New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-06-23
Ideas of Others.
The Chicago Record, in discussing the
NV Debs movement, remarks:

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NV Debs movement, remarks:
The efforts of Eugene V. Debs and
his followers to set on foot a new com
monwealth, where the principles OF co
operation shall flourish and all men shall
enjoy equal privileges, will be watched
with interest, if only because the END
aimed at has been so long the dream OF
political economists. The experiment
proposed by Debs is to be on much
more comprehensive scale than any yet
made. There have been communities
and sscolonies" without number. Men
of the highest principles and the best
aims have sought to realize the vision OF
Altruria, wherein each resident should
be an equal sharer of the good things OF
life. Some of these Utopias led to i'm.
mediate and crashing disaster, and some.
like the Brook Farm experiment, petered
out after brief maintenance Of the ideal
COuu1GlOuS SOuS III AOA'
AS to the practicability of Mr.. Debs'
purpose to devote some western state to
the realization of these principles, time
and experience will tell. All that can
be said now is that cooperation
heretofore has not succeeded in forcing
itself to success against the strong influ-
ences set by the whole code Of our pres
ent political, economic and social system.
Utopia has been proved possible upon
paper countless times. In practice it
has always failed. Mr.. Debs' plan, in
some regards of course, is not so vision
airy as many of the plans hitherto at
tempted. He does not propose to iso-
late his commonwealth from society Or
10 conduct it without reference to the
political and legal machinery upon which
the American government rests. He has,
nevertheless, set for himself task Of i'm
mense difficulty-a labor which if sue
cessful will be hardly less of feat than
the drafting of new constitution for an
entire nation.
To secure equal privileges and free
dom from the abuses of the wage system,
to ward eff political interference, to es-
tablish community in which each will
secure his own best interests by helping
to serve the best interests Of all, to ell
inmate personal hostilitles and grievan-
ces and destroy the ambition which
would lead man to advance over the
bowed heads of his neighbors-here is a
feat which calls for administrative and
executive powers of thu highest charac-
ter. Should MIR. Debs' effort be only
partly successful it would be one vt the
most picturesque and interesting eco
nomic experiments that have been made.
The st. Paul Globe does not take
kindly to the Hawaiian proposition. 1t
says, ana rlghtly so 100:
It will be remembered that, during
the last session of the previous congress-
little or nothing could gain hearing in
the senate chamber except the rights
and wrongs OF the Cuban people. Now
the scene will he shifted. The commit.
tee. on foreign affairs will lead the way
with facility from Cuba to Hawaii, and
forget the woes and sufferings of the
former in furthering the gleat scheme O.
political plumber and political corrup
ton that lies behind the annexation pro
ject.
1t matters nothing to the senate, as i
matters nothing to this administration
that men, women and children are dy
ing at our doors, under tyranny a!
cruel and bloody as this century ha:
seen. For them there is neither rescue
nor respite. The arm of the Unitec
States government cannot reach out tx
help those whom the tongues of its Of
fetal representatives beslaver with slmu
lated sympathy. The Cuban question
was good enough subject for debate
answered we'll the purpose of airing ora.
tory; served to avert the necessity 0:
actually legislating for the people, ane
turned attention away from the pressing
matters nearer home. Now it is discard
ed, forgotten, embarrassing to the sena
tors; while the frightful conditions Whicl
they portrayed have passed from Zig
ment of the imagination to an awfu
fact. They have done with Cuba. Tn
Hawaiian question offers them doubl
the attraction.
Not only does it take the place Of dc
mestic concerns Of real moment, but th
reverend senators can actually sniff th
carrion IN the air. What admirable pick
ings and stealings there will be when I'll
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