THE NEW EARTH 



promise of larger financial returns in combina- 

 tion, even if independence be extinguished and 

 competition throttled. There is, on the part of 

 modern capital in the hands of dishonest men, 

 an apparent standard of success which is meas- 

 ured by the power to crush or corrupt. The 

 cooperative creamery movement makes no 

 fight upon capital as such, but welcomes its 

 coming as a factor in the development of the 

 country; indeed, much as in the case of the 

 Iowa farmers, the creamery men are capitalists 

 themselves in a small way, managing their 

 affairs with the same sagacity and honesty 

 that mark the investments of honestly admin- 

 istered wealth the world over. 



The closer one studies cooperation in Eng- 

 land, and particularly in Rochdale, the home 

 and the fountainhead, the clearer its power 

 comes into view. Certainly, I could not have 

 had a more interesting-object lesson in the 

 scope and sweep of modern cooperation than 

 that which was afforded in the fine, well- 

 selected library of the Pioneer society in Roch- 

 dale, twenty thousand volumes, covering every 

 department of literary activity, liberally patron- 

 ized by the members of the society. Through- 



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