

THE REORGANIZATIO^l OF 



BUSINESS 



"Put Monet in Thy Purse."— /agro. '-There's Millions in It."— Coi. Sellerg. 

 Motto:— BUILD AND BOYCOTT. 



IN a previous issue, we ascertained that the first principles of 

 Co-operation were Liberty and Equity, We showed what they 



were and their mutual relations. We found that majority I'ule, 

 in government, must give wa\' to equal sovereignty, and pi'ofit, in 

 commerce, give place to cost ; — one the rule for properly minding 

 one's business, the other the basis of common honesty. 



Now, the.«e invisible laws, if such, are just as operative when 

 disobeyed as when obeyed. Tlie only part which we are asked to 

 perform is to adapt ourselves to them in our organization. In ex- 

 amining the working, of the present profit-making system we shall 

 lee wherein they ai"e violated, and how to apply the remedy. 



THE GENERAL SITUATION. 



As we look over the tendency of the general business world what 

 do we find ? A concentration of capital, on the one hand, and a di- 

 Tision of labor, on the other. If every co-operator will imagine him- 

 self in the position of the body poli ic, we will indicate his present 

 condition. First, if we regard the telegraphic system as corres- 

 ponding with his nervous organization, we find it entirely manipu- 

 lated by one man, and he a stock gambler. His muscles, the rail- 

 roads which draw off all natural resources, are subject to a 'pool,' 

 wherever there is any competition. His blood, the curi'ency, which 



