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Show H1 (Sermany has 2508 co-operative storo H societies, whoso sales In lDO.'i amount- i cd to 2:10,000,000 marks, or something H over MO.OOO.OOO. These societies do H not pretend to bo solving the problem H with which tho socialists arcwrcstl- H In. They arc franUly admitted to H have no other object than to save the H middleman's prollt for those who Join H them. .Similar societies have succeed- H cd very well in England, but, while H they have been much extolled and H urged as a panacea for many woes by M . writers In this country, no serious at- ji tempt has ever been made to Introduce !lhem. The failure to do so gives rise to "tho thought that America store-i store-i keepers have studied tho art of keep ing their patrons satisfied more thoro-ly thoro-ly than foreigners, and that the in Id-H Id-H dlcman iiucstlon Is not as burning a H ono In the United States as In coun- H I tries supposed to be enjoying tho bless- H I Ings of cheapness. |