Legislation  of  the  kind  referred  to  is  no  credit  to  any  state^
and  it  is  to  be  hoped  there  never  will  be  any  of  it  in  Wis-
consin.
AT  SEATTLE,  WASHINGTON  TERRITORY.
The  most  elaborate  scheme  of  unadulterated  co-operation^
is  that  described  as  follows  by  its  projector,  George  Venable
Smith,  for  this  bureau:

The  Puget  Sound  Colony,  is  a  co-operative  colonization  scheme,  founded
on  the  principles  of  entire  co-operation.  It  is  based  upon  a  matured  plan,
with  details  for  uniting  farm,  city,  factory  and  commerce;  and  invites  the
farmer,  laborer,  artisan,  mechanics  of  every  trader  merchant,  millman,


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accountant,  architect,  banker,  machinist,  fisherman,  manafacturer,  ship-
per, mariner,  and  others,  in  a  community  with  a  central  authority  and
responsibility  for  the  healtii,  usefulness  and  progressive  life  of  each  and
alL

It  proposes  to  unite  in  one  capital  and  labor,  so  as  to  achieve  the  fullest
results  of  production  and  distribution;  to  establish  equity,  harmony  and
justice,  socially  and  industrially;  to  secure  free  lands,  free  light  and  water,
free  money,  free  libraries  and  free  bath^;  exemption  from  taxation,  rents,
taxes  and  incumbrances,  a  just  reward  to  labor  with  reasonable  hours,
and  to  dignify  and  honor  labor.
The  colony  has  selected  a  t  jwn  site,  and  can  procure  any  quantity  of
most  excellent  farm,  fruit,  dairy,  timber  and  grazing  lands  adjacent.  The
town  site  is  on  a  magnificent  harbor  on  Puget  Sound,  safe  and  convenient
for  the  largest  vessels  of  the  ocean,  and  in  the  path  of  all  the  commerce  of
the  great  waters  of  Puget  Sound.  It  is  the  best  fishing  point  of  the  whole
North  Pacific,  and  there  are  at  hand  abundant  markets  for  all  the  colony
can  produce  or  manufacture,  and  which  are  increasing  to  large  proportions.
