388 On Practical Cooperative Societies. 



Here then if they choose to increase tliat labour, they will 

 increase the capital in the same proportion. 



They are now arrived at that state, when they would be 

 glad to be joined by a first-rate gardener, who would act upon 

 their principles, as the Brighton market would afford a return 

 for the best skill and talents in that line. If such a man would 

 join them with a capital of twenty pounds, they would admit 

 him a member, find him constant employment, and take his 

 20/. as a loan, allowing him interest upon it. An arrangement 

 equally advantageous to both parties. An entrance fee of five 

 pounds would be required, as being the present value of one 

 share of the common capital. 



As they have proceeded, they have found the great advan- 

 tage and even necessity of knowledge ; they have therefore a 

 small library, and an evening school, both of which are super- 

 intended by a member, who is paid a small salary for his 

 trouble. 



A society upon the same principles is established in London, 

 at No. 2. Jerusalem Passage, St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, 

 where every information may be obtained, and various publi- 

 cations, among which may be particularly mentioned The 

 Associate and T/ie Cooperator : the former published in Lon- 

 don, the latter in Brighton, monthly, at one penny each. 

 They are also to be had of Cowie and Strange, Paternoster 

 Row. The Brighton Society, 37. West Street, was the first 

 established : since which there have been upwards of seventy 

 formed in different places. 



I would not have troubled you upon this subject, had I not 

 been firmly convinced, by seeing this Society in operation, 

 that the principle is calculated, and even destined, to raise the 

 working classes, out of a state of degradation and want, into 

 one of comfort and independence. 



Yours, &c. 

 May 27. 1829. Philanthropist. 



Our readers, we are sure, will join with us in thanking our 

 benevolent correspondent for his very interesting communica- 

 tion. We have procured the Associate and the Cooperator, and 

 have perused them ; and, viewing the associations as common 

 partnerships in trade, we do not see why they should not suc- 

 ceed as well as partnerships generally do. If they do succeed, 

 the labourer is, at any rate, laying out his money and his labour 

 to a greater advantage than he could do by any existing mode 

 of investment. At all events, let it be fairly and extensively 

 tried and persevered in, till a result is obtained, satisfactory 



