[TO the Editor of the SPEcrexon.] Sra,—The article in the
Spectator of February 18th, by Mr. F. Yeats-Brown, is most poignant. I cannot refrain from asking you and your readers whether a community of 7,000 workless people might not become self-supporting by, supplying each other's needs. Would it be possible to teach the adoles- cent members of the community :the trades of baking, butcher- ing, vegetable and fruit-growing, carpentry, weaving, &c. ? Could capital be found for this purpose and a market for surplus goods? Possibly in a few years " Little Moscow " might become self-supporting, a loyal. British township, no longer envious of Russian methods. A year's dole in advance might Suffice to do away with all future doles. Trained men and women of generous instincts would be needed. who would live among the people and teach them, and your 'paper is the one that has influence with such. Is the Scheme feasible ?—I am, Sir, &c., H.
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