Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-05-10
ture. horticulture and irrigation.

| pleases, but many benefits will be
| gained by acting together in certain
matters. For instance, there vii be a
saving Of at least 20 per cent. in buy
! ing wagons and implements by whole
| sale from manufa sturers. There viii be
like benefits in marketing products
All public utilities, such * parks.
streets, electric light plant, canals and
library etc will be owned and man
aged by the colony company, but each
man will pursue his private business
to suit himself
CAMPAIGN IN THE EAST
| started out in November to get
the cooperation of strong Eastern
influences in support Of the propo-
sition that the time had come to re-
claim aud settle the arid West, di-
verting surplus Eastern population
to surplus Western lands, and de-
veloping new and better institu
tions for average people. | sought
the support OF the press, the Clergy,
the colleges and the labor unions.
Time, energy and patience are re-
CURED, but these forces have been
largely enlisted in our support.
There was really no serious obiac-
tons raised Promiuen. socialists
in New York objected on the ground
that the revolution they dream Of Is
fore shadowed and that a PROPOSE
tion to furnish labor aud homes for
millions might postpone ii. Bat I
merely thanked them for furnishing
me with the strongest argument
which could be brought to bear
upon the friends of the present sys-
TEN of society. The sociological
class at Harvard University said
they had been taught that society
was divided into three classes, ID
those who would work, and these all
have jobs; (2) those who wont
work, and they would be as incor
rigable in one place as another; 80
those who cannot work, and their
disability could not be removed by
a change of climate. The divinity
students said there was no trouble
with economic conditions, but only
with the moral atmosphere, the
people needing more character.
They begged to be told how this
could be improved by a removal
from enlightened Massachusetts to
the God forsaken West, which they |
understood to be dreary waste of |
bar-roomS and gambling houses.
Oue of the typical Boston women
you read about complained that l |
would attract all the young men and /
leave the surplus women worse off /.
than now. She also said that peo-
pie who are perfectly sane in New
England go West and become raw
ng maniacs on the subject OF free
silver coinage. She hardly thought
t good policy to send New England !
people ont West that they may |
urn and rend u.s.. But these o.
,tacles were not serious. In Boston,
Everett Hale, the greatest
living citizen of New England, put
himself at the head of the move
nent and the strongest elements in
he community followed him.
THE COLONIAL CLUBS.
My work was divided into three I
,arts, the first of which was the
making of Plymouth Colony Then
anne the formation of Colonial
clubs, which has been well begun.
'his is sort of Chautauqua system.
xcept that the people will study
he Industrial and social opportuni-
les of the West rather than the
history of Ancient Greece. Swarms
4 young men and women, who have
heir careers to make, daily throng
he great public library of Boston.
Among all the treasures of litera-
ure and of art which they find
here, there is not book or pic
ure to tell them anything about
hat half of their country which
ffers the best opportunities for
hem to get ahead The Colonial
Tubs will furnish books aod pam
hlets at cost of production which
,ill constitute good literature on