earings of the questions involved, I feel sure that you
will heartily agree with me in the assertion, that co-operative society,
is the very embodiment of even handed justice, in which the rights of
all are considered. Furthermore, you will be willing to admit, that it
teaches the value of labor, and how to discover its uses and abuses. In
eliminating its abuses, it will appear, that true progress, is to so
improve and increase the ease and attractiveness of all kinds of labor,
that they can no longer be classed as toil, or even disagreeable tasks.
This then, is the legitimate field of inventive genius. Success in this
field is assured, because it is in harmony with all laws of progress.
Every hardship, every difficulty and every danger, which is eliminated
from physical labor, increases in the same proportion, the opportunity
and the demand for mental labor. This demonstrates the action of
nature's law of compensation, which in elevating the character of labor,
maintains its quantity."

"Yes Fillmore, I am convinced! I am willing to admit the truth of the
assertions, which you have made concerning co-operative society, as the
result of the co-operative movement. No doubt, they are destined in the
near future to supersede the competitive system and the city society
which grew out of it. As I view the situation now, that time cannot come
too quickly! Yet, there is one point which still puzzles me. It is in
connection with the rapid improvement of labor saving agricultural
machinery, which, as Josiah Strong says, will soon enable a few farmers
to do all the farm work, forcing all other agriculturalists to seek
employment in manufacturing cities. How can you answer that argument,
from the co-operative standpoint?"

"That is a pertinent question George, to which co-operation can furnish
many conclusive answers. Let us consider the significance, and the
conclusiveness, of some of the following:

"Under the co-operative system, every new labor-saving machine applied
to agriculture, means just so much added wealth for the farm colony. It
affords that much additional income, for active workers; so much more
money to swell the annuity fund, for the retired members; so much more
cash capital, for the sinking fund, with which to purchase, and to
retain the permanent control, of an ever-increasing series of
co-operative farms, for the lasting benefit of their people. With
co-operative genius to invent, and an abundance of capital