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Show toward the city of Gunnisou. It was intensely interesting to mark the great progress they had made in their work since my last visit tber6," went on Rabbi Fremiti. ''AdJ, as they express it, they have worked 25 hours a dav. It is easv for them alter the sweat shop aud similar plaoes of employ em-ploy ment in the slums of the great cities. It is siguiheant that wheu the first party arrived the members planted plan-ted the American flag in the ground. i "I shall never forget Gov. Spry's praise of Benjamin Brown, the leader of the colony, Brown is a quiet, hard working young man aud one in whom we have the utmost confidence. The praise from the chief executive of the atate was not misplaced in that case. Il lookB as though the colony were an augured success. And the way is pointed to many thousands of Jewish people out of the uufavorable conditions condi-tions of the slums to the healthy surroundings of the country." RABBI FREUND TELLS OF VISIT TO CLARION. (Continued from first page.) be radically opposed to the government. govern-ment. At the time of our present visit 10 Clarion of which 1 was speaking, speak-ing, there was another step in advance ad-vance for the aliens from another .shore, when Governor Spry of Utah came aud accorded them an official welcome :o. the state aud promised them the good will and aid of the commonwealth iu aBsisliug them iu their endeavors. SCHOOLS WANTED; "One thing we noticed was thehun- ger lor learning. Ihe request of a woman that a school be built so that herchildreu might receive an education educa-tion was typical of all these strangers. The school will undoubtedly be built b? September nest, and the State of Utah will assist, the governor assured ma ''Slowly and surely the colonists are learning the farming industry. The Jew iu olden times was originally original-ly a farmer. The Messiauic prediction predic-tion is couched in agricultural tetms. What turned the course of the Jew ish nation as a whole from the country coun-try to the city, was the persecu tion they endured. When it was impofcs-'-bhi for a Jew to hold laud ; wheu bis possesbions had to be in thg form of jewels such as diamonds wiiich he could carry with him when driven from city to city iu the middle ages ; when, as is the case iu R iis;a today, he canuot eveu lease land and is herded into a certain quarter of the city by the government; wheu be does not know when he will have to leave all his possessions at once, then there is no incentive to farming. He must have his property bo that he ok n carry it with hica at a moment's ao t.ipp. "Here, then, is a colony which is bringing the Jewish people at least to a small extent, back from the city to the country . Clarion is a comniu ty district. There 11 houses, one house to every 40 acres with the houses together like the hub of a wheel so that iu case of need the colonists col-onists may be right together to help each other. They are commencing work on the second 2,000 acres of land just now. They have done the hardest of the work bo far. the heaviest heavi-est of the laud work having been finished, fin-ished, and the colonists working up |