The Co-operator.

The whole secret of the business lies in this, that the WORKMEN DO NOT WORK FOR THEMSELVES. The workman sells his time, strength, skill, and labour, all his ingenuity, all his cleverness, all his industry, all his health, to his master.

Everybody else has plenty. But the man who grows the food, or makes the cloth, or builds the houses, can scarcely get any food, or clothing, or a house to live in!

We believe that this idea is quite new to the working classes. They think that their wages are the whole value of the work which is done by them. This is their great mistake: and it arises from their IGNORANCE, of which it is the natural consequence.

CO-OPERATION is a subject entirely for the WORKING CLASSES. The RICH have nothing to do with it. A large class of mankind, are born to LABOR, and expect to labor all their lives.

Why do people become paupers? —because they must either go to the parish, or starve.