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In the same way the twenty hours' weekly labor for which the children
are paid are the hours they spend in school. By going to school and
learning they, too, are benefiting the community, so that their labor is
also for the general good.
When school is over, children who wish to do so can wait on table in the
community dining-hall, and then they earn more time-checks.
These checks can be exchanged at the general store for goods, the prices
of articles not being reckoned at so many cents but at so many hours of
labor.
The Ruskin people seem to be hopeful that they have solved the problem
of living.
A similar experiment is to be tried under the management of Eugene Debs.
He is the man who led the strikers in Chicago, got into trouble with the
authorities, and was finally sent to prison.
Debs proposes to start a co-operative town in the West, taking one
hundred thousand men and women along with him to settle it.
He is going to build factories and start all kinds of industries, which
are to belong to all the people in common, the profits and the losses to
be shared by all the citizens alike.
Peace and prosperity are promised to all who will enter this ideal town.
It will be interesting to watch the experiment and see just what results
can be achieved.
* * * * *
Foreign governments are beginning to be heard from on the subject of the
annexation of Hawaii.
A member of the English House of Commons has asked the Government
whether it intends to allow this very important coaling-station to pass
out of its reach without protest.
The Secretary of the Foreign Office replied that no decision had as yet
been reached by the United States, and therefore the Government did not
see that any action was necessary at present.
The Secretary went on to state that the English ministers would be
careful that none of the rights of British subjects were interfered
with.
Russia, on her part, has stated that she thinks that the annexation of
Hawaii may be followed by the seizure of Cuba, and considers it a step
very dangerous to Europe. She will not, however, join with Japan in her
protest.
A report was circulated that Spain and Japan were forming an alliance to
resist the annexation of the Sandwich Islands, but this report has been
denied.
The German Emperor is said to have declared that he fears the
interference of the United States with European affairs if she is
allowed to extend her territory in this way.
With all these more or less unfriendly comments there has been but the
one serious objection to the project, and that has come from Japan.
The State Department has replied to the protest from the Japanese
minister. The Department refuses to allow the claim that the treaty
between Japan and Hawaii was a perpetual treaty. The refusal was based
on the grounds that we gave you last week.
The Japanese protest also declares that there are twenty-five thousand
of her people resident in the Sandwich Islands who have earned the right
to become citizens, and our Government is asked what it proposes to do
about these people in case the treaty is ratified.
In replying to this point the State Department refused to give any
definite answer, saying that it was a matter to be settled by Congress
or the courts.
This reply was sent to the Japanese minister, who immediately cabled it
to his Government.
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