Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-09-24

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Now, brothers, you have the whole
case, begging your pardon for being
so long winded. 1t is very important
that what we do we do quickly. Take
time to consider and then act
promptly. The future is ours if we
put our intelligence, our time and our
means into movement. Send all re-
mittances to c. w. Belknap,
Secretary of Equality colony. Bel
fast, Skagit Co., WASH. and make
them payable to w. B. Bovd. Treas.
So generous and prompt have been
the responses to the call for a ma
chinery fund that the list is too long
to be kept standing. The number
contributing is over sixty. Hereafter
we will only print the names and
amounts of new contributors.
Now watch this amount grow.
Cash received to date. .......$l046 IS
We will show up weather with
any of you, Southern California pre-
ferred
In ten days from the time you
read this we will be burning our own
saw dust.
Thousands of strawberry plants
for sale at the colony, 20 cents per
dozen, post paid.
~, NV a-r.vl's TAKE to the cola
ony idea like duck to water or a pol
itician to Doodle.
The various wheels. belts and pu,-
leys of the sawmill that fill our tool
house make it look like foundry.
They say we have raised more
cabbage than we can eat. But that
sort of overproduction will not cause
any grief here.
1--WE are rushing the new sawmill
building. The first lnstallment will
be 30x90 feet, to be added to as we
need room.
In Equality each one must cut
hait or fish. In plutocracy nins-tenths
of the people are robbed by con-
scienceless one-tenth.
The agricultural department has
this week added to our store of winter
food A sacks of onions, about IS blu.
We have some II or Is sacks yet to
harvest.
AT odd times the young men jump
in and give few ticks to the dance
hall. 1t is safe to predict the COM
pletion of that hall some time in the
future.
The weather here is delightful:
all one could wish for. Warm, bright
days and cool nights. The days are
getting short now. We 60 to break
fast at sun up.
These roast beef dinners on Sun
day are collaborating, and when we
exchange cord wood for the beef we
feel we are not encroaching on the
funds of the reserves.
The very largeness of our under
taking here inspires us to enthusias-
tic effort. Small business and mean
surroundings make small and insig-
nificant men, and vice versa.
The place We located the new
mill site was probably the hardest
place to clear on the ranch, but we
put force at work and now you may
play marbles there, all but. See what
labor will do.
What a JOY it is to work here
where there is no danger of losing
money on the Job. Where no man
need be harried to death for fear the
job will not pay. Utility and beauty
Of the work before the almighty and
ever fitting dollar.
Our visitors almost invariably ex-
press surprise that we have done so
much work in so little time with such
crude tools. Well, boys, you would all
have done the same, if bolstered up
by the ideals of a new and higher
life. The ideals do the work, not we.
-Granpop Fisher and some more of
the younger boys are after bee tree
today Sunday, which Granpop dis
covered last week. We sincerely
hope it will be well filed, for Bro.
Pelton's not biscuits with honey are
not very hard to take these cool morn
ings.
The stump puller is still making
inroads on the big field of stumps
Every stump pulled now assures us
just so many hills of potatoes next
year. However we may be forced to
rent some ground next year. as it is
cheaper and more advantageous to us
to rent land than to buy the products
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