The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-06-25

Nuptuuuktu DtnInhTk. tOOpeTu-
tive enterprise have revolutionized
agricultural Eu ope and now dominate
the rural life OF the entire continent.
Without cooperation the Belgian
would not be the efficient a%gricultur-
list which he Is: Germany would not
biluHies TO the point where It's home
grown food supply Is 81 nearly self.
sufficient: Denmark would not be ex-
porting sixty million dollars worth OF
the best dairy products In the world
Ireland would not be facing the future
with a hopefulness to which she has
been q stranger ever since her lands
were confiscated as u result Of the
early wars.
Belgium has 1900 rural organiza.
lions representing a membership OF
100000. At Luvaine we saw n single
federation OF cooperative farmers
league which represented a member.
ship OF over $4,000 and did a business
mounting into the millions. In Ger.
mafs II Is estimated that there arc
thirty odd thousand cooperative So
cietles OF various kinds and every SC,
ciety. with true German ~thoroughnes1
OF organization federated, affiliated.
and associated until together they
form an industrial unit with a mem
bership OF over five million. In Den.
mark one out OF every four inhabi.
tants belongs to n society engaged In
some cooperative activity. one man
Will belong 10 eight or ten different
cooperative societies, each society
performing some necessary function
In the economic life OF the individual.
Permeates Danish Life.
To illustrate how cooperation per.
meates Danish rural life: At Freder.
ickSsund while visiting the co.opera.
tiyeA bacon factory we came In con.
tact with a little group OF farmers and
their wives who were inspecting the
factory-the factory OF which they
were part owners. Upon getting them
In conversation we discovered that In
that little group OF ~ persons, IL dif.
ferent cooperative organizations were
represented. These were n co.opera.
tive bacon factory. a CO operative egg
export organization. a cooperative
store. an organization for the cooper.
alive purchase OF fertilizers: q coop
erative fire insurance society. q Co.
operative lifo insurance society. q 80.
ciety for the Insurance OF animals.
another society for the insurance OF
members against sickness, a co-opera.
tive credit society, "a farmers water.
w02s company and M electrical sup.
plypcompany. All OF these men and
women were from the farm and were
OF tho ordinary type OF farmers, Meth.
er rich nor poor but u thoroughly rep.
re%sentatiye group. 1t Is probable,
judging from our inquiries. that In
any group OF a similar number would
have been found representatives Of n
similar number OF cooperative enter.
prises.
In Ireland We found. that co.opera.
ton, under the leadership OF Sir llor.
Thomas A. Finlay. George w. Rus
sell, and II. a. Anderson. has revolu.
tionized rural Ireland. In fact cooper
alton and the opportunities which
ifeye come from the new land tenure
LAWS have we'll nigh remoulded the
Irish race itself. II Is evident that In
many sections his economic welfare
has been 30 well served that the Irish.
man is eve losing his p~ugnacity. lie
Is no longer necessarily 'agin the
government" but Ia becoming a well
contented citizen more intent upon his
economic situation than upon his pc.
liticai surroundings. lie 10 losing his
interest In politics and Wa talked to
many who seemed loath even to dis
cuss 30 important a question al the
home rule bill which was then pending
and over which the politicians were
becoming excited. The land tenure
law has made IL possible for him to
sdtS1rr a home; co operation has made
II possible for him to ecu a home;
cooperation has made It possible for
HIM 20 feed and clothe his family.