The Marshall republican., 1914-01-23

Buying and Selling Done Jointly.
The most general form of coopera.
ton is tho dairy society. OF these
societies there are now more than
four hundred. Next In number are
tho rural banks, which number more
than two hundred. Other cooperative
organizations make Joint purchases for
farmers, breed cattle. promote local in
dustrics, particularly lace-making. sell
poultry and eggs, grow bees and mar
ket honey, sell butter and transact
Wholesale business for the country So
%cietiCs. Tie central society and some
others are aided financially BY the
government department OF agriculture,
agricultural committees and county
councils.
Cooperation stopping Emigration.
Tho result shows In economic bet
tcrucut and IN 4 more wholesome
rural life. \ single instance OF tho
FIRST result VS. that the yield OF butter
per Gallon Of milk has constantly in.
creased during the last ten years and
that Irish butter now sells readily In
London in competition With It's great
rival. butter from Denmark. From
certain counties whore the cooperative
societies have done their best work
emigration has almost ceased. Much
has been donc toward Improving the
condition of the cottages and b. c..
tall.ahing libraries. sane amGgemcnts
aEd helpful recreation IN the villages.
Tho Gaelic league has done good gery.
icl hero. Better be qu1rroliuE than
bo lone. ONE. runs jbr Irish proyerb
Tho neW village conditions would ban.
ish uuaurC,IuE without subsd,utiug
solitude, accomplishing this result BY
90 |gOurJgiur d-rgrkcnuCss and pre-.
yrniius cwisrat.Iu, the two giant evils
OK tho ireland Oh yesterday.
Another happy result is the moral
discipline already ua.iug itsolt felt.
Jf-y and On. wis, use or cooperation
has stimulated individual EFFORT. dUyOi.
uniug % taste ,gr work by Increasing
the produce oilabor However grca.
tho material advantages ot coopera.
zion. particularly tho cooperative
credit uysrpw-by which money 10
lent at low rates. tor reproductive
Work-tho educational results are yet
mur, Important.
Teehnieai Education Bearing Fruit.
Close akin o. The efforts ol the
cooperative .og.cligs has been the pro.
motion OF technical education by tbe
state. This work, carried ON by thy
Governments .!grtmDut Of AsricJ..
turc and Technical instruction Tor llC.
land. b., in 20 way, similar TO tho work
Of the American Agricultural colleges
and Experiment stations. except chat
it DO broader, not combining itself 10
agriculture and tho mechanic arts.
10 teaches the farmer and laLOrcr. IL
| trains iu its schools for business. com.
mprce. agriculture and technical pun.
suits. II COOS further and seeks an
Industrial revival by encouragement,
of new local factories. Tho depart.
moUts work. also bcsot by |di.iCgiuys
shows considerable progrc8s. Com
mcrcial enterprises and an industrial
spirit axe appearing In the smaller
towns ne well as developing Ia n,
largcr ccntgr5, Dublin, Belfast and
Cork. Tho manufacture OF bacon. of
wooden goods, OF lucOg. has begun IN
yillaEes whore ten years ago surplus
labor. unemployed wa8 driven 10 for.
Cigu lands.
pc'r transportation Heavy Handicap,
With creutod or revived local indus.
tries comes consideration OF hotter
transportation. Farm produce and in
agltrial products pay three per cent OF
thClr Value Go reach % market IN Can.
ada und fifteen per cent In Ireland. II
costs four dollars @ ton TO get eggs
from France 70 London, six dollars a
ton from Denmark. and twenty-five
dollars q ton from Galway, Ireland.
This condition an Irish parliament
may De oypCctcd 20 seek to remedy.
Just now Il blocks economic develop.
mont.
ireland t. thinking uow Ia terms OF
woolcus and linens. poultry and Fat
cattle, eggs and butter. banks and rail-.
ways" said the brilliant 4. NJ. Kettle.
professor OF economies IN the new
National university az Dublla.
"Soeial and Moral upiift."
Nor are the Irish az home forget.
ful OF the hishor things in life. They
are creating a new literature, they are
developing social life, gracious as al.
ways IN the verlest ~yillcges-for your
Irish peasant is born n gentloman-
and promoting higher standards OF
morality. In all the constructive
movements In ireland the religious
question looms large. For religion 10
the real lrlshmnn. Protestant or Cath.
Ollie, is not an argument. but an In,
stitution, Quoting again Professor
Kettle: 1T seems 10 Us as reason.
able to prepare children for their
moral life by excluding religion as 20
prepare them for their physical life by
removing the most important lobe of
their brains
Self Help by Mutual Help.
With this material and in this wise is
the new Ireland in the making, To
the Engllshman home" means his own
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