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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-22
BellamyiSm'S Failure.
Many Obstacles to Success in Carrying
Out the Scheme

Many Obstacles to Success in Carrying
Out the Scheme
Vancouver, Dec. 2I.-The socialistic
community that started cooperative So
ciety near Hastings, B. c., three years
ago, is a busted community Bellamy's
dream, Looking Backward was the
ideal aimed at by the little band OF we'll
meaning Missionaries, who, to the number
OF 200 lett comfortable homes in Vancou-
yer to wander after strange gods in the
trackless wilderness OF British Columbia.
One hundred thousand dollars, or $500
each, was the amount OF cash provided
to found the city OF Bellamy. as it was
called, and those who did not provide
money were allowed to pay into the COM
mon treasury an equivalent in time
checks in exchange for labor on public
buildings When the social departure
was fairly inaugurated a board OF COM
missloners was appointed to settle dis
putes and to teach the doctrines OF Bel
lamy. The colony soon numbered 500
men, women and children. Sawmills.
farms and trade shops were started. At
first all the men received the same wages.
Brains and skill did not count for cent.
Soon those who shirked work lived at
the expense OF the active toilers and the
wages.
Soon after the colony was founded, the
brainy men ceased to think-the necessity
did not exist. There was no spur to am
bition, no competition Then it was dis
covered that the work done in the shops
and mills was SO inferior that it was not
marketable outside. Many shareholders
in the community asked for their money
back. but they did not get it. Some de
serted. The common eating houses and
herding of families in big dwellings led to
chickering's and jealousies among the
women folk. The men took up the quar-
rels OF the weaker sex and every man
hand was raised against his neighbor.
The commissioners, who held the cash
and arbltrated. were overwhelmed with
applications for the administration of JUS
tlce, monetary and social. The commits
sloners were not equal to the occasion.
and resigned. in body No members OF
the community would take their place,
and there was no law. no justice. Mem
bcrs earned money outside the cOmmun-
lty and on their return the members still
faithful to the tenets OF Belany demand
ed that division be made OF the spoils
earned outside.
Then the shrewdest and fittest started
uD the sawmll and farms again and en-
poyed their weaker brethren for wages
in defiance OF sociaistic principles The
community was drifting back to the old
channels. The ambitious got the reins
Of power in their hands and all went
well for little while Then creditors
arrived and there was no money to pay
them The books OF the community
showed uebt OF SIooooo 1t was a
busted community.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-22

want, whom she desired to bring writing
materials
: The gentleman wrote his note, inclosed
it in an envelope. addressed it, and left
it on the table
This being done, he departed with a
profusion OF thanks to the maid, who
escorted him to the door
On returning home, Mr.. P found
the note awaiting him. 1t ran thus:
Your servant is no fool!'
This compliment was fully justified by
a paragraph in the next days paper, Civ
ing account OF the plumber OF neghbor-
ing mansion by similar visitor
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-22
What Moses Did for Labor.

Labor is indeed worship. says He
brew divine And conversely rest is a
benedction. As men are driven to la
Dor by the power OF hunger, so they
are compelled to rest by the greater
power OF faith Our monsters OF steel
industrial army pitches its tents. The
WORKOUT body, the tinging nerves. the
tired brain. drink in refreshments Far
mers leave their plows. statesmen their
portfolios all civilization its daily task
because an Egyptian Jew in the Arabian
desert thirty-two centuries ago. com
manded to nomadic tribe day OF rest
Moses saved one-seventh OF man )
lie from the doom OF making living
and thus donated to millions vet un-
born ten years out OF every seventy. to
live their own life, to escape from the
treadmll, to strike off their letters. to
be free. free from the taskmasters, from
the spur OF bitter necessity, from the
grievous burden. Rest means emanci-
patton. Every Sabbath is Fourth OF
July. The Decalogue is the Declaration
OF independence
The greatest blessing every conferred
upon humanity was the institution of a
periodic day OF rest. 1t was founded in
opposition to human greed. avarice and
selfishness. And against these tramen-
dous powers it prevailed with a greater
power, the authority OF religion, the com
mand OF unique genius, the persuasion
OF supreme wisdom. 1t prevailed against
wealth, proprietorship, tyrannical monop-
oily. 1t closed the factory and the mine
the shop and the office. 1t laughed at
seli-interest, cruelty, inhumanits. 1t said
to the toiler: BE free Rejoice in the
blue sky and the green earth. Behold
the treasures OF beauty. the storehouse OF
knowledge. Receive your heritage"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-22
THE MAN WITH THE HOE.

Bowed by the weight Of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground
The emptiness of ages in his face
And on his back the burden of the world
Who made him dead TO rapture and de-
spair?
A thing that grieves not and that never
hopes.
Stolid and stunned, brother to the OK?
Who loosened and let down this brutal
jaw?
Whose was the hand that slanteo pack
this brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within
this brain?
Is this the Thing the Lord God made and
gave
To have dominion over sea ana land;
TO trace the stars and search the heavens
for power
To feel the passion of Eternity?
y this the Dream he dreamed who shaped
the suns
And pillared the blue armament with light ?
Down all the stretch of hell to its last gulf
There is no shape more terrible than this
More tongued with censure of the world S
blind greed
More filled with signs and portents for
the soul
More fraught with menace to the universe.
What CULTS between him and the seraphim!
Slave Of the wheel of labor. what 10 nm
Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades?
What the long reaches of the peaks OF
The rift of dawn, the reddenng of the
rose?
Through this dread shape the suffering
ages look.
Times tragedy is in that aching stoop;
Through this dread shape humanity be-
trayed
Plundered. profaned and disinherited,
Cries protest to the Judges of the World,
4 protest that is also prophecy
@ masters. lords and rulers III all lands.
Is this the handiwork you give to God,
This monstrOus thing distorted and soul
uuenched?
How will YOU ever straighten up this
shape
Give back the upward looking and the
light,
Rebuild in it the music and the dream;
Touch it again with immortality;
Make right the immemorial infamies,
Perfidious wrongs. unavoidable woes?
O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,
How will the Future reckon with this Man?
How answer his brute question in that
hour
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the
world?
How will it be with kingdoms and with
kings
With those who shaped him to the thing
he is
When this dumb Terror shall reply to God,
After the silence Of the centuries?
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thus greater than nominal political
rights. nullitied by political corruption
greater than wonders telegraphic or tele-
phone that miscall comfort civilization
IS this lnalienabe indispensable human
privilege and right Our millions oil
wage-earners. our labor unions ii like
the guilds OF old, they Sought patron
saint. could find none to vie in unique
genius and goodness with Moses. the
Egyptian Jew.
He gave the world the Sabbath. the
idea OF God the moral law Indeed. save
for a few pitiiul material things, space
reducing, time saving, what is there in
our modern civilization that Moses has
not not given to the world? In Exodus
and Deuteronomy, in two slightly vary
ing decalogues. he instituted the Sabbath
The first on universal. physical grounds.
Tor III sin days the Lord made Heaven
and earth" the second Tor humanity 5
sake that thy man servant and thy
maidservant may rest as well as thou.
And remember that thou vast a servant
in the land OF Egypt.
The dawn OF Christianity did not abol-
ISL the Jewish Sabbath. but hallowed an
additional day The Jewish Christians
and many OF the Gentle churches OBJ
served ior centuries two days. The apos-
tolic constitutions ordered. Hold solemn
assemblies and rejoice every Sabbath and
every Lords day" The civil power later
began to legislate. Constantine, III 32I
a. D.. decreed Sunday rest to townspco-
pie courts and workshops. The deere
tails OF Gregory declare that like the Jew
ish Sabbath it should be from vespers to
yespers. The council of Laodicea in 500
forbade Christians Judazing, and resting
en- the Dewish) Sabbath. but commands
them to work on that day
The Sabbath cannot will not pass, Its
20 centuries OF history have not reached
their end The poetry and pathos OF the
Sabbath. its domestic cheer and spirited
fragrance will endure and brighten and
beautiiv our life and posterity as i'll days
OF old-Southcrn Mercury.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-22
No Fool About Her.

The other day man OF gentlemanlv
appearance called at house in a we'll
known suburb OF provincial town. In
answer to his knock the housemad came
to the door,
is Mr.. P in?" said the gentleman
He's just gone out, sir
Us Mrs. P at fome?"
mo, sir; she went out with the mas
ter"
Dear me, how unfortunate! l wanted
particularly to see one OF them Can
leave a note?''
"Oh, yes, sir. Come in please" re-
piled the girl, ushering the visitor into
the dining room. But, instead OF leav-
ing him alone, she rang for another ser
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-22
Miss DOnnelly'S Poems.

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to believe that he can by individual effort
mitigate in the least the evil conditions
that surround us. We must then simmer
down to the logical conclusion that the
salvation Of the farmer must be worked
out by organization. Organization must be
met by organization ere we perish. 1t is
true that we have local organization, and
it is very good SO far as it goes the only
trouble is that it does not go far enough.
We have our cooperative creameries, ele-
vators and Insurance. companies. and we
would not so much as consider PROPOSE
ton to get along without them. We have
found it difficult to organize even to this
extent but being organized and having
reaped the benefit we understand the adj
vantage and will never give it up. So it
will be when we have effective organiza-
ton on a more elaborate scale. Then we
will understand the advantage of it and
will be just as enthusiastic in support of
it too.
Then. too. we understand the advantage
of the Irvine plant in connection with the
prison at Stillwater-that is to say, we un-
derstand the advantage 1t has been when
properly conducted. True, the manage
ment has been bad for the year just closed,
as many of us know by bitter experience.
Here, again, the necessity for organization
very forcbly presents ITSELF for no man
agement would so conduct Cor rather mis-
conducD themselves in the face of a well
organized farming community. The whole
state was placed at the mercy of the Irvine
trust on account of the conduct of the
prison warden, or prison board, in selling
out the prison stock long before farmers
even thought of buying Irvine. One very
Gratifying fact in connection with the
Irvine matter IL that the management has
been rebuked by the result OF the resent
election, and We shall probably nave
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-22

by the administration. And they should
not judge the administration too harsfly.
Some say the administration has no pol
icy. But it has, and that policy is the
same toward the Cuban and Filipino that
It is toward the people of this country.
The administration is, at least, consistent.
1t believes "well-to-do" people, that is,
money lenders and creditors, manufactur-
ers and great commercial and transporta-
ton companies, should govern this people.
Of course, these ''well-to-do" people
should also rule Cuba and the Philippines.
When the administration has placed
'well-to-do' people in control, and thus
insured that they gobble up the substance
OF these islands, the same as they have
gobbled up the substance of this country,
our armies will be withdrawn and our
sovereignty renounced We can't see what
insuparable objection Europe could have
to that, and, of course, ''well-to-d do Gu
bans and Filipinos do not object. Eu-
rope can scarcely object to the Presidents
policy when they find out what it is. Re-
publican government, limited to these
classes in Cuba and the Philippines, can
be no more Objectionable to Europe than
is republican government, limited to these
classes in this country. True, our mo
blllty is somewhat more numerous than
that OF Europe, and is not yet dubbed:
but we will soon come to that. especially
if we go on in the expansion business
OF course, those who have fought for
independence in Cuba and the Philip
pines object to the Presidents policy, and
the more that policy leakes out the
stronger will be the protest But Popu
list people protest in this country. The
difference is that Populist people fire pa
per wads at the administration where Gu
bans and Filipinos threaten something
more substantial
Home, Tenn.
F. J. Ripley
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r.,e Following Little Reform BoQlA Ar&
Revolutionizing the Political SeaHMenf I
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More than 500 women are employed in
the iron mills of Pittsburg, Pa, at one
third the price formerly paid men for that
work.
The working classes form 90 per cent,
the middle class 2S per cent. and the up
per class per cent. of the population of
/, this country.
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F. J. Ripley.

With the initiative and referendum
the people get any reform a majority
will vote for. Now we get any law tine
rillionares will pay for Read Bond
and Industrial Slavery Price Is cents.
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A workman used to bottom three pairs
OF shoes day Now machine puts
bottoms on 400 pairs. Still labor can't
see why it is being starved and frozen.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1899-07-01

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ROOSEVELT'5 TRIP WEST.
Crowds Greet the Colonel of the
Rough Riders.
He PRAISES GEN. FUNSTON.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 24-Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt, governor of New
| York, tarried in Kansas City for thir-
| ty-ive minutes yesterday on his way
to Las Vegas, n NJ. to attend re-
union of his Rough Riders" The
colonel shook hands with 500 people.
Governor Roosevelt came to Kansas
| City on a special car, the guest CT Paul
Morton, vice president of the Santa
Fe- In the governors party were h
II. Kohlsaat, editor of the Chicago
Times Herald; Captain R c. Day Of
San Francisco and Messrs- Noblaugh,
Ferguson and Goodrich, rough riders.
William Allen White, editor of the
Emporia Gazette, accompanied the
party to Emporia-
As the train backed into the union
depot Mayor Jones stepped forward
on the rear platform and said simply,
Gentlemen, Colonel Roosevelt
Then the colonel smiled expansively
and the crowd cheered. He expressed
himself as anxious to meet Colonel
Funston and the Twentieth Kansas
regiment. The people heard him and
applauded a recognition of a Western
hero. Colonel Roosevelt spoke briefly
III SSAGGHceS
While in Kansas City Governor
Roosevelt telegraphed to President
Mckinley that in the event of a call
for volunteers New York was prepared
to furnish the full quota, and asking
for New York the honor of doing SO.
LAS VEGAS. n. M. June "a. Rough
Riders and sightseers arrived yester-
day in increased numbers. Among
the number was Trooper Colonel Jop-
lin, who drove to Las Vegas from
Laluz, n. NJ. a distance of 500 miles,
with mule team
TOPEKA, Kan, June 24-An enthu-
static reception was accorded to Teddy
Roosevelt as he passed through Tope-
ka- There was a crowd of several
thousand people at the depot to well
come him. and as the train pulled in
the bugle corps played a military
tune and the immense crowd cheered
heartily. Governor Roosevelt immedi-
ately appeared at the rear platform
of his special car and was introduced
by Congressman Charles Curtis. In
his speech Roosevelt paid a glowing
tribute to General Funston, and de-
clared the people of the -ast were
just as proud of Funston as were the
people of Kansas and the West. He's
dead game" Roosevelt declared, land
admire him very much He's just
the kind of men we need in this coun-
try of ours. 1 hope to be able to be
in Topeka and attend the reception to
be given to General Funston and the
gallant Twentieth Kansas, and also
20 bring a large number of the rough
riders with me-"
At the conclusion of the speech
some one who was travelling with the
ex cursion party stepped to the front
and gave three cheers for the next
president of the United States. :"
Roosevelt blushed and added, after the
cheers had been given, Funston"
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COLONIAL POSSESSIONS
Their Varied Resources and Rich Posi-
bilities Fully Demonstrated.
THE EXPOSITION OF AN EMPIRE
What Is to Be Shown at the Greater
America Exposition From the Rich
Country Acquired by Our Government
In the War With spain-A Display
that VIII Command the Admiration of
Hundreds of Thousands.

In days gone by the road from en-
pire to republic has been long and
marked by desperate struggles. In our
own time we have seen a republic be-
come an empire almost in a day; a
free republic annexed, kingdom
Wrested from an old world tyrant and
added to the possessions Of a younger
nation. The thunder of Dewey's guns
announced the opening of new and
strange chapter in American history,
a chapter Of grand achievements and
mighty potent The destinies of peo-
pie may be at stake, the fate of a ma
ton may hang In the balance as the
result Of the stirring events crowded
into the brief space of a single yea.
1t has been said that "the dreams
which nations dream come true" and
those who would give form and force
to such dreams must needs under
stand not only the possibilities Of sue
cess, but the dangers of failure.
When the war with Spain began a
great exposition was well under way,
an exposition international in its
scope. It's promoters realized that war
was likely to be detrimental to such
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Some important changes have been
made in the Maintenance of Way de-
partment of the Baltimore and Ohio
lines east of the Ohio river by Assist
ant General Manager Willard. There
will hereafter be four division on
gineers instead of six, with territory
and headquarters as follows: B. r.
Fendall, all lines between PhiIadeI-
phia and Brunswick, Md, with head
quarters at Baltimore. c. B. Owen.
the main line and branches between
Brunswick, Md, and Grafton. w. Va
including Brunswick yard, with head
quarters at Cumberland, Md. ]. F.
Cassell, the main line from Parkers-
burg to Wheeling, including both
terminals and the Belington branch,
with headquarters at Grafton, w. Va.
c. T. Manning, the main line and
branches from Wheeling to Cumber-
land by way of Pittsburg, with head
quarters at Pittsburg.