Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-11-26
ON THE TRAIL TO EQUALITY.

After saying adieu to our many new
friends at the bean dinner of the old
soldiers, at the Dos Polos Colony, we
started for MADEIRA county, stopping
at several points to expound the doc
trine of Socialism. Stopped at the
city of MERGED two days, it is the
home of DR.. Castle, the populist con-
gresham. | hope he will be elected
again today, as | have more than
passing interest in his success, as l
helped to nominate him the first time.
l was sent as delegate from San
Diego county to the populist conver-
ton at Sacramento, but when the
party Endorsed Bryan left them, and
continued my work in the Socialist
party, since being Socialist my work
has been for Socialism. In 1880 and
81, organized Socialistic sections in
Iowa and Illinois; then advocated it
when l formed over hundred assem-
blys of the Knights of Labor, in Kan
established National clubs in Oregon
and California. And Socialism was my
theme when l organized Farmers
Alliance in ten counties ofCalifornia,
: and, when the Peoples party was
started in this state, my guiding star
was yet socialism, and always will be
until it is established; or | climb the
golden stairs" ! find in my travels,
that the church people are the most
opposed to Socialism, because the
clergy preach against it. | tell them,
ttnf 1,c.,1 OF radical
cOmmuilisrn-andt that was taught by
the man Jesus, whose theachings ehey
profess to follow. l tell them to rly
mind, the most of the ninety thous-
and clergymen in the United States
preach, to keep people out of hell, (of
which the bottom was knocked out
long ago by Beecher) instead of
preaching such nonsence, ifthey would
preach to keep hell out of the people,
they would do more good; but they
want to blind the people so as to con-
troll them. Mariposa county used to
be a prosperous mining county years
ago, nearly every stream and gulch
has been washed over for gold. A
great detrilnent to this county is the
large land grant of IA, 900 acres, that
belonged to Gen. Fremont. A MeXi-
can general whom he had captured i'll
battle, gave it to him, if he would
allow him to escape, so goes the story.
We saw many abandoned mines, with
their mountains of debris, one large
dump of crushed ore, the English syn
dictate that owned it, was offered
$4,000 for it, but refused, it is claim
ed there is $S to the ton i'll this crush
ed debris. We gave our lecture in the
Good Templars Hall, of the Whiltock
mine, which was well received. They
have a large 20 stamp mill and EN-
ploy some 80 men, all cornish men.
The owners of this large grant, do
but little mining themselves, but will
not allow any others to mine on their
property We lectured in Cathey Val
ley on the night of election. Out of
So votes polled, only one for the So
cialist governor of the State, so that
one vote may save it from the fate of
Sodom and Gomorrah. This is a
great country in the mountains for
coyotes, since the bounty on their
scalps have been withdrawn. My le-
gal partner, (while we were quietly
sleeping in our wagon had her slum-
Der disturbed and her wits scared out
OF her, by the forty or more quartettes
of coyotes that drew near our wagon
to serenade us with their melodius
melodies. Our tiger cat Jerry, when he
hears them, rushes for his home 1.-THE
wagon) with his eyes as large as sau-
GERS, and his back and tail like a
brush and our dog Captain bowls in
sympathy. Enough for this time
Yours for Socialism and Co-opera-
ton. I. H. WHITE.
Cathey Valley, Cal, Nov. s, '9S.