Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-18
(st. Louis Globe-Democrat.) }

TONS welfare, has crystallized. Gov.
Herbert S. Hadley is its official con-
cretor; John H. Curran, chief i'm
migration commissioner of Missouri
and Frederick Deming Tucker, form
,er director of the University of Min
nesota Agricultural College, concep-
tors of the basic principles of Uto-
pian-like plan to halt the city-bPund
stream of humanity from ruraldom.
In substance, every man with love
of nature is to have farm. He is
to be uplifted mentally as well as
financially. Instead of molding his
cate them in the increasing impor-
tance of agriculture, thus forever in
suring a permanent population for
the undeveloped sections of the
United States.
The National Farm Homes Asso-
citation is to be organized in st. Louis
May 5, when it is estimated 10000
agriculturists, members of the Farm
ers' Union, will be in convention at
the Coliseum. Gov. Hadley has is
sued call for a meeting at 10 a. m.
in parlor of c. Planters Hotel.
The plan, as outlined by Messrs.
Curran and Tucker, is not a charit-
able one. Every man who aspires to
its benefits must pay his way. His
capital need be only his hands and all
aptitude for hard labor He is to be
provided with financial means to
place himself on a self-supporting
and profitable basis. Then he is to
remunerate his benefactor the Ma
tional Farm Homes Association,
which is to be backed by the capital
of philanthropists.
In measure, the underlying prin-
ciple of Sir Thomas More's Utopia,
cooperation, will link a chain of
colonies it is proposed to establish,
not only in Missouri, but throughout
the sparsely settled sections of the
United States.
But there is to be nothing of the
fanciful about it. The foundation is
to be laid on bedrock business prin-
ciples and the scheme is to be con-
Quoted along the most advanced
commercial and agricultural lines. 1t
is proposed to interest the leading
philanthropists of the nation in the
movement. Their money is to be
sought, not as charity, but as Sc
cure investment, at the same time af-
fording them opportunity to accom-
plish humanitarian aims-the uplift
of the man underneath from the
slough of poverty.
With this object in view Gov. Had
ley has invited the leading philan-
thropists of the United States to par
ticipate in the organization of the
National Farm Homes Association in
ST. Louis. Among those asked to
lend their presence are: Benjamin
F. Yoakum, president of the Rock
Island Railroad; James Wilson, Sec
retary of agriculture; Norman ] Col
man of st. Louis, former secretary of
agriculture; Jacob Riis, writer on
New York slum life; Seth Low
August Belmont, Mrs. James H
Hartman, Lyman Abbott, Miss Jane
Adams of Hull House, Chicago;
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor; John
Mitchell, former president of the
United Mine Workers; James Speyer
Mrs. Russell Sage, Miss Anna Nor
gan, William ]. Bryan, Joseph W..
Folk, former governor of Missouri;
Ralph M. Easley, national manager
of the Civic Federation; John Tenn
pie Graves, Joseph Medill Patterson,
author and playwright; Herman j.
Ridgeway of Everybody's Magazine;
Mark Sullivan of Collier; Editor
Hampton of Hampton's Magazine;
Mayor F. H. Krelsmann, Rabbi Leon
Harrison and Archbishop John J.
Glennon of St. Louis.
Secretary Wilson and Mr.. Yoakum
have pledged their attendance at the
meeting.
May Have $4,000, 900 Capital.
1t is proposed to incorporate under
the laws of Missouri, with initial
capital stock of $1,0OO,O0O. This
stock as paid up, can be utilized in
establishing colony units, to be pro-
mulgated for $4,000 each. This
capital is TO be divided in shares of
$1,000 each. A general manager is
TO be placed in charge and an exam
lining board viii pass on applicants
for farms. The fund, which, If the
government gives promise Of success.
can readily be increased 10 $50, ,000.-
900, is to be so employed as to give
a fair return. say 3 per cent, to its
primary investors.
Land Is now available in Missouri
al $40 an acre Virtually the same
conditions exist in Arkansas, Ala
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