Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-16
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

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being an enterprise exclusively English
whickwas to maintain itself as English
eultixhte En9ish tfaditions andfeAknFs
tAnd- Inn to b & little England in fht
midst of the United States, in the same
? way that Rlymeath was new England
lin the wilderness of 1920. .,r The Ameri
can and English critics Of the schems
; showed at once that such an undertak
ifg must fail because the movement,
j slrhea6rAm ns religious d. social thep
4 ~. sbat- y hSfely an ipdustrial entSr.
prise. The result would inevitably be
u Ahericsn lifSArouhd il, and graduaEab:
8 nifty. gBut when this had been all CO.
u gently set f04h and reasoned to a logi-
Gal conclusion, MI Hughes made q
speech at the opening Of the town, so to
speak, in which he stated that such was
not the intention, that the gates of the
j colony would stand wide open to the en-
eltrywof industry and intelligence from
~tevers duartd, and that while ii it's be-
fginAiAg iclwxs necessarily English, 1--WE
hope that this will very soon cease to be
sou
! J It Isl In fact, merely an escape from
The narrower opportunities of life in
Older communities, and it's hope and aim
apparently are to give more and sfairer
chances to capable and well-meaning
people than they are likely to find at
home. There is price to be paid, in
deed, for so great gain, and that price
is separation from the associations of
Older regions and of home, and the for
nation of, new ties with strangers
There ID another price to be paid also,
/ which is iIevitable, and that is the at
tempted entrance of the shiftless and
impracticable. No body of per
sons can found simple indus
trial community which is designed to
lessen the friction of the great contest
for existence without being beset by
swarm of drones who hope somehow to
be ohelped without helping themselves
There is perhaps to be added to this
! pricerlist the slight Iunnaturalness which
seems to belong to the impression OF
such endeavors. This is not, indeed,
what can be called an original feeling.
because, from the community in some,
form our modern society has sprung
But individrtalism aud every man foi
himself have become so wholly the prin
,cipleof our society that there is now.a
s 81 from any return to any form form.
|, :. OF this Mr.. Hughes is we'll aware, and
in Ms,yery tranquil and sensible speech
he alludes to the Odium which attaches
to the word community, and repudiates
entirely all sympathy with the state
communism of which we have had some
ugly, teachings in this country, and OF
which, Lasalle and Marx are leaders III
Europe. Indeed, the Rugby community
is to be neither political nor religious,
but simply Arcadian. 1t proposes no
reorganization of society, no revision of
fundamental laws, It accepts with per-
feet contentment the laws relating to
property and to family life as they exist.
and hopes to make the business of living
under those laws somewhat easier. The
colonists intend to lay cat pretty town,
with due provision for parks and gar
dens, and to erect suitable, simple, and
attractive buildings. They mean also
to apply cooperation to the supply of
many of the fundamental and constant
necessities of daily life, economizing
health and labor and expense, and there
by greatly increasing the common stock
of yigor and rational enjoyment; and
they consecrate the colony to perfect re-
Ggious freedoms f-ss<Sn ,
It is thus unique enterprise. The
colony will avail itself of the results of
experience elsewhere, and begin with
the taste and foresight which are usually
wholly wanting, or which are entirely
contemued in the beginning of such
communities. Towns and villages are
chance growths. They gather around
some water-power, or mine, or spring,
or natural advantage, or they are agri-
cultural centers, growing without pur
pose or plan. There is scarcely pref
ty or pleasant town Or, village which q
little forethought would not have made
very much more charming. The village
improvement societies are signs of the
rural communities. Where there is
beautiful shore, of a river or lake, it
has been generally sequestered to pri-
vate and individual use, and is lost to
the community. If the natural beauty
of thousands of towns had been devel-
oped for the common benefit, it would
be found that profit and pleasure are
different faces Of the sama fact, for
property in an attractive community is
more valuable than in one that is not so.
But when, as at Rugby, it is proposed
to add to this cheap and easy, care~for-
the common pleasure the tightening of
the common labor by the Introduction
of kind of cooperation whose value is
incontestable, the only question that re-
mains is whether the colonists who will
come to settle will have the taste and
intelligence of the few leaders, or will |
yield to them the control. The hope of
the colony, as Mr.. Hughes expressed it.,
is that it will be community of natural, y
not of artificial or conventional, ladies
and gentlemen. This is the natural
hope of generous enthusiasm
Easu Char, in Harper's Magazine.
THE mirute lines and burrows on per-
sons hands. are likely to receive a far
more Useful attention than the observa-
ton Of the great lines by fortune-teHers.
There is reason to believe that the spiral |
whorls on the thumb and finger points
are peculiar to individuals and races,
opd NOV ho a. oarfa iu1y usoda fO dpfina |