The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-03-18

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In cooperation. II Ia not a cure-all
for economic Ills. Cooperative con.
Germs succeed because they employ
good business methods. In fact CO.
operative marketing is good business
and good sense and intelligence APP
piled to farm marketing. This Is the
biggest and most important lesson TO
be learned in Ireland. As Rev. Fa-
Their Finley. a great believer In co
operation. says In IN article In the
Constructive Quarterly. That It has
been productive OF much material
good to those who employed Its meth.
DDS with intelligence and energy. Is
beyond question: that II has been
barren OF useful results where those
qualities were wanting Is equally In
deniable."
Cooperative marketing succeeds In
ireland because II stands for three
things: % Good business methods
and intelligent management: CD A
uniformly high quality OF product:
90 justice. equality and loyalty
among members. Without these char.
acterlstics cooperation fails in Ire.
land and fails everywhere. These are
the lessons that ireland has TO teach
America. No group which Toes not In
slst upon running it's co operative con
Germ along these lines can succeed.
To tolerate poor business methods. lax.
ity as to quality. or ~disloyalty and In.
Justice TO each other Ii to fail.
These are some things Americans
will not be required TO experiment
upon. because the Irish have already
tried them out.
Simply Good Business.
Irish cooperation makes money for
farmer and city consumer alike. II
has succeeded In bringing the producer
and consumer nearer together. Tho
farm products go directly to the city
consumer. The product arrives In
good shape. II brings only a reason
able price. The result is hat city
man and farmer profit by the more
economical method OF distribution.
But cooperative marketing after all
ls simply good, common sense and eff.
Client business. There IL nothing mys.
terious about II. As we have said,
there is In It no magic. The good
cooperative marketing concerns over
here succeed because they are we'll
organized, we'll managed, in~telligently
governed. carefully supervised: be-
cause they are simply efficient bust.
ness organizations In which 100 or
mn n mich N common a,1.tnaslnA
and q common interest get together
for a united. harmonious effort In
which every man does his full share.
over here IL IL always 'one man
ono vote" One lesson hat Ireland
a 3 for America Is that no man and
no small group OF men can be permit.
led TO control any cooperative organ.
lzation. The principal OF one man one
vote must prevail. The man who has
invested $1,000 must have no nor
voting power than the man who has
invested only Sc. Men. not prop
erty vote" Is another expression
used here. Under this system no nan
san use the cooperative society for his
avn selfish ends, Tha poorest farmers
attsuu lue mtStiukhs uuu " butg nuOW
ability. go upon committees and be-
come officers. The organization Ia
most essentially democratic.
All Profits to the Producer.
The purpose back OF cooperative
organization differs from that back
Of a commercial enterprise. II seeks
not TO make dividends for the man
who invests his money. but to pro
vide that the producer shall receive
the largest possible percentage OF the
price paid by the consumer. Ireland
has found by experience that where
large profits are paid to the investors
the real purposes OF cooperation arr
not served. One case Ia recorded
where American fruit growers organ
izer a so-called cooperative concerr
upon the Joint stock plan. They In
weighed into the venture a large mum
Der OF smaller growers who had littl'
money to invest, but In the aggregate
a very considerable amount OF frui
to market. The ones who lnveste,
largely were In control and proceed