| Show i eo alyk ATiK oab OAD r C r T THERE meis mels is a verr very general beneral en eral anti anit vade spread nin pip in n the united states andl audi greaf great britain in favor of the cooperation and skilled men of 01 various professions for self employ ment the tile principle i Is receiving attention and thought and though through mismanagement or ignorance there ma maybe V occasional failures failure the success which has attended many of these associations has been so satisfactory in every respect that it is clear that great results can be achieved by it it has as been provedina pro proved vedin in numerous instances that all that is needed to insure success is capital to start out of or debt industry and perseverance and an honest management of the funds precisely similar requisites are necessary to make a business busine sg which is not cooper co oper tive successful perhaps one of the most successful co manufacturing establishments now in the united states is the troy cooperative operative co foundry it began in in a strike in 1866 ism when fifty iron pul put their th air little means to together ether ethen and bought lit a lot and built a shop shod they began a n w with I 1 th 2 capital and have since fr from 0 th thein their ein eln e earnings arn ings invested in real estate and find houses for the members there thebe are more than one hundred men employed and abid those who vrho work fo for foy this establishment get from forty to sixty cena a day more than the same kind of workmen get in other shops and besides his wages wage each of the c cooperators operators co draws ten per cent on hla hia stock and a dividend den when the profits run over ten per cent the company has n now ow seventy two in it and t the he shares of stock which at first firstly were ere worth now sell for each from these figures it 0 will wiil be seen that the establishment is flourishing flouris fiouris we have sean seen in this city stoves which were manufactured at this foundry besides this foundry there are two smaller cooperative operative co vo stove foundries in the e eity city of troy and there thre is s a also aiso so one at e m one and nifty fifty ft men en A cooperative operative co foundry a also aiso 0 exis exists in bac each h of the e cities of rochester chicago quincy louisville and pittsburg in poughkeepsie and buffalo new lew rew york t there are operative cooperative co carpentering pent ering establishments each of which employs about fifteen men and at boston there thebe is a small operative cooperative co association for making 0 a new patent bed bottom there is also at troy N X Y a collar laundry which employs many women in new N ew york there is a cooperative p pera t ive lve prin azin printers t p r association all AA these establishments are said to be in 4 a prosperous condition the members of these operative cooperative co establishments have had to excer cise patience and to be persistent in some instances they have had to pay out money for years and wait patiently all tn jUlme for the accumulation of a fund rund to ms capital and in some cases cages a few only bidy of the members went into the co shop while the most of them went gent to work wore work elsewhere for wages but where men exhibit such qualities as these thesel ait Alt is only a question of timo time about their securing independence if ca capitalists get rich by y employing labor why wt Y cannot intelligent labor be so or gani zed d as to eave save to itself the great prots lity which are ao so often made baji byn sin single IQ proprietor instead of these profits being e centered in of one man or of ba rife 4 fany men fo hoard up or br to squander oni ona luxury and extravagance va anee ance antto and to create h a privileged ege cl class why not have them distributed a aindow M D the people ao 0 o P that tha all 4 may bay partake atthe ot the blessings of the earth with some degree devee of equality dalit and without being bround ground down to the dust and compelled led to live ru ant an d squalor through oppression an tyranny anny the reasons which prompt the formation of operative cooperative co associations in other places ought g to had ha ve increased weight in a young and progressive 0 dessive res sivo sive om community like ours oura I 1 abt inott that E a to we bao hao it e capitalists who fatten upon the toil toll of the laborer for we are more free from such evils than any community of our numbers in the world butic la ls desirable that na class should be formed in ln our oui midst whose int interests ts Te elings feelings ana and sympathies would nobl be in unison w ith those of the antiro people the creation of such a class would be in direct violation of the spirit of our system and its ita institutions what shat Is needed is the elevation of the entire mass and the diffusion of knowledg knowledge e and kealm wealth among all that ignorance and ad poverty vert y may nind find no place among us coop co op aeration aa now conducted in the world may not achieve all that 1 is required to bring brin biln of affairs but if it esoup is ono one means that thab can be used very effectively for the tho present and nna it ift will if properly properly conducted work out great grbac resul results tsi tEi and prepare the people for thein augu ration of higher prin principles 1111 lill an and more advanced rules ra es of life with this view tho the principle rine rind pic pie of operation cooperation co ought to be taen taken advantage a of and put into practical use anion anlon among gus us The there thero romay remay may be some kinds of business in which it will not work very ve well weli for the present but in many directions such associations can work out great and beneficial results andrew johnsons closing reception was an immense affair all the rooms odthe ostha white whito house were packed boford beford 9 ce clock b t I 1 the crowd still kept increasing when ghen aftem abts to come away began the scene if 14 is li said became tini tibi terrible Tible albie for mies gies when once out they could not find their carriages amid the great thron throng P and scored of ladies in full party dresar with the longest imaginable dru dri trails were obliged to walk ho home homo me without hoods and shawls men lien in full d dress were seen by the dozen with their h heads S tied up in handkerchiefs instead of hats for an hour not a lady goh got out except by being helped through windows quito a number fainted from the fright and cation caused by the swaying oatho crowd if an estimate of the late preside presidents n va pa popularity were to be formed from the then thon number in er of df people who were present at tuh this Is closing osin reception the conclusion would be arrived IT at that he ia Is immensely liked he went gut out in a blaze of glory |
