The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-03-21


most difficult thing on earth to make
q living.
They would make the peasantry of
this country. They would make a
substantial living from the soil. They |
have not the money to pay for their
passage now, and perhaps they are
frightened at the prospect of being
eaten by the cannibals over here.
But if the scheme was indorsed by the
Salvation Army they would come, be-
cause they know it would be safe.
The reason why the people of the
great cities, discouraged at their pros
poets for getting work, miserably
housed and insuficiently clad, do not
go to the country as things are now
is through their fear of loneliness.
A man has his work in the fields
and does not mind it so much, but
the woman, alone in the house, with
no neighbor nearer than two or three
miles, is very apt to ask her husband
to go back to the city and the misery
there, with not half so good living.
They would see somebody there.
The plan for darkest America would
be to start little communities-ittle
villages of thirty or forty houses to-
gether. Each man would have six
the village and, besides that, would
have common for his COW. There
would be novels for his pigs and
chickens, and there would be carts to
come around so often to take the pro-
duce to the market.
UNCLE SAM WOULD OWN THE
LAND.
This little farming community
would not find life away from the
cities such barren thing. They
would have their proper recreatiOns,
the bands and the barracks and trips
to the city, and while they would not
get rich they would make fair living
and sure one.
None of these colonists will own the
land. That is what I want the gov
ernment's help in. 1 want the gov
ernment to deed to me in trust this
| tract of land, to be used for the bet
terment of these people, giving me the
privilege of alternating it or dispOsing
of it only in cases where it is abso-
lutely necessary for the success of
the scheme. The colonists simply
would have the use of the land free
as long as they chose to work it. The
money to build their little cottages,
their sheds and styes for cattle and
| DlSS "OUlu UO " tiiSh1 oo'
of their own wages, so that if a man
ran away he would run away from
his own money, and the scheme would
be so much the richer by his going
faway.
But that is the sticking point. The
Canadians don't favor the plan Of not
giving each man the fee simple of his
land.
| However, the Belgian government
has sent commissioners to the Darkest
England plant to see how it works
and we have a college in London tC
prepare teachers for the sixty or sew
| enty colonies which we have scattered
throughout the world.
| Cecil Rhodes gave me 100 pounds
out of his own pocket for our colony
in South Africa. In all our Salvation
| Army posts in London we have this
sign posted: mo man need beg OF
starve or steal or commit suicide. Ap
ply to the captain for a ticket, and ht
will find you work" That is wha'
every state should have posted in the
portal of it's prison.
| THE FIFTH MAN WHO STARVES
The unions are opposed to having
men in prison support themselves.
do not always agree with the unions
Here are four men in a garden
There is just enough work to keel
4 them Along comes the fifth man
who looks over their heads and says
"Can you give me some work p The!
answer him, mo; there is just enough
work for four here" He says, m!
IGod, you are not going to let m,
starve, are you?" They put their hands
in their pockets and take out enough
to feed him.
Would it not be better for them
since they must feed him, to get soma
thing for their money? That is il
little what society is in large.
America has, in common with Eng
land, the great drawback of an edu
lcational system. I don't know wheth
Ter I dare say anything against edu
Ication, but it seems to me it is al
done for the mind and nothing TO
1.-THE body or soul. The children ar,
brought up to be ladies and gentle
Imen, not men and women, who mus
work for a living. They are afraid t.
put their hands in the dirt or tn,
ldishwater.
| HUMBUGS IN AMERICA.
I have been disappointed in til,
American people. 1 expected to fine
them extremely wise politically.
ldOn't think l ever saw so much hum
lbug. There is so much claptrap 81
much appealing to prejudice, so i,f'
IOf sound reasoning and calm decisi,,l
in matters affecting public safety.
They don't believe in grace. The.
Idon't want gr:i g Grace is no goot
for backing. J hey want the backin.
of the republican party, of the demo
crat party, or of Mr.. Cleveland, O.
lsomebody else. 1t is your ballot-box
of which you are so proud, that is t.
be your undoing unless you wake III
ito what the situation is.
The millionaire is on top now, ant
the great crowd is struggling beneatl
in misery. They are the sans culotte;
THE breechless fellows. They Sc,
1.-THE millionaires having every comfort
while it is as much as they can do t,
make a living, and the poorhous,
at the end when all is DONE The mex
revolution will not be by force. 1
will be by your ballot box, which tn,
breechless multitude has just begun
to learn how to use.
One day they are going to tur1
things upside down. They are tn,
many. The millionaires are the few
The millionaires will then be under
meath, the breechless multitude OF
top.
1t will be well if they stick to vot
ing only. 1t would have been well il
the French Revolution if they had lie
the breechless multitude vote at th
start.
1t would have brought NaDoleol