The Farmers Advocate from Topeka, Kansas • 6

THE FAEMEBS ADVOCATE MARCH 13, 1522. 0 120,000. It la rated A Does anyone TT Tntf-A Real Estate know of any reason why a co-operative iw WJ lfjiz tw MACKSVILLE, STAFFORD COUNTY, KANSAS. Has choice farms In this and adjoining counties, and the cheapest grazing town In Kansas? some of the other flourishing co-operative societies of that go ahead state. These have all been organized within a few years and have proven an abundant success.

A large share of the Irrigation canals are owned and operated co-operatively, which Is also true of all the western states where irrigation Is practiced. 1 The Dakotas, Minnesota and Iowa CREAMERIES AND CHEESE FAC- lands in the state for sale. Stafford county stands fifth In wheat producing: counties In the state and never falls to raise corn and plenty of feed. It is one of the best all-round agricultural and stock raising counties in the state. Land Is cheap.

"Why pay big rent when you can get a good farm for a small outlay? Plenty of good water, rich soil and healthful climate. No land in the state is so cheap that raises such big crops. Correspondence solicited. References: First National bank, Bt. John; State Bank, Macksvllle.

B. I. WBHTGATE, Maelcavllle, Kan. TORIES. Kansas being pre-eminently an agri cultural state and standing well to the front In its live stock interests, should have a large number of co-operative show a grand array of successful co- shipping societies and creameries, with operative creameries and cheese fac- JIT Cp flTs ft'ffl 'SLuB fow stores and many L.t.a Jw illicit ilOC4v-l ii dJL liiw Dimi tf wati a few co-operative stores ana many i whose should be the SPRING WATER.

torles, products on mutual lire companies, aomg a gigau- counters of the co-operative stores the tic business. Minnesota Is credited worid over. The labor commissioner's with over 800 township mutual fire report for 1899 shows 150 creameries companies, and Iowa has 150 county ftn(j 400 skimming stations in Kansas, companies. The Minnesota and Dakota only about one-sixth of these are co- The finest corn, alfalfa, wheat, oats and stock country on earth. I have choic East Kansas farms, finely Improved, that I can sell you at $30 to 140 per acre.

Why not locate where you can raise 85 bushels of corn and three tons 'f hay per acre each season? I have farms ranging in size from 1,200 to 40 acres, finely improved, to sell you at the above prices. Two good stocks of hardware In Eastern Kansas, $12,000 and $4,000. If you mean business and want to buy or cell don't wait, but come and see me. If you can not come, write today. STRAWff.

Ral Estate Agent, Valley Falls, Jefferson County, Kan. Co-operative shippers meet today in operative. His report is Incomplete from failure of nearly half the socle- St Paul to organize a central association and unite their forces. The Western Co-operative association, with L. P.

Myers manager, has ties to make reports. The entire output of dairy products in 1900 is given by Secretary Coburn at $7,459,693. The iust been started at Trenton, with I co-operative product would be less A good 80-acre farm 65 miles south of K. C. on the M.

K. T. R. about half in cultivation and balance prairie meadow. This land is level and all available for cultivation.

Also a stock of general merchandise, invoicing about $1,800. Store building, 60x32 2 stories; residence and four lots, garden and orchard. This is an exceptionally good opening for a man who would like to engage in mercantile and stock business. Would consider Topeka residence property as part payxrnt on this property. A.

S. HOWARD, 637 Qulncy Topeka, Kan. ambitious plans before it They have than one-sixth of that Compare this $20,000 in cash In the Trenton National unsatisfactory result with Denmark's bank to start work with and propose to work under co-operation, with less than organize wherever a demand exists. one-fifth the area of Kansas, poorer The Co-operative association of Lew-1 soli, only one-third more people, and iston. has been started for tne I tney noi as intelligent or progressive.

Yet under the benign and helpful stim ulus of co-operative effort they have developed, in the past twenty years, over 2,000 societies, all agricultural, and 1,052 of them co-operative dairies, that handle four-fifths of all the milk MUTUAL INTEREST OF PARMER AND MILLER. BY C. B. HOFFMAN. How to secure food, clothing and shelter has been the problem of the past Primitive man, impelled by hun- ger of body, by the rigors of climate, sought for the gratifications of the desires.

That was nature's way to urge him on. For ages upon ages the struggle contlnued.developlng an ever stronger bodyr a finer brain, more secretive nerves and keener senses. The survival of the fittest is the law of being, of the kingdom and market $35,000,000 worth of butter annually, and being a co-operative product Is consequently the best and ranks today at the top of EYE-STRAIN IN HEALTH AND DISEASE Do you believe in the theory of eye strain as a cause of nervous disease? Perhaps not; but lots of doctors do. When you have a severe case of headache, neuralgia, sleeplessness, St. Vitus dance, nervous prostration, by all means try our home treatment for weak imperfections of the eye, even blindness cured, eyesight restored.

We claim spectacles are sold for the profit by inexperienced opticians to a large majority who do not need glasses, especially children. Glasses can be laid aside by this treatment, as they render defective vision chronic. The R. H. BAKER Topeka, Kansas.

the world's markets. When we have developed co-operative creameries in New England states, and has gotten under way in very good shape. They publish a good magazine, the Co-operator, at Lewiston, that will give you all the information as to their plans. Rev. Chas.

E. Lund of Lewiston, is their secretary. The largest distributive society In the United States Is at Arlington, with nearly 3,000 members and a large and prosperous business. Jamestown, N. has another, and here and there in almost every state societies are springing up, and if they could be federated Into state and national societies, would rapidly Increase in number, influence and usefulness.

In Kansas we are neither dead or sleeping. Before me are representatives of many of the seventy grain and live stock shipping associations that are doing an annual business of several millions of dollars, and clearly demonstrating both their practicability and Kansas to the level and a little above Denmark, as we surely will, we shall have 5,000 co-operative creameries and cheese factories and export $175,000,000 I and upon the animal plane, brute force worth of dairy products annually. In and cunning are the fittest. Western Selling Agents, Wholesale an i Retail. COPT.

telllgent and combined effort did it there and it will accomplish the same here. One lone co-operative coal mine in Osage county and a co-operative factory at Moorehead, testify that the germs of co-operative production are R. H. Baker, Optician.Topeka, Kan. Sir: I have used your Apparatus, the Eye Restorer, and have received so much benefit from it that I feel like proclaiming it to all the world.

It is far above anything heretofore devisea and makes the use of spectacles, medicines, eye washes and salves useless. Respectfully, S. M. LANHAM. Man, Is more than brute, he is divine and upon the plane of spirit the laws of the brute ceases and Its law of ethics, of morality, of service for others, obtains.

Below, the law of selfishness, each for himself, above, the law of brotherhood, each for all! Here exists a deep and wide gulf between these two kingdoms, the kingdom of the animal and the kingdom of man, which it has taken ages to crpss. Each individual occupies some point between the savage and the ideal man in this wonderful procession from the developing. A few words as to the future of cooperation in Kansas. We need Organization, actively pushed on right lines, and we should arrange here to put Intelligent organizers in the field promptly and maintain them there. Union, every branch of co-operation should be closely organized into a state association, with a general committee or board to look after their interests and to promote the educational features, without which no permanent suc harbors, In other countries, railroads and telegraphs, savings banks, in cities waterworks, street In European cities brokeries and warehouses are a few of the things done co-operatively by the people through their governments.

Association of private persons, profitableness. Some of these societies show direct profits for a single year larger than their entire invested capital, while their indirect profits, participated In by their non-member neighbors, through the enhanced price, due to the co-operative association being on the market, but lairly entitled to be classed as profits, often exceed the Invested capital many times, and serves as an object lesson and active incentive to farther organization. Every farming community needs such an association. Here are some thirty or more mercantile associations, with thousands of members and a million of annual trade, that have been In successful operation for from one to twenty-five years, and have already returned to their members many times the original capital invested, and better still, have taught them the great lesson we all need to learn, to rely known as corporations, co-operate in undertakings which no individual could The vast network darkness of the past towards the perfect day of the future. History is but a record of this glorious march, with its halts, Its recessions, its dismays and its defeats, its rallies and Its ever onward push.

We have come a great distance, and a survey of our past can not but Inspire us with an absolute assurance of the future. What a difference between the average civilized man of America or Europe and the Congo negro of central Africa. The Congo negro is strictly for himself. He always looks out for number one. He is moved only by selfish, personal de of railroads, with its all but perfect service, the telegraphs, the cables link cess can be attained.

Every shipping society should Join the central society and establish elevators and track scales and arrange for close business rela ing all the countries together, the great steel trust, the standard oil are all instances of efficiency of co-opera tion. We complain about combination of capitalists, about trusts, about rail roads and their pools, we even attempt sires and appetites. He associates with his fellows in a tribe held together more by fear of enemies than any interior bond. He does not co-operate with his fellows, except In a mere primitive way, for the simplest ends. Compare this undeveloped human with tions with the mills of the state and foreign buyers.

We ought to grind every bushel of Kansas wheat In Kansas, and can if properly, handled. A wholesale mercantile department, with every store owning stock therein, so that It would be theirs. Factories, to make as far as practicable our own goods, so they could rely upon their Durlty and employ tnelr own members. Trade relations should be established direct with co-operators in other states andabroad. Lastly, but by no means least, a paper devoted to co-operation should be maintained, with full information of the doings of co-operators all over the to check their growth by hostile legislation.

All this Is useless. We might as well attempt to resist the law of gravity, the sweep of the stars. Let us rather Identify ourselves with the vital current'Which is shaping the destiny of man and is carrying us towards universal brotherhood. Other countries have done much more in co-operation among the common people than we. Conditions forced them to do it, even as they are forcing us.

Belgium, on a territory of 11,373 square miles, less than one-seventh of Kansas, supports a population the humane, neighborly, helpful, sympathetic men whom we meet wherever we go, in our railroad coaches, our hotels, our churches, our schools, on the streets and In our homes. Such a progress of the ages which He behind us, and, if we study the nature of the progress we find that it is always in upon ourselves. Every village, town and city In Kansas needs one or more such societies, they would help the towns and the people. They are practical, popular and profitable. True, failures have occurred, as they do In all businesses, and doubtless will continue to occur, under poor, careless or dishonest management, but so far as my information goes, not one society, that has followed the Rochdale system faithfully, all dealings spot cash, managers carefully bonded, dividing profits with the purchasers In proportion to their purchases, has ever failed in the state.

Twenty-three wideawake, aggressive fire mutuals, mainly organized In the past dozen years, are making a magnificent fight to save the vast sums that annually leave our state for fire premiums in excess of actual losses. The Insurance commissioner's report for 1900 shows that Kansas paid In premiums on fire Insurance the preceding year, $2,070,234. and received on losses $1,235,548, leaving $834,686 for expenses and profits, nearly all of which could be saved by patronizing our home cooperative companies. The same report shows that our home mutuals did but one-seventeenth of the total business of the state, and that five-sixths of the business went to companies outside the state. The same report shows that the state paid to old line life companies $1,073,022 more for that year than was returned on claims.

One lone co-operative bank shows above the horizon, but that is a model, may its tribe increase. The Patrons state, advertising and assisting our elevators, factories, stores. Insurance companies and creameries. It should go Into the hands of every member of cooperative associations and would be equal to an Insurance policy, for their loyalty to their societies and principles. The societies could use It for their official announcements and should arrange to adopt It as their official organ.

A committee might be appointed here to formulate a workable plan for securing such a paper. A committee on education should be formed to secure the co-operation of the friendly pacers of the state and furnish them with reliable literature on the subject and reciprocate their efforts. Let us organize. Unite harmoniously our forces and work earnestly for the best interests of all, which is simply another name for making for our own welfare and the past history of what co-operation has accomplished will scarcely serve as an index to the vast "volume of good that shall be written to the direction of co-operation. To help each other, to co-operate for the common good, Is the Ideal which Inspires human hearts and heads to action.

"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you," and "Love thy neighbor as thyself," fortunately the law of be-4ng, and no nation, community or Individual can violate this great vital law without bringing upon Itself pain, suffering and disaster. Co-operative independence Is the law of life. It Is fundamental, inheres in the nature of being. It is promulgated by religion, established by philosophy and confirmed by science. Competition is but a transitory phase In the development of life.

It belongs to the unconscious, unintelligent stages of animal life and so far as It still obtains in national and Individual life is one of the brutish characteristics which we have not yet outgrown. During the century Just past, the truth of which I have endeavored to briefly sketch, has been recognized, by the best minds of all nations. Every- of six and one-half million, or four times our population. In other words the population of Belgium Is twenty-eight times denser than that of Kansas. England, Germany, In fact all the European countries, are densely Now a dense population can not be maintained under a system as inequitable and wasteful as competition, without the salutary checks which cooperation has placed upon It We can learn much from nglish and German co-operative societies, they have been the pioneers and we can avoid their mistakes and profit by their experience.

Besides I believe that our people are intellectually more alert, are better Informed and have more public spirit than the masses of Europe. We also enjoy a freer, better government system. Not In vain have our forefathers struggled to bequeath to their children religious and political liberty. Our nation Is permeated with the spirit of equality and prosperity. We have the material factors and the spiritual co-oneratlon's credit And in that book Co-operative bank of Olathe reports: Resources of 358,894 at the present may the name of Kansas, as of about I where we find the principle applied, time.

Their capital stock is $30,000, Ben Adhem of old, be writ large above I Our schools, our postofflees, our pub- a a a At I a foundation to build a great Industrial He roads and bridges, our canals and rr.lv!!! profits of all the rest!.