Having once tasted the sweets of the co-operative system,
they have a wholesome dread of being obliged to return to the cruel
bitterness of the old competitive system!

"Among the most potent charms which have proved so attractive to Solaris
workers, is the condition of health, comfort and beauty, which surrounds
the laborer in every department of the farm.

"In store, work-shop, seed-room, dairy, mill, factory or packing-house,
the rooms are large, the light is abundant, ventilation perfect,
ceilings high; while both walls and ceilings are so beautifully and
artistically decorated, that love for the beautiful in the esthetic
nature, swells and grows to be a dominant passion. This passion soon
takes hold of both heart and brain, becoming the foundation of a
character-building-work of high order. Thus happily environed, our
people feast their eyes and merrily sing away the hours, which are
devoted to tasks they have learned to love. The tendency of these
things, is ever toward the good, the right, the pure and true! Under
such conditions, the demon of discontent, evil thinking and evil doing,
cannot thrive! His power wanes, he flies to the more congenial
surroundings which mark the dingy, ill smelling, overcrowded work-shops
of the competitive system!

"No wonder, when away from Solaris, our people are so anxious to return!
They come back convinced, that they have fortunately escaped from the
thralldom of a debasing, cruel system. A system which--utterly ignoring
the sacredness of human life--in a frenzy of selfish greed, has, so far
as the toilers of the world are concerned, turned the triumphs of modern
civilization into the mockery of a bitter curse! As affecting
themselves, our people perceive that, under the protecting mantle of
financial conditions which prevail here at Solaris, they, as members of
the company, are sure to secure every benefit, profit or advantage, that
may flow from the use of the best and most expensive kinds of
labor-saving machinery. Once aware of all the facts, thereafter, they
cannot under any circumstances, be induced to return to employment under
the old system.

"The advantage in favor of co-operative work is so great, that among our
women co-operators, there is a general desire to have it utilized to the
utmost; especially in all kinds of housework. The introduction of such a
wholesale system of house-cleaning, soon demands a better class of
sweepers, to take the place of the housewi