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Extract from the Report of the Com- 

 mittee on Co-operation. 



(Presented .November 24, 18 j 6, by T. (R. 



ALLEJJ, Chairman. 



Worthy Master, and Members of the National Grange: 



Your Committee on Co-operation instruct me to make 

 a partial report as follows: 



Co-operation, in its broad sense, means helping each 

 other. The tendency of this is to add to our physical com- 

 fort, and to develop, educate and elevate us morally, 

 socially, and intellectually. Competition means self-in- 

 terest. And this has exactly the opposite tendency to 

 that of co-operation, to-wit: physical unrest, the develop- 

 ment of intense and morbid selfishness, which leads to 

 misrepresentation, trickery, deception and fraud, frequent 

 bankruptcy, ruin, and general demoralization. Or. to 

 give a definition of an experienced English Co-operation- 

 ist, Mr. Holyoake: "Co-operation is an industrial scheme 

 for delivering the public from the conspiracy of capitalists, 

 traders and manufacturers, to make the laborer work for 

 the least, and the consumer pay the utmost for whatever 

 he needs of money, machines, or merchandise. Co-oper- 

 ation effects this deliverance by taking the workmen and 

 public into partnership in every form of business it de- 

 vises." Or, as he defines it in another place, to-wit: "Co- 

 operation is a scheme of industry in which the results are 

 obtained by concert, the profits divided by consent, and 

 the public made a partner with capital and labor, instead 



