| Show 4 OOIEltAlIVE 0 i3uoniiiiii F4 11 ft t I I i t announcement mide by nV A it Myron Reed In Denver on Thursday Is I a confirmation of the correctness o i the Chicago Ileorils account H V I I Debts Intentions regarding his prc poied ccoperatlve commonwealth I i j I I Mr Reed made the further declaration t I declara-tion foreshadowed In Mr Debs 1 j t I statement that Utah has been selected I I as the fall ot Operations This bavins 41 I been agreed upon JII Is well to remember A 1 remem-ber tbo salient I features of Mr I I Debate statement ai published In 14 r 4 Chicago and given by the NEWS I 4 It One 01 these I a ciuplo of weeks ago 11 i I was that the Brotherhood of the Cooperative > iJ Co-operative Commonwealth Which it Is I t + f exacted the American Rillwiy i Union will go to In a body at the con f 1g I < 1 vontlon on June 15 Intended capture t 1 I politically tome western state and by l < a a change constitution and laws resolve It Into a cocperatUe commonwealth Q com-monwealth or really a communistic commonwealth And It was estimated estimat-ed tbat the Brotherhood could make available 200000 male voters for Ibis I I I purpoie these to be gathered from the East and Middle Welt I 14 I From Thursdaya telegraphic news ek it appears tbat Utah has been 44 w chosen as the victim of the 1 proposed metamorphosis SHow far U i I 4 will be carried out or whether there really will be any serious attempt towards t I i to-wards Its remains to be seen But If 11 the effort really Is made In later there Is I likely to be considerable antagonism iji t I antagon-ism thereto The people of Utah have y wrested Irom the desert this garden 11i s VP fli I I spot of the West and now the proposition 1 I I propo-sition practically Is I to seize It by an overwhelming Invasion and la over 4 ll t turn the system government that I has been In vogue here from the bet be-t I q j ginning That system Is I American In I 1 I formaml Amerlcanlam Is not the com I I 1 munlim proposed a republican form of 41 government conforms to the Idea now I II i I 1 I prevailing In all the states not to the i socialistic alms of the Debs plan A I II republican form of government permits i per-mits all the cooperative schemes ol I an honorable character that people I may enter Into but the plan to sells 1 IT the State politically Is a conspiracy against which objections will I come out 1 I more prominently the more determined I 1 deter-mined the ellort to carry It cut There z JI i I is a possibility that the Debs plan may I I counts trouble as his policy did In the tt II lof8 I 1 great railway I strike of HO but It I likewise lacks the essential element of I 1 success I Then there Is I objection to the I f proposed limited colony named by Mr P 11 Read not because It Is cooperation I J 1 but because ef Its embodied dlicon I teat Bo far as its commercial and I I Industrial success Is I concerned It may I I he said that before two years clapie Its members may find that at The lowest prevalllBg wages they would get moro I cash as laborers In a year than t They or olb I 11 would In three by the plan proposed I and not being held by an unwavering I force to the success of their s coopert tlve movement above any temporary I financial consideration tbo commonwealth If common-wealth will go to pieces The result will be a throwing on to tome locality In the State I fifteen hundred to two tucuund L men with their dependents filled with dliconlont and discouragement i at the failure of their scheme This I would not be conducive to Ihe welfare I I of tbe Blat 7 I I 11 The trebablllly Is J that tho whole I thing will Bzre out at on early day perhaps with no graver effect than tu I I i cause a loss of confluence In I Its I promoters i pro-moters But If r It should be so successful I I t cessful ui to gathir together a vast 6 body of adherents the moTeraect toward to-ward this State to all tb more cbec li tlonable because ot Ibo Increased magnitude mag-nitude ol the falluie Ibat 1 0 sure lo i I come sooner or later and the come I I quol heavy turden It would entail lu Ibo stale where It mlcht happen to be I J I operatlnz |
