Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-15

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Foreign-sent by members-Sl per year.
EDISON, SATURDAY, OCT. Is, '9S
When the rich rule, the poor must
groan in poverty.
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A bulging pocket book is the bull
wark Of liberty today.i
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We hear men prate of honor, they
sing of patriotism and wave banners
and then plumber the government.
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Rev. Candee Of Cleveland. Ohio ten
dered his resignation as National Or
ganizcr of the 3 c c. and it was accept
ed at the board meeting, Oct. y, 1898.
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Dispatches say that w. H. Harvey
is to take charge of the task, under
taken by a fusion of reformers, to de-
feat corrupt ring rule.
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operation, but political rights must
be secured by means of the Initiative,
Referendum and Imperative Man
date.
Our anniversary mum Der will give
history of Equality colony, review
the present stage of advancement
and present 4 forecast of this coop
erative movement.
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a subscriber asks US to define anar-
chy: 1t means living without law and
implies the absence of all need of
law. None but the pure, the true
and the unselfsh can live such life.
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BY recent order of the postoffice
department, money orders may now
be drawn in favor of the depositor,
and they will be refunded at the
pleasure of the holder. We would
advise everybody to make Uncle Sam
your custodian.
The rapid and constant increase in
number of workers taken in connec-
ton with the wonderful production of
manufactured articles, and the in
crease OF agricultural crops, is con-
vincing proof of the unjust and inc
quitable distribution of wealth.
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Our Illustrated number will contain
views of our apartment houses, din
ing hall, cabins, bakery, school
house, laundry, barn, and, if possible,
will include view of our mill.
All interested in learning of our
progress should order extra copies of
this edition.
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The p0or.deluded toiler will declaim
against paterualism, saying that gov
eminent control would destroy indi-
viduality and take away all incentive
to action, and then he will spend
months trying to secure a job in some
department. of government, or as a
last resort, join the army.
He can't see that his own actions
belle his arguments.
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The tOilers want masters, and get
them: they want to be humbugged.
and they are most of the time: but
those who are most willing to accom-
modate the people in these respects
are really their most dangerous enc
mies-they are vastly more danger
Gus than the Spaniards, however much
they may praise the flag or glorify
the president.
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Nov. lst, 1898. is the anniversary of
the birth of Equality colony, and in
commemOration of that vent, Indus
trial Freedom will issue an illustrated
number, giving views of colony build
ings.
All interested in the trials and tri-
umphs OF this pioneer attempt to es-
tablish the Brotherhood of the Co.
operative Commonwealth should or
der extra copies of the anniversary
edition for distribution among friends
and others.
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Boastful Americans assert that as
nation we are maryellously great
wonderfully generous strictly con-
scientious. and amazingly heroic, but
the quiet, sympathetic, level headed
citizen sees that this buster is in
tended to blind us TO the conse-
quences of faults which must end in
the destruction of our nation and soil
unless corrected. Tosee and condemn
evil is not pessimism. but our rude,
clustering, autocratic Office holders
denounce every mention of the abuses
of government as such and in this