Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1899-08-18

bacco, and | VIII establish cooperative
associations In all parts OF this land,
some of them mlghtler than any fnan-
cial institutions OF the country. We
spend I'm this country over $100.000.000
every year for tobacco. We spend over
81 ,5O0000,000 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
Just add up how much he has ex-
pended during these past few years,
and then suppose that that money was
put into n cooperative association. and
then suppose he should have all his
friends In toll. who had made the same
kind OF expenditure. do the same thing.
and that should be added up and put
into a cooperative association. And
then take all that money expended for
overdress and overstyle and overliy-
ing on the part Of toling people In
order that they may appear as well as
persons who have more incOme-gathtr
that all up and you could have &C.
operative associations all over this
land.
Trades Unions.
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 monopolies concen-
tratIng the wealth of the people into
the possession OF a few men-unless
the laborng men Of this country and
all countries band together they VIII
20 under. There is a lawful use OF a
trade union. If 1t means sympathy hu
time OF sickness. II II means finding
work for people when they are out OF
work. II It means the Improvement OF
the financial. the moral or the religious
condition OF the labUring classes. that
is all right. DO not artists band to-
rether I'm an art union? DO not singers
band together in Handel and Hadyn
societies? Do not newspaper men band
together In press clubs? DO not min
listers OF religion band together In con-
ferences and associations? There Is
not in all the land city where clergy
men do not come together. many OF
them once week. to talk over affairs.
For these reasons you should not
blame labor guilds. When theg are
doing their legitimate work. they are
most admirable. but when they cone
around with drum and fife and ling
from their Scaffoldings. from their fac
tories. then they are nihilisuc. then
they are communicate. then they are
barbaric. then they are a curse. III
man wants to stop work. let him stop
work. but he cannot stop me from
work.
But now suppose that all the laborlng
classes banded together for benencen'
purposes In cooperative association
under whatever name they put their
means together. Suppose they take
the money that they waste In rum ana
tobacco and use Il for the elevation
Of their families. for the education OF
their children. for their moral. intel
lectual and religious Improvement
what n different state OF things we
would have In this country ana tney
would have In Great Britain.
DO you not realize the fact that men
work better without stimulant! You
say. "Win you deny the laboring men
this help which they get from strong
drink. borne down as they are Win
many anxieties and exhausting workT
would deny them nothing that Is
good for them. would deny them
strong drink, II had the power, be-
cause It is damaging to them. My
father said: 81 became a temperance
man in early life because found that
In the harvest field. while | was natu-
rally weaker than the other men,
could hold out longer than any OF
then. They took stlmulant and TOOK
none"
Everybody knows they cannot en-
dure great fatigue-men who Indulge
In stimulants. All our young men un-
derstand that. When they are prepar-
ing for the regatta. or the ball club. or
the athletic wrestling, they abstain
from strong drink. Now, suppose all
This money that is wasted were gath
cred together and put into cooperative
institutions. Oh, we would have very
different state Of things from what we
| have now.
Practice Economy.
| I remark again, the laboring classes
of this country are to find great relief
| when they learn. all OF them learn
forecast and providence. Vast num-
bers OF them put down their income
and they put down their expenses. ana
| II tie income meets the expenses that
Is all that Is necessary. | know labor
ing men who are In perfect Midget
until they have spent their last dollar
They fy around everywhere until they
get II spent. A case came under my
observation where n young man was
receiving S70O n year and earned II py
very hard work. The marriage day
| came. lnc DTlut itNN''~' FN -
an inheritance from her grandfather
She mt the $500 In wedding equip
ment. Then the twain hired two
rooms on the third story. Then this
man. who had most arduors employ
mcnt, lust as much as he could posi-
bly endure, got evening employment
so he could earn a few dollars more
md by this extra evening eInpioy
INT almost extingulshed his eye
30 Why did he take this extra
evening employment? Was 1t to lay
by something for a rainy dayf NO
vas it to get life insurance so that
{ he should die his wife would mol
q pauperl No. 1t was for the one
purpose OF getting his wife SlOu
sealskin sacque. am just giving you
e fact | know. The sister OF this wo
imam, although she was very poor
girl, was not to be eclipsed. and SC
she went to work day and night anc