The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-01-29

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Some one. writing from " orthina ton
to the Jackson Republic, says: 81. !. !,
I wisl, to make = few comments on
an article which appeared in the last
weeks ADVANCE signed by q. 2. Mil
lie has the article divided into. sen 81
fences and, numbered. In No, g. he
SAYS :: 'The ADVANCE will continue
to recognize the fact that this is the
National Colony. All attempts to Gre
ate division or ill+feeliMg between col
nists and those who attempt to ignore
the fact Of Z colony ny viii !. be liscour-
I would like to know ,chat the. INA
tional COlony"ois; also who are the
s'colonists. - 1 have lived here since
the early part of 1872, and know where
Of | afim when I say that nine out Of
every ten Of the inhabitants Of this
county recognize no National Colony
only us it exists III the Office of Miller,
'HumistOn & Co.; and, further, nine out
of ten of the inhabitants of the county
are not colonists. It is about time the
people of the Eastern States were in
formed that this is not cOnglomerated
Oneida community, but a. county, in
habited by citizens, independent Of each
other 50 far rs. property is concerned.
but united in trying to make it 4 desir-
able place for people to live in.
LEGION.
This man signs himself Legion"
probably because he is like the man i'm
the Scriptures, possessed Of a "legion"
of devils. This is the only way we can
see of making up the number on his
side. He is plainly one of the anti
temperance, anti-colony element, for
the two or three of that class in Worth
ington always go to the JACKSON Re-
public for All outlet and for newspaper
consolation. They inspire the bitter
but utterly powerless sneers Of that
sheet, and live. Oh in community
where ninety-nine out of every hun
dred men are against them. They go
on kicking against the prlcks, abusing
good men, aud expecting somehow and
sometime to make something by it.
Now, we would not notice this article
did we not wish to make it the text for
some things we wish to say to our hun
dreds of readers in the East who are
reading the ADVANCE for correct i'll
formation with 4 view to coming to
the Colony. We say, then:
!. That this is the National Colony,
originated in 1871 and founded in 1872,
by Miller. Humiston Il Company. of
Ohio. These gentlemen travelled 10000
miles in search of location, visiting
all available places from the Red River
of the North. to Missouri, and from the
Mississippi to Utah. They finally Sc
lected Mobiles County, Minnesota, as
altogether the best location they had
visited. They have expended tens Of
thousands of dollars in making the ad
vantages Of this region known, IN
bringing settlers to these lands, and i'll
making improvements.
2. They determined from the FIRST to
found temperance community, and it
was this feature which drew together
so many intelligent, moral and Chris
tian people, who are determined to keep
out the liquor traffic. and who have 50
far kept it out that there is not Il grog-
shop in the whole county. Of course,
we are not ailagreed upon this. There
are anti-temperance men here, like the
writer of the above article, who are
living in hope that the temperance fea-.
ture will fail, but they are few and of
comparatively little influence.
3. The National Colony is, like any
other community, founded upon legiti-
mate business and social principles.
There is no communism and 10 peculiar
feature other than the temperance fea-
ture. Men hive Joined the Colony be-
cause they could, by so doing, secure
reduced fare and freight III coming
here. In the case of the National Col
ony the word ''Colony'' means simplya
community of intelligent temperance
men and women who left their old
homes i'll other States and came togeth-
er to occupy a portion of the new lands
of the West, having no organization
other than exists in other counties of
Minnesota, and being peculiar only in
their determination to keep out the
liquor traffic. =;
4. We have one good railroad with
two passenger trains q day.; we have
three churches in Worthington; we have
excellent public schools; We have one
Of the liveliest and most entertaining
towns in the country even under our
present grassl,opler depression we
have a plucky and determined people
who are absolutely in love with the cl,-
mate and the locality, and who proba-
lily average better than any community
in the West. '':.-
5. There is an abundance of land to