The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-02-04

| Ho0oo-A WORD 70 WoxkmS0s
Workingmen have very short road to
independents and comfort II they will only
take 1t. 1t IL by organization, too-only
their organization 10 not against tho men
who employ and pay them, but for or them hem.
tried in Now York, and success has proved
that it 10 no experiment or theory, and now
| at this time several organizations are being
| formed to attempt to repeat tho success
that attended the earlier tIal.
number of years ago Several working.
men conceived the idea Of securing body
Of themselves, one thousand in pumber, to
bind themselves to lay by 81 so week for
one year, toward buying for thepleelves
tract of ground on which to build homes.
One thousand names were secured, and due
care being taken to secure only sober, in
dustrious and prudent subscribers, the
money at the end of the year was also on
hand. The sum of S7s, 200, with little
savings interest added. AS soon, how
ever, as 500, 900 was to their credit in bank,
they began to look around for location.
They decided prudently to buy only the
best land, as they were buying homes for
themselves and their children.
Attention was called to the fine location
of a new suburban village, sloping back
and across the New Haven Railroad, which
! was then just begun: The Society decided
on it, and paid $4,000 down on, the con-
tract, the rest to be paid in a few months.
Long before the year was out the remain
der of the purchase money, $4,000, was
paid down and the control of the village in
their own hands. SO great was the desire
Of other workingmen to join and live with
them, that it was found needful very soon
to purchase one hundred acres adjoining
and lay it OUT This village, Mount Yer
non, Is now one of the finest and most
thriving of the suburban clusters Of New
York, and every morning it sends forth it's
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drive for the day the great Industries of
the great city.
The scheme is being again mooted in
New York, although under disadvantage,
as now it is necessary to go twenty or
thirty miles out of town to find location,
As time is an essential value to the work
man, and "a most important part of his
capital, this almost destroys the whole
plan. A workingman's village now should
be directly on the line of railway, and not
more than seven or eight miles out of town
be not to go over half an hours distance in
time. This will make an hour going and
returning, and is all a poor man can spare.
Fortunately Philadelphia has yet every
advantage, and we would like to see our
workingmen begin to-day to avail them
selves of them. There is no reason why
this very week should not see, not one, but
dozen workingmen's associations started
| to secure for themselves the blessings of
home and independence. Suitable tracts
of land can yet be had within ten miles of
Philadelphia, on roads which have depots
and from. More than this, land can be
| bought here not only within q reasonable
distance, but at far cheaper prices than it
ever could be bought around New York.
Again. the Philadelphia workingman at
the present rate of wages need not limit
| q
workingman in this city, young or old,
married or unmarried, who really wants a
home and is worthy of one, who cannot lay
by So week. AT this sum five hundred
| men would accumulate over $52, 900 in one
| year, which is all that is necessary to start
one; and the smaller the organization of
course the more easily it is raised and
handled.
The advantages of such action, too,
would not cease merely with the securing
of house and home, great as is that bless
ing. The man or boy who has saved money
with it, has, more than that, acquired the
hebit of saving and accumulation, is
strengthened in the consciousness of the
possession of property, begins to expert
ence the self-reliance and prudence of the
capitalist and landowner, and his self
ing, is on the high way to fortune and
power.
Here is something better than the Inter-
national, because it builds instead of tear
ing down-because it organizes for society
instead of against it-because it aims to
make every man a capitalist instead of rob
bing those that are; and the capital that it
offers, too, is not merely the aggregation
of moneys-it is the solid capital of health,
content and happiness, that treasure which
neither moth nor rust can corrupt nor
thieves break through and destroy.-PhH-
adelphia Press.
The value of vaccination as q preventive
of small pox, though questioned by many,
seems attested by statistics. When small
pox was raging as an epidemic in London