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Midland Cooperator
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
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Congressman Jerry Voorhis of California delivers a speech in Congress, declaring cooperatives as the hope for democracy by overcoming individual power through mutual help. He highlights their growth over 25 years and victories against commercial monopolies like the fertilizer trust and big oil.
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(Co-op League News Service)
WASHINGTON, D. C. - In one of the few full-length speeches ever delivered in Congress on the cooperative movement, Congressman Jerry Voorhis of California declared last month that "the hope of democracy lies in our overcoming individual power with the principle of cooperation and mutual help to one another."
"I am giving to the House today," he said, "a picture of the work of our American cooperatives. I think this is the answer to the question so often asked by our citizens: 'What can I do to help save my country's institutions?'"
Tracing the dramatic growth of American cooperatives in the last 25 years and telling how the co-ops broke the commercial fertilizer trust and defeated attempts of "big oil" to crush the co-op refineries, Congressman Voorhis said:
"I am referring to this here to demonstrate that, now, regardless of the tremendous power of money and monopolistic control, the people are demonstrating that they have a way to freedom from monopoly control of this country, a way back to democracy-and that way is the cooperative way."
CONGRESSMAN VOORHIS
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Congressman Jerry Voorhis speaks in Congress on the cooperative movement, emphasizing its role in saving democracy by countering monopolies, citing growth over 25 years and successes against the fertilizer trust and big oil.