The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-11-07
A Plan for the Communists.

Suppose the communists take the mon
: they squander in one year and apply
il to the realization Of communism, says
the Chicago Tribune: Let them send out
committee to Kansas, Nebraska, or
eXas, where there are millions of acres
S fair and fertile as the sun shines upon,
with instructions to pick out and pur-
.Aase a county adapted TO the necessities
Il. Communism. They can buy on long
allie. and will have TO make but a very
mall payment down. AS a matter of
net. the money now squandered by them
a one year will complete the purchase
lien let them divide their county into
51nships capable of accommodating two
9r three hundred families each, and take
out their twenty thousand who are hostile
10 republican institutions and to society
IN its present basis.
The railroads will be glad to transport
thpm for almost nothing, and the avarici-
Gus grasping capitalists will be mean
enough to furnish them with almost every
thing they need for their experiment, and
nc rest Of the population will escort
them to the depot with brass band, and
throw their old shoes after them for luck.
The leaders should be made tG giye bonds
70 remain there, and to help in the work
and share whatever they may have with
nc rest, otherwise they may get their
dupes out there and then leave them in
he lurch
As for tie rank and file they might be
depended upon 10 do somethllg, rs nine
tauths of them were brought up at man
nal labor on the soil. Having located
themselves, there need be no delay in
.3Unching their experiment, as their wants
re very few As they do not believe in
hurches, they wouldn't have to spend
money for chnr~LGs Surday-school books
Bibles, preachers, pew rents, choirS,
-trawberry-festivals, Oyster-soirees, or
ecktie-kettedrums. Not believing in
any hereafter, their ideas of immortality
rould he satisfied with a small patch for
{. graveyard, ana lhey oculi ell be dump
cd into one grave, on the true communIs-
nc plan. Not desiring to be educated
ocyond the ability to read and write,
graded schools, professors, colleges, text
5Quits. Laboratories, polytechnics, the
llnguages, globes, lead pencils, india
.ubber, Berlin wool, pianos, toot-rules,
nd other dangerous menaces to the gen
raj liberty could be avoided. Having
lorror of labor saving machines, they
could make 1t a capital crime for any
.ommunist who should be found with
.}ore labor-saving on his premises than d
0ade and hoe, and any person favoring
re use of the sewing machine, printing
rcss telegraph, telephone, steam engine,
Dcomotive, loom, mower and reaper, har-
ester anG suJ binder, tire-engine, street
ar, windmill or waterwheei might be shot
a the spot as a malefactor of the deepest
- and conspiratOr against the peace
md good order of the community.
In this manner the vicious and the vir-
...ars the strong and the weak, the sick
nd the healthy, could all settle down
ogether upon a common level. share
verything in common, labor for the COM
non good or not labor at all, and have
women, children, stock, goods, ground,
fire. water, and air in common They
you'd lie out Of the reach OF pegeiiy, ana
,.ccd from the grip Of the bloated tapit-
list. No factory chimneys would pol
ate their pure air. No wheel would vex
iaclP runIiag 9.s..eams. No sound of
ssalm would disturb their Sabbath morn.
arS. No shreking engines would tray
.-sa their domain. No hum of mower or
irr of shuttle would disturb the drone
f tn bee{I, GId bee IN tIs4lr broad acres.
d a very short time they might solve the
1oblem Of maintaining existence without
.et-clfort, seit-respcct, responsibilities.
sprati...s. ~ ambitions, and with no
,.ner object OF life THAI food auu clothing