St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 18

18 SUNDAY MORNING ST, LOUIS POST-DISPATCH-SEPTEMBER 5, 1897. GENTLEST OE ST. LOUIS COMMUNISTS PREDICTS MONARCHY. Hopes to Before For Thirty Years He Has Been Studying and Experimenting in Establish Communities the Smash-Up and Sociology and Here Are His Results, Gather 100 Families Under One RooL ,1. -it.

0m mm mmm wm i i a mm 7 1 21:1 Lit glS iiplf 5SAli tOJ 1 1 i 1 1 in im oaw goaotito flea 1'In short, communism Is th finality of republicanism. This country will com to THIS 15 A LONGLEY REFORM. He Vooli Have Newspaper Printed Thi Vay. Can You Read IC. it.

It must com to It." Editor Longley says hia father In 1SI3 became a member of the Furier phalanx, which bought a large tract of land near Cincinnati and started a community. All the Ijong'ley family became members. In they heard of the North American phalanx. In which Greeley and Brisbane were Interested, and Jiined that. In 1S55 Its mills burned down, it suffered unexpected losses, and finally dissolved.

Editor Longley says he is the last living' member. I Then he went Into business with his brothers, publishing phonetic works and papers, which to this day are a source of interest and amusement to him. Next he heard of the Rochdale co-oper "Thj capitalistic system is killing By monopolies and trusts and combinations, wealth is destroying the worker. "The capitalist does not make his own money. -bar makes it.

In proportion as destroys labor, he injures himself. "The big capitalist is already swallowing up the little one. There will be trusts in every department of human activity that employs wealth. Then there will be trusts of trusts. THIS is nni the lanniasc of an anarchist.

It was said by as gentle, as kindly anj as thoughtful an old man as the i I Tin- wor jto I are thoe of Alcander of the Altruist, who has lven W.s IciiR life to the consideration of i art I t'l question. Mr. LonsVy lives and ivks in one quiet Utile in the rear of No. "Sl olive ative plan and wheeled into that. Huring the war he helped establish a farm of l.WU acres in Michigan.

Then the Communists began to interest him. He joined that and has ever since adhered to it. In 1S67 he became a member of the Iscarian community, in Adams County, Iowa. It had 100 members. 2.0X1 ITU TU IUV 3(r bar bio meni bVhei n.ni rurel langwaj, bat tnoat or Ctm bar bin tti raakaotilaggwaj hwiq cvtribodi wud bar t'i lurn, and to di kud not get meat tu larn it.

Sam bar elto trjii tu bar aa cti alfabet adopted for reprtieulin de nndi OTdareo iangwaj, but fa, 'wad lurn Aat cder. It ttmi dat we mait nek ct de hwiij elredl gziet, and elso ct de alfabrte hw13 elredi qid, as fqr aa da qr tttubl, atei OHliad log nq, ward and no, leteri ai ma tided tu komplet dc laggwaj and dc pranutw Jiaon cr wards. Eon if we wud-first adopt a fonetik bet fer (9 prinsipl lapgwaj ct de wurld, ug a da Freog. Jorroao, SpaaiJ, atd denklaiifiel.de warda langwnj bwi) men dc earn tin, and bT a komparatiT redcr and dat wnd Ipklqd el oTdemtugea- er, and den bar artribodl lorn el dea Un gwdjei, ere wud da bar alaggwej or Upgwa. jes bwiq wud be nerli eout tnivurial, an 4 jenerali enaf uoderitud.

parson kud den jdu hwiever wurd he' Ijkt best from ent ot de lecgnajee tu tkspree hi meoig and ererlbodi wud anderttaod bim, bwigever wurd be Unreins meni wnrd in evtri langwaj bwiij men de cam tig, and it wud onli be a mor wnrdx ct cq klai pr eneoig dat wud oed tu be iurod. But pcpl wud gradtali get tu de sam klai cr wards, ea dat f'nall pept wud get tu eptkiQ abTt de earn wa. 31 wll prcbabli be da for aide dtferent oajooe Ct de world get aur laikit up wid trTliQ bj balaa mod kjeikla, da wll bar tu lorn eg oder's lag-gwaj in order tu be ondentud. will end in monarchy. Then the people will rise up in their wrath and crush it.

"Every labor-saving machine, every new invention designed to discharge men from employment, every strike is a spoke in the wheel of dissolution. "There will be a big smash-up one of these days. Maybe a revolution. I want communism to get started in time to make the solution of our problems in a peaceful way "Take this rise in wheat, for instance. For a little while it may do Rood.

As the price of that cereal Roes up. nil provisions will go up. and more money he temporarily in circulation. "P-iu it will not last. They will stock their mills ai start their factories, hut unit ss there are consumers, tfie next cry will he overproduction.

And the reason they cannot sell is because the people have nothing to buy ith. They arc killing- the consumer. He has r.o work and without it, no money." The old editor wore a ver.v complacent look a.s lie continued: "Communism is a movement without re-par to class or creed. It is just as much for the rich as for the poor. It does not array labor against capital, but on the contrary establishes a common level.

"Primitive Christianity was pure communism. Christ preached the communal idea. They fiad all things in common. Is the lan-Kiiase of the Scriptures. It failed because the leader of rtie movement was crucified before the people could be made to understand it.

Ail the religions of the world have no better principal than the golden rule. "Love thy neighbor as You cannot love me as you do yourself when you oppress me and keep ail you get, refusing to recognize my necessities. "I'nthlnkliKf men sometimes ask me: Do you think it a just principle that permits one man to work twice as hard as another and then divide his earnings? Hut, ah. what are you working for? Do you ask that question of your own family? Do you acres of land, many mills, cattle and sheep. It went to pieces on the rock of woman's suffrage.

Editor Longley came to St. Louis In and for thirty jears has published the Altruist, with an occasional book on Communism. He has started two different communities, one at Glen Allen, near Marble Hill, and the other at Higglnsvilie. failed," says tho editor, with a smile," because we started In debt. "I am a practical pr'nter and have three times held cases on the G-lobe-Democrat, so I fall back on my trade.

My present undertaking is to establish a community of 100 that will first engage In business in small ways and then enlarge to a farm. Every one of the 100 will be fed, clothed, housed and cared for upon equal terms. In essential matters the unanimous vote will be necessary to decide, but ordinarily the majority Hi) was horn to the priniinpr 1 to eoRimun'sni. He has three oases of type, A small press, a bod, an imposing stone and a Unary. With these he dwells at i c.

w.prkiru; with the world and yet obsirvis it from above its turmoils, ite K'dCishness and its passion. El tor LoncJey has eye. an head and face, a sensitive, poetic 1mper.uiion the single Ideal that eventually there will lie the human brother-h'Ol which i "are ib-slimc 1. "The world is betting better ami worse." he s.iy.. in his ceniiest way.

"That which -in, worse is i ly competition its own d- st ru ion. The ipitalis! ic class is blind. These millionaires are asleer, to their own hit' rests. They are killing the goose. 1::, -rally, that lays the golden exrs.

"Ity cutties down wages and introducing machinery, thee are destroying t-eir own customers. They are like the old Dutchman and his inn! when they Ret l.iior to its one straw a djv it will -tiisii die." rules. ALCANDER LONGLEY ALTRUIST. "Mr. LonQfey fives and worRs in one quiet fittfe room in the rear of No.

281? Ofive street. He was born to the printing business anj to communism, tie has three cases of tune, a smaff press, a bed, an imposing one and a fibraru. With these he dwells at peace, working with the worfd and uet observing it from above its turmoifs, its selfishness and its passion." individual standard of labor? Sometimes gained by stress of unnatural circtim- heretofore undertaken is their restriction by "I thought favorably of IVbslsm until I investigated it. Why, sir, Debs is a tyro. He dots not know anything of Communism.

He is preaching politics and co-operation. The latter is like an old-fashioned sewing machine there have been so many Improvements. As for Independent parties, I say let them alone, for communism is essentially a business movement. Say there are two great political parties the Democratic and Republican. Each has so many votes.

You start up an party, and you must get your votes from the two that are established. I tell my people to go into the dominant educate them, stay wita them, control them. It is economy." The distinguished old editor talked 3nnt and learnedly on his favorite theme, then he carried a lamp to the back porcl to light the reporter on his way. "Come and see me again," he sai cheer, iiy. "I recelva- cullers Wednesday and evenings.

We have Interesting talks ot times." pun the husband, sometimes the wife does the- stances. We are born into the family re- religious and ascetic rules. In Columbus, more work. The compensation is greater lation. There we should remain, the larger a community has! been started, but the love.

field being that of the community. Mutual member is required tt acknowledge Christ "Humanity was designed to be a brother- helpfulness is ali that is asked, but it im- as his Iord and leader. That is a matter hood. Men are not selfish because of total i-lies a great sacrifice. wholly for tha Individual, not for the com- but because cf false ideas of liv- "The trouble with nearly all communities munity.

a moment and leaned Ids chair 1 d. while the coal oli lumn ercl rule. expert your wife and children to equal your DO YOU LIKE N0VEL6? THESE ARE FOR POUR ST. LOUISANS. on him the granitoid face and ho was no longer the lithe.

Joyous youth of yore. gem. Here are sentiment and chivalry with a vengeance: should prove unequal to her demand she would bestow upon him ever afterwards the frozen Klondike face. to this, and see If he doesn't sigh for more. LIFE AS SHE 13 LIVED; OR THE VICISSITUDES OF LOVE.

When I have time I nearly always pick up some good detective story. Ex-Gov. William J. Stone. li re j.t,:-t the thing for cx-tlnv.

11. When once he fixes his eye upon thl. narrative he will find it it before he reaches syiinble, and he will read no other author i on I ter. L-U)' COXSTANTIXA'S DIAMONDS; OR -WHAT DID ADOLPHUS DOCGIIGET? CIIAPTr.K I. Ai long ns he drank lie ax richer tlmn Gould, Ittit wL-'ii he jcot holier lie fuuud he nut fouled.

JAMES JAMS. Iady Constanlina Blooblud came from an old line. Some say it was the Scullin line; CHATTER IV. If body dump a body 111 tile ctter'n Held. Need a body tell a body? Need it be CHRIS MIIAWACKeR.

The next evening they held another seance beneath tho old trees on the ancestral estate of her poor but honest parents. "Adolphus," she gurgled, "dost love me?" CHATTER I. Geraldlne Fitzgimlef resided on O'Fallon street. Her father kept a grocery store with a Jerkwater saloon attachment, and sold canned fruit, canned beer and things. Geraldine was the pride of the household.

Naught cared she for such material com Ho visited the room and gazed on the inanimate form. Nuar the heart he found cigarett crumbs. By the window was an empty cigarette box. That was enough. CHAITKI: IV.

She cazt-il on a ilmle And saw mnrniured: "Alai, If tills la a num. I guest 1 will pass." ALAS p. YOUICK. Sheerluck Home waj In a brown study. Also in the rear of a saloon.

"N'ow," he to himself, "this man Harold Joblots i a cigarette fiend. As he crept through the window this box fell from his pocket. As he reached for his kerchief to wipe the blood from his hands tho crumbs fell from it and were mingled with the He i3 the murderer. He shall be my meat." So he ordered another quart of beer and threw it out of the window. Some OF A NX IK Tin: stoiiv WKISSJUKU.

"Don't do that!" shrieked. Mickey. "You'll bust my suspenders!" The tender, trusting heart of the maiden was shocked by these harsh words, and when they reached the landing she commenced to weep. "Aw, wot's eatin' ye?" snorted Mickey. "Hoi to de railin' nex' time.

See?" Still the girl wept and refused to be comforted. CHATTER V. For one long year the rude langungrt of her lover gnawed at the tender heart of Geraldlne Fitzgimlet. But she said no words. In her simple, trustful way she believed that time and love would conquer her lover's harsh spirit.

It was a ten-to-one shot. Ono evening, after copious draughts of beer, Mickey was feeling pensive. "Say, Kid," he said, "wot Cell's de matter? Youse been lookin' down in de mout' fer a year." "Oh. Mickey." moaned the fiir youn? modities as those, her father handled at ten off ir cash. Not she.

Her girlish heart yearned for love, pure Jove, and lots of it. CHATTER II. All dT ru. on the tti-mrt of tariff anil tlnatie. Willi am-li eiertiou that It mtma il sun iy u-ar Ida pnt a ARE KM rsfvT.

With a queenly sweep of her fairy lunch, hook, Marianna Marblehearte aununoned J. Montmorency into her presence. "Montie," the said, "you have ask'-d for mch answer. Go! In pU of your wealth beyond J.he Imaginings t.f paresis, I do not lovo you. He turn to meh with of y-Mir greatness, and I will be yours, bicycle tult and everything." HATTER III.

Tha merry autumn no 1" hrl r. ti lark ate! Ih t.rt Firetieil farewell, free liu.ca aoa tr no lunSer to J(Arlf. J. Montmorency CoMplunk as Uar.ir., over a table at the Garden, while the rich Juices of a Manhattan co were percolating through the innermost of his internal economy. Marianna'" he moaned, while Ih giant trees waved thr.r like a sea of grn baize in a rtili.tlc ni.wTKi: 1.

II" oil t.uo if th. (. li'U hini I l't-r In- I. FIl.lllY. "Is life north living? That depenls on the liver." others tho Lindell.

P. Jt this is no place for argument. It may have been a pipe line. Her blood was of a deep cerulean tint; her social ambition, unbounded; her financial resources, limited. In fact, the whole Blooblud family was hard up.

In spite cf this drawback. Lord Adolphus Doughget took a fancy to the blooming Having Taf.l.-d off ihin brilliant mot like 1..,. "Sure thing," said he. "Woullst prove thy devotion?" "Well, I guess yes!" "At any cost?" "Any old price. State your terms." "Adolphus," she murmured, planting a ivethersolcful kiss upon his labial Hue, "I must have a million dollars' worth of diamonds before the full festivities begin.

Wilt get them'r" "I wilt." he said. And he wilted. CHATTER V. There was notlilr.g loved Lite siiontlnt; tin- clones, T.ut his ruin it prov, d. For be GieU lo hi b.

HARRY CLOVER. Lady Constantina, and he loved her in ght have thought him crazy. But he was not. Only foolish. madly loved.

I-rom washing dishes thoughts turned to green grass, shaded walks and Icecream sody. CHAPTER n. In the same vicinity resided Mickey Doolan, the pride of Diddle street. Mickey was a thoroughbred. He was the scrapper that ever strolled down Cass avenyuh.

He could drink more bet-r In a given time than any youth of his age, weight and experience in Norf St. Loos. His prowess with the can was known to all the ladies, and great was their joy whenever he deigned to; smile upon them. Whenever he sojourned at the Workhouse they made of his bed a bower of roses. I girl, burying her nose In his watchpock-1, "don't you remember that night at the chutes, when you scolded me?" "Dat?" said Mickey.

"Dat? Why. I was joft a-kiddin'. Wot fell?" And so they were married. CHATTER V. Th eventn? for her butt) of i)pw imrtliilly nnriri-iwt) The a bobtail flush is m-ttiiis iu the West.

J. HETCMER GLNN. week later Sheerluck Homes stood CIIAPTEIt II. In the il.iy of old, wnen knlubts were luM A tut liHrons held heir snay. The waiter Klrls with ifoidea curls Made forty cents a day.

ED PF.VOY. They sat together la the gloaming. The moon shone softly. They both sighed, side by side. A alone, telescope in hand, gazing at the top Plainly.

Adolphus was up against it. He iiu.ini iJi.to ivr a I'ieiiu, jiaroi-i listntd liack in Ins chair to take a f. himself. Nt often was he fo rash, but this was a particular occasion. What he Annie did net love hini.

She had and spurned him. Iin anc. su it! j.nde had b-i-n wounded. would be revenge d-ehl You bet he Would. II TT1 1).

Ob. iup ui K.itr K) Ao.i l.y iI.h- tvinnlii bid. by thu iau WACNF.R. Nt niominfc' b. rxutiful Annie Weissbier Was found ad In her budwar.

A cruel pi, rcr.t her heart mi lei the lioed out on the countermine ihn. of Pike's Teak. I had no more diamonds thn a jayblrl. How could he procure them? What? Yes oh, terrible thought! He discerned a black speck enveloped In a tiny cloud of smoke, 'TIs he! I win. first dash!" A short time later Sheerluck Homes He took passage on the next steamer for "Darling," he murmured, touching her gently and he was great at making a touch "darling, you re dearer to me than all the world more to me than all the gold of the Klondike dearer than wheat at a dollar a bushel or a watch in a pawnshop-dearer than everybody, everything, any old New Y'ork.

He mads a systematic tour of the country, picking up diamonds wherever he could. Finally he had corralled a cool sto.vl on the top of the peak, face to face with a young man. He was smoking aj cigarette and eating snowball. "Your name Is Harold Joblots," said the! thing! Canst doubt ich love as this?" "I canst not," she gurgled softly. It was hardly late enough to rush the can, great sleuth, impressively.

"It Is," was the reply. "You are wanted for the murder of Annie Weisshier." "I know it." Then why do you sit here in this careless attitude?" million dollars' worth of them and shipped them C. O. D. "Dear boy!" murmured the stately Lady Constantina, as she flashed her cerulean orbs onto the mass of glittering gems.

But lrd Adolphus Doushget tarried in the land beyant the Western seas. He still has seventeen ears to serve at Jollet. An 1 still she wonders why he does not write. ra a. Suddenly he rc-t.

he exclaimed. I ke tb hth-browc v'-'u'n a company, "I have It! I will dlscovir the eafel route ta the Klun. d.ke!" CHATTER IT-Ttierf'a noiUrf -n fts 1Li! B'en rca ra ft A' ami IM-allf A. 61c. a A MAVN.

Feven months later, mora the of a ma Men br fif.t bicycle suit. nd at the wtnc luttuct Montmorency Celli-lunk a car Sixth and Market and uht th. bom gave her the rfa sJ Wl result of h- i-rch. "Wre! vr I meh' You do -t run know the name It tlkr! OX mrrcif 4 heviOKS. that It huM eVr this! Go- 'fviin meh!" Thn bluff wt-tit.

and did Mor.t-mor.ncy. Ten hours ialrr 3. Ms.nttn irency lay the f.oor of hi rom, sttepti 10 tha jt. brows In ni.ii- ht moantl. liturT Xud it well iig the amount or the next wek-s bil'.

Tin' i.tit members of the family fried ilou 1 jn their Kritf. vainly culling for gen-X! Atin.e to return. Hut th beau ul, lifeless being that had en coull say no a ord. Sh. i.nt.l I like a good humorous novel something light to relieve my mind after a hard day's work.

CoL George S. McGrew. Col. McGrew Is rlsht. There Is nothing that will relieve the mind like something light.

It may be a light roll or an electric light. Anyway, if the Colonel will kindly cast his optical organs over the following novelistlc gem, we feel sure that he will be relieved of large quantities of ennui. MAD MONT NCY; OR W1IY WAS HE liOUX FOOLISH? CHATTER I. ferret ef now arr nkioimlo' UK- of th Ukr tn-n und w-m-n. All of different bru(5 nd iuak-.

JIM EST. J. Montmorency Coldplunk wa down In the mouth. In spite of hia papa's many millions. wi not hitppy.

He was la lve. datUnna Marblchcarlc kad conferred Ui- CHATTER III. 1 The romantic circumstances under which they first met stlil rerrialn as one of the daintiest legends of O'Fnllon street. One day Mickey very dry. strolled into the saloon lth a nickel anl a can.

Nobody was presdnt and he rapped on the bar. 4 Tresently a face appeared. It was that of the lovely Geraldlne Kdtzgimlet. Mickey's heart w-a-s captured. "Ah, there, my peacharlna!" he exclaimed, doffing his sky-piece.

"My name is not Peacharlna," protested the' maiden. "It Is Geraldine, and I am not yours." "But you will bp," swore Mickey; and from that day forth they were lovers. CHATTER IV. One night liey were out shooting the chutes. Mickey had Just bei shooting craps and was flunh.

As they glo.le down the g.dly in-lin for the forty-seventh time, pretty Geraldine became faint and duns to Mickty' form. Well, you eee. It's Just like this. My father always advised me to keep cool." CHATTER III. F.nM the bicycle slrl A she fell from her liike: "IU- cot la the whirl la a I ilud't like." TIG JONES.

When Lady Constantina retired to her couch that night she had a think coming. fho battled with herself In the darkness. She was vain, and in every vein she a vain longing. Tho Bloobluds were brok-'. They could not get credit fr A box of blacking, much less for diamonds and other gewgaws with which she yearned to decor.

tte her ccn'ely person. Something must bo did. She would put Lord AJo'phus Doughjet to the test. If I.e. fllAPTI lt II! Hi- In i J.l-1'.:--, lion fldl'I'I liuilAN.

Iu a rair ef iniir.ttcs the excited filler iHploy, 1 tshcerluek llotiies. the g- -ati-) umitnir det.cilve that ever peeped il.t laiiit-i. to take chars of the cafe. A love story, one with a dash of romance in it, suits me best. William Desmond, CHcf of Detectives.

Chief Desmond has und ubtedly ttruck a popular chord. Bit this Is not to be wondered at. sin-e Pie handsome bachelor thief-taker Is biildin? a cottag jn North St. L. him slue his taze My favorite is the old style novel, full of sentiment and chivalry.

John A. Lee. When Mr. Lee reads the following delightful narrative, he will at once Inquire at the otllce for the author and order a doeen more Just like It for home o'numLtlon. It is a -H-calil-er 1.