Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-04-29
MORNING. APRIL 20, 1885.

of the Kniebis, in Baden, is fourishing lit
tie place. There are !, ,42O inhabitants, each
of whom has as much wood for building pur-
poses and firing as he wishes, while he can
| send his cattle out to pasture on the common
| land during the summer. Schools, churches,
thoroughfares and fountains are all main
| tanned by the commune, and every year con-
| siderable improvements are made. Five thou
sand pounds was spent in 1888, for instance,
| on establishing new water supply in iron
pipes. A hospital, too, has been built and a
! pavilion in the market place, where the COM
| munal band plays on fete days. The villagers
have never paid single farthing in rates,
but, on the contrary, each year distribu-
ton of the surplus revenue is made among
them, and each family usually obtains from
e2 los. to e3. All this is done with about
5000 acres of pine forest and meadow land
belonging to the township, a fact which
| seems to show that communism is not always
unfavorable to the production of wealth.
The citizens leagues of Iowa which are
laboring stIenuously to enforce the prohibi-
tory law have a novel and commendable way
of dealing with the rumsellers whose busi-
ness they feel obliged to break up. They
recognize that Iumseller must do something
and that generally ~he follows the liquor bust
ness because it is the only profitable employ
ment to which he can turn his hand. Having
| once been rumseller society is slow to trust
him in any more honest business, and he
must sell rum or starvs. The better way
adopted in Iowa is to get the man establish
ed in some other and better employment, If
possible. If he is not willing to engage in
decent business he must go, but if he is
willing to try his hand at getting an honest
living he must be helped It costs something
to help him, of course, bat it is cheaper to
help Him than to fight him, and in the case
of Germans and other foreigners who have
been brought up to consider beer selling re-
spectacle enough, they are frequently willing
to submit to public sentiment if they can be
shown the way to less Objectionable en-
ployment.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Record,
trade journal devoted to the progress of
trade in the southern States, observes that
the question of successful iron production in
the South is fully answered in the fact that
course of erection or under contract in that
section. The extension of the iron interest is
still especially notable in the Birmingham
district, where activity is greater proportion
ately on account Of the superior advantages
Of that locality. The feeling in the South is
that war between England and Russia
would advance the industries of the whole
country, and particularly of that section.
The New Orleans Times Democrat says: 1t is
quite true that the cotton interest might suf-
fer for time, but that it would remain de-
pressed for long is not SO certain. War
would very surely knock spots out of Euro
pean investments and force the rich and
varied resources of the South into prom
inence. One of the first results of actual
hostilities would be to drive money out of
British consols and French rentes into some
form of Investment on this side of the water;
and why not into matters connected with
southern industrial development, as well as
ANYTHING else?