The Kansas Co-Operator from Topeka, Kansas • 2

THE COLORED MEN MOVE. The Kansas Co-Operator Published Monthly. Tire of Toiling for Others for Little Pay, COLFAX B. HARMAN, Editor. How It Would Affect Social and Religious Life.

D. Gilpin, W. B. Gasche, Associate Editors. ESTABLISH A BRICK YARD, dr.

w. c. McConnell writes Entered at the PoBtoffloe at Topeka, as Second Class mail matter. It Will be a Co-operative Association. Nearly Enough Stock Subscribed.

Office of Publication: Office Block, Topeka, Kansas. It Would Remove Incentive to Dishonesty. Improve Morals of the People, Free Them from Serfdom and the Bondage of the Trusts, Circulation this Month 4,000 Copies None but the brave dare step aside, From customs iron rule, The eommon mind must follow it Or be esteemed a fool. We have all heard of the colored man who had such an easy job just carrying a hod of brick up a thirty-foot ladder where there were others to do all tbs work. There are some colored people in Topeka who are thinkers and who have arrived at the conclusion that the negro is not under obligations to toil forever for others.

They can see no reason why they should not manage an industry themselves and are planning a co-operative brick plant in Topeka. Nearly enough stock is subscribed and it is to be hoped that it will prove a The Morehead Co-operative factory. The windmill shown in the cut is the one advertised in last months Co-operator. is a live man. He has a good farm in Missouri that he want to sell, as he wants to build a home here, anybody knowing of a buyer for Missouri land will confer a favor on him by writing him.

Comrade H. W. Claugh is selling windmills now and is meeting with good success. Comrade Smith is a trump when it comes to selling Cultivator shovels, he can sell them by the carload. He is rather specked since his attack of smallpox.

Comrade Carlson will soon be with us and will superintend the construction of the new gasoline engine that we are making. He has the reputation of being one of the best pattern makers and machinists in the state. It is to be regretted by all true co-operators that farmeis can be found who can be duped into action, to assist the grain trust in dividing and disorganizing the farmers. Hon. J.

A. Bccklin, president of the Farmers Co-operative Grain Live Stock Association was at the head office in Topeka this Week assisting in the organization work. If the grain trust can divide the farmers co-operative shipping tions and thereby defeat the centralization of sales by organizing rival associations they will have accomplished their purpose. Db. W.

C. McConnell of More-head, Kansas, is going to devote a few weeks in assisting and pushing forward The Farmers Co-operative Grain Live Stock Association. He is one of the directors and a faithful co-operator. The Grain Trust members have made a combined attack upon James Butler, secretary of the Farmers Cooperative Grain Live Stock Association hoping to prejudice the farmers against him and thereby destroy his influence. They will fail.

We know Mr. Butler personally and we are positive he is entitled to the support of every honest farmer and true co- operator in Kansas. No more honest, faithful, energetic, uncompromising leader can be found in this state. Intelligent honest farmers everywhere should rally to his defense and stand by him and assist him in the fight he is making for them. Comrades Baker and Drew were painting the town last week.

Comrade J. K. Graves is back with ns after an absence of thirteen years. raw material to the furnished product We will own onr iron mills that will produce the iron and steel for our factories. We will own our transportation facilities, (government railroads) so as to transport our products to and from the producer and consumer, We will have invested a great amount of capital and now we come to the point.

We want a hundred thousand co operative stores. We want these to federate and form wholesale stores. These in turn to establish factories. The people to put in a little capital to start the retail stores, then the profit that will be made in the business to be used to extend it and form other industries. The farmers will co-operate with the mechanics and the whole will be harmonious and will be entirely independent and free from any trust.

It will be owned by the people and will liberate them from serfdom and from the bondage of sm and the trust. This is the most gigantic organization of the age and one in which every honest man may take pride, and one in which the common man or the poor man will receive just and honest treatment and the full reward of his toil. Join in the procession and help it along. Organize a co-operative store, a co-operative grain company and always patronize a co-operative business and especially the insurance business. Incidentally if any of you want the bett cultivator shovels on earth, write A.

B. Hawk, Peabody, for them. If you want the best and cheapest wind mill on earth or the best gasoline engine ever made write the Cooperative Mfg. Morehead, and in so doing yon will confer a favor on them and through them on all humanity. Comrade Osborn is qnite little of statue but his good wife helps to-make up for the deficiency in that line.

He is our musician and the Instrument that he cant play is badly out of tune. He operates the trip hammer in the factory and is an expert. There is at present a wave of cooperation sweeping over the United Btates and at its present rapid growth will completely revolutionize the commercial world in ten years. The American co-operators following the English co-operators are entering every branch of commerce, and it is only a matter of time till their principles will control every line of business. In the field of distributive commerce they have done the most work until now there are thousands of cooperative stores well established on the Rochdale plan and it is a notable feature that there is not a single case of failure where this plan has been strictly adhered to.

The annual business of the co-operators in America amounts to millions of dollars and is rapidlv increasing. As a matter of necessity the field of manufacture has been invaded and there are many small establishments run on this plan. Broom factories, canning factories, shirt and overall factories and a great many other kinds while they are generally small they are demonstrating the truth of the principle and of the law of the survival of the fittest. The great difference between the co-operative and the competitive industries is that the co-operative is run to serve the people and is operated without the in-inceniive to fraud, that is without profit to the operator, he being under bonds and on a salary. The competitive plan is run for profit and possesses all the incentives to cheat, steal, rob and swindle that we see every where displayed in business to day.

The rules of the competitive system that are being usedioday are opposed to morality, to honesty and to all the essential features of Christianity. We maintain that a man cannot succeed in business without following the well established rules of the game and if he follows these rules he cannot follow the teachings Christ. Therefore those persons who are trying to live consistent Christian life and at the same time follow the competitive system of business are attempting the impossible and those persons who claim to do this are either deceived in themselves, that is mistaken or they are-hypocrites, that is pretending to be something that they are not. This is the way that we reason and if any honest man reasons differently we would like to hear him. Now it is the object of co-operators to institute such rules in business that the incentive to be dishonest will be entirely eliminated.

So that the teachings of Christ can be lived up to and a man still make a living at his business er profession. Once change the rules of business so that this can be done and the social conditions of mankind will be revolutionized. The churches will be filled with honest men and women and an age of peace, prosperity and happiness will come to take (he place of the present chaotic, anarchistic, diabolical competitive hell that we now live in. The great shame is that so few ministers of the gospel of Christ can be found who have backbone enough to stand for what they kaow is just and right. They go even farther and wilfully advocate the principles of devil, that is competition simply because the degenerate members of their church will pay them for it.

hame on the minister of Christ who will lie for money. Now the co-operators mean to establish a system of commerce that will reach all along the line from the 90 people, were killed in a toruada in Texas May 18. The property loss was iucaluable. It is the worst disaster on the gulf coast since the Galveston flood. The largest damage suit ever brought for personal injury has been brought against the Emery, Bird, Tbayer Dry Goods Co.

of Kansas City by Miss Nina M. Heory, a-former cashier, for personal injury, and disfigurment caused by an accident at the department store. She wants $50,500. Ashes and volcanic dust 1b falling in the Windward islands so thickly as to give the effect of dense fog. It is claimed that the presence of the volcanic dust can he noticed upon the Atlantic sea coast of the United States.

In a recent explosion in a coal mine at Coal Creek Tenn. 150 miners were entombed. A deluge of rain fell at Gleu Falls, May 17. Asa result of the ensuing flood 800 people are homeless. Almost the entire lower part of the city of Lisbon was destroyed by fire recently.

Carrie Nation has a 30 day sentence for a smashing eacapade which she indulged in a year ago. The Santa Fe has made a general rule all over its system, that graduates from high schools will be given preference over other applicants for position who have not completed any advanced educational course. Young people will soon find that it pays to get a good education, even if they only expect to be a braky, Brown county comes to the front, and claims to have a real live volcano. The first mile of the new Orient railway was laid at Anthony last week and the town held a big celebration in honor of the event. The grade is complete for 100 miles southwest of the town, bridges are in for 40 miles and ties have been distributed.

Those who have been persisting in calling the road a fake will soon forget they ever said it. Esther Bowie, daughter of John Alexander Dowie, the noted faith cure leader, died recently from burns caused by the upsetting of an alcohol lamp while cnrling her hair. No medical aid was called. The prayers of her father and his followers failed to keep her from dying in frightful agony a few hours after the accident. Miss Dowie was bnrned past the hope of recovery, bat had a doctor been called she might have been relieved from such agony by the nse of opiates.

Needed a Storm His Business An old line insurance agent once remarked that he was sadly in need of a storm in his business. One-fourth of the premium paid for old line insurance is kept by the agent as commission. After a storm has demolished a home that was not insured the old line agent can collect commissions wholesale from the neighbors. Secretary Gilpin of the Co-operative company of Topeka was telling the story of the resident of Arkansas-who did not insure his house because when there were no storms or fires he did not need insurance and after the house was destroyed he could not insure it. The time to insure is now.

In time-of calm prepare for storm. Mutual companies are safer and cheaper than stock companies and it is advisable to insure in them except when it is desired to donate to an already wealthv concern. The Co operative association at Morehead, has just secured a tract of 120 acres of land adjoining the town and will lay it off in 1 to 3 acre lots for homes for their members. Thev will erect concrete houses and all will enjoy the comforts of a nice pleasant home at a very small cost to each. The Co-operator is the official organ of the Co-operative Association at Morehead, which is built strictly on co-operative plans and is one of the most successful to be found anywhere.

Subscribe for the Co-operator and keep posted on their growth. 25 cents a year. In clubs of ten 20 cents. MAY DISAPPEAR. Prof.

Angelo Heilprin Says West Indian Islands May Sink Into The Sea. Prof. Angelo Heilprin, an eminent geologist and authority on volcanology says: In my opinion the volcanic eruptions are not the only things to be feared. It is altogether likely that the volcanic disturbances now going on may result in the collapse of the islands whose peaks spring into activity. The constant eruptions of rock, lava and ashes, you must know, means that a hole, as it were, is being made in the bosom of the earth.

When this hole reaches a great size, that which is above will be without support, and then subsidence must follow. The volcanoes of Martinque and St. Vincent, and of the neighboring islands of the Caribbean, are situated in a region of extreme weakness of the earths crust, which has its parallel in the Mediterranean baBin on the opposite side of the Atlahtic. This American region of weakness extends westward from the Lesser Antilles across the Gulf of Mexico into Mexico proper, where are located some of the loftiest volcanoes of the globe. Popocatepetl and Orizaba, both now in somnolent condition, and including the more westerly volcano of Colima, which has been almost continuously in eruption for ten years.

This same region of weakness includes nearly the whole of Central America. Volcanoes in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala have been repeatedly active, some almost to the present time, many with destructive effiect, and it should be no surprise to have some of them burst out with the same vigor and intensity as Mont Pe-lee or the Souffrlerie. Is John Foreman a Catholic i John Foreman an English writer wrote a book on The Philippine Islands in which he scourged the Catholic doctrine and especially the Friars. In order to gain the support of Catholics he makes pretentions at being a Catholic himself as will be seen by the following MRy the love of veracity (a befitting attribute of a good Catholic) be sufficient justification for what adverse allusions may have fallen from my pen on that respectable body which has moulded the thought of generations of civilized masses and successfully brought them to embrace our most Sacred Creed. P.

Joseph Sittensuer O. S.B. 6f the Valley Falls Parish, in a recent article in the N. Y. Sun, ably discussed Foreman as a wolf trying to parade in sheeps clothing.

H9 secured absolute proof that Foreman not a Catholic. We would be pleased to give the entire article publication bat the lack of space prevents. Morehead Association Notes. BY DB. W.

C. MCONNELL. Comrade L. E. Swope is conducting the nicest, best, cleanest and most strictly up-to-date co-oporative store in Kansas.

He is assisted by W. T. Swope and the ever ready and proficient Issiacs Smith. They make a great team and are doing a great business. Comrade Ringle, the oldest co-operator in the state is making some nice improvements to his house.

He was recently married to Mrs. Strawa, although he is getting well up in years and has raised three or four families he seems to be commencing life in earnest. Long may he live and prosper. Comrade J. W.

Reeves, foreman of the factory has been a co-operator for 50 years, he Is not a rich man bat The people who plowed up the buffalo grama grass of the western plains are wishing now they hadnt. The grass which needs no cultivation, which grows if anything else grows and is as free as rain, is the most valuable feed in the world and makes the finest flavored butter on earth. Western ranchmen are baying separators and only a few years will pass before moBt ranch cows will be milked. Congress has voted $200,000 to the Martinique relief fnnd and relief ships will be sent immediately..