The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-24
HOMECROFT DOING
MUCH FOR DUBLIN
The Rev. MIR. Caldwell Tells OF
Splendid Institution in
Western Wayne.
WORK FOR IDLE HANDS
MILLIONAIRE NELSON'S FRIEND
SCORES MISSIONS, CALLING
THEM AN INSULT TO THE AM
.ERIcAN PEOPLE.

1t was a fair sized and attentive
audience that assembled in the rooms
of the Wayne county horticulture So
ciety in the court house yesterday
afternoon to hear the Rev. Mr. Cald-
well of Dublin talk on the subject OF
Profit sharing and Cooperation.
The address was delivered under the
auspices of the Wayne county Histor-
ical society and nearly ali of the mem
bers of that organization were pres
ent.
Mr.. Caldwell is warm personal
friend of n. O. Nelson, the ST. Louis
millionaire manufacturer, and philan-
thropist, who has established col
ony not far from that city which is
known as 'Homecroft." The major
ity of the people who comprise this
colony are employed in Mr.. Nelson's
big establishment, and ARE in the
profits thereof. Recently the ST.
Louis man paid visit to Mr.. Cald-
well, and before he left Dublin took
the initial steps toward the orgauiZa-
tion of a like colony at that place by
the purchase of the old Featherstone
property, and several acres of land.
The house contains fourteen rooms
and is being used as a school. The
pupils, young and old are not only in
structed in the various branches of
learning, but are given manual train
ing.
Cooperation Success.
The speaker said among other
things that all co operative societies
formed in America on religious basis
had made wonderful progress, while
this had also been true of similar
organizations in Europe builded upon
an economic basis. From a financial
standpoint their success in Europe
had been so great as to enable them
to declare a dividend of 10000, 600.
Private corporations had been SO
greatly alarmed at this result that in
several foreign countries they had
called upon the government to throw
certain restrictions about the oper
ations of these cooperative societies.
Mr.. Caldwell then called attention tc
the great wealth that the Mormons
had amassed through this same
means He declared that the wage
worker was a slave, and this brought
up the question as to how to elimin
ate the boss, and as matter of fact
it could only be done through the
| medium of cooperation.
Mr.. Caldwell gave his auditors a
nf hn sfIJnr,ncrnfts'
tablished by Mr. Nelson, near ST
Louis saying that it boasted of no po
licemen. no jails and no churches
That feeling of brotherly love that
existed among its; people made al
these things unnecessary. A minister
had one time been given permission
to establish a mission at ''Homecroft,'
but he only stayed until he ascertain
| ed that he would not be permitted tC
| take up a collection. Mr.. Caldwell
| expressed himself of the belief thai
| the establishment of a mission in this
| country was an insult to the Ameri
| can people.
The Conditions at Dublin.
In conclusion he told of the condi
| tions as they now exist at Dublin
/
| carving school, there were classes il
| short hand and architectural drawing
and mat the first steps had been TAX
en- toward organizing building ant
/ loan association. Richmond banker:
| had recently paid a visit to Dublin
and it was only a question of shor
| time when bank would be establish
ed. He believed that 'Homecroft
was lifting the people up to a plane
| of human love and a plane of human
| joy.
At the conclusion of his address
| Mr.. Caldwell answered a number o
| questions concerning the work tha
was being done in the colony ant
the methods that were pursued. II
| the course of his remarks he sai'
that Mr.. Nelson would pay anothe
visit to Dublin in April. and man,
improvements would doubtless b
| added He made the further state
ment that in all probability effort