The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-01
THEY WOULD CAPTURE ASTATE
FREEIiNDERS NAVE DESIGNS
on WiSHINGTON.
Followers Of HcrtzlSa's Theories About to
set tpIn Business In America achin.
cry and Self-Expresslon Their watch
NOrds-Latest Plan 10 save society.

cry and Self-Expresslon Their watch
NOrds-Latest Plan 10 save society.
The followers Of Dr. Theodor Hertzka,
economic editor Of the Neue Frde Prose
Of Vienna, have formed colonies before
now in other parts OF the world. but the
first effort in America toward realizing his
theories is going into effect with the new
year The State of Washington, now all
unconscious Of its fate, Is ultimately 70 be
entirely appropriated, say those persons
in New York who are Interested in Hertzkas
propaganda.
This latest effort toward the salvation
OF society may indeed be said TO be under
I way, for the experiment Is TO be made on
the remnant of an equality colony which
was addicted to communism. This was
started in the State of Washington with
500 members. but it dwindled away chiefly,
because of the use of primitive methods
in getting rid of stumps. After the colo
nists had finally to live whole year upon
cabbages, it will be understood why only
few had the sanguine disposition to re-
main.
The man foremost in the new project
is Alexander Horr. Some people have
called him Utopian. If it is Utopian TO
! cherish an enthusiasm for machinery.
/ then Mr. Horn is wild dreamer, for he
has a notion of hunting out fantasies Of in
yention whose use would mean a social
revolution.
The present coonists who dream of silken
| luxury by means Of new machinery to sup
! plant the silk worm-one has only TO grow
| mulberry trees and feed the leaves TO this
/ ttopian machine-and who expect TO
achieve elegant leisure ultimately, are now
engaged in clearing away enormous trees
! in order 10 plant few vegetables. But
| pioneering has its pleasures, whatever
names the pioneers are called or call them
! selves
we are Anticrats.- Mr. Horr said. Il
/ do not wish to create the impression that
We are Anarchists The term Anticrat
was invented by Dueh.zing, the German
scientist, in opposition 10 the word An
| archist Of Prudhomme.
I This group of people whom have just
I visited are preparing to COLOMBO 10000
| acres opposite Tacoma The tract is soon
to be opened for homestead settlement by
[ the Government. It * now an Indian reser-
walton.
Yes. we mean to do great many things.
A most ella borate and far reaching plan has
been formed. There is another Indian reser-
walton to the east Of us, by gigantic
scheme all that part of Washington Which
lies over the Cascade Mountains we also
aim 10 secure
You see. if we get enough land it knocks
the bottom out of land values in the whole
country. No one is going TO buy land out
side of the colony If he can get it for nothing
inside"
And he went on to explain this gigantic
scheme a. simply as If he were speaking of
buying farm
-Four cooperative colonies already exist
ing. il is expected soon TO connect them.
These lie along the western part Of Wash
ingtou. from Tacoma a. far north as Bow,
which IL the railway station OF the main
colony, called after DR., hertzka's hook,
Frecland which is written on = sort 81
Bellamy plan and went through ten edi-
tons in two years.
The war cry of -Freeland, as well a. a
mere stranger can make out the language,
il a mixture Of two main intentions. one
is Machinery. machinery and the other is
SELF ,xpresslonl" What these two have TO
do with each other 1t takes as subtle an in
teect RS that Of Mr. Horr or Of q ZangwIll
TO define. Moreover, machinery il expected
TO be the great power toward the breaking
up Of homes.
\ colony which promises pneumatic tubes
instead of broom- and busters for cleaning
Of rooms. and the highest imaginable of
wages for every one should appeal TO every
woman And 50. m the hope OF reducing
these ideas 10 some order, a question vas
asked why should This colon2inG scheme
succeed when 50 many others have failec?'
Almost all schemes, Mr.. Horr answered
have started with tie wrong notions nsto
the function Of capital Instead Of resort
ing 10 machinery, they went back TO print
tive methods.
Just a. the United States Is superior in
the use Of mechanical power 70 the Euro
pean continent and to China, in the same
way We, the Freeanders, expect 70 excel
the rest Of the United States in the use Of
this secondary means Of production.
Therefore. and for the same reason
will pay more 10 labor AZ wages than
do tie monopollstiC concerns OF the United
States, just ar these pay higher wages than
their competitors in Europe and ASIA
The colony is TO be individualistic. Each
one las night 10 do what he or she viii. II
ii does not interfere with the equal freedom
Of others. board Of arbitration Will
settle disputes between members and be-
tween members and the colonial body
They do not believe in centralized type
Of organization, which they consider de-
veiop- into bureaucracy
freeland is fourteen miles from Bell
inEham on the south, and here are the
deepest harbors ON Puget Sound Olympia
Tacoma and Seattle are about a hundred
miles further down. 1rtrty-seyen ma
uonalities are present IN the colony which
has but ono unmarried woman This one
receives a salary Of $50 for teaching the
children of the others.
The main colony has been in existence
for seven years, but under the name of
Equality Colony on the Bellamy idea
The colonists cleared ninety acres
The trees were from four 10 twenty feet
thick and in the effort to clear them away
the colonlsts got discouraged
Formerly" said Mr.. H1rr, when they
wished 10 get rid Of tree they set fire 10 a
stump and II took two months TO burn.
II takes two trees TO burn one stump. With
the use Of dynamite it would cost S. 70 blow
up a tree, though one Of our men thinks he
can do il at an expense OF 30 cents
Now We are pulling them up with donkey
engines. Six men can clear an acre a day
The land is rich. The land We have cleared
Ii worth $500 an acre. II is bottom land.
alluNial soil.
we nave lower freight rates than any
where else because of the competitive I
boat rates The colony will put mp a can
merry and a sawuil this year. The men /
work not over six or eight hours, in three |
shifts.
I'VE shall have n paper and a library q |
modern tendencies. There Is no worry .
about living. They can raise all the vege-
tables they can eat. and have cattle and /
chickens, cheese, fruit, honey milk butter
eggs and make cider and wine.