Show CO A oil ill kind th a t I 1 9 iva ni I 1 d vv york sun tito san not long since byr of its spread before tile abe history of a gnat at number of allen 01 8 at co to cities of I 1 a united states the exis im 11 bere through a 1 aies of years and the ikima taught seemed to be uniform and con clui sive the attempts had failed in every instance N here the experiment had been long continued and in tile tow instances in of suc was train tile now managers ila found it for their lute refit to give a representation of thea yet In completo to this long list of disappointed efforts wo have just been obliged to add tile failure of a operative cooperative co farm under tile control of the knights ot labor in araud and ili capacity am of course the chief causes signed for this failure the areah A the reported cause but t is I 1 I 1 at tile want of success is not alwa 8 due to either dishonesty the beat intentions and the most brilliant adamini stra tive I 1 neat lon loni i could not make an essentially false theory 1 idea of industrial aaion ii fougled upon the aper tion of ahat is termed a morn division of profits or cama ing all it had its origin at a time it commercial and I 1 nan cial were cam faath ell unknown unk noun there in tile past and still seems to be a gre t ina equality of fortunes but the w 0 ald Is be ona on 1 9 or c cd to tile a led go th I 1 1 I it would be easily to I 1 arainty arai ety down nearly to the grade of worldly opulence it would bo altogether impossible to lei le I it ull to anything approaching tile look fit the su b joe ti in an b batisti cal liblit of which it is capable esti mating upon tile census at 1880 and giving room for tile growth af population anti wealth in the united baates during tile last seven years a lave now Io inhabitants and tao in the national state estate e let us that this total of wealth net 6 percent a tiers this will be 11 lerv liberal allowance and on till it will be seen that the rl tf lonal income derived from property is cowper annum Divid ethis income ansorg the total of population and it avill give lv 0 to each person that a I 1 d clearly be enuf focient to abolish poorhouses poor houses or reclaim 15 iut this may not thought quite satisfactory the total 11 I 1 in the states his never been given and possibly it can never be quite accurately reported we know it to be large reaching to ten or twelve billi oil dollars per an rill floyces alone and it is in 01 0 ro tri cess ul I 1 oc u 8 multiply own earnings vastly above the amount that call be stated in th a form of in terest or dividends on in in events this trick bould be faye extent barned tomes in for the reinforcement of capitala capi an d adds about 0 26 ir capita each year to tl lo 10 1 balth of tile country but it ill believed that cm plo this potent art and tile suspicion lies at the bottom of all for industrial operation cooperation co again fire the facts we cau not here use tile service of tile census taker N ith quite 0 much assurance as in tile fi iner buti a call y ca will be hard lyless trustworthy th t lio coingus er v ili plOYS 1000 wor knien at rn aument in wages of fr etelk man ends on his family th is monstrous ex illo ad voca to of a more division divi such inequality is to div inspiration and force to bloody ro 41 but cup pose that tile the his workmen and amt would be the result alis i 1 y will add t 90 per year to the tsoo a 1 r d y r e c gired I 1 lie i agai 01 t workmen mill have been increased by each and at the and of about the second ear the manufacturer dis cout Aged would probably shut up his factory ani leave ills operatives without any oneomo whatever these adv the stad in the way of industrial cooperation profit sharing and other kindred schemes for the wilen dment of social condi eions there is nothing to divide that can add appreciably apreci ably income of of producers and an intelligent energetic getic and tined am player intent upon ills own success can a ways give better to a body of workmen than they can cure for themselves through the perfunctory ser view of agents or managers the aholo theory co tion rests u on a misconception of ula gand then U have you upon tile alp a exclaimed the state socialist none but a would claim abit pro va ii ing conditions ought to be satis factory aal if there be no hope in coave operation in the machinery of pro in lie hands of tile govern 11 truth these erratic seem to be making converts in washington and elsewhere faster I 1 had may prove for tha government at a brodof pay but as their road to the millennium lies through the palaces and the demesne of despotism we must decline to follow their lead it has not been said diat there is no hope in cooperation there is great hope in cooperation it Is the chiel and only hope of the race and during the last half it has made larger strides than it made in fill the preceding years in the worlds history there is only no hope in the kind of coop co op aeration which if founded oil essential antagonism anti refuses to corcorin cor dorin to tile precepts of financial and social evolution co ion certai rilly and fo reverl but let it ba the kind of operation cooperation co that benks to build up the low lands along lie swollen river to the level of the lemoc and allot the kind that would throw doun tile peaks to which nIl mail may dupire upire when they are dis satis Ged with the atmosphere of the plain let us lave the kind of coop co op oration chich protects against sick n ess and death these are the three giant oppressors of the race and it will be worth all the severe lee ons of experience if men cam be anally be led to discover this tru to know that without any abnegation of if self interest their d 1 f ence lies simply in their own good fellows hip 1 low wallaces narrow escape constitution it Is remarkable id an A abany bookseller handing down a copy of ben liar what a large sale that book is still having and what A on darful reputation general low lace its author has made by its pro luction name Is now literally a word cocama Wo cama within fifteen of capturing gen wallace W it r oN arved mr TM carter the I after the batt leof Hi chmand ky he co fitin led ali y c 0 n 1 1 tt n th nelson rang irs vi t li a n 0 t li e r arvied of kentucky were detailed to make a detour aroud lexington ky and to cut off ow apes uga that point I 1 1 I 1 a I 1 I 1 i I 1 I 1 I 1 on our way we stopped to caligure ca liture I 1 fejeran picket line ell not in this instance a troublesome J victory still it was ono that or consumed time and a ila hour had ore we started oil I 1 A half hour which cot co t us dearl far when detic y our ament arri I at other tile fade of the train containing three un lon generald ale law NV illace jeff 0 D 1 vis genar and another had steamed out fifteen minutes beloro 41 4 1 the ions growth exchange we have a curious illustration of unexpected sention sen tiou of the terri I 1 tory and population of this I 1 in the historical fact country after the y war lord held publish ed a book in london entitled on the cow merle of the american states it is true Slie ffield was not over friendly to this country his loyalty to abd tbd crown gly edg a POis libO adlor to his views but he waa supposed to be i careful and shrewd observer I 1 J at any rate his statements were re aceved in england as i reliable and i they acted as a balm w the britch disappoint mout at the loss of the I 1 0 1 dieb I 1 1 unreservedly that the american continent was 4 cally valueless elees for pura p I 1 poses it wu simply a vast wild arnesa which coald never be thickly I 1 0 u abed with certain natural ob PP whick rendered any exten sive commerce impossible the states on the atlantic seaboard be i admitted migu in time ariee to I 1 some the vast tract of inland WAS hardly worth I 1 consideration ventured the prediction that beyond the allegheny alleghany Alleg hany cannot be come commercial there is I 1 no possible outlet to the sea for their products these mountains his lordship declared were a bar tier to prosperity that could never be overcome if he could return from his grave i now in a pullman car from phil adelphia travel over the alle gal ies at a speed could k h particular hair stand on en d a nd so on for seven and i dats night 11 at the same rate a apted I 1 h count lefia villages towns I 1 and crowded cities through what 0 no a y impenetrable forests 0 v er cairl es of which never i P ed all d thence over the to find an immense lation on the pacific would 1 1 pr kably entertain as slander an opinion of iiii prophetic powers as w a do if be had been told after the I 1 publication of his book that this gr at wilderness aich be believed abe a barrier to our western ad vance we uld be changed into fields of grain upon bich english lords and english would that the mississippi river iii the course of three Rene rations would flow through the geographical cen I 1 i ter of a republic numbering sixty millions of people and that the I 1 whole of europe would I 1 be yearly dependent upon the I 1 abundance of our crops his lord I 1 i hip would have looked upon the as a fanatic or a madman at the time aben lord made hil 1 l lugubrious ev the I 1 total area of the united states was square miles province of louisiana was ceded containing an ares of equale miles and ox tending northward from the mouth of the mis sis sippi to the british possession pos sessio 0 5 and westward to the pacific odes n 4 in 1819 we acquired florida 59 1 square in 1845 texas miles in 1 8 48 the first mexican cession of rai i I 1 edw as mide in 3 a second cession of square miles aind in 1877 the cession of alaska containing square miles this makes the coial ire of the united states square in ilea or more thin imas what it was in 1787 the present size of the republic and our exhaustless material resources our ties and aut geias Ameti cin citizens J I 1 I 1 I 1 |