The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1901-02-05
INDUSTRIAL EMANCIPATION.

INDUSTRIAL EMANCIPATION.
A remarkable meeting was recently
held in Boston to further movement
Of cooperative industry. designed to
give employment TO tine unemployed
and furnish unquestioned proof Of the
value of popular combination in pre-
venting suffering, poverty, debt and
failure among the co-operators.
Mr.. Henry Demarest Lloyd deliver.
ed remarkable address ON the COCA
sion. He declared that cooperation
meant a new social order, in which all
men should be workers and all work
ers partners. II brought together, in
tho efforts to establish this order, TO
realize a world Of wealth and brother
hood, tho workman and his employer,
the trade unionist and the capitalist,
the socialis aud the churchman.
Co operation is no Utopian idea; 1t
has passed the age Of experiment. In
Great Britain cooperative stores and
factories have. in single genera ton,
30 grown that they now represent .
membership Of one-seventh'of the Brit
ish population, doing a business, in.
Guiding manufacturing, of s27s,00o.-
900 a year, having a bank Of their
own with deposits amounting 10 ti0..
900. 900 and turning over the enor.
nous aggregate Of 5000, 90 o. 900 .
year
In this movement was found the
real cooperation Of capital and labor.
H." said Mr. Gargan, another speak
or at tho Faneuil hall meeting, "the
working people Of England have, in
one generation. done so much, what
may not be done by American work
iugmen and women. with their great
or alertnoss and brighter mentality"
Mr.. Lloyd pointed out that the
American people were cooperative
people, instanoing the success aohiev-
ell ia cooperative insurance, in such
1 associations as the Foresters and 9TH
, ers familiar 20 every body. The
Grange movement and that OF the Pa
irons Of Industry proved our farmers
, gifted in high degree with oo-opera-
, tive ability, certain TO manifest itself
in.furthor and more enduring effort
Cooperation had met with extra.
n ordinary success in Europe, upon
- whose toiling masses Il had bestowed
unlimited good. The stores il had
o established in England, the people,.
a hanks IL had called into being on the
continent, the farmers buying and
, selling orcAmerios and other agrieui
tural associations in ireland, had done
wonders to improve the people and
strengthen the state
In Boston, is proposed TO ersct. on
r. tho cooperative plan, temrie Of lAboi
" and college Of labor, 10 b. built b,
n workingmon and owned by working
10 men. The money needed for the pur
G pose will BE- borrowed, partly upon th'
II membership fees Of active members
ii partly from labor unions, partly from
the savings Of workingmen, and par,
ly from loan associations.
Mr. GagAn declared that in cooper
alton lay tho solution Of the trus
M question. He appealed TO all, work
A ingmen, capitalists, directors in grea
M financial institutions, oonservstiv
Al men and women Of the country, b
M meet the vital question Of the houi
NJ Universal education had produce
"A wants, and these wants general dii
M content All must then work for jus
,e tioe, for justice is, as Plato has 10
,a 1.-THE health Of the state"
a, In the confederation OF a subject o
IN such practical importance, Cicninnai
~ should not be behind Boston On
M philAnthropists, clergy. our capital
,o lists, our labor organizations, shoul
~ all give fullest consideration 10 move
a. ments so fraught with good to IN
masses Of the people, so certain
achieve the peaceful solution Of dif
mt culties which demagogaes pronouno
z, insoluble. save by anarchy. revelation
be spoilation and massacre.