Show rn n n Ut SOCIALISTS IN of o Colony on I Bay tnt of o by Prof FalL ot or tho Condition of the People nt fit L LIU U tJI 81 11 Stale of Ni Ol It 14 fourteen years B ago O th lh t e IR LaS under the tile title of oC Tha Credit of a company of who desiring to 10 put ut th lr principles I e and vork out their own tol lon lIIn sought a from ot of their follow loan Th They und wha what tho they In the rf fr Mexico on the ly bay of lo lop 0 p I l And It l is secluded lor i mies miles way 1 on one R a there ar WR Was not I I neighbor The Is j God hut ro roIas 1 nothing with without out Irrigation that Is ha nothing except ral tue us nod other thor thorn ani bu bushes nut But the thu place was tIe de ralle arid was al choron for the now new ox t bleating 1 so much about the clony colony While on the Mayo Ino river stud nel noel meeting two or of the on lb rOd road who ho us an I If to PY the 1 a lait On the fur fort hUe the taken laken from o to 10 lr 1 1 Wih With two riding each start d for lo Los the present setto ment of the colonIsts TN IN Our ton In and down E lurt river ner through Indian vii la bases along extensive corn or through thick Kr of at and cactus where the 1111 band las tins not been cleared for The rhe river nver which I Iv the barest of I thi lYO Pi m Fuerte extensive lOt hot toms tome on loth sides which are Bre very err rich and nd where farmed raie two ao good crops R a year ear The second day ay out w We Iune came to 10 1 a lur mi mill at Con Can stench and operated by a Mex 11 bali though an Is machinist Senor the general manger anti superintendent ul and ami ono one or of the mOt genial anti intelligent Mex we hAve mt met showed lS us aro around nd furnishing us fr fresh b animals to rilo rido the ours r ted The fhe cane Is In dep deep to Hur secure M drouth uth Is nt not stripped until cut for grindIng ad and is II never cub cui Eight And tn ten ar are taken and wI well r I 1 MW the sixth howd stocks as large which 11 as the firSt crop The mi null Is no not mat mod modem frn em 11 but t still to lo the g good With Ith ma lila of calls paTe pars morn chiller cne and wel OI or Of the thC 01 cone ant ProPer C be while mUll growing large could b ON O DAY Three hours more mostly along Thre the tank norO of 1 a Onal canal brought us to Ll Los am among the Infidels We brat Mt I Iram ram Caine to lo cane then we e AI ea i and banana banan trees and nearer I ornge orange lr HUl tho The hou houses ar are not I large neither are r they well tl built I it we standard for tor they have judge judt b by our laI board doors nor neither shingle glass In their window The rf roofs are thatch or dirt the Ire are cement or the orl original nal soil tramped down don and there II is ito need of more mON than an open 10 i lint still tb the houses In mE for or windows tl and yards artl are N nl neat and clen clean th the ya yards Id being usually covered wih with thick Hr mud a grU grass 1 a bunch or t two wn of o banana trees Ind and a f few orange anti him or lemon lre trees usually mke up the garden In front of the houses A SOCIALISTS No attempt Is made at In a aton town ton I ch one h has bui buIlt on Itlo little farm or the land ht he hOI hopes to hale have a as a faim for n as yet pl none have Ites titles to their nor legal rights In the canAl the they hlo have out lint nUL the people Rr are thought 1 n yet tt they do not knol know whether In 1 a year eI or 1 so they t seek nf new hom homes or wi will IU uc h her Not NoC reed In their rights r ce only are they happy the they aN are allie abbe and were glad lal to 10 I see 1 a ellen countryman J Ivery opportunity was as ashen given hen UI us to become pote posted 01 on the hits his tory lory and arAIN affairs of the colony AnI on Ih the feelings hopel hopes and aspiration of the colonists that thal ar are still 11 holding on Tho They did not conceal the fRe fact of at their failures nor that thit they still after all 1 these years of adversity and poverty 1111 bind contentions among them that made uni unity nn an impossibIlity We were for b by Mr Ir Fred Mul Mulkey ul ke key to whom r w we were recommended by hits brother and who kIndly tok took us around rund among tue introducing of oC the l two wo us to 10 the leaders II I factions Mr hart And Mr Ir the latter supporting Mr Ir Owens On tle the or originator later of the anti and hil his the former against the batter and for a subsequent organization Imon A as the tho lC I S Inal Cl company nr BY A Ie IC OWENS I 1 cannot SO go Into n a detaIled account of the organization the history of the colon and the ton causes of the sort sorry Cal tall clon u though I lele believe luch an account would be both Interesting Uni and ld In I 1 IUt must however howver tel tell you rOU something abul about them thEil The originator of the whole plan Wa was Albert K Ie a man of great hopes of DC no small mal ability In Ina a little calel railed Integral Co Cooperation operation Itle bl he lla bias explained whY h he started hi cooperative clony colony how he hUll hoped to II I It And thel then what he hoped to IU The first great problem or tI d he says NI sat II is how bow to wealth The k see Old md great rt m IR Iii ho how to distribute it n continuing 11 Wheres th the blast Mud and present IY eye teme for Cor laying out governing anti policing cle cities have hae been and an are fal fail ure urea lamentable and A And whereas there mul ot of nee necee alty nt lo be I a In the system tem for tor layIng Olt out governing anti and policing cit lel las before the Iff life of the citizen can he made u useful ful wholesome ald l as curs cure Mid hI be It resolved That or l inure re persona b be incorporated under or special act c I a CUt Credit Fon clera Ier deposit IOn loan anti operating company anti antl pr pro proceed to 10 lote locate and work this gen general n l eral laws of the Mexican Slates that the ald said Credit bu the controlling interests buy In a town site tt and farm lay out streets tret r roads etc ele Lull build furnIsh rent and 11 isell 40 lots antI anI garden Ar ArI areas Hi tW I be I IL That said Credit issue shares ot of capItal stock of 10 0 Jr per share par Ale Tm blOWS AND WhYS Then follows a detailed account of how thi ibis money should b be spent how the tho cl city bf be laid out and bui built ho how anti from AmonI among who whom the tOn tore should l be elete elected And the there II is named In detail the departments that Ihal b be organised to 10 begin with mak 1 lag the town a cooperation wih with ev every citizen a stockholder Following are aN the A department on d dand tIe posits and I lon IL A t department on Arid buildingS A deportment on laws arbitration There were pr to 10 be h no lawyers t d department on the tho emploYment of mot motors ON an and pw pow power pr er and on plc police and One on employment One on education and baths One on farming and antl tag anti finally a department on Bur zur Buren geons en nul nurses etl etc The he fulcrum of n a oo cm corn or 11 I is n a department ot of deposits and loans thoroughly orson organ n lz II this the then In an I appendIx continues Organisation to 10 its be successful must mut contain with withIn within In I it that element whIch I Ic understood b by the wor word coherency and Implies In ON than a mE mere of numbers Organization to tob 1 b successful must hae have k In vI view se wil welt as In an object to secure ute 4 UTOPIAN PIAN lIAN on The Crit Credit Fonder of I I Li to b be our laton natIon I It I Is to b be bea a but no charter or I 11 to lt be granted to any pr prIn per In Ion UI or within I it We ar are to take table n no pr part In out outside elections state tte or fell federal We have baw our own autonomy subject u t however huwer a as n a corporation to lelo milion mission II Is peace on erth and coil will 1 tl Itt mankind We show our distrust of governments 18 as now nOlI constituted by retiring from to ourselves under the general laws ot of civIlization We wi will fulfill alI our vart of the contract Lr r OC Owens and hi his had bad worked Olt out a beautiful ithan a Utopia In ever eyer deti detaIl I It wu was complete The Thell Tb society ll would b be unie united the Inhabit Inhabitants ant ants would b be unselfish the they wul would coe coins together on th the higher principles of oC mankind and ld b be luni bound together by this higher motIves They would In liv from their fellow man tk take no part In the strife and contention of the worl world lut but oly only lok look after their RO and Of ou ever one would get rich ut ou not hurt them for their uni woUld still tl 1 be 1 so great A as to overrule al all tM the baser motives 1 It was a lut ful plausible they theory fel worked out 81 entIrely MUCh ICH GOT COT The friends of Mr r o Owens wen like him self hop hoped ranch Ind and ex expected t luCh luChIn Many In leter letters of encouragement cn came to 10 hum The he lIlI ii was UI looked upon al as A Ard rd H a heaven henen on erth earth In a land with mik milk ant and honey Al All Allover over the AnI anti In Il as wol well the plan received attention especially II fr from PeOple of socIalistic tendencies SIete Societies were formed II In Inmany many Of this the leading lU cities over each Moh ot oIl which was 8 a a president who WM was At Atthe the thia same time a director II in the nw new clony colony nut no Int sooner were r these M so clett organised and Mr Ir OWe Owens hero looking ate after Ime some that I it occurred to the presidents that the tho first on the ground could have the frt first Ik of lots lote and as there was a great In lOton location I It WI was de desirable that good Ol on ones I b chosen Th ThIt Thus It at frt first the human port or PAt part of man showed howel Itself TiE m Without there Ci came R a culle of hundl hundred men women anti aUti children to the ret of the projector who had not nol Iny one for Cor a yer year Mr Owens Owen went to 10 Oln to have tieni return but 10 too late they wee were 1101 wih with UI this smallpox In due time Ume therefore they we were brought t to an anti lade landed on a mOlt most Iho shore where instead of A town there Wa was hut but tactile rl rocks and nut hut other colonists caught the fever at r Cle caine hu hurrying dOI A as they to wanted corner lots until within I few months montha sIx people hI b landed I It II is that 31 ili Owens made mad bibs hll first mistake In Innot innot not sending Ih their II ople wn who It first cm rain back bak anti the ton ion stop until h lie wu was read ready for It set tiers and his hll second mistake all Id wu was made In thO who we were here on a common wage ilan giving to all I who orl both hoth men and nd wo women 0 men 3 per dl le some We were worth orth double that Ind and others coull not eRn earn half of I tt the po popit Ill pit ware 1 and sl set tl to making a rad road AND I It soon developed that al all c classes the f good Ih the hAd bad anI and the indifferent had been attracted here per person AI son who had what h he thought bt w pr a reform Ide idea or who had bad certain theories 10 ho c caine ln to 10 Topolobampo to tr try theta and It wa was not long until the found that they were tre further apart AIt In ideas among than those not socialists I It was A impossible tl to harmonize Strife began and ln soon seine claimed l they hall hail bean n deceived The They hail expected u a grand It where al all the comforts or of Hf lull could b be hind had te the WI W desolate a as WR was Sll Salt Valley al when the pioneers first entered I lr WANTED TOO roo MUCH One lUll Aske naked for n a hones o an anil a as I she hud had nV always had bad both seater ller alI alIga and ga gas In every rom room Iho she wonted wanted the same amo u l lher uL her here or she hr would go back She roo ro turn turned on the same m vessel fu 1 that thal brought her One not bing being willing willingto to 1 liv under Mr Owens plan rebelled t 1 forming a community Son Soon I provisions gave out and hunger huner forced many home while hl others rented land Ci Cion I Ion on the river ner and aided themselves by farming Mr Ir Owens Owen WI was not bier he having to the UnIted ta tats Ie and for thu many blame hIm an are fr free to tosy sy say that hd had h he ben been here colonial lonial a at faIr faire would have ue lone gone better SAYI SAVING O Til THE REMNANTS b After te yen years of privation the fw few is min In colonists made a canal opened farm tarm and built homes the up buit hUI on ones I we visited but bul If Of all I the rd reil or two I thousand people ople that Cle came only a tenth lenth of them 11 I theN these do nt not know lier bey mUl must I Ici 11 I moe away for as I yet they y h neither title to their land nor A right II in the canal unal th they have buit built II is usual In luh II eases those who the apostates from the 01 col colony t tany 1 scandalized and lied cD any ony ani led about bt everything with the work and thus thul It for Cor Mr Owens On to carry out hll hI plans Sti Still I after al all these tribulation these hard hardships ships hll and nd sufferings for want of at shelter hele I I and to food thO thi people are rf not unie united I They ar are I a JI Ime some of dicta would do honor to Iny any community would farr carry out th the grand o of cooperation but 1 an much 41 hat has been n the wrangling that uni unity Is Isnow no now Many Ian of them veiled pl ally 11 amonI among the Women have ba hid I noUh nouh of c cooperation ot of socialism th they want hom homes and the necessItIes if IC not tb the comforts of life O CITY OF g Thus Thu the great rl city ot of Feeble Site on by bay bale became a m eases ot of ruins before fol It WI was bui built ald sad the 0 of the Socialists van nn vanished In a puff u of oC lokE smoke h nut flut who say that I what and In different hands sir r dream might not have been n I or nr who will 1 sey y that In th the nut next another Owens Owen I or a mn man manby b by anon wi will not plan And build tH at ful R a cooperative elt city Tl Thu n 11 R a failure lament lamentable Ab able anu I inal n rl titus but a many Ir It may be so s CLUFF e In t It |