Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-11-12
THE DONKEY ENGINE FUND.

II w yelling. Observation-Disclosures. l 20
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The weather is fuctuating these days.
BRO. Louis Okerlund is still making win
dow sash.
Our teachers are talking CT beginning
night school,
The single mill building is the next one
we will tackle.
Bro. Burgess and daughter Edith went
to Seattle on business
We are burning a charcoal pit. Don't
know yet whether it is success.
We would be pleased to receive second
hand tools of any kind as donation.
Bro. Fisher has resigned as superintend-
ent of agriculture and Bro. Marcus was
elected.
We never lose what we gain here. If
we build a house it belongs to us-not to some
low-browed idler.
Bro. VIM. Mccormick of Whatcom do
mated several articles of use to the cause of
Oar band boys are getting pretty good at
footing We need more instruments. Would
like to correspond with someone who has
them.
The chicken house awaits some planed
boards and they wait on tho setting of the
planer and that waits on better logging IA
cilities. But we will soon get the donkey en-
CINE.
= We could outdistance our wage-earnlng
brothers, even if we did not work half as
hard, for they must part with about five
sixths of that which they create by their la
Dor for the privilege OF getting the poor little
one-sixth for themselves.
The public works department is building
a bridge $50 feet long as an easement from
the hill on which the town is situated, to the
low land where the saw mill is. The bridge
is to be both a wagon and skid way. 1t is u
good Job so far and credit to the skill of
Equality mechanics
Our Lyceum is getting to be one of the
best educational factors in Equality. The
study of philosophy, ethics and metaphysics
is essential to the embodiment Of the higher
faculties and is the dessert that goes well with
the regular diet of socialism, the daily pabu-
lum in Equality colony.
Bro. Dawson has been put in charge of
the boys after school hours They are to
work two hours per day. 1t is pleasing
sight to see the youngsters take hold of the
work. We greatly lack proper tools to put
them all to work at once, but perhaps that
will be better by and by.
Mr.. p. r. Pratt, his brother, j. t. Ever
EFT and friend, Of Custer, Wash, called on
US again this week. They have been here be-
fore and seem much interested in the work.
Bro. Pratt left heating stove as a present
and his brother told us that he was going to
hitch up the Old mare and bring his wife
down to see whether they would join US.
Hope that they viii. We have room for good
people.
Mr.. VIM. Mccormick Of New Whatcom,
a member Of the S. L. p, spoke at our Ly-
ceum last Sunday evening. His subject was
Socialism, and lie showed by his manner
OF dealing with the theme that he is a stu
dent of Karl Marx. lie was pelted with
questions from an alert audience, which he
answered from what he considers the scien-
tifc view and together with 4 few remarks
from localspsaEer5 IA enjoyable and instruct
i've evening was passed Bros. Potts and
Young furnished excellent music as usual.
I'VE at Equality are slowly but surely con-
quering tie stubborn obstacles TO q socialist
community. The state Of Washington is a
slow state In which 10 open MP farm On ac-
count q the enormous growth OF timber but
all concede chat when such land IS cleared
and roads made, then one acre Of this land is
worth two to four Of ordinary land. Our
comrades should always bear this ia mind
when they notice the apparently SLOW prog
ress we are making. We are not satisfied
with it ourselves, as no che could be more
eager TO forge ahead at breakneck speed and
put up city in fortnight. Our imagina-
tion is by no means dormant, but we quiet
our impetuosity and doggedly take up the AK
and grabbing hoe and try to be content that
some progress is daily being mrde.