Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-09-10
" Whate'er thou lowest. man,
That, too, become thou must.
God-if thou lowest God.
Dust-if thou lowest dust"
JOHANNES SCHEFFTER.
DEAR CHILDREN

| DEAR CHILDREN
We have had letters from the coun-
try and anout the country, and now L
am going to write you a letter from
the heart of a great city, so this will
| be sort of special letter for al
the little country girls and boys.
After going on the train to New
Whatcom, Washington, and sailing
down the beautiful Sound to Seattle.
! took the train there again, and
reached Chicago just six days after L
left Edison.
| won't write about the long Jour-
ney, except to tell you that ! saw a
wolf from the train when we we're
going through Montana. | was sit
ting on the step of the car, where I
love to ride. and feel the swift wind
against my face, when [ saw outlined
against the sunset sky, on top of a
ridge of ground near the track,
pretty grey wolf. He looked so much
like a dog, running along with his
bushy tail held behind him, that L
didn't believe all the bad things we
hear said about him, and | tried to
think this was a kind wolf, such as
Rudyard Kipling writes about.
| watched well, but ! didn't see any
more wolves. and on Saturday morn
ing we rumbled into Chicago, and
here | am upon the third floor of a
building that looks out on Michigan
avenue, where the sound of horses
hoofs, and the ringing of the bicycle
bells floats up from the street with
out any pause. The street is asphalt,
so the carriage wheels make no noise
at all, and it sounds as though every
one was riding on horseback.
thought had never seen so many
bicycles in my life before, and [
counted those that went by in five
minutes this morning, and between
ten o'clock and five minutes past /
counted 97-nearly 20 every minute!
When do you suppose so many bicy-
Giles will 90 by on the streets of
Equality:
This avenue is much like what I
think all the streets i'm all the cities
} will be when we have built our Co.
operative Commonwealth broad and
5 smooth and clean, with a plot of grass
E and a row of trees on each side of the
road. and whole blocks where there
are no houses at all ON one side Of the
. street. only green grass and howers
, and statues.
BY and by all the people win begin
to think that what it is nice for one
to have, it is nice for all to have who
want it, and no one will be content to
live in beautiful place himself unless
he is doing ali he can to make it pos
sible for everyone else to live in l.
beautiful place too. When all the
people feel like that, do you think it
will take very long to make all our
streets and cities lovely?
saw something else today that
made me think of the Cooperative
Commonwealth, although many peo-
pie don't realize that it is real social
ism-the big public library. That is
some thing that all little boys and
girls will understaud-how no one
person pays anything for going there
and reading and taking away books
to read, but all the people together
buy the books and keep the library
open so that it is free to everybody.
The man who pays only 81 in taxes,
can borrow out a. many books as the
man who pays out $1,000, and the
children who don't pay anything, can
use it as freely as the richest man.
Don't you think that is pretty good
socialism;
But | want to say to the little coun-
try children, and the little city child
rem, too, after spending five weeks in
the woods of Washington, and coming
back to one of the biggest cities in
the country, that I haven't seen any,
thing in all the city, and am sure /
shall not, that seems so beautiful to
me a. one of the giant frs of dear,
lovely and beloved Washington; nor
is there anything here. nor any posi-
bility of anything one-half SO beau
tiful, SO grand, and SO inspiring as the
view of Bellingham Bay from the top
of Equality townsite.
If the dear little people of Equality
can grow up to make it a. fair a city
within a. 1t may he without, they can
draw the eyes and the hearts and the
feet of all whom they will TO their
/ city. Lovingly.
SISTER HELEN
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