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Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-09-10
Energetic Comrades.

Long life to L. Z. No. . of Coalgate
Ind. Ter, is the prayer of every
Equalityite. And this is not selfish
prayer, although some ungenerous
critic may regard it as such after
reading the following:
August Goth a dance was held at
Coalgate under the auspices of the
above named union for the exclusive
benefit of Equality colony, and a few
days thereafter $50 came to the colo
ny as the substantial results of afore.
said shindig.
This is not the first time by any
means that the Coalgates have come
to the rescue of Equality. During
the darkest days of that gloomy and
well remembered period when the
fate of the colony trembled in the
balance they were among the fore
most of our gallant comrades who re-
CARELESS of the fact that they might
never reap any personal benefit there
from, and that even their colony
comrades might also fail of the same
through failure in securing the site,
'coughed up" their hard earned coin
to the utmost of their ability and hur-
ried it to the scene of action without
delay.
But their attentions did not cease
with the securing of the 2S0 acre site.
Substantial tokens of their interest
in the B G G movement and the cause
Of humanity are continuing to arrive
at frequent intervals, besides a lot of
sturdy muscular pioneers of both
sexes capable and willing to take the
heavy end wherever it is their lot to
devote their toll.
No danger of failure in Equality's
case. We have too many pioneers of
the Coalgate stamp who are ready to
tackle the hardest kind of a PROPOSE
ton in the way of 'bone labor" and
too many reserves of the same stamp
for that.
And, comrades, don't fail to remem-
Der that we realize that something
besides appreciation is due on our
part IN such cases as we are here
speaking of.
Every cent contributed and sent to
Equality increases our responsibility,
and justly so, too, for we all fully re-
alize ourselves to be but the agents of
our reserve comrades. sent here for
the express purpose of building
'homes for the homeless" and open
ing up pioneer proposition; that we
are not here to tbeorize but to do real
practical work, and that a most SOL
emn duty devolves upon us to carry
out to the fullest extent our sacred
trust. 1t is a tremendous RESPONSE
bility. The eyes of thousands are
upon us and we are fully determined
not to prove recreant to our trust.
Members of Equality Colony.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-09-10
A Lesson From a Mules Experience.

a bonanza farmer in Indiana, having
large crop of corn to harvest, was
short of help, and was very glad one
morning when he saw a mule coming
down the roadway, leisurely cropping
the grass, which was quite thick be-
tween the trenches and the fences
Say, mule said the farmer, Il
would like to make a contract with you
to harvest that corn of mine"
"What will you pay me-" asked the
mule.
"Well, I'll give you all the husks,
and will keep the ears for myself; and,
yes pretending to be generous, ! will
give you one bushel of ears per week,
which will keep you in as good condi-
ton as you are now"
"Well, how long hours will have to
work. asked the mule.
"Oh, about thirteen or fourteen hours
per day" said the farmer.
Thirteen or fourteen hours" said
the mule. with establishment: "why.
the wages you offer for the work would
only give me Il living, and | can get u
good living, from this grass in the road
way, and only work seven hours day,
leaving plenty of time for rest or
recreation. | would be a fool to work
for you fourteen hours and get no
more"
"Oh, indeed" said the farmer sar-
castically, you are quite a philosophi-
cal mule, you are; but knew your old
father when he wasn't quite 50 stuck
up and smart as you, and he was glad
to work fifteen and sixteen hours "a
day"
"Ah, yes" said the mule. but you
must remember my father was u
jackass.'
The bonanza farmer saw that the
mule was too much for him. and went
and talked with some of his neighbors
about it. when one of them said: "As
long as the mules can get at that grass
on the roadside they viii be independ-
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Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-09-10
DIRECT LEGISLATION.
Growing Exclusiveness as an Issue.
BY ELTWEED PoMERoY

BY ELTWEED POMEROE.
Few things better illustrate the
bid growth of Direct Legislation
In the clear vision of its exclusive
Is and the recent advocacy of its
blication to ALL reforms by its adj
ates. If d. l.. means anything.
means the submission to the people
The laws by which they are to be
Verned. If its advocates are Just
" must be as willing to submit the
orms they advocate to a vote of the
bile as they are DESTROYS of sub
ting the evils which they think
ir opponents uphold to a vote of
people. Direct Legislation is a
p-edged sword; it cuts both ways.
only wholly satisfactory to him
relies on educating the people
is willing to submit to their de-
lon till that decision is reversed
er fuller and finer education,
he man who says that before we
Direct Legislation, we must have
silver or the single tax or gov
ment banks or public control of
Plic monopolies is as illogical as
republican who says we must not
Re bimetallism until the nations of
Fope agree to it. Educate on all
Sc lines but be always willing to
INIT them to the people. ID. L. is
Exclusive issue not because it is
most important thing but because
the first thing to get. The grow
appreciation of this is shown by
three following quotations from
Oregon City Herald, the East
IAN Reformer and Equity of Spring
l. o. They are on opposite sides of
continent. One is populist, the
er has been prohibtiionist and the
I'd is independent, but they all
Zee in thought.
People willing and anxious to COR
/ existing legislative abuses can
found today in all parties. They
differ upon other points in politi-
economy, but on the right of the
ority to say yes or no on every
crtant issue before the people,
Fe is no difference of opinion.
We can unite the people of oregon
b this important question; if we
secure a legislature pledged to
ling in operation this method of
making, and the cooperation of
outside of the Peoples party can
ttaiEed, why should we refuse to
perate with them when by so doing
can adopt this grand principle in
gon?
there any populist, free silver re-
lican or democrat, who is not will
to submit free silver or any other
stion to the people in the form of
~: Is there any one of them who
ot willing to abide by the majority
on his bill? The Herald believes
re is not one. Then why not make
Patform declaring for the submits
} OF these questions TO the voters
he form of bills, and all get on
tpiatform? What great difference
it make who holds the Office, if
an honest man, provided he must
mit all important questions to the
ers, and obey the majority? The
fald believes the populists and all
FER Independent voters will support
POD ticket on that kind of a plat
pm. Oregon City Herald.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-09-10
To Foster Home Industries.

Below | give some comparative
freight rates, quoted from DR.. Tav-
lor's (Philadelphia) Medical World:
These rates, much lower from Eng
lish than from American factories.
show how strongly our
BRITISH OWNED RAILROADS
discriminate against American fac
tories:
On English crockery, Liverpool to
Denver, Col. per 100 pounds, Slip.
On American crockery. Trenton,
N. j., TO Denver, Col, per 100 pounds,
S1,53.
At one time the rate on tin plate
was as follows:
Liverpool to Chicago, per 100 lbs,
"A cents.
Philadelphia to Chicago, per 100
lbs, % cents.
From Liverpool and London to San
Francisco via New Orleans, per 100
lbs, $l.07.
VII luC SOONlS VI iiillNC
from New Orleans to San Francisco,
per 100 lbs, 1888.
ON FOREIGN BOOTS AND SHOES, CASH
MERES AND LACES, CONFECTION-
cry, CUTLERY, GLOVES, HATS AND
CAPS, BLANKETS AND LACES.
From Liverpool and London via New
Orleans to San Francisco, per 100 lbs,
$I.07.
On native goods of same descrip-
ton, per 100 lbs, $3.50.
EXPORT RATES.
During large part of the past year
says the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, the rate on grain from the
Missouri river to New York for eX-
port has been Is cents per 100 pounds
less than on the same grain for home
consumption. On single train load
of 800 tons, such as are said to be
hauled over the New York Central on
occasion, this discrimination in favor
of the foreigner against the citizen,
amounts to S5,400.
The New England road levies three
times as heavy tax on its local as,
on it's through tariff.
There has been great deal of talk
about the general decrease in freight
rates in recent years, bat Mr. Stuart
A. Knott, vice-president of the Louis
vile q Nashville road in his state
ment as to railway mail pay, made
April 1898, before the L. S. senate
subcommittee on appropriatlons,say
this is all mistake. 1t is true that
wages have fallen and as a rule
the prices of products have fallen,
but not so local freight rates nor pas
senger rates.
For instance, the rates from New
York to Chicago have been as fol-
lows:
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-09-10
THE CRY FOR BREAD.
No Time to Keep Clean or Fight Dis
case In the Unoeasing Struggle.

! Workers" now running in Scribner' 5
Magazine, Walter y. Wyckotf tells of
visit made to a Chicago sweatshop.
He was accompanying another work
ingman, whom he calls the Unionist.
The opened door revealed the GUS
tomaly sight of room perhaps 20
feet square, with daylight entering
family through two unwashed win
dows. which looked out upon The level
of the street. The dampness showed
itself in the dewlike beads along the
walls and upon the ceiling. which [
could easily reach as | stood erect.
In spite of its being winter the dingy
walls were dotted with black flies.
which swarmed most about a cooking
stove, over which, stirring a steaming
pot, stood ragged, disheveled wo-
man, who looked as though she could
never have known any but extreme
old age.
In the remaining floor space were
crowded dozen machines or more.
oyer which, in the thick, unventila-
ted atmosphere, we're the bending
figures of the workers. Oil lamps lit
up the inner recesses of the room and
seemed to lend consistency to the
heavy 'air. From an eye here and
there, which caught his in a single
movement. the Unionist received
| look of recognition, but not a head
was turned to see who had entered.
and the whir of feverish work went
on. unchecked for an instant by our
coming.
While the Unionist was talking to
I the sweater, | walked between the
close lines of machines over a floor
covered with deep accumulations of
dirt and shreds of cloth and broken
threads, to where, in a corner,a group
of girls were sewing. The oldest
among them may have been II, and
the youngest could have been little
over eight and their wages averaged
about 10 cents week for hours that
varied widely according to the stress
of work.
Near the corner was passage and
through it | could see into a small
room which had no window, nor any
opening but the door. There, in
perpetual darkness lit up by one oil
lamp, was a man who, for l2-and
sometimes for l5-hours a dav.
pressed the new made clothing for a
living.
1t was ladies' cloaks that the sewers
were making. OF course they worked
by the piece, and the best among
them could earn 81 in the day and
sometimes more by working over
time. They were very smart looking
garments and their air of jaunty sty-
lishness was a most incongruous in
trusion upon their surroundings
! When asked the Unionist for whose
trade they were being made. he SEEM
ed to think nothing of the fact that
he mentioned, in answer, one of the
! foremost merchant citizens of the
town.
We were on the point of leaving,
when a heavy football sounded on rhe
wooden steps and the door opened TO
the touch of an inspecting officer.
whose glowing health and neat. warm
uniform were As thouCh 4 prosperous
breeze we're sweeping the stagnant
room. The work. however. was as nm
affected by his coming as it had been
by ours. Not a sewer noticed him.
and the stitching of machines went
on with undated swiftuess. Only
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-09-10
RATES PER 100 POUNDS,

In but one case was there a reduc-
tion in rates, and that only 10 cents a
hundred, while in the eight other
cases the rates had been increased,
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-09-10

You can't eat and drink what
you've a mind TO, for you can't pay
for O.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-09-10

The trdnsCOntlntntdI rdtts 70 san
Francisco aud other Pacific Coast
points were largely increased in the
interval 1856 to 1898, and this al
though the cost of the business, ac-
cording TO the testimony of j. II. Nc
Cornell, of the Union Pacific road,
had in the meantime largely dimin-
ished.
The following is Mr., Knots SEIZED.
ule of transcoutinental rates:
RATES PER 100 POUNDS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-23
DIVISION OF GOULD'S WEALTH
VIII Occur i'm September, When
Frank Gould Comes of Age.

New York, Aug 23-George Gold, head
of the family of the late Jay Gould and
and guardian Of the millions left by the
hnancier, will arrive in New York from
Switzerland on September l. Within a
few days from that date Frank Jay
Gould the youngest of the children, will
come Of age, and then according to the
will of Jay Gould, the great fortune
must bedivided. That Will mark the end
/ of the estate left by the Wizard of
Wall Street" The securities will be sold
and each heir will get his share
1t will be the signal for great events in
the financial world. BY the middle of Sep
TENDER deals will be consumated which
I Will be of startling Importance. the
chief one being the consolidation OF the
Manhattan Elevated with the Metropoll-
tan Traction Company.
The Metropolitan has but one import
ant rival-the Third avenue-in its holding
. OF surface railroad franchises on Man
haitian Island. First by its cable roads
and then by the underground trolley Il
has eaten into the profits OF the Manhat-
tan Elevated and the inroads in future
promise TO be even more serious than
those Of the past
Il has been admitted for a long time
that the only hope of rehabilitaunz the
Manhattan Elevated was The Introduction
OF electricity as a motive power. Russell
Sage and Robert ". Galloway, both old
and conservative ananciers. and largely
interested IN ths property. have been
stumbling blocks IA tie way OF this in
pTovement
The financing 81 the Manhattan has rad
serious drawbacks The stock Is ssl 90. -
Opo. one half OF It being held by TIE Gould
and Sage interests. The Introduction Of
electricity would cost about s. no %
The consolidated mortgage IS 81 Dss 90
and funds under il have been used 20
tbs extent OF 81 90 90. So the only way
TO raise money for ,he new motive power
would b. to give tbs stockholders
chance to subscribe for new stock. and
OF sDch a request the shares zoald in
msdistely fan in price
But under i consolidation With Ire Met
ropolltzn Traction me difficulty would be
easily Fenedied by the formation 81 4
neE company % ccntr0l hota properties
such an operating company could have
al the money y needed
The crisis came saorf tire SE0. Wher
the report o. rhe Manhattan fer ire
quarter ending June - vas gwen out
!, was decidedly bearish, and + Is sid in
Wall Street 20 have been Ter OF; BY WASH
fzgto1 e Conner. ac1lag f0r ire Sage
Gould Interest fer TIE purpose g k25ek-
izg The bottom OFT o. me Ess-kss -
ttzi sfs stock could be picked 20 cae2ply
t5E future delivery % he Metropolitan
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-23
POOR GUNS, ANYHOW

Washington, Aug. 22.-Ordnance officers
are really relieved that they will not have
the care of small arms captured at Ma
Mia, which, by the terms of the surren-
der, are to be returned to the Spanish
soldiers when the evacuate the city. It
IS stated by officers of experience that it
would not be profitable for the United
States to secure ammunition SUPPLIES for a
different kind of gun, where there were
only small number. such as those cap
tured at Santiago, or which might have
been captured at Manila If fifty or one
hundred thousand stands of arms were
taken. then the Unitei tSates might work
profitably IN the matter of supplying
them with ammunition different from the
regular arm which has been adopted for
the troops and which are now in use. The
ordnance bureau had an opportunity to
select the Mauser when the Krag-Jorgen-
sen arm was chosen. The officers who
made the examination found defects in
the Mauser which gave the other gun the
preference. They believe that the intro
duction of a small number of small arms
into the army of different make and cali
bre would do more harm than good. and
that in the end the expense would more
than make up for the temporary saving
that might follow the use of the captured
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-23
of packing the archives is already go

of packing the archives is already go
ing on.
Senior Camo, the captain generals chief
of staff, has resigned. 1t is understood
he owns considera BILE property here. HIS
resignation is likely to be accepted.
Geographic communication with all
parts Of the island was opened yesterday
and permits granted to those who desire
to visit Ponce and other ports.
The Spanish authorities are doing every
thing possible to preserve order. One of
the first necessities on the part of the
Americans viii be a strong police force.
There is great anxiety here regarding
the probable changes in financial and ju
dicial matters. Reasonable haste is con-
sidered advisable.
The steamer Ibo bosch on Thursday
brought the first news since the blockade
There was an exciting scene when she
arrived
One paper here warns the natives that
the Americans are prejudiced against the
colored race.
It is still impossible for large ships to
enter the harbor, and there have been no
importations yet. There are some signs
of a scarcity of food stufrs.
General Macias this morning received a
long dispatch from General Miles. Both
agree to do the utmost TO preserve order
The generals communicate every day
about the news received from Washing
ton.
Many merchants have ordered extensive
importations.
The mines in the harbor are being
raised. The brigadier of marine is doing
all possible with a small staff to raise
the distractions at the entrance to the
pert, but he has no implements.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-23
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The Enormous cold Product OF 1885

This viii be the greatest gold year in
history. From South Africa, the Klon-
dixie and Australia the precious metal is
being shipped N large quantities. II IS
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-23
JOHN Bull CLAIMS
Uncle Sam as His Friend in
the Orient.
NOT EXACTLY AN ALLY
But They'll Be Partners When
Interests Coincide.
London. Aug n-rhe Manchester Guar

London, Aug. 1.-THE Manchester Guar
dian says:
I'VE undsrs tand that United States Am
bassador Hays recall to Washington. to
accept the post of secretary Of state, IS
due to his special fitness to carry out
policy in regard to which negotiations
have been proceeding for some time be-
tween Washington and London, and upon
which substantial agreement has been
reached whereby the two countries will
American and British interests are iden-
teal
There is no intention Of binding the
nations in an alliance. Each is 10 be free
to pursue its destinies in its own way, but
the governments will act together diplo-
mahcaIly where their common interests
are concerned
Washington, D. c., Aug. Pit was
stated in an authoritative quarter today
that Mr.. Hays choice was due solely to
his general fitness for the position, and
this without reference to or consideration
of the Chinese question. Beyond this. no
of the United States in the far east, but
all the indications point to continuance
of the past policy of protecting and fos-
tering our foreign interests. without en-
tering into alliances or joint undertakings
which entail semi-poAtical considerations
II is fully recognized by the authorities
here that the commercial interests of
Great Britain and the United States are
on somewhat similar lines in the far east,
and to that extent there doubtless will be
a mutually of action, but it cannot be
learned that the negotiations between
London and Washington have advanced
to the point of any understanding of joint
action. 1t Is matter of current COM
ment, however, unofficial in character
but expressive of general current of
sentiment in high quarters, that the
American trade in the far east is advanc-
ing in such giant strides that policy is
likely TO be ma tured at an early day suit
able to meet the exigencies created by
the partial dismemberment of China and
by the spread of foreign control over
Chinese territory, concessions, coast ports
and commerce generally There is no
doubt that overtures have been made to
have the United States take an active
hand in Chinese affairs. but so Tar as
can be learned this has not led to a de-
termination on a new and more active
policy toward the Orient, although it has
served to cali attention to the great extent
of our interests there, equaling and in
some cases exceeding the trade interests
Of Great Britain, Russia and other coun-
tries now actively contending for control
of Chinese commerce. Not long ago the
British embassy here made a report to
the foreign office on the growth of this
American trade in China, pointing out
particularly the Importance of the trade
to the future development of the Pacific
coast states.