Another Utopla.

Manawatu Herald, 29 July 1899, Page 2

Another Utopla.

The " Wide World Magazine ''gives a description of the Socialist colony at Ruskin, Tennessee, United' States, America, not far from the place where Tom Hughes cf "Tom Brown's School Days" fame, failed to create the similar undertaking be named .New Rugby. The new Utopians made one failure, owing to choosing a bad site, but the second attempt has apparently proved successful during its three years' existence. About seventy families and a few bachelors are said to live in comfort under a system of equal pay to professor and ploughman, in a village centred round the offices of the "Coming Nation," a weekly paper wfth a circulation of 50,000 copies promulgating their views. They seemed to have solved some problems. They prohibit both churches and drinking saloons, and carry on forty different trades. The only currency is in the shape of notes, representing one hour's labour. The price list at the community store is probably unique. Jt tuns :~^Qae pxui&d*aL tea, 1 1 hours ; one pound of coffee, 7 hours ; one cut; of tobacco, 2 hours ; one pair of best shoes, 70 hours ; one pair of pants, 37 hours; one straw hat, 15 hours; one gallon coal oil, 6£ hours, and so on. Last there should be a rush to Paradise, it is better to state that to enter the community one must purchase a share, costing £100 in cash, and not purchaseable by "labour notes."