Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-11-05

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that man would need timber
for fuel and other purposes,
IL hence he planted great forests.
And that there should be no danger of
mans exhausting the forests and
freezing, the Creator placed deep in
the earth great beds of coal; and see
ing mans wasteful disposition to de
stroy the timber and coal and freeze
to death at last, the Creator infused
into all material things a substance
which we call electricity-a powerful
substance which mankind cannot
waste. And in addition last, but not
least, our Heavenly Father causes the
earth to bring forth every year food
and raiment in sufficient quantities to
supply the wants of all his earthly
family.
Now, seeing that all the wants of
man were anticipated and provided
for, why is it that the great majority
are forced to take thought" and
worry all their lives about food and
raiment? Why is it that millions are
homeless, hungry, ragged and desti-
tute? 1t is because we have not
sought the kingdom of God and his
Righteousness" first.
His kingdom or governments based
on love. Earthly governments are
based on selishness. Competition is
the life of trade" as society is now
constituted. Every man for himself
Instead of working for each other we
work against each other. We must
substitute cooperation for compe-
titiOn.
We have vet to learn that boarding
and holding wealth never did nor never
can make man happy; but giving
and serving alonecan. tits a delusion,
anyhow, for man to think that he
can own anything independent of his
fellows. The very idea of property is
a delusion. Let us Illustrate: Some
talented man writes book, perhaps
n novel 1t brings him a fortune.
The dumb world admires and Won
ders, and says: what fortune he
has. 1t is his. He owes no one but
himself" Let us see. Who nursed
him when baby? Who clothed and
cared for him when boy? Who wrote
the books he studied? Who built the
schoolhouses or colleges where he was
educated? Who taught him at school
or college? Who taught his teachers?
Who taught the people to read that
bought his book? Above all, who
gave him his talent, his power to
write and think and reason? Man in
dependent, What delusion, Heowes
az to society and to God.
Take Rockefeller and his pals. BY
the most selfish, heartless and Internal
methods ever devised or practiced out
side the pit of endless woe they have
the entire control of ali the oil trade.
They could shut out the light from
millions of houses. Their income is
fabulous. Now, suppose the world
should go back to the old tallow-can-
die, or the old iron lamp. where would
Rockefeller's income be-
don't say we ought to retrace our
steps, but use this illustration TO show
how dependent men are, even the rich
est, on each other. The human race
is one family. They have one common
Father. They have the same or SINH
lar wants-food and clothing. Society
ought to be so organized that every
member would know that his wants
would always be supplied. Then there
would be no need of anxious thought,
no need worrying But asitisnow,
everybody is afraid the other fellow
will get 1t all and he willcome to want.
The rich man gets his wealth from
the poor He renders no equivalent.
Rents, interest and profits are legal
ized robbery. The one who grows
rich by these methods (and there is no
other way to accumulate millions)
must of necessity feel that he is above
the poor, a superior being, made out
of better dirt than the mudslls, toilers
who produce his wealth. And our
system ofgovernments and laws based
on covetousness, develops the bad
part of mans nature We preach love
and vote and practice hatred We
pray for the millennium to usher in,
but we don't want it, for we are afraid
1t would be a system OF socialism. So