The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-03-22

you were accustomed in your former homes. without being ground down by excessive taxation. Each of you IS free man. and If a, any time you desire to leave the island, you can do so, but the home you occupy. and which costs you nothing. remains for some one else. The product 0: yea: !abc: yog can barter and sell. and II Is upon ,his that you must uVe- Here ~e have stores In winch you can buy whatever you may need. and be ing under government surveillance they dare no, extor; from you eNorbi,ant ptices. We have all the discoveries of science for mans pleasure and comfort and land where nature has been mos, liberal. l. as diseoveref Of ;his island ard ioan der of this colony. am ,o be the chief executive. To aid me in properly soyerning you will choose grand counsellor. and you arc 10 choose from among you ten worthy men. whose duty \ shall be 10 meet yearly and impose taxes. adjust differences and make such laws AS shall be necessary.
 Having said th3s he sat down. while shouts of approbatloa went Up from the multitude. In choosing men of different professions. several doctors and school teachers had been selected, bu, only one lawyer had been asked to come. He was man we'll versed n legal lose and very sensible. and Rawdon chose h,m as his right hand man, hls prime minister as II were.
 The government having been es,ab- hshed its defense WAS mex, considered. and the ship @as again sent out ,o obtain men and munitions for an army. In due time II returned with a hundred men. mics, cannon. and ammunition. and soon a standing army vas established and ioruhcatlons built. The steamship served for the island and carried three guns
 All this had been done without at tracing the grea, nations tha, swa,ed the earth with ,heir mighty power. and new dag claiming recognition.
 What upstar, is th,s." they would say. and when they found out they sneered A the idea But soon they began to look with wonder d, the rapid progress which ;his child of nations began ,o make Its iactones furnished goods that were in constant demand. and It's literature at tracted world vide attention for Rawdon $ chief aim vas 10 furnish A home where men of letters could retire from the rush and hurry that ground them down and bring from ther inne. depshs ,hc thoughts which might elsewhere struggle in ya.n for ut;erance. And ;his literature. not being stimulated with wine. came with natural flow, and SO dltferem, from that which had become common of late years that II was considered phenomenal
 Thus. in the course of few years, by systematc government and ilght taxes. the people had prospered and were get ting wealth and reno<n. for ;he harbor was constantly flll of foreign shipping. drawn here for the purpose of trading and the merchandise which they sold found lts way into every country on the globe. Nor did one man prosper more than another. for. though there was bu, one man engaged in each business the la~ of the land made 1t impossible for him to be nonopolist. and the farmer also stood an equal chance with the trades man.
 During this time the island had been divided into three parts or districts. each district having capital and local gov ernment, subject only to the laws govern. ing the whole island that IS. each dis ;rict was a separate state so long as is i.;erests did not conflict with its neigh- bor's interests. These distncts were governed by magistrate. whose duty was to adludioate trivial differences be. tween citizens and 10 see tha, the laws of the land were properly earned out, Be- side this magistrate, each dis,Fict had three suboidina magista,es. whose duties were similar to those of the prin- eipal magistrate. 10 whom they were sub ject. A national oonstabulAry ot twenty live men was established for ,he purpose of pa,rollng the island and seeptng the peace.
 One would suppose from :his .ha, law lessness had found it's way into this Eden, but such was no, the case In all places and under all circumstances there are men who hold the law IT contempt and let their evil passions ge, the better of their judgment, and ii was to proven, an outbreak of these natures tha, Raw don had established police force on his island. Moreover, continued immigra- ton had filled this new world with all manner Of people. and who could say but some of them were outlaws from their native land: If any such there were they certainly needed something .o keep them n check
 R4wdon had named the island PAci. don. in honor of the grea, ocean in which Il vas found and of himself The prln- cipal city was called Seacres, ,he north. ern town was called Mudgev,lle and the southern tosn Arglow. By industry. the island had been made 10 blossom ike the rose, and the farms were in high state of cultivation.
 So far the government. had gwen sa,is- faction. and peace whi,e-winset and SC rene, hoyered over the island No dis turbance from within or without masred the happiness and content that brooded over the land and the futl fruitton of Rawdon desire, seemed af h,eyed and me a3a,eual p.osPeIliy of the people vas indeed accomplished An international system ot 1opyush' had been established ee,w cen paeidon an. Al ivIl ed nations