| Show V 00 we read in a recent number of the N Y the following edi paragraph ought to in duco readers in utah to no less re than any A strong movement is in progress toward making co operation popular in alie united staten it is to be hoped that it may succeed eucce ed for people who find as many uses bof money as americans do arf abolt all others the people who should save money when the operation ii eaas aa the cooperative system makes it among the things absolutely to success in cooperation however ara a number of people with sense enough to see the benefits of the plan and this coun try seeing very slow in producing such beings at present peo pic bv choice pay the hig liest market prices for everything they get there is in these lines wise counsel an l strong censure long years yei decades ago the people who arc now inhabiting the homesteads of utah hare been taught the great of co operation they had their ayes directed not only to tho shortsighted short sighted wisdom and craft of fallible man but higher examples and superior precepts acro available te them to convince if union makes strong disunion weakens and is therefore pernicious for any community or people in various forms and shapes they were instructed in the principle of concan draling the scattered and theio fore insignificant efforts on one great common interest and working out alio material problems of life not in individual isolation but in united harmonious operation cooperation co for a time many would ie ige tho truth no less divine than of the principle and much ws accomplished by concerted ac tion and combined energies still obstacles would arise and whenever a failure occurred many myopic people would see the cause of the failure in the inadequacy of the principle instead sheroit lay in their own insufficiency and chency discouragement would be followed by disgust and any new exhortations and fresh ex postulations by the leading minds who could see further and discern deeper would be received with deaf ear or at leaah with lame hand yet the principle as simple and incontrovertible as the fundamental axioms of arithmetic and geometry lives and is asserting ais erting itself in many places and many ways the world with its mole eyes has long seen the excellency of a cooperative system and hundreds of institutions bear iti impress in europe factories savings banks stores shops and many other industrial and commercial enterprises are based on the broad foundation of co operation of the humble many in self defense against the proud few in possession pos of monopolies knitt lr and spirit of this age has corrupted exaggerated ag or perverted this principle like so many others which it touches in its uninspired awkward ignorance foolish even vicious plan aad schemes like nihilism socialism communism and many other man conceived iams isms are either in injurious arys ing to display their deleterious ac A beautiful instance of the beneficent working of true cooper co oper aaion is furnished by the social life of the early christians a system choso whoso unparalleled i excellency xcell ency is admitted by jew and gentile believer aud infidel but bow long did the happy when all things were in common last soon the innate egotism of man the selfish proclivities would assert them selves and a few arrogating to them selves the executive key of the priesthood of the living god commenced to establish the despotic structure known as the aloman catholic hierarchy with the pope as the alleged successor of st peter at the bead of the system true religion was lost and with it the true plea of government and a bound social status mankind had to pass through the egyptian darkness of the middle age with only now and then u faint glimpse of heaven born light an inspired and bold but never successful attempt at a moral religion and social regeneration such as made by wycliffe in england buss in y Saro nirola in italy only with the beginning of the six meent century with tho advent of martin luther ulrich zwingli john Calvi nJohn knox and others whose mighty stroke shattered many idol of i new and better day dawned still it wa only a partial deliverance and finally taft result arai many little pope theono great one many arrora instead of one error many falsehood falge hood ii istead tead of one the french revolution wa tt great many but as it lacked altogether moral and of its work wan only pur lial and still the world redlies rex lies tho of tins present bochat statues tho poor allion ml lion and alio millionaires dread a violent overthrow of all otal institutions the civilization civilisation of the nineteenth century Is ling over a volcano and full of electricity tri city they try at this scheme and that plan they eagerly grasp at every new theory only to throw it away as a moro unsubstantial bubble they leavo a vague conception dim premonition that lie of fa operation would be the remedy to give new vitality to the exhaust eil body but they have not alo full fiill in it nor tho feitli n and one another neither 10 lo they the charily which alone con cooperation coope ratton astl avarice and all isan froin hisaw ho hands with ahli neighbor and neighbors and move n abid ablo y IFT not only to him but alike to all connected therewith ahia is the spirit in alone our people can operate cooperate co to advantage full confidence in one an other justified interdependence arc in any operative cooperative co undertaking there must be a and unconcealed feeling one for all and all for one this motto is the open sesame ailion ri lion As long as we do not learn o plant and cultivate this sentiment air with honesty and sincerity M long there will be no head wiy made for lasting operation cooperation co fortunately and to the credit of our people there are biere and there institutions where something of the true spirit is felt and in a measure exercised but our faith and principles should teach us all the same should inspire us all with the same fruiting willingness to work for one common end so that we become a true co operation in temporal as well as spiritual affairs |
