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


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In another chapter NJ Holyoake consid-
ers the questions which can pFofefiy conie
bsfore ooopePutlve congresses. what.
he aeha, ARE the principles ~ COOPERATION.
.aA axg.N - A. aaff..ftuna aaA a. aaligevH
lie anewers that Corporation PROGRESSES
primarily 10 enable working people, Wy
means Of self help and voluntary concest
with others, 10 acquire business knowledee
and improve their material condition. Amid
the various societies cxtant for promoting
religious or political objects, cooperation
proposes 10 establish an organization OF
workers, who-asking nothing from the
State save equality Of opportunity shall.
by themselves and Of themselves, by labor
and commerce., better the fortunes Of in
dustry, always observing the rule Of equity
-ev seeking their " interests by means
compatible with the interests Of otherr.'
Mr.. Holyoake submits hat even this brief
formulation Of cooperative principle and
policy should enable any one TO decide that
any project or system which trusts to the
State to accomplish It's purposes could not
be. brought forward officially for discus
sion in q cooperative congress. Such a
proposal would be Socialistio, and coopera-
tors are not Socialists. Before a coopera-
tive congress could acquiesoe in Socialist
methods, the congress would cease to be
cooperative, since II would abandon its
principle Of self help. and cooperation
could no longer appeal to the poorer class
anywhere to improve their circumstances
by self effort. to which all the fortunes and
successes Of cooperation are owing. In
a word, Socialism dissolves cooperation.
Mr.. Holyoake 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 property
possessed by oooperators would have no
existence. He averred that Socialists
have no more right to enter our congress
and seek to pervert it for their own purposes
than oooperators would have to 60 into a
Socialist or Collectivist assembly and pro-
pose to them to abandon their principles
and methods and adopt ouls. No person
proposing the introduction of Socialistic
principles, or conniving at their introduction
into our movement, can be a oooperetor.'
Mr.. Holyoake did not deny that Socialism
might be better than cooperation, but he
pointed out that the two things are not the
same, and contended that those who thought
Socialism preferable ought to go over to
II, and not pretend to be on the side Of CO.
operation when they wished to betray IL.
He insisted that the cooperative party,
being a distinctive ~body-neutral, but not
~antagonistic to any other, religious or
political, but separate from them-ought
to pursue It's chosen course OF social effort
He reminds US that 1t imposes no theological
tenets on its members, nor exacts adhesion
to any political platform. To take sides
with any one creed would involve conflict
with every other. To take n side in poll
tics would be a challenge to the other.
To cast the cooperation movement adrift
from its 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 CROWN up In Great
Britain and attained recognition, influence
and wealth within the memory Of living
men. It is 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.. Holyoake held that there
would be time enough for cooperation to
become the handmade Of other movements
when 1t had perfected itself. Cooperation
involves two principles, i~ndividualism and
association. What are their limitsp How
far can the principles be carried in COM
bination2 The friends Of cooperation can
not be expected to enter upon other fields
Of enterprise until they are masters Of their
own domain,
ii.
To what extent has the cooperative move
ment been represented in Parliament Un-