| Show THE REASONS REASON S FOR IT by reason oi of the staid habits of the english people that country ban baa been UDO of wonderful success lu ill almost all armb forms of operative cooperative co or combined effort locality la Is very largely developed ve loped so BU live jut just where their fathers did or where their labor la in thor there is ie but little to move or oage edoia for possible ad adi i vantages ora ofa speculative conditions some habit babala which emch are every where bore deprecated such as anthe the consumption of beer or liquor there is a great deal of saving moving thrift in ID the easm prom from exterior circumstances operating now for many yean they live better than formerly are better househ and better clad have provided for aboin sanitary appliances including water ani an I gas gaa which have been aide and stimulants in securing other comforts comforte of furniture and home appointments appointment which alt all indicate the steady adva advancement of the art artisan lesti class clase the workers in factories and in influencing measurably the rural population who being isolated are the last laet to move in this direction the establishment of savings banks by the government la in 1 all I iti it lt i post offices has had bad a wonderfully salutary effect and the statistics stati stice of deposits ag great ing some millions milt ions sterling show out in unquestioned figures this spirit of thrift which is generally overshadowed by the clouds so BO ominously pot pointed anted out in the he son een pio urea tures of darkest england jEna laDd I with a tee population approaching shifty 00 BO 80 small mall a ur faor we may bot wonder that there to always a large element who live from nand to I whose whom subsist silice to of the most precarious kind and the these seare are touched first as an might be expected when society is 14 sub nub jetted to any undue pressure whether that may originate at home or come from complexities abroad seeing bat abat the be mother country carries investments invest mento in every nook and corner of be earth but this thin class clan are outside the range of the saving class clan who have work generally or work which Is only affected by strikes or the me breakdown ot of foreign markets from internal contro versy veray or war as an the case may be that emigration from so crowded a little island ties been immense for near fifty years everybody I 1 is aware government aid was wan originally extended to desirable classes that the cOlO colonies nIGG might be developed as they have been until Ed england irland has ban become colossal colo seal in her dependencies and they have developed characteristics which while essentially had bad but little room for activity at al home but ao an immense proportion of this swarming element went on their own volition mind and means and others were encouraged afterward by reports report and assistance from kindred friends or old neighbors there tie is a wonderful change from the days of our boyhood when emigration was compulsory when the colonies lonies cj ca were penal settlements under the terribly rigid administration of the law at that time offenses now counted very were visited by deportation beyond the seas for a term of years year while some more serious were lor for life this modern spirit or habit of saving thrift has had effect in some other directions much used to be made of societies which had bad provision for trades workers out of employment anu for esses cases or of sickness bickness or death these were generally held in public houses bouses and involved more or less expenditure the postoffice post office effice bank obviates this and tons of th thousands of pounds once spent for the good ot of the house are deposited to the credit of the earner re accumulated to in this and other rayc yo laere need and abd pro po ted ing greater than simple bank interest and oo co operative unions for the purchase haae cheapening obea pening and distribution of food supplies seemed the most promising seeing overy everybody body has to levees live the first were on a very small email scale methods were simple and ana crue creele business probably was waa none done too abundant and it to la quite fair to aj aalt that prospects however simple were not always a eucless euc but the idea had bad vitality and it but bat needed patience time and experience to demonstrate demone its value As the years flew by all that was borud for come failure even minta terel to success until now some of the he most gigantic co coo operative supply stores are the miracle or of t day not only in distribution but io in importing calling into existence existe exist elue ice corporate ships tore store mills manufacturing fac turing in ia almost every country and dealing to lo almost every hodg money to is naturally cheap in the old country and any enterprise of fair promise can command capital for its inauguration this abundance and disposition to invest has found opportunities I 1 tuni ties around the globe very large ny ney fabulous sums sume are invited invested in the united Uit sited states bonds of all aft kind national and local are taken up with avidity avld ltv mines railroads railroad moul municipal cipal improvements improve mente are moved by the millions of capital from england ngi and J which seems to be a veritable pao tolus or river of gold stith in common with other sections has felt of this kind of investment to the regret of th the 9 almost too w III n it Is leader a der most of this thin widespread wide spread motive power is drawn from persons of limited but certain income and but little of it from the industrial population home investment bus abma been their choice and with the instinct of almost all personal accumulators they bey have not oared cared tor for undue risks risk but in some way have seeing the power of money de d alred to secure its benefits to themselves this thin was early and readily received in merchandising or distribution hutto but to manufacture was always an objective point nence hence operatives operative combined their means in mills and when times were good they could hot boi row and be successful as well web but in the times of depression jo when markets market languished and kneir expenses con linued they were in a different position to the heavy capitalist or the he cor po horation por atlon ration and it was waft said a while ago that nine out of asel co operative cooperative mills in a given district were suffering lose loop which in some oases cases was a very heavy one this was a strange an unlooked for lesson As operatives they had worker and got their wage but in busin business etal for themselves bey abey found out some of the difficulties felt by employer employ err and also found that a coop co op factory was subject to the some same law or of competition in business with less experience exper lenow than had bad their old employers employer aad st d under these circumstances they could not continue to t divide as wager any arbitrary sum irrespective of earsco nor could they limit the quantity of wor work dope done ax the members of such cooper co opert oper vion aaion without the v sion of bankruptcy before the them m tibia lesson leboo afe also involved the real ra lation ot a ud labor they began to see eee that each was waa an indie india pene pen able sable to the other that each should have lo its 10 own ova reward and that outside of borro borrowing bor rowin winy the capital of such a company could only be increased by a continuous voluntary sacrifice of labor or r wages as its equivalent this trouble tru uble discovered by english operative cooperative co mill owner was waa exactly the situation aitu atlon of 0 our in tola this city who first organized as aa a co opera live company they wanted their wages rull full wages all that they earned every saturday night they did not really care to sacrifice even for capital capita a portion of thor ther earnings temporarily or of the gret Z C M 1 I factory might have been theirs today the carpenters or of the twentieth ward and everal other organizations tiona were in the same ai dilemme lemme both failed of permanence because ut of assumed necessity necessia essit pot for the be opposite reason reacon lauy lau laudable able utah projects have succeeded meo men have bave Invest invested oil labor year after year when failure b bac followed failure out but they aboy dually and secured hornes farms competence by virtue of oo co operation opera tiou based upon sacrifice which a almost invariably a prerequisite element of success the utah atmosphere is full of projects canals reservoirs railroads sud aud cooperation co operation la Is the key to 90 most of these labor being the chief ingredient require dand labor being belaf that la is now unemployed and should be enlisted under the of competent ability |
