Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-09-17

The new barn is fast nearing con-
pletion. So near is it that we are al
ready hauling hay therein.
Comrades, now is the time for all
to put their shoulders in the collar.
Ii each one helps ever so little the
| load will be so much lighter.
If our carrots keep on growing
we will have to call on the stump pull
ling crew. But, without joking, we
have 'em ten inches around.
Socialists are great fruit consul
mers, which proves that they are in
the very fore front of civilization, as
fruit is the coming food of the COM
ing race.
1t would do you good to see Bro.
Willig hammering the beans out with
the old fashioned fail. We hope to
have better facilities for threshing
next year.
The stump puller is still doing
good work. Horse power is superse-
ding man power in stump pulling, to
be in it's turn superseded by steam or
electricity.
Bro. Weiland of Seattle has ship
ped 100 chickens to Equality from his
home, and is on his way with his dairy
herd and milk wagon, intending to
make a home with us.
We are all trying, in and out OF
the colony, to do our best to actualize
| the exalted ideal of socialism. Cour-
age, frmness, faith and perseverance
are needed. The future is ours.
The chickens have been put in
charge of Master Harry Ault. We
shall expect a little better order in
that depart in the future as
they have been running wild for some
time past.
This week there have been three
men and ten boys gathering beans.
We have quite a crop. The boys
work first class on truly socialistic
principles, ana woe to the boy that at
tempts to shirk.
The old song says when you want
honey you want money, but when
Equality wants honey we want Mon
Mich. don't know if Monnich has
the gift of second sight, but he seems
to know just where the bee trees are
located.
The new mill arrived sooner than
we expected. 1t was landed in Edi-
son Sept. It'll, and the machinery is
now being transported to Equality.
Bro. Tunmore, a late arrival from
Alpena, Mich, and an all around mill
man, says that the machinery is
nearly as good as new. Evidently Bro.
Fisher secured good bargain in the
purchase thereof.
We have now secured the apples
from three orchards toward furnish
ing us with a supply of fruit for the
ensuing year. One of these orchards
is on ground rented by us last spring;
in one we pick the fruit on shares,
and in the third we purchase the ap-
pies outright, gathering them our
selves. The total amount secured
from the three orchards will proba-
bly, be not less than from 500 to 600
bushels.
We in Equality realize that many
dollar that finds its way here comes
by way of hardest toll and close econ
omy and is held in sacred trust by us
to accomplish what the sender in
tended it for. We know that we have
men and women here that are devo-
ting every hour of their time, every
movement of their muscle, and every
thought that flashes through their
brain to the best interest of Equality
and all humanity. What grand and
noble warfare the uplifting of all
humanity. Then what matters it,
brother, if you fall in the stream, we
will build a bridge with our dead
bodies for others to cross and reach
the goal that surely lies on the other
side. Onward be the word. This is
no time to daily by the wayside. Not
a moment can be spared for idling.
We are in battle array, and for even
one to break rank and fall back forces
all others to make a greater exertion
in order to win the contest which
must be won and will be won though
millions go down in the frav. Let US
then be up and doing with a heart for
any fate, still achieving, still pursu-
ing, learn to labor and to wait.
To our Friends at Equality: