factory community in which
he himself resides. He considers that the
enormous interests over which he pre-
sides, are his only in trust, TO be directed
for the benefit alike Of all those who labor
with him. He says
"Co-operation will supercede the COM
petitive plan just as the wages system
supplanted slavery and serfdom. The
business managers of the future will lCoN
back upon the nineteenth century way
very much as we of the Southern states
look back on the slavery times. The panics
and failures, the strikes and combina-
tons, the promoters wiles and the lob
bys brides. the stock speculation AMI
grain corners will be regarded by our sue
cessors with as much wonder and horror
rs we do the story of Spartacus, of john
Ball, and Of Uncle Tom.
"Co-operation win become general in
one form and another. Large operations
have advantages. The so-called monopoly
of the trunk line railroads is not in their
franchises but in their complete systems;
the Standard Oil Company can make
twice as much profit as smaller compeu
tors without bribing any legislature or
railroad manager The cooperative
store supplying its own members and OPP
Grating its own factories, as is well shown
by the English and Scotch system, can
save two-thirds of the ordinary expenses.
1t needs no advertising, no soliciting, IL
makes no bad debts, 1t devotes itself 20
the legitimate work of distribution. BY
gradual absorption, public utilities will be
taken over by the public and the organ
lied industries will be divided between
public ownership and voluntary co-opera-
tive association.
Progress of the Movement.
Great Britain and her colonies are by far
the leaders in practical socialism, as they
are in political reforms. When Joseph
Chamberlain was Mayor of Birmingham,
in the early '70's, he led a movement for
public ownership which has proven so en-
inently satisfactory that it Is steadily eX-
banding there and elsewhere. They bought
the water works and gas works. They
condemned the Stun section tore down the
old tenements. made new streets and leas-
ed the land for high-class buildings,
which revert to the city in about forty
seven years from now The changes for
water and light have been greatly re-
duced they are lower than those of pri-
vate works there are large net profits In
a short time Birmingham will be the rich
est municipality in the world, wiz no
need of levying a cent of taxes
Glasgow has WED with Birmingham IN
socialist advances, and she is so progress
sive in her business enterprise and growth
of population as to be properly called the
European Chicago Besides owning all
the ordinary public works, she owns and
operates the street cars, the slaughter
houses and the markets She owns about
8 900 first-class tenements where once stood
the pest-breeding Stun, she conducts lodg-
ing houses and a home for widows with
children.
London has had a distinctly socialist
administration for ten years. The tram
ways have been acquired, central parks
opened, direct employment established and
some Roadway made toward acquiring the
numerous water and gas works.
In this country many cities have taken
over the water works, notably Kansas
City, after a long legal battle. Mobile,
falling to buy The old works, Is now con-
structing new system. Denver has OBJ
tanned an enabling act authorizing bonds
to buy or build. A very large number OF
cities have built or bought electric light
ing works. Detroit has secured authority
to buy the street car system and a COM
mission, with Gov. Pingree at its head, has
been appointed to negotiate the purchase
Toledo reelected its pronounced Socialist
Mayor, Jones, by the astonishing vote of
two to one against mis- opponents eombin-
ed. Des Moines reelected Mayor Nc
Wicker on a municipal ownership issue
In Chicago every candidate for Mayor
was pledged to municipal ownership OF
street railways. Mayor Phelan was re.
elected in San Francisco on the same is
sue. Haverhin Mass, elected a Social
list Mayor. Mayor Quincy of Boston Is
favorable to municipal ownership Bos-
ton receives n large net income from its
tunnel through the city for street rail-
way use.
Profit Sharing i'm Soap Making.
Proctor & Gamble, makers of ivory SOAP
were among the first manufacturers in
America to adopt the profit-sharing plan
They have for several years, at the close
of a good season paid to each employe
an additional sum, equal to 10 per cent. of
his wages for the year. There have been
years when the total amount divided in
this manner reached 100000. The atten-
ton of this company has been recently
called to the newer method of sharing
prosperity with the employees. Some Of the
officers and directors have visited the Ma
tional Cash Register Company, and have
learned that $4,000 spent In common in
organizing and developing lasting benefits
for the community, in providing pleasant
aud healthful workrooms and educational
advantages for the children of the en-