The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-18

that any inconvenience would arise
 from thus allowing every one to join
 the group he prefers, Tho most im- portant group of all. that of the agri- | culturists, would. he Is sure. always be the most popular. As for the others. If
 there were some no ono was willing to enter. 1t would simply mean that no one cared for the work being done which these groups were intended to do and 1t would consequently remain undone.
 There will of course be no leisure" class In the Anarchist city: every one will require to do his allotted i've hours labor to the best of hls ability. Still. it will be only by moral compul- sion that the fulhlment even of the communal contract will be enforced. Should a man attempt to shirk his task. to absent himself from his work, or. while engaged on lt, to loaf" the members of his group will. in the first Instance. remonstrate with him. Should he. however. turn deaf ear to their warnings. and continue 10 waste his time, they will expel him from their association. He will be free to join group after group If he wishes 1t: but, wherever he goes. the same fate will befan him unless indeed he mends his way. Society will be very patient with him, and will do It's utmost to induce him to reform: but, If he remains firm In his determination not to do his fair amount of work, 1t will say to him: If not one of all the groups In our fed eration Is willing to receive you-wtat- ever be the reason-if you are absolute ly incapable of producing anything use ful, or If you refuse to do so, very well, live as one apart, or as the sick. If we are rich enough to spare you bare ne- l cessities, We shall be delighted to give them to you. You are man, and you have therefore the right to live. But, since you wish to place yourself under special conditions, and not to live as others do, 1t is more than probable that, in your daily intercourse with your fellow-citizens, you will be made to feel 1t. You will be regarded as a relic of bourgeois society, unless, in- deed, your friends should discover signs of genious in you, and for its sake hasten to free you from any moral obligation toward society by doing your work for you" Under any other circumstances, evidently the loafer would best show his discretion by leay- ing the community with all possible speed.
 Under the Anarchist regime the man who works five hours day will be quits with society; he will defray the entire cost of the support of himself, his wife and three children. The rest of his time herefore-nineteen hours day-will be his own absolutely to employ or waste as he chooses. When once llis task is done, he may lie on the grass and bask in tine sun by the hour together, and, no one will have the right even to glance at him askance If he have a fakcy for luxuries- fur lined coats, silks, velvets, pate de foie gras, costly wines-he will be able to gratify it by joining in his leisure time some group, which either produces such things. or things for which they can be had in exchange. In the same way he will be able to procure books pictures, piano. scientific instruments and beautiful furniture. If he have a taste for art or literature, he will have ample time to cultivate it when his dai- ly task is done. "Le poete sera-t-il moins poete apres avoir travaille dans les champs? l. romancier per dra-t-il de sa connaissance du occur humain apres avoir coudoye Thomme dans Pusine?" the author inquiries. For his part. he is convinced that Hes let tres ct la science ne prendront leur vraie place dans lIoeuvre du developpe- ment humain que le jour ou, flores de tout servage mercenaire, elles seront exclusivement cultivees par ceux uui les aiment, ct pour ceux qui les ai- ment." And this ideal state of things will be found, he is sure, in the Anar- chists' city, and nowhere else.
 Every member of the Anarchists community will be free to make what domestic arrangements he chooses-to live as hermit in an isolated cottage, to join some two or three families in fair-sized dwelling, or to cast in his lot with some larger company in a. sort of communal boarding-house. Still, as the prince reminds us. women are now claiming to have a share in the eman- cipation of humanity. They are no longer willing to be the household beasts of burden, the social hewers of wood and drawers of water. And ''emanciper la femme, ce nest pas lui ouvrir les portesde 'universite du bar reau, ct du parlement :. c'est la liberer diu travail abrutissant de la cui- sine ct du lavoir; c'est s'organiser de maniere a Hui permettre de nourrir ct d'elever ses enfants, si bon lui semble, tout en conservant assez de loisir pour prendre sa part de vie sociale." But in order to effect this emancipation, life must, to some extent at least, be communalized. The prince suggests that groups should be formed, the members of which would do the house. hold work and washing of the whole community; and other groups, which would do the catering and cooking. He thinks the best arrangement would be to have large halls, in which hum dreds of persons should dine together. Still, as "la grande economic, Ia seule taisonable c'est de rendre Ia vie agrea- ble pour tous," even prejudices, he holds, must be respected. He there fore proposes that all who wish it should have their supplies of food left for them every day at their doors ready cooked. They would then be able to season it according to their own taste, and to eat 1t with their children around them in the privacy of their own