When Thomas Hughes, author of “Tom Brown at Oxford,” who had
experience in American concerns in his endeavor to plant an
English colony in Tennessee, was in Boston a few years ago,
he was asked, according to the Boston _Post_, why it was
that cooperative distribution which had proved so successful
in England, had never succeeded in America. “Simply,” he said,
“because you Americans do not know what economy is in the sense
in which people practise it in England. Many a workingman at
home will walk two miles to the cooperative store with his
basket on his arm, and do it in his bare feet at that, to save a
shilling on his weekly purchase. No American mechanic would do
that.”
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=Economy in Metal=--See MAGNETISM.