The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-31

made as to the supervision Of the COLONY,
ana the outlay of the money as might an.
pear desirable. Thus without the exDendi-
tqIe ny congress of single dollar valu-
apIe sociological experiment could be
properly launched on & scale WORTHY of
the nation. -
Iae fact that railways for military puT-
poses have beer guaranteed and iba+
large sums of money have sbeer v,teJ
from time to time for the relief of desff-
luton ana for agricultural scientific and
e sIaLl purposes, appears sufficient to
snow that such action would he tveiI
within the range of legislative desirahii-
fty. 9ii On
oa The The 1n,on-sectarian character of our or
s"hl d1a and the fact that the two and
q nan million beds annually provided Nv
uS Tor the poor of the cities are furnish.
ca irrespective of creed or nationaIitJ,
t TIui9 seen, seem to obViate any difficulty i'm
t go oiieCtlon. The governments of Aus
traila, South Africa and Sl<andinaJio
nave nave already subsidized us for MANY
W., e"aS PAST II caring Tor their poor, and
from the London boards of .EIIa1.iisos
NUMBER or their inmates at terms which
eflect a considerable saving on thei,s 90
mary expenditure
Without waiting however fo, = 60
eminent guarantee, it has occurred fo
me that 1t might be possible for Some ~
t Eer great capitalists to take action in
accoi ~ ter ana 10 furnish on their own
800 @Gcoiulnt guarantee which would be
eqGs ~ acceptable to the public and WhfcI,
snSnr enable MS to greatly enlarge The
ent year ms 'He pres
Inc average cost of locating famiIv
I ~ I'VE on a colony is about $500 the land
g En pald Tor on the installment plan.
oF TINS amount we car srnDIv +he coi
oEist with Il cottage. ten acres Of ~
celient irrigated land one of two horses
4 tro.o or TWO cows, poultry Implements
his ffret expenses and maintenance till
ms S,l Hrst crops are gathered. Thus for one
Union id collars we could plant 1000 fanoiI-
les OF 10000 couls on &c COO acres Of first
class land al e" Vi mrs
the first colonists could devote tbeir.
spare time to preparing the land and
i G0ISages for the next arrivals. thereby
cnIo rGstns me position of the original
bility. 'iiell own paya-
,odn ne enterprise has received the indorsa.
I I'LL ~ many prominent business men.
PinlllaIlthrop1sts and statesmen. Amo19
gihers may be mentioned Senator TarS
llama, former Gov. Alva Adams. of Col
SY[ ar1o; the late Gov. Flower, of New
ORR, zen Benjamin F. Tracy former
fres1dent Benjamin Harrison Hon M.
ron l. Herrick, Hon. John E. NiflholIand
I y Luther Latin Mills and Mr.. Is, p
rCiid ,r president OF the Santa Fe rails
ROAD; 1 ne Commercial club. of Chicago
ana the Merchants club, of Boston. have
e'iso discussed our plans and given them
a most favorable hearing
10 put the working classes in . rosi+f-r
to become home owners and n do thiA
Whhout IN any way pauperizine thar@
constitutes an ideal form of self-Slnnork'
When capital thus recognizes that in
protecting labor from the inroads of adj
Eerslty 1t is subscribing its own biores+
interests as much as the owner of a W
uaple machine who guards it from thfA
ehcroachments of rust and weather or
llle owner OF stud of race horses who
PROVIDES them with well-eaufppej sfs
pres, vast step will have been taken
towards bridging the gulf which bas
separated these two pillars of the social
laprlc Labor will come to rec n.riZ{a
mat IN capital it possesses not an ana-
my, but valuable ally Capital on The
other Rand will realize that in the wise
etnploEInent or labor 1t possesses a lin
ltless held for the duplication of it's re-
sources In this way we may hope that
a mutual interdependence will be est All
nShed similar to the pillars and sDarns i'm
bridge, and conflicts between these torn
social forces will become less and IS
frequent. while their cooperation will
produce results that win be mntns TitI
race.
admit frankly that in NV Judgment
such an alliance will be largely pronot-
ed by bringing to bear on each factor the
1ehglouS and moral influences to WFrioh
We aseribe so large a measure of ORR
success we freely confess that but for
Inc presence the power, the favor of
COO, we should have been unable as an
organization to accomplish 1.-THE Of the
9ooo winch has been so generously rec
ognlzed by the press of this and other
lands. 1t is our reliance upon the same
d1Vlne support, that makes us more than
ever hopeful in regard to the future, Of
tne working classes upon the lines above
lalQ down. which are not the theory of an
army, in actual daily conflict with the
evil which 1t seeks to remedy