Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1908-02-20
REAL UTOPIA FOUND.
PARAGUAY, SOUTH AMERICA.
OFFERS GREAT INDUCEMENTS.
In This Land of Plenty Cattle Are TO
Be Bought for Song and the
LATEST Man Can Earn Seven
Dollars Day.


elphia.-Paraguay In South
America, is to be the real Utopia IL
the plans of the Universal Co-opera-
tive brotherhood, which is al work
i'm this city gathering in sympathizers,
is successfully carried out
Talk about your seventh heaven
of delight" for the workingman. rs
piranza city, on the beautiful slopes
OF the Parana valley, bids fair to be
the tenth, or even twentieth heaven.
If there is really any possibility OF
reaching such a summit. But llst 10
the announcement of the brother
hoods plans, as contained In vol
luminous pamphlet on the new system
of living" for which prospective CO.
operator pays one dollar, and which
the brotherhood officers say contains
information worth $4,000.
After pointing out the fact that IL
the Pilgrim fathers had sent out some
pioneers to Parana they would never
have made the mistake of landing on
the bleak spot known as plymouth
Harbor," the high-sounding phrases In
the announcement paint glowing pic
ture OF the wonders of the Parana re-
gion, where the new model city is 10
be built whenever the promoters get
together enough men and women to
start the thing going
II tells of thousands of cattle to be
had almost for the asking, and OF the
wonderful vegetation that abounds-
all waiting for some one with a milk
pail and a plow.
Prospective members of the colony
are told that they need not work more
than seven hours a day, and after
while only FIVE days a week in order To
earn the regulation seven dollars
day. And when a member gets along
in years, and feels that he is unable
any longer to put a hand to the pillow,
he is to be pensioned for life. What
snap,
This is how the brotherhood figures
the financial scheme of the Utopia
will adjust itself:
"On an average one man, with the
aid of modern machinery, will produce
at least $40 of new wealth each day,
or $4,000 each year Thus 1000 men
will produce at least $3000,000 worth
each year Allowing that two-thirds
of this wealth is consumed by the
workers and their families, there will
still remain $1,000. 900 to be added to
the collective capital each year
Thus, in five years, our society will be
workingman's trust, capitalized at
$5,OOO,OOO
But the story is only half told
When l 900 workingmen have started
such a trust and at the end of the first
! year have added to their fixed capital
S1.000,000 and divide among them
selves S2,000,000, thus giving each
worker an income of $4,000 year for
the remainder of his life" what a life
of peace and prosperity the workers
will lead
But there Is only one drawback to
the success of the scheme-the broth
| erhood hasn't been able TO get enough
members together who will each put
up 500 for the privilege of becoming
member Of this colony. So the date
for the opening of this Elysum has
been indefinitely postponed. The fact
| is, the brotherhood hasn't even got the
land it proposes to turn into the ITO
pia. But we have a concession on
it, says its officers, "and can clinch
the bargain when we get the money
IL we ever do"
Meanwhile hundreds of would-be
Utopians in Philadelphia are waiting
patiently and anxiously-aud are pay
ing five dollars a month for the priv
ilege-for the formal dedication of this
land OF milk and honey.