The advocate., 1892-01-13

springs from and reflects the harmony Of
the Divine nature itself-there can be,
we say, no more doubt that poverty has
its roots In the violation of this great law
than we can doubt that the suu shines
or the globe revolves. From such viola
ton what can civilization expect but
that In tune It should result In just these
industrial troubles and the wide spread
poverty and unrest and agitation that we
have lived to wltnessS But these are
the forerunners OF great change for the
better.
This tangled up, false indlviduallsm
(the only true individualism will be
found In cooperation, which will enable
each to live his own llfe) iS the bottom
cause, the parent cause Of all the super
fciAl causes given by correspondents In
the Sunday World of March 10th, viz:
ignorance, drunkenness, idle habits, In
capacity, want Of land and its natural op-
portunities, want Of thrift, bad legisla-
ton, wretched marriages, want Of money,
unequal distribution OF wealth, usurY
(see the respective letters.) All Of these
are themselves only the natural out
births-the children Of our struggling,
competing lndivlduallsm, giving the
strong and lucky all the prizes.
But when people unite their interests
and lsbors in communities (not COM
munistlc Communlties) or cities of some
thousands each, and each as joint stock
company, conducts all it's industries un-
under the single management Of q
chosen directorship, utilizing It's sur
rounding lands, which lt will at frat own,
and In the near future lease from the
state or the national government (the ma
tion having become sole owner OF ali It's
land) and not only by farming, but by
manufactures Of al kinds supplying It's
own citizens first and foremost with what
they all want and exchanging It's surplus
for different surplus OF other cooperative
cities; and when these cities unite in
each state and the cooperative states are
linked together industriOusly under a
national industrial administration and
all industry has thus become nationalized,
as 1t is sure TO be in the near future, and
our republic has also In this way be-
come a full, true and complete republic
(it lO only partially one now as compared
to these numerous co operative cities,
each Of necessity republic ia miniature
then each person cannot fail to have
enough Of what he needs aud poverty
will be abolished, az It is abolished now
at the present moment in several locall-
ties. Then, too, children will be fully
educated and properly trained; no adult,
male or female, will ever lack employ
ment and lis full reward; woman will be
the perfect social equal OF man in every
reepect-will DO free as air to live her
own life; marriage will cease to be mer-
cenary, but solely the outcome Of mu-
tual attachment, and under these rational
conditions Of human life, and through
heredlty, . new race Of men and women
will arise, and reveal TO an astonlshed
world the marvellous capacities inherent
In the nature Of mau; for in our present
standardization it is the selfish part Of
that human nature that is constantly ap-
pealed TO and spurred into ceaseless and
abnormal activity by our daily and hourly
surroundings.
All this is not Utoplan. It is now and
has been In practical embodiment at the
"FGmlllstere" of the late lamented M.
GOdin, at Gulse, France, some 100 miles
north Of Paris, for twenty-five years.
Here, poverty is banlShed-has been for