The Greeley Colony

In considering the net resulta of Greeley colony it is flrst important to note that it has been thoroughly successful, says the Atlantic. It presents a striking contrast to the Fqurier i riments, from which it may be said to have descended. Each man prospered according to his merit and what the community undertook to do by means of co-operation it accomplished. [t cannot be said that the latter principie was applied extensively. The capital realized from the sale of property was so largely absorbed in the construct ion of canals as to leave little surplus for other industrial and commercial enterprises. If one-half of this capital had been available for stores, banks and small industries, it is likely that much which was necessarily left to private initiative would have been undertaken by the colony. In that case we shouM find broader lessons in co-operative eifort than we do now. It is also important to note that the community owed its prosperlty to its high ideal and uncompromising public spirit. There was here no common rellgious tie, as in the early New England colonies; no shailow of persecution such as that which bountl the Mormon pioneers together in an indissoluble brotherhood. The nearest approach to this influence was the prohibition sentiment, and this formed but a smal! part of the originul plan. These aolcalets were earnest men and women, who had gone forth to make homes wbsre they could combine industrial ind"pe-:-.ience with soeiil equ.ility and tatnHectual opportunity. They wvn sritcSy determined to accomplish what tbey liad undertaken. This spirit and this alone kept thern from going to pieces during the first ïve years and laid the foundation for their permanent prosperitj'.