Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-11-14
NEED COOPERATION
ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESS IN ALL
BUSINESS UNDERTAKINGS.
ON SOME LATE IMPOSITIoNS
Schemes Devised to Deceive the Peo-
pie and to Gain Support o un-
sound Financial Propo-
sitions.

Harmonious cooperation is essen
tial in any successful business. BY
cooperation is not meant sucn orga'
nization as the communistic ana mon
astic societies found in parts OF tne
European countries, and occaslohahy
existing in America. As co~-cperauoh
relates to manufacture and CONNER
cialism, it simply means a righteous
regard on part of employer and the
employed for the liberty n prlVh-
eye of both. 1t means of the laborer,
a lust days work for a just days
CONDENSATION; and for the employer,
services rendered for the wages he
must pay. Interests of both are paral'
lei. One has his capital lnvesteo'
money employed and the other has al
so his capital represented by his abil-
ity to labor either in a mental OF
physical capacity.
In England and in parts of Ger
many, there are numerous socletles'
the workers in each being common
stockholders and participating in all
profits according to their holdings.
In fact these societies are nothing
more than the great railroad COM
panies and industrial concerns Oh
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 condl-
tions in the countries where this
form Of cooperation exists, will lind
environments far different from what
obtains in the United States. In varl'
Gus 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 1ourished for a time
then decayed.
Propped up by the success OF the
few successful organizations in thu
old country, shrewd schemers have
started different commercial enter
prises in cities of the United States
supposed to be operated upon the &C
\ operative plan. When carefully stud
4 led, and the plans of the promoter
4 dissected, it will be found that &C
4 operation in these cases seems simT
a ly the getting into business on othe
7 peoples money, and weaving aroun
the enterprise such appearances a
leads the unsophisticated to believ
that from few dollars invested, grea
d savings a be made. In fact tn
1 cooperative plan is more for the pu
pose of advertising a private bushes
proposition and gaining trade frol
those who invest their dollars in tn
plan.
It is a foolish thing for the res
dent of any town or farming comm
!, nifty to invest money in such ente
= prises, which e competition IL
his home town, the killing off Of |
business and the building up of co
Germs in large cities. The earnest ms
or woman can see in their own hon
place splendid chances for cooper
ton. Established business system
as found in the rural towns, a
splendid examples of what cooper
ton should be. The home mercha
supplies the residents of the pla
with the commodities that they !
quire; the merchant is the mediu
of exchange of the products of t
farmer. In the transactions emplC
ment is given to home labor, and t
little profits are kept at home f
the benefit of all in the communi
Cooperation can be simmered do1
90 to a strictly home-trade principle, a
ue there can be no higher form, no s.
an tenn inaugurated that will bring b
on. ter results to the masses. Before y
invest in cooperative mercant
schemes devised by shrewd busine
cat men in the large cities, study eve
mo phase of the question well, and y
az. are likely to conclude that in yo
q a own town there is plenty of room
ack cooperative work.