Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-05-07

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sion is ten times greater now than it
was when the pilgrims left their ma
tive shore and trusted themselves to
the waves and to a God of Justice,
and came to live among savages, in
preference to the prosecutions and
expressions of so-called govern
ment.
Some well-intentioned socialists
have opposed the colonization plan,
and have advised the slow process of
voting ourselves back to the soil, and
the freedom that belongs to every
human being.
But, my brothers, men and women
and little children are starving in the
accused cities of plutocracy, and to
wait on the slow process of voting
men who do not yet realize their
wrongs, while these houseless ones are
starving in the streets, is not much
short of entire descrtion,
Ihave always favored the colony
plan, though unable to join one my
self, and hold these brave men who
have cast their lot with the fortunes
of Equality, as the peers of those
liberty-loving men who came to
America to brave the tomahawk and
scalping knife of the savages, in
hopes of building for themselves a
home where the oppressor's hand
could not rob them of their freedom
and the profits of their toll.
True, they have not the savages to
fight at Equality, and the wild war
whoop of barbarous people will
hardly be heard there during the at
tack that will surely be made upon
the working people of this NEW
AMERICA: but a wiser, shrewder,
more cruel, greed-cursed people are
lying in ambush and devising means
to crush the independent spirit of
those who would attempt to build up
civilization where the stomach of
the worker is looked after, as well
as his soul.
] am as proud to assist these bold,
brave men and women in advocating
the cause of humanity, as l would
have been to follow after Jesus
Christ, working for the same grand
and laudable purpose.
I doubt very much if there is a sim
gle person in the colony, or will be
during the next ten years, who has
not suffered hunger and privation,
sometime and somewhere during life.
Only those who have suffered priva-
tions, and felt the pangs of hunger,
and have lived and laughed through
it all, are capable of suffering in the
cause OF humanity.
Who but they know the many gaunt
and hungry faces that are ever peep
ing out of the shadows, and ever urg-
ing them on. Who but they have
but to close their eyes and look back
into memory and see mother hush
ing furnishing babe to sleep at
breast where nothing but a burning
misery remains?
And the stains of blood and sweat
and oppression and wrong they trace
out along the ragged path leading
back to lonely cradle that was agi-
tated by mothers knee, while her
hands we're busy sewing and patching
the poor little threadbare dresses of
the sleeper-are they not fit to write
a new declaration OF independence,
and write liberty and Justice above
every humble door?
Mckinley says that true patriotism
consists of a faith in God, and reso-
luton to pay the bondholder his inter-
est in gold. | never yet heard him
advise any other sort of patriotism.
He says nothing about loving hui
manity, and feeding our starving
countrymen-not one word.
II there are not better patriots In
Equality-better and truer men
than this Mckinley, then the work is
all a cruel failure, and greed will ul-
timately crush out all that is noble in
their hearts.
But these pioneers are built of bet
ter stuff. They who suffer and love
through il all, are not the butterfly
men Of plundered fortunes. They
are ever the true patriots of every
nation under the sun; and this NEW
AMERICA will have its soil enriched
aud moistened with the tears and
the hopes and love OF as true men
as ever came from the hands OF their
Maker: and liberty and justice can
never be rooted out Of such a soil.
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