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five dollars for expenses, were required from each 

 settler in the new town. Several hundred colonists 

 went in May to this reservation. They were met by 

 a late spring. They suffered much in the absence 

 of houses; but in June they began to plant gar- 

 dens. In nine months they had four hundred houses, 

 twenty stores, mechanics in abundance, a weekly 

 newspaper, and not a single gambling-establishment 

 or liquor-saloon. [Applause.] Grace Greenwood 

 visited that town in 1872, and called it a miracle of 

 social advancement. The Greeley settlement is a 

 very important and cheerful suggestion as to what 

 may be done with some of the unemployed. 



St. Louis has a colony at Evans, near this town of 

 Greeley, and the place" is full of promise. Chicago 

 has a Colorado colony at Longmont, and it is said to 

 flourish like a green bay-tree. Why is there not in 

 the public domain at the West a Boston colony for 

 the unemployed? Are St. Louis and Chicago and 

 New York to succeed in imitating Gracchus, and is 

 Boston to fail in doing so ? 



Of course we have any number of persons who 

 are willing to furnish land to the unemployed, for a 

 consideration. "Go to my colony ! Settle near my 

 railroad ! I Ielp raise the price of my land ! " Ever} r - 

 body who has an axe to grind in the selling of lands 

 for such colonies is likely to fleece the poor more or 

 less. There has fallen upon all this scheme of colo- 

 nizing the unemployed, great discredit on account of 

 the land-sharks that have entered into competition 

 with philanthropy. Our government itself is unable 



