The Forrest City times., 1907-11-15
NEED COOPERATION
ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESS IN ALL BUSINESS UNDERTAKINGS
ON SOME LATE IMPOSlTlONS
Schemes Devised to Deceive the Peo- pie and to Gain Support for Un- sound Financial Propo-
 aitions.

Harmonious cooperation is essen stial in any successful business. By cooperation is not meant such orga- nization as the communistic and mon astic societies found in parts of the European countries, and occasionally existing in America. AS cooperation relates to manufacture and commer- cialism, 1t simply means righteous regard on part Of employer and the employed for the liberty and priyil- ege of both It means Of the laborer. just days work for just days compensation. and for the employer. services rendered for the wages he must pay. Interests of both are paral- Tel One has his capital invested. money employed and the other has al so his capital represented by his abil ity to labor either in a mental or physical capacity.
 In England and in parts of Ger many. there are numerous societies. the workers in each being common stockholders and participating in all profits according 10 their holdings. In fact these societies are nothing more than the great railroad con- panies and industrial concerns of America. only that in the latter the stockholders seldom take an active part in the work performed. One who takes the care to study into condi- tions in the countries where this form of cooperation exists, will find environments far different from what obtains in the United States In vart- ous places and at different times at tempts to copy after the English CO operative societies have been made in the United States. Failure has re- warded the efforts made Some few communities fourished for a time, then decayed.
 Propped up by the success of the few successful organizations in the old country. shrewd schemers have started different commercial enter prises in cities of the United States, supposed to be operated upon the CO., operative plan. When carefully stud fed. and the plans of the promoters dissected. 1t will be found that CO., operation in these cases seems simp- ly the getting into business on other peoples money, and weaving around the enterprise such appearances as leads the unsophisticated to believe that from few dollars invested. great savings can be made In fact the cooperative plan is more for the pur- pose of advertising private business proposition and gaining trade from those who invest their dollars in the plan.
 It is a foolish thing for the resi-. dent of any town or farming commu- nifty 10 Invest money in such enter prises. which means competition for his home town. the killing on of its business and the building up of con- cerns in large cities. The earnest man or woman can see in their own home place splendid chances for co-opera. ton. Established business systems as found in the rural towns. are splendid examples of what co-opera ton should be. The home merchant supplies the residents of the place with the commodities that they re Quire; the merchant is the medium of exchange of the products of the farmer. In the transactions employ ment is given to home labor. and the little profits are kept at home for the benefit of all in the community Cooperation can be simmered down to strictly home.trade principle. and there can be no higher form no sys- tenn inaugurated that will bring bet ter results to the masses Before you invest in cooperative mercantile schemes devised by shrewd business men in the large cities study every phase of the question well. and you are likely to conclude that in you. own town there is plenty of room for cooperative work