SOCIALISM IN PRACTICE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1777, 16 August 1888, Page 4

SOCIALISM IN PRACTICE.

Governor Canedo of Sinaloa, in a recent visit to the Socialistic colonists near Topolobampo Bay, found the few remaining settlers industrious and well-behaved people, who are persevering in their attempt to found permanent settlements. Everything is held in common among these pioneers. The members of the little colony at La Logia, on the left bank of the Fuerte river, work hard, but do not raise enough for their consumption. They lodge in ragged tents which are insufficient to protect them against the ardent heat of the sun in the summer season, and were it not for receiving regular supplies of provisions from California the colony could not exist. The colonists are wretchedly clothed, and their domestic surroundings, furniture, utensils, &c, are of the scantiest. Notwithstanding these hardships the colonists expect soon to publish a newspaper in Spapish and English, and hope to receive new access'ons to their ranks, as well as some labor-saving machines to aid them in tilling the soil. At Topolobampo Bay there remains but 14 colonists, of whom one-half devote themselves to fishing at the island of Santa Maria. The bay, the Governor reports, is of good size, and as there is plenty of water at the bar it offers shelter at all times for large or small vessels. J here are other colonies coasisting of a few persons, and in view of their precarious condition the Governor made them small gifts of money, assuring them of continued aid and protection. The local authorities told the Governor that they had not the slightest cause of complaint regarding the conduct of these singular people, who still have great faith in Mr Owen, their leader, acd the projector of the scheme of a great self - sustaining communistic colony at Topolobampo. —New York Times, May 1888.