A History of the Consumer’s Co-Operatives in Oregon Prior to 1900
| dc.contributor.author | Masterson, Iver Willis | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-29T19:20:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-05-29T19:20:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1938-06 | |
| dc.description | 55 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | A History of the Consumer’s Co-Operatives in Oregon Prior to 1900 The pioneer farmer often spent the year "working long hours and enduring many hardships and deprivations, only to find himself just a little farther in debt than he had been the year before. Analyzing the cause of his drifting farther into debt, he saw that if he had been able to sell farm crops at the price prevailing in the larger markets; if he had been able to buy the necessities of life and of the farm at or nearer the wholesale price, he would not have slid down hill but would be accumulating a small surplus. This was the problem that confronted the farmer during the period following the close of the Civil War. He was forced to pay exorbitant prices for the articles that he must buy and to accept the minimum price for the products that he sold. The wide difference between the price he received and the market price abroad could be seen but what could be done about it? Now if he could only eliminate the middleman and keep the difference in price, the income from the farm would be greater. If the storekeeper could also be eliminated and he could buy at wholesale prices the expenses of the farm would be smaller, consequently the profit would be greater. The farmer then would not be doing the work and receiving only a meager living, while the middleman who was doing no work as far as the farmer could see, was becoming rich. How were these economies to be effected? How were enough of the farmers to be brought together to be able to carry on the work of the middle man without it becoming a burden to them? This problem was to be solved by Mr. Oliver Hudson Kelley. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/28333 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | founding of the Grange | en_US |
| dc.subject | Eastern Oregon | en_US |
| dc.subject | insurance | en_US |
| dc.title | A History of the Consumer’s Co-Operatives in Oregon Prior to 1900 | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis / Dissertation | en_US |