The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-10-19
, said, "You do ask silly questions,

upon my word you do. Where do you think
they live?"
l said, That's just what I've been try
ing to tniuk. don't see any houses any
where"
He said: 1--WE don't need houses-not
houses such as you are thinking of. We
are sOcialistc now; we live tugether in fra
ternity and equality. We live in these
dates one thousand citizens. 1t contains one
thousand bedS-One hundred in each room
and bathrooms and dreSsing-rOnms in pro-
portion, dining hall aud kitchens. At 7
o'clock every morning a bell run and every
one rises and tides up his bed. At 80
o'clock they go into the dressings and
are washed and shaved and nave their hair
done. At o'clock breakfast is served in
the dining hall. 1t comprises a pint of oat-
meal porridge and half pint of warm
milk for each adult citizen. We are all
strict vegetarians now. The vegetarian
vote increased enormously during the last
century. and their organization being very
perfect, they have been able to dictate every
election for the past fifty years. At 1
o'clock another bell is rung, and the people
return to dinner, which consists of beans
and stewed fruits, with rolly-polly pudding
twice week and plum duff on Saturdays.
Al o'clock there is tea, and at 10 the lights
are put out and everybody goes to bed. We
are all equal, and we all live aiike-clerk
and ScaVenger, tinker and artist-all to-
gether, in fraternity and liberty. The men
live in the blocks on this side of the town,
and the women are at the other end of the
city,"
"Where are the married couples kept?"
asked.
'Oh, there are no married couples" he re-
piled. 1--WE abolished marriages 200 years
ago. You see, married life did not work at
all well with our system. Domestic life, we
found, was thoroughly anti-SociaiStic in its
tendencies. Men thought more or their
win md tp lTas hon Il Of
State. They wished to labor for the benefit
of their little circle of beloved ones rather
than for the good of the community. They
cared more for the future Of their children
than the destiny of humanity. The ties Of
love and bl0on bound men together in little
groups instead OF one great whole. Before
the advancement of the human race men
thought of their kith and kin. Before the
greatest happiness Of the great num-
Der, men strove for the happiness of
the lew who were near and dear
TO them. In secret, men and women
boarded up ana iabored and denied them
selves so as, in secret, to give some little ex-
ira gift OF JOY to their beloved. Love stirred
the vice Of ambition in mems hearts. To
win the smiles OF the women they loved to
leave name teIind them that their children
might be proud to bear, men sought to raise
themselves above the general level, to do
some deed that Should make the world look
up to them, and honor them above their fell
lON-iltll. 10 press 4 deeper footprint Illan
another's upon the dusty highway of the age
The fundamental principles of ocialism
were being daily thwarted and contemned
Each house was revolutionary center for
the propagation of individualism and per-
sonality. From the warmth of each domes-
tic hearth grew up the vipers of independ-
encp, seif-interest and clannishness to sting
the State and poison the minds of men.
The doctrine OF equality WAS openly
disputed. Men, when they loved woman,
thought her superior 10 every other woman,
and hardly took any pains to disguise their
opinion. Loving wives believed their hus-
bands to be wiser and Drawer and better
than other men. Mothers laughed at the
idea OF their children being in no way SUI
perior to other children. Children imbibed
the hideous heresy that their father and
mother were the best father and mother in
the world.
From whatever point you looked at it,
the family STOOD forth as our foe. One man
had charming wife and two sweet-tempered
children; his neighbOr was married to