The Scottish Co-Operator Volume 7-8; A Monthly Co-Operative Journal of Intelligence (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...each a competency to place all beyond the fear of' immediate want The directors would then urge the present members to be up and doing, let every one interest their friends and neighbours and show them the good to be got from becoming cooperators, being convinced yourselves that your goods are better and cheaper than can be bought elsewhere, your task is easy if you have energy and perseverance to advocate your principle to the end. Meantime as members be consistent yourselves, buy all that you require of food and clothing at yonr own shops, never cry down the quality of your own goods but should anything go wrong apply to the proper quarter (the committee) for redress. Allow your profits to accumulate to be used in co-operative enterprise which will raise for you more profits, a course of action necessary to all who would secure the whole benefits which the movement is fit to confer. Attend to your quarterly and other meetings, take an intelligent action in your business, see that those entrusted with the management of your affairs are active, honest, and intelligent, and capable of conducting your business in a proper manner, as on you depends the future success of the society, in you lies the power to propagate, to promulgate, to consolidate, and it is only by your joint, active, intelligent co-operation that we can hope to take our place in that great movement that is swelling onward, to the upraising of the mass of the people to that prond position of self-dependence which will be attained by individual and collective exertion." LANARK.--The Directors of the Provident Society of this place in issuing their Thirty-Fourth Quarterly Balance Sheet preface their Statement of Accounts with the following: --" The directors in presenting for your appr...