The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-30

one- third of the men and women organ
lied in Britain remain on the settle
ment. And though some few of those
who left did so because they were una
| BILE to bring themselves into harmony
with Cosme fellowship, the majority Oh
| the recruits failed to settle down to the
life because they had not grit enough In
| them to face the physical hardships OF
! black block settlement, or endure the
| privations of pioneering. 1t would IN
| deed be saddenlnglto ones British pride
and deadly to ones hopes of racial re-
| generation could the result of this cast
/ of the Cosme net be taken as typical or
British endurance and fixity of purpose,
1T is more comforting to believe than
our recruiting must have been mostly in
the froth Of the forward movement,
where words are current coin and shall
low enthusiasm pass muster for iutensi-
ty of purpose. For we cannot think
that the spirit of social progress can un-
dermine and destroy that common Brit
ish grit and persistence which has colo
nized continents and conquered empires
in the face of dangers and difficulties
which make our hardships sink to Moth
ingness.
The primary purpose of our English
organizing was to bring about on Cosme
a balance of the sexes, SO that there
might be opportunity for the pioneer
bachelors to marry. This having failed,
many who had worked with steadfast
loyalty through the hardest times, see
ing their prospects q marriage fade, lett
the colony. There was also the defec-
ton of a small minority who grew dis
satisfied with the communal part of
Coame principles. While these matters
We're undergoing settlement we were
naturally loath to bring in new mem
bars, so that our population shows de-
crease, being now eighty-three, consist
ing of twenty men, seventeen wo-
men and thlrty-seven children. But
while of the adult pioneers only thirty
three per cent. We're bound to the colony
by full family ties, of the present adult |
population seventy-six per cent are
members of colony families. This fami
ly bond is one of the strongest factors Of |
our stability and Is among the reasons |
that make the present membership re-
gard prospects as sounder now than !
ever. For dangers overcome have |
haartened us, and mistakes made have !
taught us wisdom; our social life has |
broadened, and our five years of fellow
ship have -grooved our thoughts
and habits Our orchards are coming I
into bearing, our fields are titled with I
less labor, our harvests get heavier with
increasing knowledge primitive tools
are giving place to more complex imple-
ments, while the introduction of ma
chinery-steam engine, sawmill, corn
mill and sugar making plant--bids fair
to vastly strengthen our material posi-
ton, both as regards the providing of
valuable marketable products and the
increasing of home comfort.
Thrall to the souless mastery of wage |
slavery were we ere Cosme drew us to-
eether; caring for naught but ourselves,
the strong trampling the weak: the
weak cringing to the strong; living in
others houses, working for others gain,
striving against others for a living;
each carrying the curse of Cain his
hand against every man, every mans
hand against him. And when we look
back on those old days, we feel in our
hearts deep thankfulness that we and
our wives and our little ones have left
them forever behind us. For ''Landless,
we have found a home Hopeless: We
can trust in the future Outcast: On
Cosme a people has been born. For
each other against the world we stand
pledged to be true to each other al every
need to nurse the sick, to comfort the
widow and the orphan, to share with
each other and to hold in trust the chill
dren's hirthright'
Finding that such fellowship is livable
by us, and we but common British bred
folk with little learning or sSill-we be-
ing only of the working class order-we
are thereby assured of this: That
whether here on Cosme or elsewhere,
wherever land is free and nature boun-
tful, there is escape for earnest men
and women from the soul destroying UNI
social conditions of civilization. 1t be-
ing needful, however, above all else that
such life be entered upon with full faith
In the righteousness of 1t, and with the
deepest soul sense that poverty and
and privatisn with fellowship
are incomparaby better than wealth
without it.-Letter in the London
Chronicle.
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