AN ADVOCATE FOR CO-OPERATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 112, 21 May 1901, Page 2

AN ADVOCATE FOR CO-OPERATION.

To the Editor of the Times. Sir, —We have been prospecting our claim for the last three years, with the result that we have lost £4OOO up to the present. Now, the question is, Are we to go on for ever giving away the cream and taking only the skim milk ? There is only one way in which I can possibly account for the utter collapse of the meeting, and that is, Mr McGregor having acceded to our request of a rise of one penny, all the dairymen’s desires were attained. But such is not the case, as the whole of the possibilities may be ours, also the whole- of the liabilities. I can hardly convince myself how hard-headed • and hard toilers, which the dairymen undoubtedly are, can afford to give anyone threepence per lb on butter simply for-the loan of his- name while it answers his purpose. Surely a profit of twelve pounds per diem, to he abstracted from their hard work, Is enough to raise that power innate within’us. “ OH, man, take care'of thysblf."' I. myself have no fault to 'find_ with the man 'who; ‘leech-like, has the power of imparting a tickling sonsafion—the rise of one penny—while : he' is drawing the life blood of an industry. To opjjpsc a wrong is noble, while he who sits by in apathy is poor, aye, poor indeed.—l am, etc., '. • W. C. Walsh, For Co-oporation.