Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-15
eFgies of the whole colony for nearly a

ergies of the whole colony for nearly a year.
 ''Well, MT. Owen came down and got acquainted with us, and after that we always corresponded with him. When he got up the Mexico scheme, I pro 9 posed to start paper in Its behalf and s.. we did d. start art the Credit Foncier of Sinaloa,' finally removing to Topolo- bampo in 1888, as 1 have said."
 Did you have much trouble in estab- fishing your paper at Topolobampo, Mrs. Howland?"
 1.-The chief trouble was in obtaining supplies of paper to print 1t on, which we had to order from the United States. Twice we ran out of it alto gether. Then, too, we had to carry the papers to the mail ourselves-about one hundred miles, The Mexican gov ernment did not deliver or collect our newspaper mails, only letters. We had to drive to the Fuerte river to take the Credit Foncier' and get our ex- changes"
 "What became of the papar when you returned to the United States?"
 ''I left the Credit Foncier of Sinaloa' in charge of another director of the colony, Miss Hogeland. We were the only women directors in the board of ten. Miss Hogeland is a very able young woman, and Is the sister of Rev. Napoleon Hogeland, of Providence, R. I. Miss Hogeland is, I think, a woman who will make her mark. She and have an ideal friendship; we correspond all the time"
 ''I suppose there is good deal of b1undering in the management of the colony, from what you say?"
 "Yes. For example, one of our finest colonists, Mr. Amos Milzs, went up the river to see about sending down large quantity of logs, which had been cut from the forests in that re- zion. He found the logs in creek all ready to be raised when the flood came. At last the flood did come and the logs were started; he, of course, supposing that farther down the river there were men waiting to care for them-that is, who had had a boom constructed across the river to stop them-but all those logs went down to the sea. That was one thing thich could not seem to forgive; there was a lack of concert of action somewhere. Mr. Miks had left word that everything should be looked after, but no heed was paid to what he said, and thus great loss fol- lowed. Yet that very same young man is struggling now, and working just as hard as ever, and is going to send @ company of log men to get more logs this season, and presume the next lot of logs will not be allowed to go down to the sea-"
 ''Is it your opinion, Mrs. Rowland, that the times are. ripe for practical socialism,"
 ''It is decidedly my opinion thatssuch is the case, and t has been so since Godin's success. Godin succeeded in harnssnzing the interests of capital and labor. He began just right, think. Such movements must be begun diferently from the way we began in Topolobampo.
 ''I do not think you can start CO., operative colony as we did It would fail every time. The proper way would be to establish a socialistic school, where the children can be educated, and let the second generation come in to manage. Nearly all the officers who have succeeded Godin were born at the 'Familistere.
 'Here is another important fact: Mime. Godin, writing to me last May, said: It has long been impossible for any person to obtain position in the Familistere except the young genera tion that have been born and educated