C(j-oprrat[on: u 



Then imagine, if you can, each laborer strutting as a small 'cap- 

 italist.'' Hear him deliver his mind of such sapient utterances a 

 these : "Tlie whole trouble with labor does not lie in the system, 

 but in human nature. Would he but leave off dissipation and lazi- 

 ness, any slave might soon become a master. The real rea.son the 

 country is going to the dogs, is because laborers themselves are 

 unwilling to sufficiently 'retrench,'' and this, in turn, brings on an 

 'overproduction' " He even relieves God of all responsibility in 

 his make-up, by declaring himself a 'self made' man, and capable of 

 standing along side of Jay Gould. A most incorrigible 'co-opera- 

 tor' is he, who, once having been a slave, has become an overseer! 



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OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED. 



We will now attempt, in further elucidation, to answer some 

 objections that might be brought against the pool. And first, 

 does it seem impracticable to pool a custom before there has been 

 a store-keejjer selected ? But would the objections not be gi'eater 

 afterward ? If the pool selects its own store-keeper, would it not 

 insure greater satisfaction ? And where all are interested, would 

 not the selection be a proper one ? 



But the pi^ople are not ready or sulHciently wide awake to form 

 a pool. But there are some j)eople sufficiently interested to form 

 one pool, the first one, when all outsiders will be drawn into it. If 

 this cannot be done, then nature's method of bringing the supply 

 to the demand can never be accomplished. But you will have all 

 sorts of cranks who will imnKnliately stamp your movement with 

 ridicule and throw it into contempt. But. it is not necessary that i t 

 should assume that cast, while it is guiiled by a reform itlea. its re- 

 alization is purely a nuitter of business. 



But the majority in your pool would domineer the rest. How 

 could they, when the conditions of membership are voluntary, with- 

 out fees, and with every one's interest kept separate ? But to begin 

 with, you elect the store-keeper by a nuijority vote, and there arc 

 two candidates, each having friends, and one might come within a 

 few votes of being elec^ted, would not such an infriuiremeiit of the 

 rights of the minority break the pool ? No, for the benefits accru- 

 ing from remaining in it, would mon; than counterbalance those 

 received by staying out. Nor would anyone's liberty be infringed 

 by being permitted to choose that which he liked best. 



Bxit supposing tlie character of the pool should be so entirely 

 changed, by the majoritv, as to divert it into a jon it-stock profit- 



