These checks can be exchanged at the general store for goods, the prices
of articles not being reckoned at so many cents but at so many hours of
labor.
The Ruskin people seem to be hopeful that they have solved the problem
of living.
A similar experiment is to be tried under the management of Eugene Debs.
He is the man who led the strikers in Chicago, got into trouble with the
authorities, and was finally sent to prison.
Debs proposes to start a co-operative town in the West, taking one
hundred thousand men and women along with him to settle it.
He is going to build factories and start all kinds of industries, which
are to belong to all the people in common, the profits and the losses to
be shared by all the citizens alike.
Peace and prosperity are promised to all who will enter this ideal town.
It will be interesting to watch the experiment and see just what results
can be achieved.
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Foreign governments are beginning to be heard from on the subject of the
annexation of Hawaii.
A member of the English House of Commons has asked the Government
whether it intends to allow this very important coaling-station to pass
out of its reach without protest.
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