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Nebraska Populists are proud today.
Goveisnok Holcomb, the People's ex
ecutive. God bless him.
The lifting of one plank of a political
platform up higher, is to submerge the
rest.
Even now the men who fix up politics
in Lincoln are working hard on the ques
tion of the next Republieaiiiiominee for
mayor. They want a man who will stand
by the fixers, taking care of the street
railway, the electric light company, the
saloons, and yet a man who is supposed
co stand well enough in society to get
the votes of respectable people. This
seems like a hard problem, but it Isn't.
The first meeting of the co-operators
living in Liucolu was held in the Univer
salist church parlors, corner 18th and II
streets, Monday evening last, and wn
an iutensely interesting meeting. We
were so fortuuate as to have with us
Prof. Daniels of Virginia, who from per
sonal knowledge after having visited
them could tell us all about many com.
miinistic aud socialistic communities
in America and Europe. The proposed
articles of incorporation published in
M miiH of The Wealth Makers, were
also read and disoussed. A good com
pany were present, and a crowd may be
looked for at our next meeting, which
will be held on Wednesday evening o'
next week. Two ladies were present
Monday. Bring your wives and lady
iriends, all of you. Meeting will begin at
7:30 p. m. All are welcome.
Theee was a time when it was consid
ered the proper 'thing for the man with
the strongest arm and the hardest fist
to go forth aud possess the lands and
the cattle of the. aian of lesx fyfoysieai1
strength. But nowerojijxJ-kis
lor tun man with tue strongest mind and
the hardest heart to go forth in business
and possess himself of the property of
the man of less mental strength. What
is the difference? The state forbids the
former method of robbing, but protects
the latter method of reaching the same
result. The mun who has a million dol
lars or a million acres has secured his
large possession by means of his superior
strength not physical but intellectual.
If it be right for the state to protect the
people from the encroachments of the
unscrupulous man who is physically
strong, it is also right that there be pro
tection from the man whoso intellectual
keenness and unscrupulous selfishness
make him dangerous to the community.
THE NATIONAL CON TERENCE'
In response to the call of Chairman
Tanbeneck over two hundred lenders ol
the People's party met at St Louis Fri
day morning last to confer with the na
tional executive committee regarding the
Interests of the imrtv aud the best meth
ods to adopt to conduct the educatioua1
campaign before us. The wording of the
call and the unofficial expression of Mr.
Taubeiieek and other leaders had creat
ed a widespread fear that there would
be an effort made at this meeting to
practically shelve the Omaha platform,
or the essential parts of it, i. e., the de
mand for government banks and money
at cost, government railroads and trans
portation at cost, and the overthrow of
land monopoly; and that free silver and
treasury notes (merely paid out) would
be, by advice of the committee, foisted
upon us as the money question (!) and the
dominant issue. The rank and file of
the party would not have accepted such
advice or recommendation, neither did
they wish it given; because it would
split us wide open as a party aud bring
us into well-merited contempt. That our
fears of what was premeditated by a
part of the executive members of the Na
tional Committee aud their trusted ad
visers were well grounded, was shown at
the Conference from the start. Mr. Tau-
beneck, Mr. Turner, Mr. Rankin and Gen
Weaver who was the real head of the
sffort to practically embalm and entomb
bur demands which are of vital import
ancediscovered at the first session that
at least nine-tenths of the Populists
present were determined to hold solidly
to the Omaha platform, every plank of
it, and could not be induced to stand by
and see it tampered with, or slighted, or
made insignificant as a whole by laying
all emphasis on the merest splinter of
one single section of it. It was for the
most part, no doubt, an honest differ
ence of opinion, of judgment,' which lay
between the controlling portion of the
committee (chosen by us to serve on the
whole platform) and the Populists who
gave them their official positions. But
after inviting us there to confer with and
advise them, it required a struggle and
a lot of plain talk before the committee
would give the Conference any real voice
in the proposed address to the party.
They did not want our advice after get
ting us there, after they found out what
that advice would be, notwithstanding
the fact that we had come from the east
and from the west, from the north and
from the south, and that it could not be
doubted that we, as members of the Con
ference, were, in our opinions, truly rep
resentative of the party. We propose
to keep good-natured about it, but we
undoubtedly have some men in our
party who are fully persuaded in their
own minds that they have more wisdom
than all the rest, and that they should
have their way in spite of the majority.
Finally the executive committee held
a private" consultation and gracefully
yielded to a certuin degree, allowing the
Conference to choose its own chairman,
and General Weaver, who, by request of
Mr. Taubeiieek, occupied the chair while
the national committee consulted, was
elected without opposition permanent
chairman. The afternoon and eveuing
sessions of Friday were largely taken up
hearing what a spokesman from each
state had to say of and for the party of
his state. Almost every speaker (four or
five being the limit of those who were af
flicted with but one idea) came out with
emphasis in favor of making the fight
for tho whole platform. ''No monkeying
with the Omaha platform" "No cutting
us down to free silver" "No leaving out
of the demand to reduce interest to two per
cent, or to labor cost of loaning" "Laud,
money and transportation" these were
the almost universal expressions. Mr.
Rankin, Mr. Turner aud Mr. Gaither
were about the only outspoken ones who
believed in the Omaha platform, but
but we must have freesilver and some
greenbacks printed right off, immediate
ly, and the only way to get them, in their
judgment, was to keepsilent on our other
questions which are an offense to Repub
licans and Democrats, and by keeping
quiet on the question of government
railroads and telegraphs, government
banks and opposition to land monopoly,
we may allure them onto no, not onto
the Omaha platform, but into the Peo
ple's party, as it were.
These ideas were most eloquently com"
batted, Hon. E. Gerry Brown of Brockton,
Mass., Henry D. Lloyd, the great publicist,
of Chicago, George C. Ward of Kansas
City, and others, making exceedingly
strong, effective speeches in support of
the whole platform. Even the Populists
present from the mining states urged the
necessity of standing squarely by all the
Omaha demands, lest the Populists of
such states have nothing to distinguish
them from the old parties tbere -i;J no-
great reforms to attract voters to the I
sw party;ruoget,her"i't was a resist
lesslystrong accumulation of reuson and
hard sense, completely demolishing the
argument of political expediency upon
which the single idea men based their
beliefs; and General Weaver was in
structed to appoint a committee of five
Conference men to assist the National
Committee to draw up an address to the
party and the friends of reform. Geueral
Weaver, to his credit be it said, was per
fectly fair in naming the sub-committee
and making IJenry D. Lloyd chairman
of it. The two committees met in joint
session Friday evening, and it took that
evening and all day Saturday to') bring
together the two bodies; and eveu then
si was not an uduiess wnuiiy a.ii,.. i,.
lory to either element. However, it is
in i nc interest of harm my, ami great
rood will result from the Conference.
There is an infusion of new blood and
bruin into the party which is most in
spiring. Mr. Lloyd, Dr. Tuylor, Attor
ney Harrow and George W. Howard
(vice president of the A. R. U. and
under sentence with Debs) of Chicago,
Judge John S. Crosby of Kansas City
and Judge Liucoln of Red alia, Mo. (a
second com in of Abraham Lincoln) and
Mr. Brown, of Massachusetts, were new
faces in a national meeting of the Popu
lists, and they were all strong, brainy
men. Judge Lyman Trumbull of Chi
cago also sent nimseii in tne snape oi a
series of resolutions of great force, which
we shall publish. Judge Crosby has come
to us from the Republican party, having
climbed at last on our financial plauk
and so to the entire Omaha platform, he
said. He made two speeches before the
Conference of rare eloquence and power.
Judge Lincoln came from the Democratic
party, also in the last year. His speech
was devoted to urging that we must es
tablish Populist daily papers in the large
cities.
There was a very strong element in the
Conference who urged the importance of
the Initiative and Referendum, and
about an hour was devoted to discuss
ing it. Mr. Coxey was twice called on to
present his good roads plan to give em
ployment to the unemployed, and did so
in a plain, clear, concise manner. There
were a very considerable number in the
Conference who warmly advocated his
plan, as provided for by bills before Con
gress. The definiteness of his scheme
and its superiority over our present usur
ious means of getting money into circu
lation and the blocks from before the
wheels of commerce, made friends for it.
But if we had a government banking sys"
tern established, euch as The Wealth
Makers advocates, it would supply all
with work and the Coxey plan would be
unnecessary and undesirable because of
its being too local und inequitable in its
workings.
The address.as finally presented by the
committee, endorsed by the Conference
and sent out to the people, reads as fol
lows:
"The national committee of the Peo
ple's party sends greeting to its constit
uency throughout tne united btates.
The rapid increase of our vote in every
part of the union and the startling
events of the past two years vividly jus
tify both the existence and necessity for
the People's party. The contention of
the party that one of the great needs of
this country has been and is an enlarged
volume of circulating medium, is now
practically conceded by all parties and by
the government. Xlie gold power and
banking interests are insisting to the
president and his secretary that the en
Iarged issue of our money supply shall be
given exclusively into the hands of thb
banks; that silver shall be excluded, nil
treasury notes retired, and that gold
alone shall be legal teuder, thus making
the monetary question an issue which
must be met at once.
"Within the present year the corpora
tions, grown arroirnnt because of the
vast possessions of wealth and the exer
cise of unconstitutional power, have,
made war upon the people and induced
the federal courts to exercise in their in
terest unusual and arbitrary powers, in
duced the invasion of the states by fed
eral troops without the requests of eith
er the executive of said states or the leg
latures thereof, and are at this time,
through a recreant administration aud
a truculent Congress, attempting to
clothe railroad corporations, by means
of a pooling bill, with power to further
and more systematically rob, oppress
and plunder the people; and having al
ready deprived the people of access to
the silver mines of the country as un in
dependent source of money supply, are
now, in the interest of a banking oligar
chy, endeavoring to deprive them of the
right to have their government, in the
exercise of its constitutional power, issue
the money of the nation and control its
volume. In the opinion of your com
mittee, these events are startling, sub
versive of tho liberties of the citizens and
destructive of business and social securi
ty; and, adhering to the Omaha plat
form in all its integrity, your committee
insists upon the restoration of thecoiu
age of gold and silver as it existed prior
to 1873 at the ratio of 16 to 1 with
out regard to the action of any other na
tion; and that all paper money shall be
issued by the general government with
out the intervention of banks of issue,
the same to be full legal tender. We also
declare our implacable hostility to the
further issue of interest-bearing bonds. -
"We denounce the pooling bill as a
move towards completing the monopoly
of transportation, and demand that in
stead Congress proceed to bring the rail
roads under government ownership. The
power given Congress by the constitu
tion 'to provide for the calling forth of
the militia to execute the laws of tho
union, to suppress insurrections, to repel
invasions,' does not warrant the govern
ment in makinguseof the standing army
in aiding monopolies in the oppression
of tho public and their employes. When
freemen unsheath the sword it should be
to strike for liberty, not for despotism,
nor to uphold privileged monopolies in
the oppression of the poor."
"We ask the people to forget all past
political differences and unite with us in
tho common purpose to rescue the gov
ernment from the control of monopolists
&u& concentrated wealth; to limit the
P.w?:r.s.of perpetuation- by curtailing
their privileges anu to secure tne rignts
of free speech, a free press aud trial by
jury all rules, regulations and judicial
dicta in derogation ol either ol which
are arbitrary, unconstitutional and not
to be tolerated by a free people.
"We recommend the immediate organ
ization of an educational campuign by
the national, state and local committees."
In addition to this the national com
mittee adopted the following resolution:
"In view of the fact that the state of
Alabama and other southern states are
without a republican government be
cause of the rules of a political oligarchy
which is perpetuated by monstrous
frauds at the ballot box, the imperative
.. o.i.) tn u iie- iiiu.iH and an lionet
oiint isaconntitutionul riKht,and wede
nand that it be given, and move that th
liairman of the national executive com
in it tee appoint a committee of three ti
submit evidence to the press of the coun
try unci to v-oiigrc to sui)tnntint tni
alarming und revolutionary rcmdilioii,
that they may be awakened to the:
threatening of jienl ruused iiy tins exit
ing aristocratic anarchy in tne south,
The following resolutions drew out
some warm, vigorous speeches in theit
support and were almost unanimously
carried;
"Whereas, Eugene V. Debs, George
W. Howard, L. . Rogers and their as
sociate officers of theAmericati Railway
Union have been deprived of their lib
erty and condemned to jail: and,
"Whereas, This sentence was pro-
nouueed by a judge whose affiliations
prove that he is the willing tool of cor
porate wealth; aud,
Whereas, This sentence stands in di
rect violation of the most sacred tradi
tions of American citizenship, of the right
of free speech, trial by jury and free com
bination of men lor purposes ot mutual
protection and support;
"Resolved, That we, the National Con
ference of the People's party at St. Louis,
Mo., acting in the name of the party we
represent, denounce the imprisonment ot
JMiurene V. JJebs. Ueorge v. uowara, u
W. Rogers and their associates as an in
vasion destructive of our most cherished
institutions and an attempt to substi
tute for the time-honored principle of
trial bv iurv the absolute and arbitrury
power of judges, too many of whom have
shown their readiness to prostitute the
trust given to them by the people to the
use and advantage ot corporations and
monopolies.
"Resolved, That we extend to E. V.
Debs, G. W. Howard, L. W. Rogers and
their associates our sympathy in their
hour of trial aud assure them of our ap
preciation of the heroism they have
shown in defending the rights of American-workmen
and upholding American
institutions."
THE JEWL OF CONSISTENCY
The future of the People's party is now
assured. It has passed the point of dan
ger. It will not turn back. It refuses to
be diverted from the straight onward
course toward the goal of freedom which
it set up at Omaha. It will pour a per
petual broadside of cannon shot against
all monopolies in sight. Monopoly in
every form is hateful to it, not one sort
simply. It will find strength in consist
ency. It will stand on the changeless
base of "equnl rights to all; special priv
ileges to none."
It opposes the money monopoly, and
it sees that interest is the rate measure of
that monopoly, and of the unprivileged
capital monopoly as well. Therefore it
will continue to demand money for the
people at cost, money without the mo
nopoly charge of interest, money at not
to exceed a two per cent labor fee for
loaning and securing it. The magnitude
of this reform is beyond tho reach of or
dinary minds to conceive. It will reduce
the division that now goes to capital
and give it to the workers, as well as
saving to the borrowers of capital the
present enormous interest tribute.
It has the same unalterable will to
overthrow the transportation, telegraph,
laud and other monopolists, because op
pression aud robbery are the same under
every form. We would stultify ourselves
wero we to select one particular monop
oly to oppose. The forces of monopoly
are Jederated, also, so we cannot fight
one at a time and win. It is not scatter
ing our fire oj; forces to attack all monop
olies, because an argument against any
monopoly is an argument against mon
archy and all oppression. A monster
with hydra heads must be pierced at its
heart. What would seem to be deadly
wounds are quickly healed if we attuck
but one head at a time. v
The masses of the people are as op
posed to monopolies of every aortas they
are to despotic monarchies, aud they will
come to us as soon as they see that we
art iu downright earnest and acting in
intelligent opposition to all monopoly
power. "An adherence to the principle
which a social, political and economic
evolution has mude the generating cen
ter of humau activity, will bring ultimate
triumph, if ethics has the strength ol
eternity, and humanity has the conquer
ing germ of progress iu its heart and
mind," says The Progressive Age. We
ha overthrown the political monarch
ies, and we shall be able to unite all lov
ers of liberty uguinst commercial mon
archies, or monopolies, as they ure.com
mouly called.
THE OBSTACLES TO PROGRESS-
It is comparatively easy to conceive a
perfectly organized and directed society,
iu which each individual finds his place,
performs his work aud receives his share
of the common proceeds or service. A
society in which there is no waste, of
warring struggling heads, no hinder
ance to labor. No unwise application of
energy, and no want unsupplied. And
there is no difficulty starting such a so
ciety, if unselfish individuals can be found
to constitute it. But while there arehun
dreds of millions of theoretical socialists,
there are yet but very few who are dia
pesed to practice what they preach
Thisistrue of those outside as well as
iuside the church.
In the church all profess to believe in
the sin of selfism and the salvation ol
socialism, that is to say, they preach
and profess love, self-denial, the cross.
The preaching and professing is all right,
but the practice is all wrong, because in
every day business life they do not allow
love to rule, they do not take up the
cross daily aud follow Christ, they are
without actual, controlling faith.
The theoretical socialists outside the
churches are no better. They loudly con
demn the present Belfish struggle, yet,
for the most part, choose as individuals
to be a part of it, to selfishly contend
with one another and the world. They
look to the enforced will of the majority
to do something, do what the free will of
the individuals (themselves) refuse now
to do. They have no real, controlling
love for their socialist comrades. The
spirit of individualism is upisrmost ia
their breasts. Having no fuith in one
another they can figure out no individ
ual gain by voluntary co-operation,
therefore refuse to practice love until it
pays, until all are forced to practice it.
Socialism "a theory of society which
advocates a more precise, orderly and
harmonious arrangement of the social
relations of mankind than that which
has hitherto prevailed" therefore need
not be feared by the rich who rule, nor
can it be hoped for by the poor who suf
fer, unless there comes a great moral
awakening. There never can be any
successful sociul organization the indi
vidual members of which are. not free
aud voluntarily bouud together.. And
such voluntary union must be made in
obedience to recognized moral law to be
permanent. Socialism, or the unselfish
industrial organization of men together
must therefore have its origin in the in
dividual conscience, and must be the re
sult of a more faithful preaching of the
law of love. The law of equalizing and
all-uniting love has been made of no ef
fect by the interpretations of the fathers
and universal custom.
But teachers and preachers are rising
up who insist that "faith without works
is dead;" that those who love in word
only do not love at all; that serving God
on Sunday and pursuing mammon on
Monday is an abomination to Him. They
are saying that the way to live is to love,
that the way to love is to serve, and that
the way to serve is to become members
one of another, working equally for one
another in a love-directed social body
that distributes equally to all, or as each
has need.
REVIEW OF CURRENT LITERATURE-
The Education op the Greek People,
by Thomas Davidson.
This is volume xxviii. in the Interna
tional Educational Series. It is but sel
dom that we come across as suggestive
and truly valuable a book for teachers.
It does not, indeed, assist them immedi
ately in their class work, but it does bet
ter, it gives them a comprehensive view
of the foundations of our educational
system. So many books for teachers are
strictly and cheaply utilitarian that
many honest seekers after educational
truth have become weak dependents on
mere devices. This book is not of this
sort. Its perusal will make better, more
cultured, broader minded men and wom
en, as well as oetter teachers. We do
not cqmprehend how much we owe to
Greece that is good m our literature, art,
architecture, politics and education. We
will understand better how to teach if we
understand the reason and extent of
our indebtedness, and now, when the
world is turning once more back to the
humanities for their due proportion of
influence iu our education, we cannot go
amiss in getting some true knowledge of
the education of the Greek people.
The first chapter on Nature and Edu
cation is worth the price of the book to
the teacher, or the parent for that matter.
The author says that much of the aim
less work in education has come from
confounding the two different meanings
with which "Nature is used. Iu one
sense "Nature is the character or typ?
with which a thing starts on its separ
ate career, and which, without any effort
on the part of that thing, but solely
with the aid of natural forces, deter
mines that career." In the other sense,
"Nature" means "tho highest possible
reality which a living thing, through a
series of voluntary acts, originating
within or without it, may be made to
attain." The first nature may be called
'original, the second "ideal. e thus
see that only man can originate the acts
that enable him to gain his ideni nature.
Education is therefore defined as the
sum of the acts by which man is lifted
from his original to his ideal nature.
Nothing is more to the point than the
observations about the earliest educa
tion of children and theguidingthem todi-
rect their attention to those things that
'will yield imprsssions fitted to given
healthy tone strength to the whole cliar
character." The child must build upara-
tionul, orderly world for himself, and he
must be put upon a moral basis in his
impressions by enlisting his affections.
All this seems at first glance to have no
connection with the body of the treatise,
but it has, as clearly appears.
The chapter on Greek Life and Ideals
is fascinating, and will put the the teacher
n full sympathy with Greek thought.
In short, the book ought to bo in the
hands of educators as far as possible.
Published by D. Appleton & Co., 72
Fifth avenue, New York. Price $1.50?
Romance Switzerland, Teutonic Switz
erland, by W. D. McCrackan, M. A.,
Are two little volumes tastefully bound
and attractive in every way. They are
descriptive of Swiss scenery and life, writ
ten in a most entertaining style by tin
author of the "Rise of the Swiss Re
public." One may be certain of the ac
curacy of the descriptions and the avoid
ance of exaggeration. There is very
much of useful comparative information
to be derived from these chapters, the
one on The Landsgermeinder, among
others, being very interesting in this re
spect. The chapters on The Taming
of Mont Blanc, Rousseau, Voltaire,
Madame De Stael and Calvin, are espec
ially good.
These books would be especially attrac
tive and educative to young people who
are forming their ideus as to old world
history and customs.
Published by Joseph Knight & Co.,
Boston. Price, $1.50.
Methods in the Schools of Germany
by John T. Prince.
In 'these days of normal schools and
study of methods it cannot help but
be interesting and instructive to kuow
about methods in German schools.
Teachers will find the above-named book
very suggestive. The book is clearly
written and is definite in its accounts of
various methods, givingexnmples enough
to make plain the application. Teachers
will like, especially, the chapters on, Ob
servation Lessons, Elementary Sciences,
Language and Geography. Also thoseon
The Herbertian Schools and American
and German schools.
This book ought to be added to teach
ers libraries.
Published by Lee & Shepard, Bostoa
The Early Trai.vino or Children, by
Mrs. Frank Malleson.
This is one of Heath's Pedagogical Li
brary, to which the attention of teachers
is especially called. The books are
standard, well-bound and inexpensive,
and ought to be in every toucher's libra
ry. "The Early Training of Children" is
a book which every mother, also, ought
to read. There is sound sense and doc
trine in the chapters on Employment
and Occupation of Children, Reverence,
Truth, and Rewards and Puuishmeuts,
especially. Teachers are not the only
ones that need true know ledge as to the
training ef children.
Published by D. C. Heath & Co., Bos
ton, New York and Chicago.
The Standard Oil trust of the world
has incurred the enmity of the German
government and may have its tentacles
clipped in that country. The Standard's
product, as is usual with that of a mon
opoly, is poor in quality. Get control of
the market, then reduce wages, adulter
ate, or cheapen the quality and raise or
hold up prices, is the way they work.
But the Kaiser doesn't want his people
robbed by American kings, so a law will
be passed by the Reichstag which will in
terfere with King Rockefeller's tribute
from German subjects. It is stated that
when Kaiser William listened to the ac
count of the unscrupulous acts of the
Standard Oil company to crush out le
gitimatecompetition he exclaimed; "And
this in civilized America."
Dr. Fish of The Great west proposed
for our coming educational campaign
the French method by which in 1789 the
people of that country were aroused and
united in ninety days to overthrow des
potic rulers and monarchy. It was done
by placarding the country.
Literary Note.
Reasonable Railway Rates" is the
subject of a paper by Mr. H. T. Newcomb,
one of the experts of the Inter-state Com
merce Commission, which has been pub
lished by the American Academy of Poli
tical and Social Science.
The rate question is one of such general
interest that this paper will doubtless
attract very wide attention. The author
summarizes the latest information on
the subject contained in government re
ports and discusses the principles under
lying the policy of fixing rates on the
part of the railways.
Nkwcomb, H. T. "Reasonable Itailwav Rates,"
Philadelphia; American Academy of Political and
Social Science, 18SM. Publication No. 132 Pp.
26. Svo. Price. 25 cents.
Proposed Articles of Incorporation.
The committe appointed at the Co-op
erators' Conference, held in Lincoln De
cember 15 and 16, 1894, to draft pro
posed articles for the Christian Corpora
tion heretofore discussed and advocated
in this paper, beg leave to recommend
the following as the legal basis of the or
ganization. Upon comparing the Ne
braska and Iowa codes we find the laws
of Iowa much more favorable, and it is
therefore better, -evidently, that we incor
porate under the Iowa code. This will
not make it necessary for us to locate in
Iowa, take notice. We simply take ad
vantage of the ample provisions of Iowa
law, and may locate in any other state
to carry out our plans.
articles proposed preamble.
Know All Men by These Presents, etc.:
article 1 objects.
This corporation is organized to pro
vide a social body for the spirit of love,
to put us iu right relations to one'an
other as members one of another, hav
ing a common interest: to enable us to
freely commune with one another by
means of mutual service, and with ''Our
Father,! or with the mind and heart of
the Infinite, by being "laborers together"
with the Infinite iu the production of
things good, useful and beautiful. Wo
would thus teach that communion with
the Infinite and with one another is by
means of labor, and we must love most
those who labof most faithfully, sacri- i
ficing ease and energy, to bring to us
good things and useful knowledge to en
joy. Our luture and ultimate object m
giving birth to this Christian Corpora
tion orsocial body is through itsgrowth,'
its accessions of members, to save indi
viduals completely by saving all men
from the infinite evils of -the present sel-
lish struggle of divided contending indi
vidualism.
article 2. name and location.
This Corporation shall be known as
um gball be located
: county of , state of
, etc.
article ;i power and privilege.
Said corporation shall have power to
receive by purchase, gift, lease or other
wise, to hold in trust, own manage and
operate, to sell, transfer, convey and
lease, property, both real and personal,
of every kind and description whatso
ever. It shall have power to enter upon and
maintain general works of improvement
in its community, to build houses for
homes, offices, factories, Btores and any
other purpose, to improve the streets, to
establish and maintain gas, electric, wa
ter and power plants; to establish and
operate factories, to engage iu mercan
tile, manufacturing and agricultural
pursuits, and to establish and maintain
schools, hospitals, libraries and other
institutions of benevolence or for the
culture and development of its members.
article 4 capital stock and funds
Section 1. Capital The capital stock
of said corporation is fixed at $1 ,000,000,
to be divided into shares of $500 each.
At least $20,000 Bhall be subscribed
before the commencement of business.
Each person upon becoming a mem
ber of the association shall subscribe for .
one share of stock and no person shall
sver own more than one share.
Such share may be paid for at the time
the subscription is made, or a credit be
attended to a subscribing member pro
vided that ho shall pay into the treas
ury of the corporation at least one-
tenth of all sums received from it as re
muneration or division of product and
such portion shall be retained from the
amounts due to such members from time
to time, till said stock subscription is
fully paid.
Such stock shall not be transferrable
except on the books of the company.