New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-19

company within the railroad company precipi-
showed the white feather too leaving the poor col
ontsts in the urch. Owen was equal to the emery
Foncer Say 200 sharesvons fourth Of all Of the
Texas. Topolobsmpo and Paclhc Railroad ana
telegraph Company, and $4,000 snsresCaso one
fourth of all of the Mexican Am ercan Construc-
ton Company-for 100000 and give in pay ment
bond for thirty years at per cent, IL being
further agreed that LOCO shares more OF me ran,
the Credit Foncier in case of vote to sell Inc
cost of thirty mile of railway from Topolo-
hampo to the River Fucrte would be. at most
$5, 800 mile. OF 1892 500 in all. But 800 colo
nists will be employed on the railway and part OF
the expense the profits Of the construction ,h WI.
easy terms too. the improvements In the nrst pian
will all be carried out.
SCOPE OF THE ENTERPRISE.
The Credit Foncier in fact, as ii appears in all
these transactions. is huge banking house. stock
company to which each colonist il at once creditor
and debtor. All middlemen suppressed.
What single corporation does IN a single branch
of business. banking, railroadinG, mining lighting
the streets. furnishing couveniences OF one sort OF
another, ii does in all branches together. The
Credit Foncier will own every thing and manage
every thing. No colonist have any dealings
directly with another colonist, but only with the
State. All will be functionaries aud of equal rank,
the director himself who manages tie pubic
business and the woman who scrubs the public halls.
| I here are to be servants and no masters no
creditors and no debtors within the corporation
itself. No society, partnership, or even church, is
longer possible. Religious belief is made perso-
nal matter purely, and priesthood is abolished
| Marriage however, though a sort of contract, is
both allowed and encouraged, and society Is to be
based on strict monogamic rules. The colony. in
short, IS one that asks, according to the curious
| phrases of its protector, for evolution and not
| for revolution for inter-dependence ana not for
independence; for cooper alton and not for compe
| titon for equity and Dt for equality for duty
and not for liberty for employment and not for
| charity; for ececticsm and not for dogma; for
one law and not for class legslation for corporate
management and not for political control; for
State responsibility for e'ery person. at all times
| and IN every place. and not for municipal irrespon
siblty Tor any person. at any time or IN any place
and it demands that The common interests OF the
citizen TIE atmosphere land water, light, power,
exchange transportation, construction sanitation,
education. entertainment. insurance. production,
| distribution ETC., ETC., be pooled and that the
| prlvate life of the citizen be held sacred"
| The corporate State, of course, is the board OF
| ten directors two of whom elected annusly by
| a vote of stock. One director is made chairman
| and the other nine are set each over department.
of bis The head of each department, ike that
| of the Department of Policing. Sewerage and
Cleanliness, OF Farming. Forestry, Stock -raishg
| Game and Fish Culture has complete control over
all the laborers under his direction making as
| signments of work each day. and. IN conjunction
| W tn the eight other chiefs hIlng the wages or
salary paid each man. There IS to be. presumably,
| perfect harmony all rOunh, the laborer getting
small wages. taking consolation from the fact that
the State thereby saves something and the per-
centage of profits to all is sensibiy or insenslbly
raised But all these untried delicacIes OF de-
tail. The State stands ready to modify them IN the
| working out -,
colonv's maps is one of the ARREST and most charm
| ing in the world. The streets are to be WIDE and
cut another, for the main part at r g9f angles
| though diagonal avenues, like those OF Washing
ton. intersect here and there. Inc squares and
! circles will he set in trees and flowers and fonn-
taiDs The houses will be bGilt IN the Moorish
! stvle with pillars carvings and open courts The
streets will be paved with asphalt or some other
hard substance, for bicycle and tricycle. ridloe.
| Gable cars may he used for travel but no horses.
All domestic animals. horses, dogs. cats. fowls,
and the rest to be kept beyond the city Limits;
There will be little rairfail and no snowfall ana
| the Department of Street Cleaaing will he sine
cure-if there is at all in this model metropolis
| OF the foture
| No less Utopian are the fertility and beauty OF
tn. TopoioSanpan asid.. as they appear to the
| colonists In the Tich valley of the Rlo fnerte'
as a matter-of-fact public document makes IL ont,
ali cereals grow with rice ami cotton, tobacco and
sugar care. he rainy seasoL mas its Two crops
and one can get two more, pernaps; inoi" tn1
| alluyial bottom lands by careful irrigation. BACK
| toward tho mountain rangesthe frnlts Of t"o zones
are found, the banana vielhg win the iosci n'
| near the orange with the ewing aad apple
| Timber of all sort abOuDds and the whole coast
| range of mountains is streaked with precious
| a a
so densey that the naive Indians and Mexicsns use
no lines or nets but only Add to all hs tie
temperate climate, which the projectors OF the rail-
| roa feuud-cool nights and breezy DAYS even I'D
| the dry season, the thermometer rarely showing
! more than 700 Jr 500. fine light atmosphere AM
constant southwestern wind'-and one nas some 3
| faint conception of the charms of this Land OF
| promise bathed IN the mellow Southern sun OF
fancy fragrant with perfumes like some new AraDy
In ali this Eldorado one thing is certain. at least
| Topolobampo has unequaled site FROM New
York. Chicago st. Lonis, or Galveston IL Tue
| nearest point on the Pacific Coast and as owen
himsef has taken pains show it lies on the most
| direct line across the continent from England 7"
| the Australian Colonies. No harb0r on the racine
coast except that of san Francisco. can sppI zach
| H. The outer bar never shows less than twenty
six feet-frequently over thirty-ahu tne cnAnnc 70
| wide and deep With anv fair degree OF progress
| the new city will in time controi, at least, the
| trade both coasting and railIo ad oil the western
slope of Mexico IL 10 dream nh ol dst',ns
| common weath-ahd no one who Will not Work Ior
| both is wanted among It's cltlzens'
THE CoLoNIsTs.
The Credit Foncier Of sinaoa published in October
last martial list of colonsts-1, 423 adults in all
with their probable occupations. There were 256
| bonsewives promised 1876 farmers, % carpenters,
az clerks Al laborers % blacksmths, % painters,
"a merchants 81 civil engineers. 81 printers Is
miners and II dressmakers. Twenty-nine put
themselves down as teachers and % as STOCK
raisers There were 10 telegraphers, musicians
3 stenograpners, and inventors One man har
the TO profess authorship, and there were
two preachers bone elocutonist. one lectursr' and
seven editors On the whole the list was vel
balanced. lss different trades and professions
having representatives Seven editors WILL doubt
less prove too great burden TO- The CredH fonc'e
:, itsnew Quarters and many other occLpatio nj
of course will droop vanish altogether. Ah'
when ~ rsonal tastes about work and hap-hazar'
asupnments clash the real tug i'll the cooperative
system will come. M do,h,
There are many trials and privations no doups
before the Sicaoan colony The peril, OF nAll
tronical eli nate, the weary struggle wild new un
cleared soil, the fight against drouth, the uelay
and yexations of building railroads. houses ne.
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