Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-11-21
NEED CO. OPERATION
ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESS ~ ALL
BUSINESS UNDERTAKINGS.
ON so%g LATE IElPoSIT1oNS
Schemes Devised to Deceive the PEG
pip and to Gain support for IN
sound Financial Prspo-
sitions.

Harmonious cooperation ~ essen
tiai In any successful business. BY
corporation 10 not meant such orga-
ninntton as the communistic and mon
sstis societies found In parts OF the
BuYypenn countries, and occasionally
existing in America. AS cooperation
resates 10 manufacture and CONNER
ciaiism. It simply means q righteous
regard on part OF employer and the
eunployed for the liberty and privil-
ego of both. II means OF the laborer,
n Just days work for q just days
com pensetion; and for the employer.
services rendered for the wages he
must pay. Interests Of both are paral-
lea. One has his capital invested.
rzoney employed and the other hos al
50 his capital represented by his abil.
iv 10 labor either In q mental or
phgEieal capacity.
IN ENGLAND and In parts Of Ger
many, there are numerous societies.
tho workers In each being common
wtosahoiders and participating In all
profits according to their holdings.
In fast these societies are nothing
nepre than the great railroad COM
naaisC 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.
tiens In the countries where this
form OF cooperation exists, will find
environments far different from what
obtains In the United States. In vari-
Gus places and at different times at.
tcanpts TO copy after the English CO.
operative societies have been made In
tho United States. Failure has re-
w1rded the efforts made. Some few
communities flourished for a time,
then decayed.
Propped up by the success of the
few successful organizations in the
cid country, shrewd schemers have
started different commercial enter
Mises In citi IS OF the United States,
supposed to be operated upon the Co
operative plan. When carefully stud
led, and the plans Of the promoters
dissected, 1t will be found that CO.
operation in these cases seems simp-
~ the getting into business on other
peoples money. and weaving around
tho 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
these who invest their dollars in the
Rlaa-
" ~ foolish thing for the resi-
dent Of any town or farming commu-
nifty 10 invest money in such enter
prfses, which means competition for
hfs home town, the killing OF of it's
business and the building up of con-
Germs In large cities. The earnest man
or woman can see in their own home
place splendid chances for co-opera-
t8on. Established business systems
as found in the rural towns, are
spiendid examples of what co-opera-
ton should be, The home merchant
supplies the residents Of the place
VITA the commodities that they re-
9uire; 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
mem In the large cities. study every
phase of the question we'll, and you
are likely to conclude that in your
own town there is plenty of room for
cooperative work.