CO-OPEKATION. 



ITS LAWS AND PRINCIPLES. 



Co-operation is as far in advance of civilization, as civilization is in advance 

 of barbarism. 



We bave, within the last fifty years, made rapid strides in material wealth, but 

 no progress has been made in its more equitable distribution; Horace Mann. 



We can calculate the relation of our exports to our imports, and measure the rate 

 of mortality, but we cannot tell bow much bread will be needed, or whether the 

 people will be able to get it. Sam'l J. Tilden. 



WHAT is co-operation? From two words, con and opera^ 

 it means to work together. It is a practical instead of 

 a speculative word, and is fraught with the most fruitful 

 blessings for humanity. It is natural, therefore, that it 

 should be so generally favored as the ultimate solution of 

 the Labor Question. 



But in what we are to co-operate, how, when, where, opin- 

 ion is unsettled. The truth must be sought in the nature of 

 man, as a social being. Already has it co-operated to produce 

 language and society; and through the same laws, by which 

 the world has already been formed, must it be re-formed. 



THE CONDITIONS OF CO-OPERATION. 



are naturally formulated under three heads. 



First, it is obvious, in order to co-operate, that there must 

 be Order. This necessitates a science of Government. 



Then there must be Justice., or the science of Economy. 



Now, given a Umty of Interest, and we have Co-operation. 

 And have we not this? — the same eyes, the same hands, the 

 same feet? We laugh with those who hiiigh and weep with 

 those who weep. We have she same origin, the same destiny 

 and the same law of happiness. Then, may co-operation be re- 

 garded as X\xQ practical application of the science of Religion. 



