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The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-12-08
NEAR RELATIONSHIP.


Clarence. --Algy claims to be
rectly related to Lord Littlehead.
Ethel: Dear me ! How is that ?
Clarence Why, the same girl
promised to be sister to both Of
them
I - A PROLIFIC INVENTOR.
"I guess that man has invented
more airships than anybody else in
the business.
!, Il shouldn't have taken him for q
scientist" - &. ~ I
t'He isn't one. He q rural CORE
spondent for western newspaper.
SYMPATHETIC.
Yes" said the young man, Glitter
hry work is very fatiguing.'
Z should imagine so, replied Miss
Cayenne. ''When Irealize that some
authors have to keep their minds on
the stuff they write l feel positively
sorry for them" 'aH.
DEFENDING HER AGE.
"You have to tell your age When
you register, don't'you, George ?"
"Yes. = ~
"And whether you are married OF
not ?" %fTs
: eyes" ~ -
"Well, for my sake, please, George,
tell them that bm your second wife
and that you married me late in life. y
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-12-08

K. Rouse; Surveyor, A. J. Ladner.
CHANoERY COURT, SECOND D1srR1or-
Chancellor, n. G. Hill Regular
terms, first Monday in January and
July, six days. -
CIRCUIT CoURT, SECOND DIsTR1cTN
Judge, T. A. Wood. Regular terms,
third Monday in April and October.
Walter A. White, District Attorney.
SuPERv1soRs.-J.A A Moody, presi.
pent; G.: W. Smith, p E. Williams,
W.. G. Stewart, j. A. H. Smith.
MErHoD1sr--Rev. W. H. Huntlsy, pas
tor. Services first and third Sun
days in each month. Sunday school
$50 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes-
daY NIGHT. t- f''
BAPTIST CHURcH-Rev. w. B. Hol
comb, pastor. Services second and
fourth Sabbaths Sunday school II
a. m. Prayer meeting Thursday
night. rss rri .
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-12-08
WIT AND HUA0R
Up'to-Date Jokes and W-'.ieisms From ;h:j
Comic Papers. - .fAl q

totA. e. THE HAPPIEST MAN. H7G s.
Who is the happiest man E? - 5eN1
Is 1t he who is wealthy and great :?
Is it he that is doing the best that he
can,
Or he that governs the State ? -.
Is it he that has won fair maid for
his own, w NJ . s' ''''
Or the warrior who makes his foes
- scatter ? '. ~ p
No, no; it is he who is sitting alone
With woman who knows how to
tlatter.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-12-08
.,..ssle, OF Plaes Ours. |.

| Some questions having risen as to
Che own erships Of the Isle of Pines,
south. Of Cuba, tits stated the agree
mett with She Spahiardst 9expressly
provifed that the islands Immediately
Sdjacent to Cuba. and Porto ~sRioo,
shoa II he scedel2- -tep tlo< U4itsa StAtqA
u O - 20 &.4x L - = ysTFSv,l
/ xewhyrt olas ssdse =. sans " "
Cphmol ldp Philip y Norfolk has
beea a defed send bis Hagship t9s
Il Eew Y6rk,s Hoyana Immediately. 1t,
is not, kn own whether anyiother1 ships
.~ifsbe sent to- Citba Upon the arri-
val ~, the New Fork at IHavsne, AZ
n miirsl sampson win syesnhs hissdpties11
ss .ceipSn66sE 81 II st6e Nartaa Atlan At tie .
asainiwin shoist his nag
on the New Fork es-' '"s'>'' =.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-12-08

NJ esHsEs BILL. t.
r'ovid~ ~ Asksiar s,sndinsxi Z ArFs
.MsSK50& 4OO, 900 Men. S~,
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ps0ykng for reesplsr standing arm <,
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tnn, .nl ps9gmS Asrsu-s gafizatio4ls OF
sei w;.a y 'eetspanisss -toswthc regiment;
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susnt naaa for each company in Gaze OF
S0u n'' LOT that, o6i9er r II win confirm
aepo provision forsa Staff corps, nrgelyaif
Of VJSa 'ra apass ! with thsU sUecommendatispps
\, .ao US ads OF the vari us bureans, as
rs0.'a rroMaended " sthem'in theif hnnual
ssports,xzxx .ssss. .x:t'f9 Aegssll
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-12-08
CITY DIRECTORY.

r COUNTY DIRECTORY
Chancery and Circuit Clerk, n. Bat
son; Sheriff, ", T. Scott; Treasurer.
J. L. StraRan; Assessor, G. w. Bill
bo; Superintendent Of Education, H.
K. Rouse; Surveyor, A. J. Ladner'
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-12-08
HIGHLY SENSITIVE.

IAN going to report that post office
:clerk; Indignantly exclaimed the
young woman with ink on her fingers.
"He always seemed very polite, "
said her companion.
:. "Well, he isn't. What business
has lie to try to criticise my writing +?
When Invent to mail lot 'of poems
he asked if they weren't second-class
matter" ; .u'3T Al4
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-12-08

IF this is your Indian summer, "
growled the refugee from Mississippi,
blinking dismally and drawing Ahis
rain coat tighter about his shivering
form, II know what Indian it was
named after" A ,.-.'.-- ~.
well ?" said the curious citizen.
"Rain IN .the-faca 2" 3 a rs
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1898-12-08
- uNNEcEssARY QUESTION,

81
! .Iambkin--But, really, is there any
money in this thing you are pushing
30 ,energetically 3 ~ 3. .ssf y p
: W0lfson There will. le, my, dear
fellpw, syhep the subscriptions for the
etoek come lR'Ji, >ei o. aed a. p
.,l,s4 s,NosCoNsoLAfIoM..'a its' sa
I ..'There' IN o 1se' in being a.scour-
aged, I, vetor,3s' said his young wife.
Remember that when .Miilliami Gull
len Brysnt began toswrite he gotonify
50 apiece for-his- poemss u'-.-.s,
!, %0nly ST. exclaimed -'the strues'
Cling young litelary epius. ithshitsr
emphasis on the ''oniy = II l could
get 81 apiece for my poems, Alabella,
I could make $40 . dayl"
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
COOPERATIVE INSURANCE.

We now have over 5000 worth of
property liable to destruction by fire.
Such loss would seriously cripple our
work, In a few weeks we will have a
system of waterworks affording much
protection. AT present we have no
protection at all. Hence we call on
each of our more than 5000 members
to subscribe for as many OF the 81 shares
of insurance fund as he can pay on
short notice. No money is to be paid
in: but in case of fire each will be called
on in proportion 10 the amount of his
subscription. Send in your letters at
once, stating how much you will take.
We don't want TO pay extortionate
rates to the old-line companies. and SO
ask our own members to carry this risk
on their own future homes. There will
thus be no expense at all, except in case
OF loss, and then merely enough money
to replace. n. w. LERMOND, Sec.
HELEN NJ. MASON. Treas.
{. II. SwIGART. NJ. w.
+. +. NOLAN, Distributor.
w. II. KAUFMAN. Editor.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
BRITAIN RULES THE WORLD-AND
STARVES HER CHILDREN.

Sir John Gorst lately told parliament
and the people of Great Britain that
one great obstacle to education in that
country was that children very fire.
quently attended school in "a condition
in which they were not capable of re-
ceiving instruction. There was the
army of half-timers: how could child
who worked in the morning from an
early hour come to school in a fit state?
And there were children also who
worked longer hours than under the
factory acts" and attended school the
full time. Then there was the very
sad case of the children who came to
school starving. Although the benevo-
lence of private individuals. and not
seldom of the teachers themselves, had
done a good deal to remedy this, there
were no doubt many children who came
to school breakfastlcss. And to attempt
to put education into their minds was
not only waste of time. but positive
cruelty - commonwealth.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
The Dreamer.

The survival of the fittest' crowd
take great comfort in, and success
fully silence, the weak-kneed Social
list (?l with the blunt You are a
dreamer Edward Bellamy, kall
Marx, John Ruskin, Wendell Phll-
lips, ct al, of social seers were
"dreamers." So were all of our most
able poets. The greatest minds OF
all ages have seen in our competitive
system that which would but develop
the nature of the hog in mankind;
that which renders the human nature
inhuman-dead to the wants, needs,
suffering, woe, ignorance and squalor
of thy brother" They have seen in
this root hog or die" plan the
breeder of crime. the father of lies.
the incubator of monstrous human
demons-tilchers. vultures: the propa-
gator of discussion, jealousy, envy,
hatred, strife-which all generates a
wanton disregard for the lives of
comrades. Comrades They who
would silence us hate the term.
The ''dreamers" have dreamed out
better and more brotherly system
cooperation, and since Life today
is but the dreams" of yesterday
crystallized we are living out the
dreams" of our forefathers in pro-
portion as we have become conscious
,realized) the truth of their revela-
tions.
Now whose dreams shall we crys-
tallize? The dreams" of those whose
only motive is GRASP and grab,
whose trademark is the S? Or those
whose teachings champion Brother
hood, Love and Truth?
If we continue to allow the rotten
rich to do all our dreaming" for us
the future will be worse than the
past. The wage slave has no time tC
dream" therefore the man of lei
sure only has finger in the shaping
of destiny. You know if the mud
stills do get to dreaming they rise VI
and walk in their sleep, and are shot
down.
This spurs me on more than any
thing else to work for the ushering
in of a cooperative commonwealth
wherein all can dream" and interests
be common: wherein money has lost
its evil influence on the human soul
and men can look to brotherhood and
freedom of the race for self-interest
instead of claiming thy brother tC
stack oats in order to prosper thy
self.
Give us dreamers and dreamers anC
dreamers. Let us ali dream for the
uplifting of humanity.
a. 7. MCDONALD.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13

PROF. PARSONS IDEAL.

In a recent address at Alma, Kan,
Prof. Parsons expressed very clearly
his ideal of d perfect state.
He said: THE Cooperative Com
monwealth IS coming" and explained
it as the public ownership of monopo-
lies. land. railroads. water and gas
works, etc.: the formation of groups
for voluntary cooperation when de-
sired .creameries, evaporators, bake
ries, etc. and individual ownership
and operation of what is purely pri-
vate gardens, and all tools and ma
chinery to be used by members of one
family,
Prot. Parsons does not believe at
all in TIE common ownership Of every
thing with its accompanying military
organization of society.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
a City of Refuge.

| received all the back numbers of
Industrial Freedom, which have been
read with much pleasure, and through
them | hope to keep en- rapport with
Equality and the Brotherhood in gen.
eral. regret very much not being
in condition to join the pioneers,
but my best wishes are with them.
May heaven smile upon and bless you
all in your new home. which | hope
will not only prove true and lasting
home to you but also prove to be a
city of refuge to which the down
trodden sons and daughters of toll
may flee for refuge from the bond
age of wage slavery.
Pennsylvania. Andrew Scott.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
Socialists Everywhere.

| am glad to know that the colony
is prospecting. Surely our cause is
triumphing over the minds and hearts
of men. People are beginning to see
in the practice of socialism rather
than by political action the means
by which we can arouse the masses.
Socialists are to be met with more
frequently than formerly. / had sup
posed that | was the only socialist in
this neighborhood, tut upon talking
with neighbors have found several.
The carrying on of the war is a great
object lesson in socialism. The pool
ing of interests by the rich is another.
The people are beginning to see that
a trust is a good thing if all only
get in.
Kansas. c. j. Goodrich.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
Yes; There VIII Be More.
r. G. Bertrand.

l. | should like to join the colony, but
am not now financially able to give
more than a small amount each
month. | know that just now every
little helps and [ will join If I can
meet the payments. Received the
papers sent for all O. X. There are
a few "bretheren" here out of 500 or
600 men. There will be more when
the movement becomes popular.
Washington. H. c. Wallace.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
Greatly Rejoiced.
O. j. Gibbons.

! am greatly rejoiced ito see the
progress the colony has made and
wish could help more. am paying
for real estate on monthly payments,
and have about a year longer before
| will be able to do more financially
for the colony than ! have been 50
far. l have to work every day, but
manage to distribute p Coming Ma.
tions and % Industrial Freedoms
weekly and solicit members evenings
for the b G. c.
California. G. II. Cushman.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
And the Editor Says ME Too"
w. +. Rausch.

And the Editor Says ME Too"
I have long watched your moving
forward through the columns of the
Coming Nation and have earnestly
wished you and Ruskin every success
possible, and now that you print a
paper | want to get in closer touch
with you and your work, and there
fore enclose money order for 81 for a
years subscription TO your paper. I
think few suggestions from the
readers of paper sometimes help
to make the paper more interesting
and therefore suggest that the Colo
ny Notes be kept up, even giving the
smallest details as what you are do
ing, how you manage, the number of
members, etc. Each little item is
devoured by us who are on the out
side watching you with interest. col
ony Notes will make more friends and
converts TO the cause than anything
know Of, so keep Gem" coming. /
have found that out from experience
when trying to enlighten some one
about the workings of socialism.
l am preparing to visit Ruskin next
month and only wish that could visit
you also. Again | wish you every
success.
Tennessee. Gus A, Lawson.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
4 I Z

A Difference. In order to kill a few
hundred Spaniards, there is need of a
railroad to transport cannon in Cuba.
The government sells bonds for cash,
builds the railroad, the guns are
trans ported, the Spaniards killed
and Shylock shouts Bravo" In or
der to save 10000 Kansas farmers
from mortgage sharks. there is need
of 4 railroad to transport their corn
and wheat to tidewater at cost. But
when il is proposed that. as in the
building of the Cuban railroad, the
government sell bonds and with the
cash build u railroad from kansas to
the sea" Shylock tears his hair and
howls "Confscation." "Anarchy"'
Queer chap is Shylock.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
Success to The Colony.

| am doing all | am able to gain
converts to the cause. Enclosed
please find 81 which you will appro-
pirate to my and wifes fees. | also
send 30 cents for which you will please
send me Industrial Freedom. Success
to the colony. May they succeed in
making Washington a Social Democ-
racy in a very short time.
Arkansas. r. G. Bertrand.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
i I i

WE often hear men complain OF be-
ing "out of work. as though it was a
great evil. Yet these same men are
bending every thought to amass sui
tcient property to be permanently
''out Of work" Let us stop this cant
about our dread of being ''eut of
work. and say honestly that we fear
being outof food" or 'out'of clothes"
If work" is the thing looked for,
several million people may apply at
once at the Office of Industrial Free
dom. Bat if the men are looking for
an opportunity to get food, clothes
and shelter for themselves and their
babies with the least possible amount
of labor, let them not say they are
looking for work" To be looking
for work is truly noble thing, wor-
thy of Christian or patriot. 1t is a
noble thing to seek to provide for our
own-but no good can come from say
ing we are hunting "work" when we
are only hunting grub
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
The Need Of a New Method.

for socialism in France and Germany
must have brought home to the minds
of all American socialists the con-
trast between our own political or
ganization and that of our comrades
on the continent of Europe. Here in
America, where our industrial devel-
opment is daily affording us unim-
peachable witness to the economic
truths of socialism, and where the
issue between socialism and capital
ism, public ownership and monopoly,
is more clearly defined than in any
other country in the world, socialism
can only poll its tens, while in Europe
it is polling its hundreds and thous-
ands. Many of us have felt for some
time that socialism in the United
States was not making the Roadway
which we had a right to expect, and
it behoves all who have the progress
of our movement at heart to seri-
ously consider the reasons for the
present reaction, as we'll as our hope
for the future.
Causes far deeper than the present
war are combined to retard the on
ward march of the socialist forces.
The greatest enemies of socialism
are not the democratic and republi-
can politicians who oppose us, but
NrI n
are unworthy of the traditions of the
cause. Ill-natured men within our
organizations are making socialism a
peg upon which to hang their per-
sonal hatreds. Others would degrade
socialism to a mere economic husk,
robbed of all the moral enthusiasm
which alone will make possible the
acceptance and realization of the So
cialist ideal. A movement which is
based only on self-interest will never
conquer the world.
What we need above all else is a
presentment of the socialist position
economic and moral-that shall be
entirely freed from the side issues
that clog our heels today. The
preachers of the new gospel must be
men and women "sans peur ct sans
reproche:" who are ready to exem-
plify in their own daily lives the
moral principles for which socialism
stands. 1t is not matter of surplus
value" nor of "class consciousness, "
nor of numerous other issues, but of
brotherhood versus competition, OF
socialism versus commercialism.
Hair splitting arguments regarding
the exact amount of the product APP
propriated by the capitalist, or the
desirability of the equality of wages,
may safely be relegated to back
place in our propaganda. The ques-
ton we have to ask the American ma
ton today is: Shall the trusts own
the people. or shall the people own
the trusts?
Socialism in its essence is so ra-
tional and inspiring and its position
so impregnable, that one cannot but
feel that no greater damage can be
done to the cause than by perpetu-
ally wasting time and temper over
debatable side issues which are not
of the least Importance. Every hui
name man would wish to abolish pow
erty. Every man and woman in our
community, without exception, de-
sires to live a secure and happy life
amid pleasant and beautiful surround
ings. Let us but show that socialism
wilt guarantee to all security, happi-
ness and beauty, and our battle is
won. the cause of socialism will
sweep across the American continent
irresistible, inyincible.- Leonard ID.
Abbott.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
Feels Proud of the Paper.
Andrew Scott.

Have just received your favor of
the 22d ult., explaining reason for my
failure to receive the early copies of
Industrial Freedom, and which is
quite satisfactory. | have received
the package of back numbers you
mention sending in place of those
miscarried and for which please ac-
cept thanks. | had felt lost, so 10
speak, without them, and though
received them but yesterday | have
read most every word in them. | feel
proud of our journal. l am also
pleased to see the progress making in
our colony, ana while am with you
cherish the hope to soon be of you.
Put me down for 81 on that insurance
proposition.
Ohio. w. Z. Rausch.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13

Makes Thousands of Socialists.

wish 10 call the attention of your
readers TO the very efficient work G.
II. Lockwood of Cleveland is doing
with his Wagon Mission" He says
his mission has made thousands of
Socialists during the past year in its
trip from Cleveland down through
the Southern states and back again
through Indiana and Illinois, and
Judging from his fine work here in
Toledo am fully persuaded to be-
lieve it.
He j. thorough in his Socialist
teaching. and has too much good to
recommend to the people 10 take
time to abuse anybody; so he does not
of md anyone, but edifes all, and
pleases everybody who are not OPP
posed TO the truths he teaches.
There Is no mission work. no kind
of propaganda work, that can accom-
plish 80 much, at so little expense,
excepting tue wear and tear on the
workers. a. this same kind of wagon
mission work. II goes right to the
people and reaches and helps thous-
ands who would never go into hall
to hear and would never read a word
of our message, We ought to have a
thousand such Wagon missions.
WIZ not all our friends aid these
people in their work They are
not asking aims. they only ask liberal
patronage and help in their work.
All communications 10 this wagon
mission should be addressed to Nellie
NJ Beardsly us Society for Saving
Building Cleveland, Ohio.
GEO CANDEE
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
Best Paper He Has Seen.


Have received Industrial Freedom
since it's first issue, having sent in a
three months subscription in time to
receive the first copy. In my judg-
ment it is the most helpful paper l
have ever had the pleasure of read
ing, and | have read many. 1t is full
from first to finish with grand and
noble thoughts.
Colorado. H. N. w.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
A Missionary.
Ivar Sabo.

A Missionary.
Please send few copies of Indus
trial Freedom to me for four weeks,
beginning soon as possible. | am in
a railroad building camp, and there
is a chance for missionary work: be-
sides | am quite anxious to know how
the b G G prospers, and the state of
things at Equality, where | spent
several pleasant days, and hope to do
as much again sometime.
Washington. O. j. Gibbons.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
To the Extent of Their Ability.

need hardly say we all wish God to
speed the pioneers in their arduous
task and our aid shall not be with
held to the extent of our ability. In
my last gave my name to the Insu-
rance fund for ten dollars, but it APP
pears not to have been noticed.
Yours for better life in this our
world.
Washington. J. G. Smart.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
A Brighter Outlook.
H. N. W..

Put me down for a 81 share in the
insurance fund. Since have become
a member of the Brotherhood every
thing has brighter outlook for me.
1t is great feast enjoy every week
when | read the Industrial Freedom.
| am:working hard so as to be able
soon to commence paying on my colo
ny membership.
Ohio. II. A. Voight.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
How 10 Send Money.

In making remittances. send Post
Office Money orders for amounts of
one dollar and upwards; stamps will
be accepted for smaller amounts. In
no case send bank drafts or checks.
We will not accept them.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
B. C. c. Buttons.

Lapel buttons of beautiful design
bearing the letters b. c. c. are worn
by our members to advantage. Blue
buttons, for the children, white for
women. and red for men. at 20 cts.
each, cuff buttons % cents per pair.
Order today, National Secretarv's
office, Edison. Wash.