Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-07-23
We want the carth-it is ours.

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We want the carth-it is ours.
A large bill of sash and hardware
has arrived for our school house.
Mrs. Odell. superintendent OF cul-
sine, is in receipt of a large conslgn-
ment of provisions.
Our iron lathe is in running order
now. The first work was on gold
washer for philistine.
The garden shows itself on our
tables now. Green fodder is larrupln
good truck, as the Arkansawyer would
say.
The Sunday evening theosophlcal
study class increases in numbers and
interest. We haven't books enough
to go around
- The fishermen are out again.
Salmon are running now and we are
pickering our mouths for a two-blt
salmon steak apiece.
If your local paper will print a
short sketch of Equality, just drop
line to our bureau of corr espondence
and they will attend to it.
You people out in anarchy would
confer favor by sending to the bu-
reau of correspondence any clipping
from any paper that is for or against
our movement.
The bureau of correspondence is
busy answering questions concerning
practical socialism. In writing to
either of them don't forget to send
stamp or two for reply.
Bro. Barton is making a steam
something to bend fir wood with for
wagons. That fir will have to be firm
as Barton's aims for socialism or else
it will yield to the strain.
Bros. Dade, Davidson and young
Billingsley each cut themselves with
an AK the same day. The tailor was
called in to do some plain sewing.
Fro. Davidson still wears crutches.
"A prospectus of Equality colony
is now ready. 1t is a plain statement
of facts and we want to extend its
circulation in every direction. Can
not you use few copies to good adj
vantage? Send to our bureau of cor
respondenCe for them.
We are proposing to start in the
manufacture of collins. There seems
to be Il fine field for this business, and
incidentally we propose to make nice
comfortable collins for our old eX-
friend the competitive system, who
is slowly dying.
The subsidized press continues to
lie about Equality and the & c c with
its accustomed regularity and SER
entity. Our outside comrades are send
ing in clippings of an uucomplimen-
tary character OF course you know
whatever the daily papers say about
Us is not so.
We are called to meals by beat
ing on a suspended circular sd Y with
a harrow tooth. The men are most
always standing around the dining
room waiting for the bell. The women
wait in their homes for the signal
and then they re-enact their old time
chase after bargain counter.
No one will ever lose cent that
assists us in getting fitted up with
machinery. You can either come
aud work it with US or have the price.
less satisfaction of helping to pull
the capitalistic hyena's fangs by es.
tablishing a socialist city where there
is no debt, no bond, no mortgage. nc
interest. no rent.
Now ami not next year is the time
to give your mite to strengthen oui
machinery fund. Nothing is too hare
or risky Tor the people here to do t.
make 4 success of socialism. What
are you doing brother or sister mine
to hold up the arms Of industrial free
dom? 1t is unwise and uapatriotic t.
leave this great work for others tC
do. Take out membership by pay
ing in installments on our machinery
fund; add your name to the list at the
head of these columns.