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Show Co-operation. Every town and village where there are two or more retail grocera ought to have a grocers' association. It is useless to decry the advantages to be gained through co-operation. It ia equally foolish to point out where in certain places these association have failed to accomplish the desired results. The time has come, and it i.-oks a1- if it had come to siay, when men cf all clashes with a common puipoo have to unite and concentrate their. 1 nergies to snc-cessinlly snc-cessinlly battle with th.dr enemies. The Uibsi oig&uizaiu&z-SU . eu-dsmonetrated their strength. Tiro railroads, ia fact aimost every corporation and class of men whose interest are identical, meet frequently at sonio common point to disenss ways and moans to improve j their condition and add to their roven- ues. Why not the retail grocers? Are there no abuses in the trade? Are your profits so munificent that you can afford to throw to the winds a few thousand each year, the results of indiscriminate credit? The bankers of the country have an association which calls them In annual convention, not only to get together and get acquainted with each other, but to discuss problems of profit and loss. I Is the grocery business a better one than banking, that these tireless toilors of trade can afford w indulge in illegitimate illegiti-mate competition, expensive jealousies and biekering9? Commercial Tribune. |