Show EQUITABLE cooperation A few thoughts suggested by the organization of a new coop co op association we are enabled by the courtesy of the gentleman to whom it was addressed to present the following extract from a letter written by brother george farnsworth of mount pleasant sanpete county I 1 was very much pleased to see your name in connection with a few others who have the courage to boldly advance the true principle of coop co op aeration era tion tiou which if it had bad been carried out from the commencement as it was intended by our late beloved presidents briham brigham young and john taylor it would now have been a blessing to all the people in my humble way I 1 have lor over fifi fithen pen years advocated this principle and ma made ae a study ot of it and have tried to establish it in its true form auw am sorry to say that monopolists were opposed to it and used their influence against its being established knowing well that if would be the downfall of monopoly and would do away with wita the system of from two to six men mea running it to their own advantage in each to town wn I 1 see by the report in the NEWS that the capital stock is to be in ta 5 shares an ana a each stockholder to te entitled to but one vote each share has a vote ed D EN customers are to get a share ut the pr olits this is the true plan as earned carriea out in england it if you ou remember I 1 I 1 wrote a short astier and sent to the NEWS which I 1 eu enclose close you will there see that it if what I 1 stated had been carried out up to ald time we would have been an independent and sell sustain ing iba people and could have saved millions bof dollars ollars ci cash in boiking up our raw material and given constant employment to thousands ot men women and children and thereby had bad a home market for all our surplus produce you are startles starting this institution under far more favorable favo rabie circumstances than they did in lancashire england in the yeat year 1814 when twenty anve factory bands pur their mites together amounting to in 1878 their membership was 10 1041 19 and their capital stock was and the profits of the last quarter of that year 1 1878 18 were this is only one out of tho the many in stances that could be cited to prove the success of t true operation cooperation co greatest feature ol of this principle is that it creates union when properly managed la in conclusion I 1 will say god bless the effort and put down monopoly and bring brine to pass a union that shall exist permanently |