CHAPTER V 

 THE ADMINISTRATION OF CO-OPEEATIVE SETTLEMENT 



GIVEN favorable location, industrious settlers, and 

 abundant capital, there is yet another element absolute- 

 ly essential to the success of co-operative colonization. 

 This is able and honest management. Good leadership 

 is as necessary as sound principles, and executive capacity 

 at the head as vital as earnest and faithful labor in the 

 ranks. 



This is the teaching of all past experience, not only in 

 colonization effort, but in all co-operative undertakings, 

 especially where capital has been supplied by one class 

 for the use of another. The leadership required is of a 

 rarer quality than that usually found at the head of 

 financial and industrial enterprises. It calls not mere- 

 ly for brains, experience, and special aptitude, but for 

 devotion, and almost for consecration, as well. There 

 must be heart as well as head in the management of such 

 affairs. A man with only large human sympathies 

 would not succeed, but neither would a man with only 

 business acumen. Both qualities are required for the 

 successful management of men and money in a work 

 which aims at the production of homes and institutions 

 along with dividends. 



When such leadership has been secured it should bo 

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