The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-08


lie immense coal deposits II costs the
coal companies less than 81 per ton to
place coal on the market for which they
receive 81 and g per ton Five hundred
thousand dollars would build a railroad.
purchase mines and ably employ
SEQ men furnishing coal for nearly the
entire Pacific coast. where If they charged
bat Se-se per ton good wages could he paid
and an enormous sum realized for the de-
Telopment fund The same Is true OF the
Eastern coal districts.
Future Growth of Society.
I'm few years with a membership OF
over one million. with large wholesale
and retail establishments in full bloom.
railroads constructed and in operation,
coal mines developed. manufacturing en-
terprises buzzing. farming done on a
mammoth scale and doing a Rothschild
banking business. all It's members could
be prohaahiy employed. and one dollar
per day added 10 the reserve fund as
easily as 10 cents the first year. which
would raise il 10 immense proportions
attracting hundreds of thousands OF
working men and provide them with en-
plcyment OF course long before this
married men could become active men,
bers. living separately with their fam
lilies, but paying their per capita 20 the
development fund. II only requires sin
gle men TO start It
in a few years It would have attracted.
by reason OF its superior inducements.
nearly all the working men OF the ma
ton and there would be no unemployed,
and development fund unconsciously
increasing 10 hundreds of millions of dol
lars.
This development fund would he Dom
nelly's Golden Bottle. the great factor.
both as a constructive and destructive
"a al fan
on a cooperative basis and TO destroy
all competition. and eventually extermin-
are the competitive system. Plutocracy
would then lose its main prop and the
profit gathereF who lives of the toll of
others will be compelled 70 scamper into
the ranks OF legitimate toll and earn his
daily bread according 10 the divine in
junction.
When this mammoth corporation had
paralyzed individual effort in the matter
of production. by offering superior in
ducements 10 the individual, all. from
self-interest, would join in the common
effort OF production. and then the name
OF the society could be changed 10 that
OF the United States of America, with
the whole people it's incorpora tors and
equal stockholders. bringing the dream
of Bellamy to a realizing fact at the be-
ginning, instead OF the close of the
twentieth century.
Now. this is not a dream. Nor is II be-
yond the realm of possibilities. It is an
organized fact. About tha LIST of Janu-
airy last. In the city OF Seattle. Wash,
about 80 unemployed men organized
themselves into the Industrial Corpora
tive Society. They Immediately petition
ed the city council for ten days work for
every 100 members of the society. Like
all workingmen's petitions, however. Il
was smothered in committee. Notwith-
standing the city administration used It's
combined powers 10 nip the movement in
the bud, the society secured an Old build
ing in the center OF the city al nominal
rent. An appeal was issued 10 the c4ti-
zens for stoves, dishes. bedding, provis-
ions and work. Canvassing committees
were sent out upon the heels OF the APP
peal. and both met with a marked de-
gree of success. and today the society IS
in = Fo,f~ioh!r~ ~onEj -'~-' 7F-A~ NH'-
well fed its members all winter on the
bread of independence. They ali nave
beds and bedding, are well dressed, ana
possess a bright, independent and intel
Igent appearance. They have not only
much work under way. but are hgurinS
on several large contracts. Lines ..4e 50
desperately distressing that they DO not
find employment for all. but as soon as
the surplus labor placed on the farm
raises the feeding supplies the develop
rent fund will rapidly increase. Iney are
now quartered in good lodging house.
The most astonishing fact that I'M
nrAsses one so profoundly Is thai already
the enterprise Is an assured success not
withstanding the society does nor con-
tain a single business man. but men "ho
have always depended upon an employer
for their daily bread. No person can con-
Template the brilliant success awaiting
such an effort when once under the guid.
80 nands ~ astute business managers"