. The communistic societies of the United States : from personal visit and observation, including detailed accounts of the Economists, Zoarites, Shakers, the Amana, Oneida, Bethel, Aurora, Icarian and other existing societies; their religious creeds, social practices, number, industries, and present condition. t every man should owna piece of land and work on it. Moreover, a community, hesaid, should, as far as possible, make or produce all it used to have more looms than now, but cloth is sold socheaply that we gradually began to buy. It is a mistake ; webuy more cheaply than we can m
. The communistic societies of the United States : from personal visit and observation, including detailed accounts of the Economists, Zoarites, Shakers, the Amana, Oneida, Bethel, Aurora, Icarian and other existing societies; their religious creeds, social practices, number, industries, and present condition. t every man should owna piece of land and work on it. Moreover, a community, hesaid, should, as far as possible, make or produce all it used to have more looms than now, but cloth is sold socheaply that we gradually began to buy. It is a mistake ; webuy more cheaply than we can make, but our home-madecloth is much better than that we can buy; and we have nowto make three pairs of trousers, for instance, where before wemade one. Thus our little looms would even now be moreprofitable—to say nothing of the independence we secure inworking them. In the beginning, he said, the societies were desirous to ownland; and he thought °:.^z.|lga immoderately so. Theybought to the extent of _ ■■>«*ijptheir means; being eco- - omical, industrious, and JBNeT honest, they saved moneyrapidly, and always in-vested their surplus in %more land. Then to cul-tivate these farms theyadopted children andyoung people. Twentyyears ago the Legisla-ture of New York hadbefore it a bill to limit. SHAKER TANNERY, MOUNT LEBANON. the quantity of land the Shakers should be allowed to hold,and the number of apprentices they should take. It was in-troduced, he said, by their enemies, but they at once agreed to 162 Communistic Societies of the United States. it, and thereupon it was dropped; but since then the societyhad come generally to favor a law limiting the quantity ofland which any citizen should own to not more than one hun-dred acres.
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