The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-06-28

the public will be notified and invited
to attend the demonstrations.
tages? Take even our present inflated
statistics of production, which appear
to all of us to be thoroughly unrelia-
BILE OF we produce 80 to 40 million
what do we do with it?) And yet it is
possible for every landowner in the
oats each year. The same land would
bring crop of hay that year and a
larger crop of hay the next year. Please
do not understand us to discourage
anybody's growing anything else We
are simply talking about the few things
we know, and we are not discussing
affairs in general. But if you will take
the arabic acreage of Louisiana, and
divide it by two, and multiply that by
25-a reasonable first crop of oats
then, bearing in mind that we are
right here within stones throw OF
one of the best export markets in the
Union, you will see what immense
wealth is possible to us even in our
present condition.
| Now, why do we not take advantage
of it? If these things are, possible,
and have not the slightest doubt that
they are, or that even better things are
easy to obtain and many OF them, why
on earth don't we adopt them? OF
course we are precluded. as is always
the case in such conditions, by COM
bination of many detractions. Just as
success is what might be termed a
state of mind, possibly some psyche
logical condition that has been forming
and increasing for several generations
even in an individual or in state OF
4 society, so is failure, and after study
ling the matter in broad sense for
years, after having worked among our
own people here and worked among
other people elsewhere, we are tho
roughly satisfied that the largest ele-
ment of our failure is caused by our
want of cooperation.
! This word cooperation may cover a
vast multitude of particulars. Books
might be written on its meaning and
still great deal of good thought left
unspoken. but We may all understand
what it means in general sense. II
asked to define it as applied to human
nature and especially to business,
whether agriculture or finance or COM
: merce, should say. that it is the abil-
, lity that two or more men possess of
: combining and transmitting into work
: only such proportion of their intentions
!, as agree | have no hesitation in say
{ ing that the success of all the great
J enterprises of present day civilization
/ has rested on the foundation of such
! cooperation. Men have realized that
{ If they take hundred men and divide
{ the mental traits of each of those men
9 into hundred parts, they would prob.
2 ably find 5000 different and diverse
S tendencies on which no two men could
e agree They might possibly find one
j. per cent of tendencies 600 only on
r which they all agree. Then If these
0 men would lay aside all consideration
f of the 5000 and simply work along the
l. lines of the 100, they would easily
e have the combined strength of 100 mer
e along that line, whereas if they spen
n any time on the 5000 diverse points
IS they would merely be antagonizing
r. wearing out exhausting. and oifsettin:
each other
a. According to the standards which
- have prevailed up to this time. ant
- (which We must bear in mind are eve