Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-12-24
From the Visitor, Bangcr, Mich.

Wmle we are plOdding along over
this earth, each trying to secure some
thing to eat or wear or add to our
bank account where each is st1ug-
Cling for what he wants, SO thorough
ly engrossed as to leave no thought of
his neighbour where some barley exist
yet labor hard, while Others scarcely
labor yet live in luxury; where COM
petition governs all where some gain
only as Others lose; where political
trickery and bribery and questionable
business methods are the mark of
genius and thrift where blood
shed, strikes and race riots appall us
it may beinteresting to our readers to
learn of a community where things are
not so where the motives that ac-
tuate life are for the community, and
thus protecting the individual makes
all happy. a community whose slogan
is Homes for the homeless and work
for the unemployed"
Equality Colony of the Brotherhood
OF the Cooperative Commonwealth,
Belfast, Washington, was organized
under the laws of that state Nov. !
1897. Each family head paid a fee OF
$160, Others have joined and are still
going there, men and women from all
parts of the L. $ have contributed
small amounts and are still cOntribut-
ing. This colony numbers about 800
souls little and big.
No Observation-Disclosures the
business of this colony for al laws are
made by a direct vote of all nuder
what we call the initiative and refer
endum. They own in common over
GOO acres of land, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
etc, are bralny, energetic men and
women giving their lives and all they
have to the establishment of q social
and industrial system that will give
to the honest labOrer work without
begging for ii, q home with Landlord
to fear, community where crime is
unknown; schools where his child
rem are studied ann developed instead
of stuffed and dWarted In fact hereis
a living. breathing, successful dem
OnstratiOn that the only salvation for
thepoor manin this country is cooper-
alton. Read what these noble people
have written concerning themselves
and their work
"Clasping traterral hands from out
the surrounding competitive battle
ground, sOur Brotherhood has begun
the glOrions task oferecting. amid the
ruins of a selfish and suicidal eompeti-
ton, a new, orderly and harmonious
system Incorporation, onsuring peace
and plenty for all. Our Brotherhood
is an outgrOWth of The Sociahstic
agitation that has been going on for
years. We have stepped into the
breach made by improved machinery
throwing thousands of honest, capa-
bic men out of work and offer them
plan bywhich they can employ them
selves.
This is followed Dy very Hbearal
quotations from Brother Oliver p Darr
and Geo E Pelton's articles in illus
trated number
According to the Mt. Vernon cores
pondent of the Seattle Times a move
is on foot TO organize a cooperative
colony two miles east OF Mt. Vernon
similar to the one now established at
Edison twelve miles uorth of theis city.
Mr.. George Savage is at the head of
the scheme, which, he claims, is better
than that adopted at Edison. The site
for the new colony is on the high table
land two miles northeast of Mt Yer
non, comprised of 300 acres of fertile
land Mt Vernon Argus