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meets the objects had in view by the membership — that 

 of securing distribution at a reasonable rate. 



The necessary agents or employes to be selected, and 

 their salaries fixed by those who are^o be served, thus 

 doing away with unnecessary and expensive distributors. 



Our people now only want the necessary information 

 to enable them to do this, and how 7 to do it. and then to 

 be left free to do it in their own way. 



But this national head of our Order recommend and 

 fully endorse this general plan for business cc-operatioii 

 throughout our entire jurisdiction, and give it all the moral 

 support that it has power to give, as the head of a great 

 fraternal organization; give aid and comfort in the way of 

 advice and counsel, as occasion may seem proper, but be- 

 yond this, and the requiring of statistical reports, (that 

 they may be the better prepared to foster, encourage, and 

 aid) such as may hereafter be provided for, let neither 

 this body nor any other subordinate body attempt to exer- 



e ony business control over these, business associations. 

 The business interests of our members is but an individual 

 interest in aggregated form. 



It is custom, not money, that sustains business. Or, 

 in other words, an economical exchange of products. 

 True co-operation does not contemplate individual gain 

 at the expense of the many. It is to the interest of all to 

 patronize a true system of co-operation, because a division 

 of profits are alike to all. It is most emphattcally pro- 

 viding for the greatest good to the greatest number. 



The more free and untrammeled you can have these 

 business "associations of individuals, or of concurrent 

 associations, the better; keeping in view that important 

 principle of our Order, "in essentials, unity; in non-essen- 

 tials, liberty; in all things, charity." 



Now, Therefore, Your Committee recommend, 1st: That 

 members of your Order, throughout our jurisdiction, pro- 

 ceed with the least possible delay, to organize themselves 

 into co-ooerative associations, on the principles set forth 



