The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-21


be entitled to vote in -: meeting
of stockholders, but since no man who
has not been elected by an Overwhelm-
ing vote to membership in the assocla-
tion can share it's benefits we are at a
loss to know what value the shares will
be to an outsider. A decision on this
point will be of use to us in the fu-
ture. The application for an account
OF the funds is without reason, since
from the beginning each member has re-
ceived each month secret, printed cir
cular, In which all moneys have been
accounted for. It would have been pos
from office any man suspected of falsi-
flying the reports. We thus do not fear
any phase of the trouble which discon-
tent ana opposition is arranging for lis"
SOCIALISM IN THEORY VS.. PRAC-
TICE.
Professor Isaac Broome Is a dwelIer in
this valley Of proposed universal hap
p1ness and contentment. He is the
1t means something for him to leave
sivilization, live on agricultural life and
watch the ants and beetles crawl into
his house through cracks between the
rough planks that make his co-opera-
tive parlor, drawing-room, library and
living room in his cottage. where day
light shines through most any place.
He Is man of the world-all the world.
Once he painted and moulded in
his studio In Rome, wandered over
Italy with his wife, and came back to
New York to make statuary good
enough for Union Park, the capitol at
Washington and the galleries in Phil
adelphia.
Broome was then an artistic altruist,
he is now living altruism with barber
who reads Spencer and a wheelwright
who devours metaphysics while the
razor-back browses at his feet, and a
blacksmith with a sesquipedalian vocab-
ulary.
Broome is the man who pulled down
thicket, an object lesson to a man who
thinks the socialist is victim of a
passing whim; neither has Mrs. Broome
seen a woman whose range of expert
ence has been wider than the hundru,a
of the commonest life. They have lived
with their books, labored with the
children of the settlement, forgetting
the past and becoming genuine altrutsts,
with men and women who are going
to live and die socialists with them.
1T Is beyond any doubt in my mind
that Rusk1n has passed the stage of an
experiment." said the professor as he
sliced out chunks from a lump of CLAW
that Is to make the cast Of a bust Of
John Ruskin for the colony. 1T has
been hard time for most Of us. It
is we'll to confess that a man NAV
write books about socialism and it's
beauties, but it takes the greatest hero
ism and devotion on earth to live it.
1T is easy enough to spin theories of
universal brotherhood and universal
happiness, but the men who come out
here to try to demonstrate that the
theory is as beautiful in practice need
the courage that brought the pilgrim
fathers from the old country.
Il confess that I wrote a book about
socialism, and in doing so I thought |
knew all about it. 1 do not think 50
any more. 1t is vastly different-the
writing out of plans and the living out
the plans. 1t takes the sturdiest kind
OF souls to come here, labor in the
wilderness, and take your beans and
bread without complaint 1t requires
| devotion to a principle which grows
| to be religious fanaticism. This devo-
tion was the salvation of the early DAYS
| of Ruskin. The men and women who
came later will never realize the real
sufferings which the pioneers in this
industrial movement endured"
(To be Continued Next Week.)