rty. The
Crusade must demonstrate, that ignorance, poverty and crime, are
handmaidens, which cannot exist apart. That if one-half the money
expended for charity during the past fifty years, had been used to
promote co-operative self-employment, poverty, tramps and ignorance,
would now be things of the past.

"To the people of the republic at large, must be taught the significance
of the contrast between the war-like competitive system, and the
peaceful methods of a co-operative association. Co-operation, makes
combined individual effort, equal to the wealth of independence. The
co-operator, being self-employed, no longer strives to displace a fellow
workman by offering service at a lower price.

"Competition, emphasizes the poverty and helplessness of the individual,
because it sets every man against his neighbor, against the whole world.
The competitor deliberately shuts himself away from all gain that might
come to him from the force and effectiveness of associated effort. He
loses all faith in mankind; in honesty and justice. He views the good
fortune of a fellow toiler, as a personal injury, which he ought to
resent. In fact, he becomes too selfish to even be patriotic!

"The quickest way to convince the people of the barbarism, the cruelty,
and the wickedness of such a system, is to establish a co-operative farm
in every available township throughout the land. The free, healthy,
trained, and well-educated social communities, growing up on these
farms, will become the units of a true society; the underlying
foundation, on which to build the true republic.

"Society dominates the political expression of nations. It molds and
controls public opinion, business methods and commercial usage. Under
the reign of competitive business and society, the market is largely
composed of small wage earners, whose necessities are so great, whose
tenure of employment is so uncertain, and whose wages are so scanty;
that they are forced to buy the cheapest of everything. On the part of
tradespeople, the fierce competition to control this cheap market,
encourages the use of an outrageous system of food adulteration, and
with it, every possible degree of lying, cheating, fraud and deception;
until the moral tone of both business and society, has become blunted;
yes, well nigh destroyed. As a result of this shameful state of
commercial affairs, the successful man in any line of business, can no
longer afford to be honest. He knows ver