The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-04-14
BROOKS or HARVARD POINTS
TO LIMITS OF ATtON

"Co-operation has its economic
ns well as socialism. said John
Graham Brooks or Harvard univor-
sity. president II he National Con-
sumers league. He aid that not al
agencies of production were going 10
he turned ove 60 the state. and con-
s%cquently not an interest and profits
could be socializcd. He said
Fifty years Of pr~ufit-shuring and
labor copartnership. as recorded In
the careful report of the English
board of trade. lsi2. SHOWS us with a
sort Of absolute certainty how pro-
found are the limits within which
those agencies must work. Though
older profit sharers thought they
were to have the whole future TO
themselves. As against these. con-
sumcrs cooperation is with equal
certainty TO have Gas Il rs actually
having a vastly wider influence. But
II seems To me clear that the social
istic claim FOR its university Is with
much solid ground.
'Whcn q pronounced and able
group OF English socialists put out "a
document la the present year with
the following paragraph. There Is IN
NAH NANNAN 1A AlNAaAAE ia NtHAHtlN WHY III
a state OF economic equality one indi-
Nidual should not exchange his com
modify or service for the commodity
or service ~ another individual h.
ne prefers To do SO, without entering
cooperative processes. retaining.
Ike the artist, complete freedom 10
produce for one customer after an
other 10 whatever extent and ln what
ever munner'-we have the frankest
admission hat cooperation. as well
us socialism proper, IS to have its linn
it's.
Cooperation lifts the level of the
competitive struggle. IL makes b fair
er; % humauizes u. but Il does not
remove a. or To- put Il more con
creteiy boz terms OF another Limitation
which must be reckoned whit is
"a limit that has both AN immediate
practical interest AS we'll as "A specu-
iative n OF ever more Importance.
Every effective cooperative center
instantly react upon local retail
prices. Cooperative literature In
many countries presents the most
startling tables to illustrate what may
DE saved hy pocketing the difference.
between retail prices ESPECIALLY at
points where there is little competl-
zion or practical agreement on prices)
and what products might be sold for.
Ia Europe generally the purchasers
OF fertilizers, seeds, and instruments
We're mulcted around 40 per cent. and
besides the thieyerles OF edulteration
AS In the successful store move
ment cooperation brings these prices
at once 10 fairly reasonable limits aud
often puts out Of business inefficient
retailers who could exist only by
these crude eXploitatlons. Again and
again, as these prices are dropped 20
meet the invading co-operators, one
sees the tug of wal begin. \ Canad-
ian store reports: We had a magnif-
showing the first year. We made
prices tumble all about Us. but since
We haven't had much 10 show.
.Co-Operators on the Pacific coast
hnve ha0 plenty 81 experience OF this
same sort.
II Ia, of course. one OF m" glories
Of cooperation that Il does bring
down prices and Keep thom down.
result Tor which corporation often
scant credit but when this mar
OF unfair prices hes been brought
Wv 10 Aht AtaA minus hAAhAM hNAAn ANr
operators have Go act b. reached. aud
they are fairly pltted against oppon-
euts ready 10 Try vita and cfncioncies
against a so-called democratic bust.
ness There are thousands ~ these
sigorous -iudiYidualists. sven in Dam
18Th bacon, butter and eggs. and In tho
store movement. VINO do not
co-operators IN the least.
W. do not think OF the sociallzed
p%ostofhce as a part Of cooperation.
Corporation will de- business with Il
is with the state railways telephones.
and ether monnpolies which nave NJ
nally passed out OF private hands
but the rise anG extension OF the con-
sumers' movement h essentially vol
lntars it allows outside competition;
Z lays the utmost stress on restricted
and socialized management Jealous Of
outside interference. it ~ free from
monopoly because ~ doors are a.
open TO new members"
COPPER ALTON THE GECREy