Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-06-13
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COOPERATIVE STORES IN
ENGLAND

The growth of the cooperative
stores In England has been something
marvellous. Starting with practically
nothing in the way of capital, In
comparatively few years they have
built up IL business aggregating mil
lions of dollars year.
But they began right.
They began at the small end.
They began with the acorn and they
gradually developed the tree until il
has become great strong oak.
If they had begun at the big end.
and subscribed Il capital stock as large
as their present capital, and gone ont
into the highways anC byways to hire
men to transact their business, form
ing great organization in which no
man was trained to his duties, they
would have failed hopelessly and
mlserably failed.
And so would any great business
enterprise started in that way.
Cooperation can be no exception to
the law OF evolution.
You must begin with the seed and
let II grow gradually, ms they did in
England with Their cooperative stores.
TIE MAKING OF MEN.
The great central thought which
should be the pillar of fire by night
ana the pillar Of cloud by day to lead
the American people out of the wilder
ness of the corruptions and dangers
OF accumulated and aggregated wealth
should be great public movement in
the line Of making men" rather than
making money"
Our government Is upheld upon the
shoulders of its own people.
Ana as our citizenship is maintained
at a high standard Of moral and physi-
cal strength on the part of our mon
ana our women. just to that extent
VIII the strength of our nation be
maintained
II we would be sure of this. we
must Keep our young men from flock
ing to the cities.
The way to do II Is to train them
through n system of education viii 4
VIII equip them to solve the problems
OF the country, and plant the idea in
then minds that the country after all
offers greater stimulus for mental
activity than the city.
PROBLEMS OF THE COUNTRY
The most attractive problems OF
this generation are in the country.
The building of good roads, the build
ing problems of the farm. the abDlfca-
ton of power to the needs of the farm
and the farm home, the lessening of
domestic burdens through better
domestic arrangements. the constitute
ton of rural electric railways and
rural telephones ana farm irrigation
systems and the application of machin-
cry 10 all the uses of the farm. offer
a field for effort and invention and the
application of energy to the farmers
boy which no city can offer to him,
provided he has had the opportunities
of education to qualify him to solve
these problems.
There should be in every county in
this country n school where every
farmers boy could. without going any
farther from home than the county
seat, learn to do all the things which
have mentioned
AGRICULTURE AND MANUAL
TRAINING.
We have schools where n part of
this training may be obtained. The
Throop Polytechnic Institute ut Pas
adena, California, and the Stout Man
ual Training School at Menominee,
Wisconsin, are of this class. But,
coupled with them should he the agri-
cultural training which boy gets at
the DoylestOwn National Farm School.
or in part at the summer school of the
Wisconsin State University at Mad
ison.
And every girl should have nm equal
opportunity to flt herself for her duties
as the mistress of Il farm home.
Out of such homes will come gen
Grafton of strong, conservative and i'm
telligcnt men who will solve the grcat
problems of this people, and will solve
them so gradually and steadily that no
radical methods will ever need to be
adopted.
They will put out of business the
politician who wants 20 ride in blood
up to his bride bits, like an erstwhile
governor of Colorado. or the present
day politician who seeks TO ride into
public Office on wave of prejudice
and champion the peoples rights with
his voice, while his hand, like as not,
is in the pocket OF some corporation.
put not your faith in princes"-
nor i'm politicians.
The Lord helps those who help
themselves"
So long as the people depend for re-
lief upon politics. just that long will
they be disappointed.
TIE LARK IN THE MEADOW.
When they learn the lesson OF the
fable Of the lark I'm the meadow, and
20 to work TO DO things for them
selves, talk politics less, and train
themselves to do things by co-opcra-
ton more, they will he surprised at
the progress they viii make in the
right direction.
Politics, ana a dependence on the
part Of the people upon politics, are
the hope ana the salvation of the cor
ruptiOuists and the trusts, and Of
every combination Of capital which
lives by skimmlug the cream from
the industries of the people
If YOU want the cream yourself you
must do your own skimmiug.
You must not imagine for moment
that what / have advOcated IS mere
theory. It is far more than that. 1t