Show 1 co operation inasmuch as the people of ogden city seem to be interesting the organization of a society for the ot carrying on a operative cooperative co store a few linea on the subject of operation cooperation co may not be conn dered inappropriate the immediate object of this article la to encourage the people of webber county in the movement which if properly entered into la the right spirit of operation cooperation co that of self help the working classes can not fail to liae a glorious career I 1 hae thought that it might be interesting reading to a goodly number ot houi faub bribers it on this christmas morn they coald make elves acquainted quain ted with some 0 the history of that grand economical movement in rn glaid which rona the trifling commencement men cement of X at rockdale rochdale Roc hdale lancashire lias grow n into lie most gigantic commercial enterprise the world ever taw n t ex deptin any when lie Koc hdale pioneers organize and their small means to buy from the whole pae dealer wp irately they were actuated h a far and nobler motive than the shilling they bad learned the doctrine ot ism in the school of kobert owen that every anaa work according to ira capacity and consume according to hi new sity as the fundamental ie or on which tha well baing and happiness 0 the people these pioneers with the aid ot rich men had baled to make a of their experiment at giamp but still retaining aich in the principle they had determined upon another atempa by begin to purchase groceries at wholesale beyond this ahey aimed at improved education to common employment and to lie purchase ot homes by means of this dauie operative cooperative co principle as to lie results to be a by comba the doctrine of then BO dearly cherished has not been fulfilled but cooperation that gorlion which seems at present to be its only practicable feature has improved the condition of the adherents to a degree which cannot be understood or realized except by those who have personally seen its effects effema which have been acquired physically mentally and religiously physically by securing for themselves purer and cheaper food and clot liing and better houses to live in mentally by providing the means of education socially by the business capacity which has been developed among workingmen by their attendance at cooperative meetings and serving on committees and religiously by the sense of the importance ut respectability ability which otherwise have never been engendered the chene 0 operation cooperation co as it relates to the retail store has for its object economy of cost purity of cammi cities and general thrift in nog land the retail operative cooperative co etore is composed of members holding one and not exceeding two hundred shares of each bome of win h is and some non wt horawa ble behare capital but enough non capital is reserved as a against sudden panics from any caus the store is usually governed by a committee elected quarterly by the members at their quarterly when the accounts are presented jach store bets aside a its profits usually aug per cent tor educational es the establishment of a library the conduct of science clas etc to go fully into the history of the would occupy too much of your voluble val uble space and I 1 will there tore content myself in this article to a comar reference to its immense success and growth it was soon diacove ed that small stores had very little chance in the wholesale isaik ets with large private buyers and it was early found necessary to obviate chii disadvantage to organ ire what is known as the co opera tive wholesale society especially as it was desired 10 get nearer to the source of production as a the of adulteration it was aliat efty retail having commented the wholesale society which began operations a capital of and in thirty it w B to which turned over twenty one times in that period to put the figurea into american Ame dollars from this beall beginning the wholesale sale society grew until the twenty years ending the year prior to my leaving fir this country their total h d been aid had mide during the same period profits tor ita manors these figures will give your readers bome idea of the immense benefits which lOi linds workingmen who have been BO fortunate and farseeing as to identify themselves with this movement have derived from it this amount of money rep benting exactly the wealth that would have been accumulated by capital if labor had not organized self to becu e it and therein lies he grand object of co namely the saving of the profits of rade to the workingman working maa instead of to the capitalist the co operative amov me t in eng and as may well be imagined lag rown with such batet is now an la addition to its it owns ita own shoe cracker ac tories its steamships and bas an extensive banking department it employs 41 buyers each having his own ee specialty and in addition to these there are 1510 regular employees has butter aayers stationed at cork limerick tipperary Tipp crary waterford Water tord and annah in ireland at copenhagen for danish butter at hamburg for the kel article while here are two buyers located at new york for the purchase of cheece etc and each other articles as are used by he society w alch are n the united states and canada fliey have separate buyers for cheese sugar flour gran dried fruit potatoes teas coalee and for their grocery department alone and all ther departments depart menta have expert buy era for their various lines over and aboe all this outside of the organization known as the coop co op society there are co societies very kind of textile fabrics as welt as flour woollen cotton furniture turn iture watch and agricultural implement actorina actor iea w corked on the operative cooperative co plan controlled and operated by with their own capital edill and business management all these represent so many advantages to workingmen working mea ahne their email means for those enterprises and in this lies the great secret of the solution of the problem oL Capital vs labor which laa agitated every civilized civil izad community on hie globe and if our people in utah win but take hold of this movement and heartily push it forward with thair moral and financial support there Is no need of this question e er becoming one of moment here prevention being better than cure and we are young enough yet to prevent tha evils of older and farger communities forcing their presence upon us then let the people come forward and put all the spare dollars they have into a genuine operative cooperative co movement let the promoters pee to it eliat correct prin optea are embodied in their constitution and there need be no or fear aa to the results they will be more glor ious than the promoters prom otera ever anticipated in their most and they will ba doing much for the ushering in of that time when on earth there will bo um vereal peace and gcoy will toward all men A |