Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-11-12

ality Colcny, skaglt County Wash.
motor as irresistible as is the grand
sweep of evolution itself
Clasping fraternal hands from out
the surrounding competitive battle
ground, our Brotherhood has begun
the glorious task of erecting. amid the
ruins of selfish and suicidal compe-
tition a new, orderly and harmonious
system of Cooperation, Ter s1ring
peace and plenty for all.
With this central thought, the state
of Washington was chosen and Equal
ity Colony founded, November 1st,
1897.
6O5 acres Of good land are now owned
by the Brotherhood, besides sawmill.
shinglemill, some iron and wood work.
ing machinery, houses, shops, tools,
wagons, stock and all the little things
essential to begin work. Our friends
are legion and are enthusiastic. The
difficulties of getting down to work
after having so long served in the
skies of Cooperative imaginings,
have been overcome in a great
measure
The Colonists will be provided with
the necessary machinery to enable
them to cope with the obstacles old
step-mother Nature has put in our
way to bar US out of her rich store
house. But StumpS and marshes van
ish before the implements of steam
and electricity and once the land is
cleared and industrial plants set going,
great forest will be metamorph0sed
into farms, meadows. factories and
residential grounds. Then man NAV
congratulate himself that the Coop
erative theory. long thought too good
to be true, shall have at last been
proven not only practical but the only
really sensible and efficient system of
industry.
The first year or two of our life as a
Brotherhood will necessarily be a
crucial test Many of our friends,
while really believing in the principles
of Cooperation, will hold off from us.
waiting to see if we are capable of
working out the grand new order
This of course is an unphilosophical
way for them to look at the move
ment. for we might say that perhaps
just the degree of assistance they can
render is the very factor that would
ensure success and to withhold it,
makes them partially responsible for a
failure here if any there should be.
But none of US are any too lOgjcal and
consistent and we often fail to see our
actions in the proper light. but the
Brotherhood is as certain to move on
to a practical demonstration of our
theory as truth is to finally prevail
over error, and as fast as we establish
industries cultivate fields. perfect our
system of government. and grow in
theBrotherhood spirit, so will our hest
tating friends become treasured and
offers of men, machinery and money
be showered upon us, perhaps to the
point of embarrassment.
Under general Corporation, the
demand for labor will be limited only
by the material desires of men. which
are practically without bounds aud SO,
every steamboat, pillow, engine AK and
all possible ways of creating wealth
will be called into action, making ne
cessities and luXuries for all.
Loosen the whitening grip of the
poisonous fingers of capitalism, and
labor viii bound up, glad, strong and
free, a giant of progress and true proS-
perity. Then we may beat our swords
into pillow shares and Danish the
specters of Want and Uncertainty. fu.
the industrial millennium has come
w. c. b. RANDOLpH.
Equality. Nov 4 49,.