Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire.

The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.

The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.

From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.