The Bane and Antidote, Or, Bad and Good Associations Volume 1 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. ON FREEHOLD PROVIDENT SOCIETIES. In the Poplar Freehold Provident Societies our constant aim has been, and is to obtain the fullest advantage of combination. We have proceeded with caution, inviting all men to aid, and paying attention to every suggestion that has been made to us. We have invited other men in all parts of the country to form societies for themselves, and we have had in the course of the last four years, the advantage of corresponding with the leading men in some forty or fifty societies established on the same principles as the Poplar. We have the rules of a great number of d fferent societies, and while we have observed attentively all that has been done by others to make our own societies more peifect, we have atso not neglected to take notice of the great variety of plans that have been formed since we began, we are therefore in a position to judge of the value of many alterations that have been proposed, or made in the societies established on our own princ pies, and can easily compare the amount of good which can be wrought by other schemes with whatwe do. As our ocieties are so constructed as easily to admit of improvements being adopted, thers is nothing to hinder us availing ourselves of whatever we may at any time learn would make our soc eties more perfect. At present, however we hive reason to believe that no alterations that have been made els where, in societies established on our principles, are improvement, therefore we take the Poplar Societies as our standard for comparison. When we discover, or learn of theexistence of, a better plan, we shall be able to take a better standard, but until then we will try to do the best we can with the knowledge we have. We have named our societies "freehold Provident Societies" because ma...