The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-01-13
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NISg ~ agR+NGE LANDS.

A p,iitrni nromi-r. valley OF Esen On
in- E,,R Continent ard uis rinus to
srn,hN Nonry without lstereSt, Lad
yYItAosf Rent. nud FIFTY Cs-ts sn Hour,
rr.as- - Tkon-snd Year for Every
Worher-JAnorher Austranas Experiment.
small MARQUIS man. with bunchy black
hair and n full black beard stood for hours In
Joncordin Hall, Berlin. three weeks ago. eI-
p,airing his new plan OF making lie easy and
bapty lie had a curious audience-some
1.Du Social Democrats. Anarchists. Social
II. 'orr,ers and Radicals. with q sprinklinR OF
Liberals yet he held its interest undated
until midnight whoa he removed his steel
bowed spectacles and wished everybody A0
Utrd,ysrtrt at the foot of Mount kenia. Cen
tral Africa.
Tho small nervous man was DR.. TIL eodor
Hsrtzgn. journalist. publicist. political econo-
m isL reformer. colonizer. and, In his own hope
and expectation. founder Of a new state OF
society. In which all will have enough to eat
and wear and drink and will be able to get rich
of their wages for day labor. In Germany and
Austria. Hungary plans like DIR. Hertzka's arc
thick as black berries. but his plan has the
peculiar feature that It Is to be executed. HIS
new way OF living together is to be tried near
Mt. Kenil In Africa. His present tour OF CEN
tTRl European CltleS 10 maui " i"iy ohN w
courage his followers before they shall set out
for his Valley Of Eden on the Dark Continent.
Hertgka told his plan to the world four years
ago in a book entitled "Freeland. Picture OF
the Future" Tho book was written in the
peculiar style which the author had acquired
In writing standard works on political scono-
my and, therefore. the professors and news
paper critics thought It destined for the top
shelf. They did not believe that the thin
romance attached to the person OF Miss
Ellon Fox. an American girl. would save
It; but the professors and critics were
wrong. Instead OF going to the top
shelf OF college libraries. ' Freelsnd" remained
on the reformers' desks and its tangled Sen
fences stuck in reiormers' minds until reRu-
lar Freeland" movement started In both
Germany and Austria-Hungary. then spread
to England and France. and finally so Hertzka
and his European agents say. spread over the
Atlantic to America
Within two years some twenty societies
were formed In Europe to help Hertzka found
his new colony In Africa. At the end OF 1892
the number had increased to thirty. Now 1t Is
forty or fifty. and the agents Of Freeland are
soliciting recruits In half q dozen capitals
has been contributed. The ship to carry the
:ooa HtSS two IN: months b. %Rea
from Vienna with the first twenty Freeland
plOno0ra, anu from inc GASL African COhbL Will
sail on Frseland's chartered steamer np the
Tana River to HertzSa's so;called valley OF
&. s y ss
70 hsH ss SS 81 Of ali Eden d. po
neer work. the many thousands who are sup
POSED to DO eager for the opportunity Will be
lures arts. and sciences they will find in Free.
thousand words. Hortzfa himself required
s17 large pages to make mai matters s clear when
s a.. hi s: az to
Congress Marriage and religion are expected
s to N EPrSp sen to
EiIl b. no such thing as oI rent tpT land. The
spssis kind Of msnUfact urs. and everybody
ana stsin certain &c saG limit. his own styi. Of
work. The nswspapers are to let the men
coats, for 10 stance. have beef turned out IN =
month. so that when too many Of these articles
may devote sS ths@sesos so produSnS On so% omen
thing else that I. not 30 plentiful The Coy,
Of the necsssSriss Of lie are distributed
from n,r, dty to w.dasy to to keep everybody
Sssd Ss sold to the oatsds @1ra
s al hs S e'
hour. More skilled laborers will get more
the xorEinsmsn. as there will be no employ.
s,s Ih:s: D...; ar. estimated nat BY H.5t5k.
s sHss &. iss'l' %Ssti mon satu MEL
i've. ike the land on which il will stand viii
belong to the whole people. and he will have
n hsrtsia Is &C Convinced that a. thi, system can
.shsut .s . .aa
fha M nj . raj N hav m nFIa N
prove how invulnsrabie to all attacks his sJs-
tenn viii be. he introduces in his book party
ton that even their devilish ingenuity in
swindling can avail them nothing against
HsrtIEs evidently expects that England and
Apsrica VII send large number OF colPnists
B psr cent 81 R viii be- ao%
the Hnitsd states and Great britain and that
ibsg y 70 os .he business l any sn
81 Hs as Ss
30 found In sis boof' and and It thorsfors is likely
that In Frsslsnd also the men Of all nations
HsTtsfs SAID in Berlin that IRELAND would
cause equal rights would be shown to be in
because personal liberty would be more re:
spected than anywhere else in the world; not
lie opinion behind It.
An enterprise some what similar to Hertzka's
took more mature form last summer on the
opposite side Of the world, when the bark Roy
al Tar left sydney. Australia. for Paraguay
with 200 emlgrAnts. under William Lane
aboard her. Lane had obtained from Para
that he settle 4 900 persons on the land within
four years. While Hsrtzka will accept about
any smiGrsnt who 10 not criminal or an inva-
I'D. Lane has taken only those who will give
al soo they Ioss:ss,.in no ease less than
tainsd nns lot Of c9lonIsts and
subsequent voyages OF the Royal Tar. Farm
srs in Australia have given up their farms.
printers their plants. men OF means have |
signed over all their wealth, nurses. medical, |
scientific. and literary m en- have offered their |
ssrvieos, young girls have been enlisted in |
Tasmania, men Of eyeFJ calling have Joined |
the movement. and strong. grzzled bushmen, |
Injured 70 the toll Of new country have come |
forward from All parts Of Australia TO form |
the backbone OF the settlement. Lane will |
call his new colony New Australia, and. he |
says. will eonduetit on these principles;
The community Is TO own and conduct all |
the mOanl OF production in exchange and lia- |