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Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11
The WAY 1t Grew.

am for letting the next life take
care of itself and want to work
only for the betterment of conditions
in this life. After death I may work
for reforms in some other world.
am a believer in socialism, but think
it will be brought about by working
for public ownership. 1t will be a
slow movement. but will finally carry.
Thirteen years ago l was the only
person in this city to demand public
ownership of the water plant. After
being humbugged all these years by
a corporation, large majority now
favor it.
Kansas. DR.. j. q. Malcolm.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11
Hope 1t Will Snap the Chains.

Your (our) splendid paper No. Vol.
l was received few days ago. and
am more than pleased with it. The
name is Just right, and | hope it will
snap our chains.
This is the first news | have had
from Equality for long time, as my
time is out on the Coming Nation,
and have not been able to renew. |
would like very much to be with you
out there in person, so that I might
assist in this grand move to better
advantage. But it seems Providence
does not smile on my efforts to join
you.
I am keeping the people here post
ed on the movement. l hope my eff
forts will bear fruit in time.
Minnesota. r.. n. Atkinson.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11
Let Us All Go to Work.

No. 3, Industrial Freedom, just re-
ceived, and note with pleasure that
it gains in quality with every issue.
Glad to see the call to members in
regard to insurance. You may put
me down for five shares and let us
hope will never have to pay it. but
it is the only true system of insu-
rance, and let us hope that our mem
bers will go to work to build up the
Brotherhood so that a year hence we
will be able to set aside a percent
age of the products of our united Ia
Dor for that very purpose.
Montana. N. J. Elliott.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11
Thinks It Will Reach Them.

Enclosed find 25c for which please
send Industrial Freedom for three
formation in regard to organizing a
branch. I have succeeded in organi-
zing branch of the Social Democ-
racy here, and am heart and soul
with every movement that is helping
to bring in the cooperative common
wealth. believe the B G. c can reach
many people here that Social Democ-
racy cannot. We have no time to
bubble over tactics. We may need
them all.
Illinois. Is. w. Collins.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11
Glad to See 1t Progress.

We are glad to see that you are
making such good progress. | nave
a suggestion to make: That We keep
the day that the first pioneers settled
on the colony site as a holiday and
each local union of the B c { invite
all their friends and neighbors and
celebrate the day with a picnic and
speeches on socialism. Enclosed find
one subscription.
Oklahoma. n. !. Fratt'
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11
How to Succeed in Business.

The time is near at hand when peo-
pie will take their own private scales
to market. The amount of cheating
done is monstrous, the principal OF
tenders being the butchers. Spring
scales are in general use all over the
country, with circular indexes and
revolving hand to point out the
pounds. The 'weapons of fraud are
invariably hung between the wall and
the butcher, so that he can place
himself between them and the Gus
toner, explains Tip in the New York
Press.
Max sold a sirloin steak, threw it
on the scales and asked me how much
it weighed. saw the hand fly to five
and ne-quarter pounds, and it was
more than wanted. Look again."
he begged. The scales indicated four
pounds. "Look once more" Three
and a-half. ''How is it done?" | in
quired.
This steak weighs exactly three
and a-half pounds he explained.
Leave the scales at rest and you
can't be cheated. But if we want to
beat you out of pound or two for
the boss we throw the meat on the
scales like this, turn orr backs to you,
press down the pan with the little
finger, which you can't see, hold the
indicator for a second where we want
it, and then let it fly back, instantly
taking off the meat and calling out
the price. Ninety-nine people in 100
will never question the correctness of
the weight, because they think they
have seen the weighing with their
own eyes, and feel sure the butcher
amt smart enough to cheat 'em.
a woman entered and ordered
steak. "How thick, madam" She
showed him. It was cut, the flank end
dressed down and nestled up against
the tenderloin. On the scales it was
thrown, with hasty, careless motion,
and the little finger did its fine work,
and Max called out, quickly reaching
for the paper in which to wrap it.
"Fortv cents, ma'am." She paid with
out protest, took the bundle and de-
parted. Max winked at me in high
glee. Couldn't cheat her," he
chuckled.
In Max's shop were three pair of
scales. "If l want to do safe two
or three pound job for the boss" he
informed me, II use this little pair.
See how quick and active they are?
Lightning. Now, you know all about
the cheating, but can fool you right
now on this pair, even after what I've
told you. Then, again, you see, the
hand goes to the left instead of the
right. That beat anything you ever
saw. Not man living can tell how
much steak weighs unless he is dead
on. We had these made to order, but
/ think there's a firm sellin' em to
the trade generally, carrying em in
stock. They shouldn't do that. 1t
looks like standing in with fraud,
don't it? l wouldn't do it,"
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11
A Scheme to Awaken the Clergy.

/ have scheme by which to awaken
the consciences and patriotism of our
American clergy, theological and
senior college students. 1t is to write
up and have your printery print a
strong, short letter to these people
showing them the crime of usury and
the injustice of living and getting
rich off the unpaid earnings of toiling
men and women through interest,
rent and profit, and the absurdity of
the church preaching the gospel to
the poor with its mouth while it is
stealing their earnings from them by
fraud" want to send thousands of
these letters inclosed with a batch of
our Is & c literature. Among other
documents a copy of the enclosed
tract on usury, if your pri1tery
should see fit to reprint it, The first
edition is about exhausted.
ONO. Geo. Candee.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11
Pullman, Wash.

As long as our civilization is essen
TALLY one of property, of fences. of
exclusiyeness, it will be Knocked bv
delusions. Our riches viii leave us
sick; there will be bitterness in our
laughter; and our wine will burn our
mouth. Only that good profits which
we can taste with all doors open, and
which serves all men. - Emerson.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11
A Good Suggestion.

would suggest that the Secretary
do not send out receipts for small
sums-say less than s., but give the
name and sum in Industrial Freedom
and that such publication be consid-
cred as receipt. This would s,4ve a
great deal of money and labor. 1t
will cost nearly three cents for every
receipt sent out, therefore on one
hundred receipts we could save IS,
and on a thousand receipts $50, and
the labor of filing them out and
mailing. l for one would be satisfied
with such system.
California. 7. T. Frickstad.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11
VIII Do Much for Our Cause.

I have received two copies of our
paper, and am very much pleased
with It. 1t will do much for our
cause.
We are still receiving large ship
ments OF "McKanna" prosperity to
this section, and it is the very finest
food for developing socialists that
Georgia has ever tried. We should
all greatly reverence the Demo-Re-
publicans for having adopted so ex-
cellent a method of liberation from
economic slavery and salvation On of
the country from socialism,: and we
should perpetually sing p9ans to the
Star Spangled Banner oh, long NAV
it wave DER the land OF the creditor.
and home of the slave.
With kindest wishes for yourself
and our colony comrades. | remain
your comrade in the cause,
Georgia. ii. T.. Blount.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11
Pleased at the Progress.

1t now affords me the most heart
felt pleasure to once more acquaint
YOU with the Joy that animates my
being at the grand progress which the
b G. { has made in such a short time.
Washington. f. W. Lennon.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11

The city council OF Detroit, Michi-
gan, has adopted the referendum as a
means OF settling all matters relating
to the granting of franchises. Shelby
lNeb.) Sun.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11
Socialists. and Don't Know 1t.

Socialists, and Don't know 1t.
[ herewith submit a few names OF
parties to whom you might probably
send, once or twice, specimen copies
of the Industrial Freedom direct from
your place. | know them to be kick
ers against the hardships of the pres
ent system. though they do not sus-
pect for moment that socialism
cures all these social ills. So, want
their eyes opened, and you can do it.
New Orleans, La. L. 3. 3.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11

The fellows who We're, last election.
so anxious to preserve the honor of the
nation are not rushing to the front
very fast TO tote musket. Free Re
public.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11
WORDS OF CHEER
From. Our Mem bers end From Other
Patriots.
Nav Brotherlv Love Continue.

May Brotherly Love Continue.
Enclosed find money order for 81
for four subscriptions. Will try and
send in more. We are all highly
pleased with our paper. May that
brotherly love. which fills its columns,
continue to spread until it conquers
the whole land.
Kansas. c. F. Primm.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11

Toothp cks and Street Cars. What
is herelation between to0thpicks and
street cars" do you ask? There isn't
a very close relationship. and there
fore they should be treated different
~. One is for private use, the other
for public use, but our present laws
treat them the same, making both
private property. Socialists propose
that what is for strictly private use
shall be owned and operated by the
ones using it, and that what is for
public use shall be owned and opera
ted-by the ones using it. That's
about all there is in socialism, and
that seems reasonable, but the hood
lers and their flunkeys make a great
cutlery. A thief often cries stop
thief" very loudly, in order to turn
attention away from himself.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11

Whose Right is Best7 Minneapolis
children are robbed Of six weeks
school this year, because there is no
money in the city treasury 10 pay the
teachers: yet Tom Lowry is making a
quarter of million year profit of
Minneapolis street cars. Now whose
right is best-Lowry's to the fran
chise which he has grabbed" or the
thousands of Children to their school
ing?
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-11

THE greatest liberty which tn
pie of this age can achieve is =
themselves from parasites-ty
of the purse.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-30

John +. Rowe brings suit for di-
vorce against Lucien +. Rowe, at Ia
coma, to whom he was married at
Centralia ten years ago. The hus-
band is charged with extreme cruelty
and brutal conduct, refusing to provide
for his wife when she was i'll, and in
May, 1895, holding her on the railroad
track in front of an approaching pas
senger train, from which perilous posi-
ton she escaped only by desperate ef-
fort.
Ed. Richardson met instant death
at Sturm's mill, at Castle Rock, Mon
day morning. He attempted to put
belt on the bolter arbor while the
machinery was running at full speed.
His foot slipped and, while trying to
save himself, his coat sleeve was
caught by set nut which threw him
half way around, landing him on his
back on the pulley and catching the
back OF his head on timber, breaking
his neck.
During the hearing of land case at
Chelan, a sensation was created by an
alteration between Horace Williams
and Attorney r. w. Starr, counsel
for the contestant. After some hot
words had passed between the two
Starr struck Williams and knocked
him off his chair to the floor. Then
ii. Williams, Horace's father, an old
white-haired man of about 60 years
struck Starr blow that blackened one
OF his eyes. Young Williams and
Starr had a fight afterward in the
street.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-30
STATE NEWS.
A Brief Summary Of News Gathered From all
Parts Of the State

Brief Summary OF News Gathered From al
Parts Of the State.
Burglaries are frequent at Aberdeen
Palouse has an electric light plant
in prospect.
Potatoes have advanced at Spokane
to $1.lO per sack of 100 pounds.
Edward S. Alexander, well-known
business man of Tacoma, died Satur-
day.
Sixty thousand head of sheep were
shipped from Kittitas during the pas,
year.
+. G. Warner, a well-known Monte
sano citizen, died last week, aged 70
years.
The other night freight train
killed eight horses, just east Of Har-
rington.
The volume of business being done
on Gray's Harbor is constantly in
creasing.
Munroe Wyckolf, of Port Townsend
has been appointed Deputy Fish Com
missioner.
The Hoquiam lVashingtonian has
increased in size from four to an
eight-page paper.
Counterfeit nickels are being circul-
ated at Spokane. Owners of slot ma
chimes are the heaviest losers.
The new waterworks at Hoquiam,
the WdshingtOniam claims, are the
best west of the Mississippi river.
A COW belonging to w. H. Young,
of Castle Rock, was recently killed by
lightning, while standing under tree.
The Atlas Lumber Company, of Nc
Murray, Skagit county, was fined $25
for using oleomargarine in its boarding
| houses.
The Weiser Lake single mill in
Whatcom county, owned by Charles
Lamont, burned to the ground Satur-
day night.
John Boatman, put in jail at Spo-
kane Wednesday night to sober up,
hanged himself with piece of ham
mock convas.
About year ago a Dayton young
lady lost her shoes while at dance
and last week plumber found them
in water tank.
James w. Connella, who shot and
killed Ole Nelson, at Everett, the
night of Oct. 10, was acquitted oil
murder Saturday, at Sidney.
Joe Henderson, an employee of the
Tacoma Dry Dock Company, was
drowned Sunday. He fell from the
drydock wharf, striking pile in his
fall. Henderson leaves a family.
w. c. Hancke, who was injured in q
threshing machine belonging to w. c.
Babcock, last fall, has commenced
suit for $4,000 damages against Bah.
cock in the Superior Court at Walla
Walla.
High winds wrecked the little fish
ing schooner Violet Carrie while or
Henderson bay. Saturday. She had s
cargo of Is barrels of salt fish, none OF
which can be found. The total loss i.
1850.
A large Arctic owl was captured
Sunday while in the act of devourine
a full-grown hen that it had killed
near Pasco chicken-house. 1t was
evidently very hungry, as it took its
chances OF being caught before it
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-30

CONGRESSMAN Lewis of this State
has come out strongly for expansion
OF our national domain, and William
j. Bryan is just as strenuously opposed
to the policy. The latter is, however,
sustained by the traditional policy
of his party, and in view of the dis
astrous results in this State, due al
most entirely to departure from the
conservatism which has characterized
the Democratic party's movements in
the past, we think that Bryan is the
safer leader in this emergency.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-30
Will Not Down at the Bidding.

Deny it as they will and dispute it
rs they may, it is evident that the cur
rency question is still disturbing our
Republican brethren in a grievous
way. The Indianapolis monetary
commission, through their committee,
are now reported to be causing the
banks throughout the country to write
letters to their Senators and Repre-
sentatives, urging the importance of
currency legislation, either by this
Congress or at an extra session to be
convened Immediately after its close.
The Republican party is far from be-
ing united on this matter. The major
ity would very much prefer TO evade
the issue, and it is said that the Presi-
dent and his advisers, excepting Secre-
tary Gage, would prefer that the SUBJ
ject remain in allegiance until the close
Of this administration. This is like.
wise the feeling of many leading men,
bers of the party all over the country,
who never have been in favor of the
single standard, and conscientiously
believe they have fully paid the gold
power for temporarily switching the
car of progress upon its present gauge.
1t will be difficult, however, to satisfy
the clamor of the banks who stren-
uously insist upon slicing off their
pound of flesh though it may be ac-
companied by flow of blood.
This titanic struggle has, however,
been transferred from a contention be-
tween the two great parties to battle
between the leaders and members of
the party in power. The result, what
ever it is, can but strengthen the pros
poets of their political opponents.
There is nothing which weakens a
party more than internal dissention,
and Of this the administration party,
just now, seems to have its full share.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-30

The two leading illustrated articles
of McClure's Magazine for January re-
late to that prevailing topic, subma-
rine navigation, and are by Simon
Lake, inventor and builder OF the" Ar
gonaut," the first wholly successful
submarine boat, and Ray Stannard
Baker, who relates his experience on
one OF Mr.. Lakes voyages of explor.
alton OF Chesapeake Bay. The de-
scriptive powers Of both the inventor
and the voyager have been SO admir-
ably brought into play that a very
lucid idea may be formed of the WON
der OF the closing year. These articles
alone fix the value of the current num-
Der, but there is a splendid intellectual
feast besides, provided by such cater
ers as Kipling, Capt. A. T. Mahan, U.
8. N, Ida NJ. Tarbell, and other emf
nent writers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-30
G 20 ooo g., +bo proe;5an+

'" IL e il may hr true that tie Pre>i-
"Sr =, house in Washington i not
quite up to the progress made 10y the
nation since it was tuilt. the PROPOSE
ton t. erect mansion which shall
slrla>- in beauty ii detail and grand
eur ii conception, ~ we'll as cost, all
the palatial structures al earth, is a
departure from that " Jark>onian SYM
plicitI' which hl- been the boast Of
the republic ever since ii was rocked
in the arms OF Freedom and hcraldcd
aS the robust representative Oi gov
eminent in which each citizen Is Il
sovereign 10y hrthright, recognized by
the Scn!lS OF Liberty which inspired
! the constitution.
The proposed executive building Is
to he built OF white marble-thc sat
in-tini>h" OF arvhitccturc-upon an
elevated tract of land OF 30 acres on
Meridian Hill, just in the suburbs OF
/ the city. The building is to he in the
form Of the letter II, the private apart
mcnts III the President to occupy one
@! the wings and the officers of the
state Department the other The two
wings are to be connected by i middle
section, Surmounted by Il roof-garden,
! in which flowers and rare shrubherv
will blossom and thrive the year round.
The building will he cmbcllishcd with
the most superb art OF landscape orna-
mcntation in the terraces OF the ascent
and the ample grounds on the summit
OF the Hill. and everything will DO in
keeping with the craze for grandeur
since gold has been enthroned as king
and has become the arbitrator of the
fate OF millions.
While the equality of the masses al
tirmcd in the declaration of indcpend-
ence may refer solely to political
rights and the privileges of citizenship,
it must be conceded that anything
which separates the people OF the ma
ton into irreconcilable classes, is to
be deplored. The farther we depart
from that primitive idea that the citi-
zen is the sovereign and the ruler his
lawfully constituted agent, to be
changed if he fails to give good ac-
count OF his stewardship, the nearer
we approach the antithesis OF that
proposition, the monarchical rule OF
despotic nations. Better far would it
be to place the money that it is pro-
posed to squander in gewgaws and
gilt, in harbor defenses, or improved
war appliances, or better still, allow it
to remain in the pockets of the people
by knocking off some tax upon the ne
cessaries Of life.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-30
Platform Timber.

Neither the Democratic nor thu Re-
p.A,.c4n pa-tisans have united upon
nnr PLAN set proposed for dealing with
o.: p, Al, required possessions. some
l.. .,u,.,,,~ AZ willing t. return the
l-,tui-. rN',p: Cuba. t. Spain, hclicy-
.a- tina, the moral pledge extends no
:.:s;hor than guaranty 81 freedom to
.n, rali,,r whose troull.. nrociritatcd
H.. war. other, think If best tu sell
the rhil;nuinc,. irasmuch 4, we have
aca>h customer in .Iaran: some be-
!:.vc that the PhilippjuoS should he
...,,.n their freedom. alone with Cuba
and t., the matter =, at that: Will"
~,..I other. favor making the archiucl
a.. a part Il or national domain.
Il. R,plhlican mas-c, seem to be di-
s.. led into quite Il, many and as dis
tntt classes, but it is evident that the
o:!icc-holding and otlice-secking con-
tinccnt favor the ABSORPTION of all the
territory acquired bv conquest, as a
splendid field for extension OF the ofli-
cad roll oi the blue book and opening
ny myriad OF choice positions to the
ambitious place-seeker. As this elc-
ment generally controls, it will prob
ably shape the policy OF the party on
this question. But just now the exec
utlvc Is in quandary az to the exact
course to pursue, as Is manifested by
evasion OF the subject III his annual
message to Congress. This was dis
appointment to Congress and the
country. He realizes that the policy
of territorial expansion is distasteiul
t. 50 large an element in New York
and New England that it may en-
danger his denomination, and hedges
when occasion offers, but in doing SO
he will disappoint the Republican
leaders i'll the West and probably lose
more than he will gain.
Col. Bryan, who is privileged to ex.
press his views from the fact that he
was the personal protest against
Republican methods who two years
ago was backed up by six and hal
millions IF ,oonIa bel;avas that n !,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-30

THE Midland Railway Company, of
London, has ordered % freight en-
gines built in Philadelphia and New
York, and this is not the only large
order from abroad that has lately
been placed in this country for Ameri-
can locomotives, solely on the ground
Of their superiority.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-30

CIVIL SERVICE MUST RELAX.-The
clamor for Office is likely to cause the
President to make another relaxation
of civil service rules, and release the
internal revenue, a portion of the Gus.
tom house service, and of one or two
other departments, from the classified
rules. The mugwumps protest oil
course but there is louder cry that
goes out from the faithful workers
who cannot see why their place at the
pie-counter should be held down by
appointments made by Cleveland. The
President realizes that he must make
q choice between retention of rules
that his party took an active part in
establishing and the loss of some OF
his most active supporters in the Pres.
idential campaign, whose ardor can
scarcely stand four years of patient
waiting with a chance OF the same OBJ.
stacle remaining in their pathway after
another test of personal fidelity. 1t is
said that it has been finally deter.
mined that civil service must go, in
order that political workers through.
out the country may receive their re.
ward.