The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14
RUSksN
Continued From First rage.


and house painting; let me figure on
your spring work.
Physician and Surgeon-Dr. H. c. Nc
Dill: calls answered day or night.
Chewing Gum Factory-H. C. McDill.
supt. Fine fiavors; TX for our gum
at store
Notary Public-J. A. Sturgis; legal pa
perS given prompt ana careful atten-
ton.
Ruskin goes after figures when it is
driven to the task of denying the fact
that it cannot endure. The last share
sold is numbered 50. There have been
81 buyers who have taken their initia-
ton fee back and departed. This leaves
a majority OF nearly two-thirds who are
convinced that the plan is good and
lasting There are twenty of the orig
inal colony OF thrty-five on the ground,
and coltented. The resources shown in
the statement sent to the secretary of
state shoN an increase between the Lass
two Januaries of s32 055.45. They have
enrolled fifteen names since the first
day CT this year. as against a desertion
of four. The grazing tract is free of
debt. I he farm proper of sos acres
carries Il debt Of $4,000. President bod
son declares that no corporation with
such showing would think that its
days We're numbered or that it were
wiser to close up and retire from bust
ness.
PRESIDENT DODSON'S VIEWS.
J. Fl. Dodson, the head of the COM
munity, declares that Ruskin proves
that socialism is practical He puts
aside sentiment and enthusiasm anu
begs the standing of the enterprise be
Judged as men judge any venture. He
considers the colony from the stand
point of business. The financial world
applauds the sagacity which takes rotl-
ing and builds . ON such a beginning
concern that pays dividends, owns rea
estate, makes the stock worth twice
the face value and gets for itself rat
ing among the corporations that have
earned credit
This manner Of valuing the worth
of Ruskin robs the settlement of its
sentiment and would be considered
among socialists as the least worthy
way to make an exhibit" said Mr.. Dod-
son. 1T is not the purpose of the COM
munity to acquire wealth. We are af-
ter the things in life which money fails
to purchase. 1t is one of the rare things
of this home of freedom to hear men
and women calculating how much they
have accumulated by leaving the I'M
equal fight in the outside world and
coming into the wilderness where labor
Is king, labor is the cabinet, and labor
the whole people.
The enemy will judge us as it judges
1tselt-ln dollars and cents. The men
who have managed this enterprise have
been wise enough to prepare to fight
the opposition with the same weapons it
has fought labor. We defy the best
corporation on earth-the most expert
accountant to come to this spot and
prove from the figures on the books, the
property in sight, the plant, the pros
poet which is as certain of realization
as the fact of the last minute before
this that altruism as a business propo-
sltlon Is not success, with no if or but
about it.
"Ruskin is a business success. There
can be other Ruskins. The possibility
OF two Ruskins is no better than the
prospect Of four RuskinS and four Rms
klns are no more impossible than eight
Ruskins. and indefinite Ruskins means
universal kociaism-the final triumph
of universal Justice
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