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 GO. OPERA TIVE MOVEMENT 488 enough to tide its members over a famine on its own resources. ' Let it be assumed--as normally sanguine co-oper&tors are willing to assume--that the funds of the move- ment will just suffice to grant all to meet coming rendtins withdrawals necessary extensions, and to finance the forth- on a reasonable scale. The question the members of societies, who have are to maintain them- reaped crops how little or no harvest, selves, their families, and their live stock, until next July ? The position is an awkward one. The members have pledged their credit to their societies in under- taking joint unlimid liability and in several cases have actually mortgaged their It is therefore hopeless for to the sowkate whom they have deserted, and as a rule find it difficult enough to tide their regular clients over a bad' season. Their societies can do nothing for them. The only resource open to Government, which lands to their societies. them to turn for relief who own them is tsksvi from distributed freely at the opening of measure of moral strategy. But takavi they superimpose upon their land & which, though incurred later, takes priority previous incumbrances when it comes to is usually a famine as a by resorting to liability, of the recovery. The society, being itself unable to help, cannot reason- ably withhold its assent from such recourse to tsk&vi, and is compelled to sit by with folded hands and watoh the security on which its own credit is mainly bmsed melting away before its eyes.. It has been suggested by the conference of registrars that no tskavi should be given to members previous consent of their society; and Presidency societies are permitted to. send members whom witlmout whom they are they recommend for willing to strand as this in the lists el for Buts in tsksvi and surety.