Show PRINCIPLE SU that It be Adopted by p Pw III Ia UtAh nail Nut t lite Lilies I ste lit III hut hilt unitt be Salt talt Like LaIc City A Aug UI I 1000 To IJo Ut the Editor I times I ha has not noticed d I ID YOU columns dealing with the principle of cooperation and have hAn wondered why by the movement hu not DOC been bien Matted arted In Utah wit whore there on are a greet reat Dumber of tare tora who w were member of tin tiva societies In Europe rove In tact feet it 1 known Down thai ht of the b Sly societies WI was the means ot of grating patine numerous famiNe out I t then that there tiler are tOri bore why Is It that have laave at ii Sowed lowed the or o t to II dormant W Was It not instilled Into th them when they took up that its Ita were wre put not alone alun tot lot themselves but tOT for nil all thois with whom bom they came cante In WIthout regard to creed or color colorI I have hav been told that bV attempts have been made to start tb the movement Store and aDd they have resulted In III ruin rula and aDd almost disgrace Wilt Well I ad unit that coo in Europe h hIn has hasin In come instances had 10 it failUres sad reverses but such luch failures hive ve only tended to correct and ele and extend experIences nce until there thre are I less failures among Live societies than art are private traders tade or merchants A of raiSe ked Die ate If we hd had not quite Ii a Ir large number DUmber ot of Il societies CleU here heN I in Well Wel we have i number of 01 cooper tive store tor but not a lOUt solitary one ot of otI them u as far U I 1 can learn leam is II a co cooperative I operative society u as conducted accord aCford according I In ing to th the plan I that z e C M 4 1 I when founded Vi ViI was I Intended tu to fill 1111 a place In Utah to the English or Scottish II h wholesale le societies having numbe numberlesS small rl retail cooperative societies throughout these vall valleys and It if that wu was the Intention It Was I i a very I Ible ble one but It certainly I is not a ciao 1 society tod today in ht fact act It 11 DOt 1101 differ from any oth other m te corporation Some Bom ot of tM tee attempts U made II at co cooperation operation here ha have been wrong In the lbs beginning For Instance I MY have ta n mind an n Institution started under She flie title or of a cooperative society which proceeded to pay dividends the amount of each ellAh member owned ned whether that member purchased froni the institution or not t was iu something opposed to what WO e tan bv the term w operation Ih the dividends should I Il l boon efon upon t the hI members chases they Ith ho purchasers see re 1 ones one who cooperate Another cause ot of the probable abu ot of the ii tb the of buying buln and selling the stock at 01 tb the Another III I the Ibl practice ot of al allowIng lowIng eh each share hare or of stock to have vote ot I vr very bad feature In such an la in because most invariably the th bl bIg fish swallow the little ones Surely there thre art are In nearly all or of communities men and women aug well potted posted in III cooperation to agitate tM Ut principle and urge upon Up ll their neighbors It practice Uon will dUo destroy poverty It I true tru charity because caun It Inculcate If Ilance and help others othera to help them themselves selves It ft strike deadly blows blow at t tb the habit or of getting tUn Into It II a life insurance system a bank and anda nd a benefit building In perfection These ire re all 11 natural outgrowth of 01 cooperation It has been a wonderful and factor In dola doing away with the credit system tem where practiced The cooperative societies have fw few it any bad debts Workers again Y I appeal to you OU to examine this matter It will not l with your politics or your our reo re It will make mke you OU a better citizen It It I Is an n educator or of no mean order It ItI ItIs I Is no experiment It I Is a decided JUO I ce elsewhere wily why not here bre breI I trust that my weak appeal will UI arouse InU in all the old I hearts the spirit of the movement and that the they may get to work and du do something for tor themselves and their neighbors for tor It I Ii not a selfish work Thanking you Mr editor tur or the court courtesy of allowing me mc space In your valuable paper for my l letter last feek ud and olIO ohio In advance d for this thili I its m Yours YOUri respectfully |