| Show MR MB debb DEBS s UTOPIA the now new york world in its ita jesus ol of f one devotes devote a page pa to the ibe colont scheme or of mr eugene V idedo of which the press of 0 the coul lary W Y b bae as bad much to say lately two lehere stores ove ore iruin from governor vernor heber M I 1 elig ul ol utah and onu one irom Q jl JR ul 01 in Ii lebei dialia alia aoe 00 to lo tile subject will be mad lead with pacerval pa al Cereal lorest governor vernor wells wella regards the project get as ab utopian he aay tf ahe debs bellamy plan of jmwa 60 and operation cooperation co in this state to is re skilled swilled igar ded here as chimerical this state offers extraordinary inducements inducement Fi to 10 home seekers who desire to become settlers Bett lers and tillers of the soll oil whore there is in considerable unoccupied land may be reclaim reclaimed ed by irrigation f tern its ito present desert character by the construction of reservoirs for impounding the waters and of 01 irrigation canals this requires capital the agricultural lands of the state where water may be more readily obtained for irrigation are already taken up the construction of such reservoir plants tor for reclaiming arid and lands is a far more difficult and expensive undertaking than the debs dabs people seem to 10 rea realize lizet so far as may be judged from any statement made public the scheme of building up a community upon a operative cooperative co plan without capital is not practical unless the people undertaking it are actuated by the most unselfish motives and are willing to consecrate their labors tor for the prosperity and general advancement of the community instead of the individual the mormon people in early days in utah carried on such auch a operative cooperative co system with success because a religious motive which they regarded as divine inspired them the followers of debs dabs have apparently no such inch self interest upon which to anchor their project and in my opinion if they here within a brief time their community would disint regate and their co operative plan result in failure for these reasons our people do no approve debalis project HEBER aa M WELLS governor Gove governoor B gere sends a i wait he idonat I 1 do not know what debs and bel kamys plan is in full therefore I 1 cannot say how it may be regarded but in general I 1 will say that I 1 am in favor of any plan consistent wih our laws which promises to 10 ameliorate the conditions surrounding the poorer classes now enormously increasing in numbers something must be done for these people pleana and the comfortable clas classes in opposing any and every plan of relief proposed are simply sitting on the valve I 1 advise wall street to read ezekiel chapter xvi verses 49 and 50 and learn why sodom was given ho baptism of fire and brimstone J B R RO ROGERS GNias governor ane verses from hsai tiel referred to ire are behold this was the iniquity of thy sister sodom pride fullness of bread and nd abundance of idleness was in her and nd in her bar daughters neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy and they were haughty and committed abomination before me therefore I 1 took them away as I 1 saw good we du do bisot know enough ui oi the debe dabs plan to judge of its ite lUppo aed pecullar peculiar merite but bui there cau tio oe no doubt of the truth ruth of the th view tx x pressed by governor that no operative cooperative co plau without capital te la practical unless thit people interested are actuated by the most unselfish motives due does mr dabs hope to bring together boue bou auda sands of people willing to consecrate conee themselves for the benefit of 01 the new cam c according Accor diug to the article in the world Is ie to a state with enough boers t casturo the ei as tire machinery this dooe done the state la Is to be Deferred into a social community tole tele liv liverani erand other classes ot 01 boat des now dow operated opera teJ tei by art ar to be state elate property thre taire will be canal an j road now new merue tures turee will be reared and now new industries developed by the state there will be employment for all money for all the idea Is 1 said to be similar to that thai advanced in mr Bell amys now new pub libation li cation equality where the author builds a state late in which there are on rich I 1 oo no poor and no distinctions lo in bellamy li book this has been brought bout about 1 I by a gradual grai just and natural revolution slowly but surely disintegrating the old order of things when thage have become impossible the author Indi indicates nates that before the final plima it will come to this thie that laborers laborer learned MOD meo clergymen and even women gather to lo public squares and ory cry out to the masters of too bread to give them food in exclia exchange for their services do what you will with us ua but let us ns serve you that we coay eit and not die ap 0 Is the burden of their dally daily DS to the masters of the bread 01 when this om has hag been brought about the he overthrow of the state la is at hand and the dividing line between the be capital BIB and abe starving la obliterated lite rated the last lasi act in a buas bon fire on the site of now new york stock ex change and the ground Is ie wilton broken tor for the bellamy utopia mr dabs however proposes not to await ane time when everything la III rips ripe or the final harvest but ti force aroe the ulan to lo a bealls tion he intends capturing a state and transforming it into a 8 socialistic confident wat other states will follow the example as is soon eoon as its ito excellence has baa been demonstrated boere le is it seems to us at least one important point reformers of able cats caes generally miss a fact which alone accounts for the many failures fal luree on decori it la is this that whatever blue modera society may be guilty of in the direction of oppression and class distin distinction ution are not due to ft a social system but to the ab t ence tence to ia individuals of a strong pense benso of right and wrong no system can be iu vented invented that will provide adequate protection adalaid wrong as long as the voice of con science to la silenced oo on the other band the worst system to la of very little bonse quence as long as those subject to it are striving to do to others as they would be done by it follows that all reforms of this klud kind must comai commence nee with a moral awakening an individual regeneration or end to in tailors mr deballa social experiment Is evidently tu in be undertaken on a larger scale than ever before beaure attempted the claim bike baa bhea b ma a e that bat so ao tar far socialism has baa never been put to a practical test teal sufficiently elaborate t enable anybody w guage of its merits when the now new scheme has been put in operation this his will have been done and the ibe world will know whether human is likely to succeed in 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