The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-31
BY COMMANDER BOOTH TUCKER.
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Domicide or Domiculture? That in a
nutshell Is the question which Is con
fronting us as nation. BY domicide
mean the destruction of the family as a
| national unit. BY Horticulture I mean
the preservation, cultivation and encour-
| agement of the family. Destroy the
! family unit and you destroy the nation
-Domicide is to the nation what homicide
is to the individual. 1t is wholesale sui
eide.
And yet any thoughtful man who gives
his attention to the subject cannot fail
to see that our present system of pau
| perology, based OH the false ideals of
Europe, is one vast organized system of
domicide.
Now l maintain that this system is un-
necessary, wasteful, unnatural. unphil-
osophic, cruel and Numerically opposed
TO the dictates of mortality and Chris
tlanlty Especially is this the case In a
republic, where the privileges of the in
d1vidual citizen form the battle CRY of
every political party, and are so zeal
ously, nay, jealously safeguarded. Among
the inalienable rights of the poorest cit
lzens of the United States are:
Teh Right to Live.
The Right to Work
! Lhe-Rlght to a Home and
Is that an impossible Ideal? 1 think
not. If 1t be possible, if 1t be within
tne range OF practical politices as ! am
assured 1t Is, then the right of the in
oiVidual citizen becomes the duty of the
s sntbsni tne religious leader, the phil
II We're to be asked to put in one
| word what in my opinion should be the
paramount para study of the statesman of to-
day doubt whether it could be more
| tersely expressed than in the word DOM
couture. We have devoted colleges. pro-
IeSsorshlps, departments. bulletins and
volumes to the study of the minutest
details of agriculture HorticuIture
arporlculture, horses, cows, pigs. poultry
ana ana insects, but by some strange faulty
| mas been overlooked.
The problem that confronts society to-
| Gay is intimately wrapped up with the
welfare OF its working classes. What
| is TO be done with the increasing proper
| tion or those Who are unable, despite
| tnelr best exertions, to obtain continuous
renuneratIve employment? Workers may
pc divided into three classes: In-workS
| ln-and-outs and Out-of-Works | am not
| mere speaking of the vicious, the de-
| PRAYED, the criminal and the lazy. but
| OIL the genuine Willing-tO-works includ-
lng men, women and children Assuming
| that the three classes number twenty
| nllllonS, | have no doubt that at least
! ave mlil1ons belong to the last two
classes, that is their labor is either non-
contlnuous, or nonremunerative, or both.
NOW It is the duty Of society to act the
part OF an Alma Mater to these In do.
| ing so she will be conserving her own
| highest interests She must have bien
| standard-no less one than domicuI-
| Icfe-tne maintenance, the preservation
eiilu, II necessary, the restoration. or
even creation of the family unit2the
home. liz
Instead of that. what has been the at
tltude OF the sociologists and papero7o-
6iS.5 9. " the civilized nations of the
World! Ihey have advised the working
|
(a} Not to marry.
~ II married, to have small families,
e. If reduced to starvation. they have
broken up the families branded them as
| paupers and consigned them to semi
| penal Institutions
That is what I call 6omicida
What then, is the reme6y?
"a Preserve at all costs the family
90 Substitute for the centr1petal forces
which have drawn these masses together
| centrifugal forces of equal power Ma
| ture does so. The heart and the Inn
do the same "
| (cN Place the waste e.. unemplove1-
ldpor on the waste land by means of the
| waste capital. and thereby convert this
| ton
Cd Work 1t out on the principle OF
nome ownership: Let the working classes
necessary capital but let them repay if
! With moderate interest
| Ihat in brief is what [ mean by the
word. domiculture. BY crystalizing the
two ideas into single words, which I
| nave Ventured to coin for the purpose. It
| mas been my hope that they might be
permanently fastened in the public mind
ana become part and parcel of our flu
! tufe national policy in dealing with our
| poor
Is such broad and philanthropfc pol
icy within the range of practical poll
| place the proposition before the public
purely on a theoretical basis It com
mended itself as such to many of our
most thoughtful citizens. and almost
| without exception to the leaders Of our
| press On small, yet substantial scaIa
we We're enabled to put the plan i'll OPP
eratlon. Our success has far exec eded
! cur most sanGuine expectations
| Three colonies have been started at
Wldely different points in Colorado, Cal
| lforn1a and Ohio. The degree of their.
| funds at our disposal. Some $50 men
| women and children have been settled on
about 1000 acres of land and are now
| the near future of some 500 or more aGdi-
| J1onal coloniStS.
1. We have no difficulty in securing
! any any number of desirable families who
are eager to settle upon our lands and
| make homes for themselves.
| T. large proportion of them are all
tea acquainted with agriculture, while
! 80 49, al IlSCndD1CS, whose
services are most acceptable
| !bey are Industrious, thrifty hard
working and contented.
4. They are already self-supportinc
| We pay nothing after the first season
| for the support of the families. their
| cattle and horses
! s.. They are eager to pay their dues
| and are in position to do So the rand
| incre ase in the value of their land rem
| dering our position perfectly secure in
| making them advances
| With a view to enlarging our opera
lions we are now issuing thirty-year
! gold bonds, to the amount of $50 600
| bearing interest at ) per cent. and Sc
| cured by a sinking fund of per cent.
| beside being unconditionalIy guaranteed
| by the Salvation Army, both in the mat
! ter of principal and interest
! ! am lCath, however. to imagine that
| now the experimental stage has been
| successfully passed, the work will be
| limited to the proportions involved in so
small an amount of capital
On a recent occasion l had the prIvi-
| lege of laying the matter before Senator
Mark Hanna. with view to suggesting
that congress should grant us a bare
| guarantee, for say s1.0O0000 Such a
| guarantee would enable Us at once to
| raise the entire capital from the public
at low rate of interest.
| The congress guarantee would be amply
| protected by the immense enhancement
| in the value of the land thus thickIy
| coloniZed, and such conditions could be
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