The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-06


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No t~hp. 'tns he principles ~ c1npefation,
tnd Shat srE ~ obligations and itH policy
tIs aueNsra that 'cpupsratioH profassea
primarily to snHbie writing Dpuple, nv
means II sqif help and voluntary conCert
with 1theFp, tn scuiifs buninses hnnvledse
and improve tlieir Material condition. Amid
the various sorietier sxtant for promoting
Religious or political nhisuta. compensation
proposes TO establish an organization u
workers.. Nho-aHhinE nothing nom the
State ave equality ~ opportunity shall.
by themselves and II themselves. by b
and commerce.. bstter the fortunes ~ IN
dustry. always observing tlis rule of suuity
ever seeking their own interests by means
compatible with the interests Of dthern.
Mr.. Holvoake submits that even this brief
formulation 81 cooperative principle and
policy should enable any one TO decide chat
any pruieut or system which trusts TO the
state to accomplish In purposes could not
bs. brought forward officially for discus
sion in a cooperative congress. Such a
proposal would be SuciRlistiG, and coopgrd-
tors ara not Socialists. Before a coopera-
tive congress- could anuuiesoe in Ocinli
methods, the congress would cense TO be-
cooperative. since il would abandon its
principle Of self help. and cooperation
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anywhere to improve their circumstances
by self effort. TO which all the fortunes and
SUCCESSES of cooperation are owing. In
q word. Socialism dissolves cooperation.
Mr.. Hulyuake was convinced that had the
early English cooperatOrs looked to the
State for aid there would not be to-day
in England a single cooperative store doing
business. and the millions Of proparty
possessed by cooperators would a no
existence. He averred that Socialists
have no more right to entar our congress
and seek to pervert it for their own purposes
than cooperators would have To 90 into a
Socialist OF Collectivist assembly and pro-
pOss TO them to and their principles
and methods and adopt ours. No person
proposing the Introduction of Sociaiistic
principles. or conniving at their introduction
into our movement, can be a c~ooperator.'
Mr.. Holyoake did not deny that Socialism
might beA hatter than cooperation, but he
pointed out that the two things are not the
same. and contended that those who thought
Socialism preferable ought TO 60 over to
it. and not pretend to be on ths side of CO.
operation when they wished to betray ID.
He insisted that the cooperative party,
being a distinctive body-neutral, but not
antagonistic to any other, religious or
political, but separate from tfiem-ought
to pursue its chosen course OF social effort
BE reminds us that it imposes no Theological
tenets ON It's members, nor exacts adhesion
to any political platform. To take sides
with any one creed would involve conflict
with every other. To take one side in poll
tics would be a challenge to the other.
To cast the cooperation movement adr1ft
from ita moorings would, he predicted,
embark cooperation, without compass or
chart, on a shoreless sea, where rocks are
known to abound.
Readers of this work. will concur with it's
author in considering it a memorable
thing that a distinctive body of industrial
cooperators should have grown up in Great
Britain and attained recognition. influence
and wealth within the memory of living
men. It il not surprising that the Socialist
party, which in Great Britain has but little
to show in the way Of SUCCESS should desire
To effect a fusion with the cooperative
movement. Mr.. Holyoske held that there
would be time enough for cooperation to
become the handmade OF other
when it had perfected itself. Cooperation
involves two principles, individualism and
aaaocistion. What are their limits? How
far can the principles hs carried in COM
bination? The friends Of cooperation can
not bs expected to enter upon other fields
of enterprise until they are masters Of their
own domain.
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