to apply the most efficient remedies. It is
only by associated effort, that rural populations can successfully
oppose the concentration of wealth in cities. The well organized mass,
becomes a great power. The new century demands a new industrial
organization. The co-operative system, answers the demand. It is in
harmony with the idea, that life is the most precious of all things.
Therefore, it recognizes that opportunity to labor, and to enjoy the
fruits of that labor, is the highest privilege of life. Under the reign
of co-operation, this is insured. United in congenial co-operative
associations, farming and working people in the country, reinforced by
large numbers of recruits from cities, may build up for themselves, new
centers of combined industries, society, wealth, distribution, exchange,
education, amusement and insurance; which will place them in the ranks
of the self-employed, who are financially and politically free. By
growth and expansion, these centers will become the units of a vast
co-operative system, which must soon wholly displace the competitive.

"The inspiring motive of this co-operative system, will be the elevation
and perfection of human lives. To this end will tend the invention of
every labor-saving machine; increasing the product and shortening the
hours of labor. With the physical man thus properly nourished and
developed; the intellectual and spiritual man, will for the first time
in history, have the necessary conditions in which to expand, blossom
and bear fruit. Under such circumstances, life in the country will be
both altruistic and idealistic. By comparison, life in cities will
become a hardship which few will care to choose. The few, it may be
taken for granted, will be so bound to the wheels of Mammon that they
cannot get away.

"The larger independence and better education of the co-operative
majority of voters, will soon enable them to find a relief for the
imprisoned populations of cities, which are now confined by the pressure
of land monopolies and railroad combines. They will see to it, that
these railroads become the property of the government; well knowing that
they can never be made to serve the public honestly, until the public
owns them. As for the land monopolists, they will find their holdings so
burdened with taxes, that they can no longer keep them out of use. The
erection of fine buildings will be encouraged. Costly mansions,
dwellings, or factories, will not increa