Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-09-17

saw outside OF Arkan-saw.
Comrades r. H. Young and Coch-
ran are away from the colony dry
ing fruit on shares for Equality
! We have some fine seeds that are
fast maturing, and which we will be
able to furnish to our friends at NOM
inal rates.
We have one little squash that
weighs about so pounds and still grow
ing. Verify this Washington is a
great country.
1t will take several years for us o
get to producing our own apples, but
we are getting there as fast as the
young trees can grow.
All colonists want everyt ody who
will work to have abundance of every
thing that is essential to right living.
ANY harm in such wishes?
If you will come to our colony you
can learn that some reformers are
not cranks and that men may hope
and work for the elevation of man.
kind without becoming cynics.
We are enjoying the products of
our own labor in our garden these
days, cabbage, carrots. rutabagas,
potatoes, beans, etc. Equality City
is good market for garden truck.
But we have white men for Cinnamon
| here.
Bro. Boissevain made a flying visit
| to Canada and left Bro. Darr in
charge of the cows in his absence.
We understand that the milking of a
half dozen cows is an easy proposition
to ''toting" two cans of milk mile
or so on the two ends of yoke la
Chinaman.
y The choppers have got about 60
or 20 cords of wood in marketa BILE con-
dition that is as yet unsold, but as a
merchant has to procure his goods IN
advance of the arrival so we intend
to have the wood on hand and we'll
seasoned when the inevitable pur-
chaser shows up.
May the good Lord bless Bro.
Bob and prolong his days on the face
of the earth, thereby guaranteeing
his presence in Equality, for he can't
live anywhere else, and enable him to
get up many more times at the early
dawn of Sunday morning to make
us the only and genuine cereal coffee.
AS colonists, we are not here to
demonstrate that by associated effort
man triumphs over every obstacle,
for this is universally known, but we
are here to try to discover and apply
the true principle of associated effort
by which wealth may be created and
distributed in accordance with right
and justice.
Thousands of people look upon
the efforts of our colony with increas-
ing curiosity, not that they expect to
see successful fruition of our hopes,
but because they realize that the pa
thence and persistency of our colo
nists calls for the exercise of vast
courage and unbounded faith and the
almost abnormal exhibition of these
traits in the colony is exciting the
admiration of all students of soci-
ology.
The ceaseless agitation which is
now going on all over the world is the
r1ightiest educational force that has
ever yet been set free. The toilers
are now making sure progress in the
face of the opposition of the So
called educated classes, and as a re-
suit those fat, sleek fellows, who
would have the world believe them
selves wise, are beginning to realize
that they know very little Of funda-
mental truth.
Our reserve members and friends
al bOllS lIODAy III IOlllllS up lnC
chinery fund. They seem to be i'm
bued with a determination to make
things hum at the font. No better
way could be found to do work for our
cause than by putting machinery in
the hands of the pioneers. In an in
credibly short time this land can be
cleared and lumber sawed, boats
built, roads made, factories put to
work. if the outside friends will con-
tinue in the same way they have so
generously done. They are doing it
/ for themselves.
Bros. Hart, Robinson and Daven-
port were up from Sedro to make us a
visit. These brothers are members
of l.. L. No. l of Washington and
are staunch friends of the co-opera-
tive movement, showing their inter-
est in the financial aid they give
Equality. Such encouragement helps
to Tighten the burdens that we who