Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
WHEN COMMUNISM FAILED.
The Fate of Louis Blanc's aud Marshal
BuSeaud's Experiments.

The Fate of Louis Blanc's and Marshal
Bugeaud's Experiments.
After the revolution of 1s4a ,7uis
Blanc started workshop where nci-
pies of equality were practiced. The
wages were the same for all, but the
names of all idlers were written upon
the walls. All work was very we'll
paid for, as he had an order from the
State to supply uniforms for the Ma
tional Guard.
At the outset all went very we'll The
workmen were sincere and ardent So
cialists, who made it point of honor
that the experiment of the new system
should be success; but very soon this
good understanding came to an end.
Those who were more Industrious or
quicker than their companions &C.
cused the latter of idleness; they
felt themselves victims of injustice,
for the remuneration was not in proper
ton to the zeal and activity displayed.
They were being cheated and duped, :"
and this was intolerable; hence quar-
rels, arguments and fights. This temple
of brotherhood was transformed into a
sort of boxing booth-''boite aux
critics" which is. as is known. the
name given to the building where the
citizens of Geneva meet together for
the exercise of their sovereign rights.
Another example: Marshal Bugeaud
founded at Beni-Mered, in Algeria, q
military colony on a communistic foot
ing. The settlers were all picked men,
and he supplied them with all they
needed for the cultivation of the soil.
Land, cattle, agricultural implements,
the produce of the harvests, every
thing, in fact was to be owned and all
of three years The plan was excellent.
1t, nevertheless, turned out failure.
Although the colonists were SOL
diers, accustomed to discipline, passive
obedience, and equal pay, and without
private home or family, still they could
not go through the communistic noviti-
ate to the end. As they were engaged
in pursuits other than their military
exercises, the spirit of innovation and
the taste for amelioration soon made
themselves manifest. Each one wished
to cultivate according to his own notion,
and they reproached each other with not
doing the work we'll. The Marshal vain
~ explained that it was to their ad-
vantage to work in common, in order to
overcome the first difficulties of starting
the settlement and to realize the econo-
mics insured by wise division of la
Dor; it was of no avail; the association
had to be dissolved, although it had SO
far brought in profits. -ContemporarY
Review.
A Ride Across Asia
A telegram from Omsk, in Siberia,
announces the arrival at that place of
the Cossack officer Peschkof, who has
undertaken to ride alone, with one
horse, from Blagovestchens six, the chief
Russian station on the Upper Amoor, to
St. Petersburg. distance of 5, 4s7 miles.
Starting from Blagovestchensk ON No
vember 10 he reached Irkutsk on jan
uary Z and Omsk on March II, the
Journey as far as the latter place being
about eight miles day. Horse and
rider both reached Omsk in good con,
dition. In letter to his commanding
officer, written from Irkutsk, the enter
prising Cossack says: "TraTersed 2, 451
versts u,634 miles, in forty-nine days;
in saddle 1913 hours. The road in gem
eral is atrocious.'
/ "A natural curiosity in the shape Of
= hip bone of a mastodon, weighing perx
haps fifty pounds, was found at Alachua.