COLONY PLANS AND INSTITUTIONS 



Great sources of fntnre profit may be found in a va- 

 riety of simple industries, which demand only cheap 

 machinery and a small amount of skilled labor. These 

 are such industries as every small colony may have if 

 possessed of a common fund for industrial purposes. 

 They include creameries, canneries, pork - packeries, 

 starch factories, and the like. Lumber and plauing- 

 mills, and various other small industries closely related 

 to the life of an agricultural community, are also profit- 

 able and wholly feasible under these plans. Time and 

 prosperity, with their gradual accretion of men of talent 

 and experience, would open the way for the larger and 

 more complicated industries, as they did among the 

 Mormons. Wool and hides should not forever be shipped 

 to Boston, and cloth and shoes forever imported from 

 that place, so remote from all the raw materials it uses. 

 If no capital were available except the savings of trans- 

 continental freight, it would build many shoe factories 

 and woollen mills in the regions where wool and hides 

 are cheaply produced, and where millions must always be 

 clothed and shod. 



Having shown how labor may be employed so that it 

 can never fail of its living, nor of a surplus above its 

 living sufficient for the reasonable demands of human 

 beings, we come now to the question of the organization 

 and management of labor. 



The system of labor should rest upon the indepen- 

 dence of the individual. All that he can well and effec- 

 tively do for himself he should be permitted to do. Such 

 advantages as he may win by individual thrift, industry, 

 and skill he is entitled to obtain and enjoy and to trans- 

 mit to his children. He should not suffer from the in- 



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