Show TUB Till OP jj FOX I Chicago Chronicle Every cry nuth authoritative uI alive e statement that is iN made of or the condition and anal prospects of fir th the community com tom tom-l j at Zion City I t. t more despairing despair 1 h I ing ani and pitiful than lhnn the one h before roe I 1 It jh The last laRt is the statement of Re Its- Receiver I He-I cel celver r ly at a a. rc recent creditors creditors' nH meeting lIng lIng- He lie said that the thC inhabitants of or tho the town own were almost on nn the verge of oC starvation anti and that It Its properties if Ir sold at once would pay only onh 11 per percent pert cent of its debts So o it com comes to pass pas that nn an enterprise enter I prise from which thousands tho of simple people confidently expected large Jarge profits prof- prof I It Its material prosperity anI and immense religious results and which some seine of oC I hem hoped would usher in the millennium mil mil- and inherit the earth carth fades ae mil I away like the rife baseless fabric of a 0 vision ilon and leaves cs not a rack behind I Not ot one person In ht n a thousand who ht beheld Zion City in Its glory glor and now beholds it in its desolation ever thinks I of or the Ute historical am and economical h les- les eons ons which It teaches They never ne i I think even Cven If thc they know that thi this thin i j ithe i ithe the latest experiment exp with th the I of or communistic omm U n socialism and that Its complete collapse is one nun mIl e repetition of statures natures protests a against this Invincible foll folly Why h It is invincible In It would h be he hard to te tell ll For thousands o of years these experiments have been tried and afro th they y all nil come com to grief with the tho same regularity regu regu- regularity larH larity as o the efforts to discover th the philosophers philosopher's stone and Invent nt pei pcr 1111 motion but the difference is that socialism per persists down 11 to th the pr present nt do day while these other ha have hate vanished before hole th the If light ht of or advancing advancing ad ad- science A glimmer g of or explanation Is found in II the fact falt that in almost lt e I eer every Iry er erca ry ca a case these Utopian circa dreams ins tire are I. I founded on religion Robert 11 t Owen O 1 and one or ortt tt t so o more morp hove Iv nl in them without religious motives moll bur hut th they the wore were never PI ns Is suc sutie up e 5 Vu n Il as the the- nUl mutts much h larger larter numb number r of ir 1 lenders r d r rV V who 10 built hUIlt r their heir hopes on Oil supernatural sUj aid 1 arid and rill j 1 direction Indeed it cnn rih hardly L be questioned Hint religion reli religion loli tins ban a natural a-natural l tendency to communism m for tOi Christ t band bad not been ln crucified lu two dVo he he- r fore foPe f a n community fir of it good es- es r 11 h by his disciples In Jerusalem I and anal similar experiment have been bacon I tried by hy Christian on people popl al nl harlot brief in- in ever ere F since The rime INO reason on of or It scents to 10 be he that I time the votaries s of Ir It a religious sect especially espe I vial y If IC it h h be J Cr ut ll have o n a ape i peculiar pe 11 collar culiar affection for each ch other and J unbounded confidence Its In each other Tit The con consequence is that the chief obstacle obstacle ob ob- stacle to community life Ilfe which Is dl I Is removed l This aiM I IM the explanation of or the hI failures sutures for fir It I is when these votaries votaries' find that they are only human and anal begin to see sec each others other's faults I that hat they I their extraordinary extraordinary ex ex- confidence In each other and l the he bond hOIl of oC union heing being lo u. u the community or turns Into something fool else 15 There was never a a a. better heller tin tio not noC these than is iR furni furnished furnished furn furn- i hIl by hy Zion Oily City The 11 brotherhood of the place wa wax fanatically n united Confluence Confidence anti love vu were we're universal They had 1101 the h r advantage of tC of an autocracy racy In which f every Iy subject l believed Implicitly in the In Infallibility fa It of the autocrat Moreover l that autocrat was waft CP sed of unrivaled leadership shrewdness anal confidence In himself His nis powers powers' I of hf healing ht him enough h mon money y to enable him him to tn embark em bark hall In III large e enter enterprises ft tt ml l hIs bis business busi n ness s talent made them for awhile ex- ex t no successful ful All 11 went nt well 11 until th 1 inevitable discovery tr o was WI made fh that H pastor paM and people wt were rp merely h. h Then rhen the pastor 10 lost l confidence In ilis hili I people anti and the Ihl people lost confidence nc In ism their ir pastor Prom From that time disintegration was v rapid milicI because c unnatural conn- conn confidence Il di dence nc nce I Is the ha basis is of Ir community II life fl What do 10 the e teach trach In regard to state slat rn Manifestly communism oU ought ht to b be he more mor practicable tI on n fi small scale ale than a large e one onto Anyone cnn see loC at a n glance that Limo tiro ho larger pr th the community the more mote difficulty there mu must t be liP In directing all nIl it its activities R 11 by lay a n central authority and anal for Cor equal benefit to to If therefore a n few f hundred people enjoying the U benefit of brotherly b 10 love and mutual can con not live H on en such 1 n a plan what is ig tI the r prospect of or Ra wry say without an any ties tied s of or any kind living JI In fn common for fair rall all time to tr come The th thing Ing is M. M I of or cour course c. c ch chimerical 11 anti and there Is IN not t the slightest lint It wilt will over ever he be tried and anal yet tt strange l' l to say il time the ih th of socialism i is an popular fad nd Thousands Thou Thou- sands sand fHI of nf otherwise i e sensible n and nl re- re spec table spec tahle people in Chicago are i Inoculated with It II and anal their number i i j constantly on increasing in |