THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 106, 1 June 1909, Page 2

THE CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT

THK IRISH SYSTEM. EN-PRESIDENT MJUSK\ ELT'S XKUK'iK Received Hay 31, 10.10 p.m. Lojuuu, .May 31. K.vl'residciu lluoscveli, ill a letter to the British .\linister at WasUiUgwili, pays a generous tribute to Sir Horace I'luukctj iuitiation and successful conduct of the co-operative movement ;n connection with Irish agriculture, which, lie says, inspired him (Mr. Koosevelti and his fellow-workers in the task of attacking somewhat similar problems in American rurtil life.

Tile Times, commenting on the letter, says that in view of the special character of' the representative national message wiln whiin ex-President Hoosevelt on the eve of quitting office invested tire communication, might perhaps have been more courteous to the British Goveru-im-iit by according it publicity here on his own initiative, instead of permitting il~ existence to become known unoitgh the American press months after it was written. Considering tile circumstances wherein Sir Horace I'lunket ceased to he \ice-president of the Department of Agriculture, the- encomium to embarrass those responsible for the sacrillce to Nationalist antipathies.