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The record-union., 1898-12-18
THE BOY OF FIFTEEN.
A Suggestive List of Gifts Suita-
Bile for Youths.

NEITHER MAN NOR BOY
What shall we get for him? At
first thought you worry, but look
around. Things that are suggest
i've Of half work and half play arc
particularly appropriate to this
age. If Of an artistic turn, draw
ing pencils and instruments, a
good box Of paints, good books on
art subjects. IF fond of athletic
sports, boxing gloves, striking bag,
football, baseball, catcher's glove,
etc. Acceptable gifts to any boy
are cuff buttons, a pocket knife,
watch chain, scarf pin, neckties,
handkerchief and gloves, umbrel-
La, suspenders, socks, shirts, coll
lars and cuffs, muller, slippers,
socks, sweater, purses, brush and
manicure sets, an inkstand and a
pen. Then the books-hundreds of
books, the delight of the live,
growing boy. A few minutes at
our Book Department will bring
to light the very book he wants.
The record-union., 1898-12-18
Baron f. j. de Rothschild Dead.

LONDON, Dec. 17.-Baron Ferdinand
James de Rothschild, M. p, is dead.
He was the second son of the late
Baron AlphonSo de Rothschild. He
married his cousin, Evelina, sister of
the first Lord Rothschild. He was a
member of Parliament in the Unionist
interest for Yalesbury.
The Baron was an intimate friend Of
the Prince of Wales. 1t was during
the Princes last visit to Waddeson.
near Aylesbury the seat Of Baron
Rothschild, that he injured his knee.
The Baron was a lavish host, and en-
tertained the Queen in 1890. His death
was sudden. 1t was supposed he was
only suffering from a cold.
The record-union., 1898-12-18
GIFTS FOR BROTHER.
Pretty and Useful Articles for
His Room and Personal Sn


His Room and Personal Use.
Your big brother would prcba-
bly, be pleased with almost any
one Of these: A cane, an umbrella,
pocket knife, a pipe, cigar
box, a collar and cuff box, a silver
mounted clothes, hat or hair
brush, tooth brush and manicure
implements, pictures and books, a
pillow for his lounge, paper
knife, inkstand, paper weight,
pencils, a gold pen, a box Of fine
papeterie, studs, cuff buttons, scarf
pin and clasp, a fob and charm, a
match box, a book mark, blotter
and ink eraser, pen holder, pen
wiper, shaving brush and soap,
strop, kid OF warm gloves, sus-
penders, neckties, a dress suit case,
a muffler, half dozen linen hand
kerchiefs or silk, collars, cuffs,
leather slippers or felt, a pocket
book or dressing case, a dress suit
case, a warm and pretty house coat
or smoking jacket, a sweater, a
bath robe, q fancy calendar, ink
well, opera glasses, cuff buttons,
shirts, socks, an album and a
diary for '99.
The record-union., 1898-12-18
BITTER WORDS
OF SENIOR RIOS,
The Spanish Peace Commissioner
CritiCises Americans.
Says That Our Actions Have Been Those of
'Upstart Cunquerors.

Asserts That President Mckinley
Changed His Policy After the
Protocol Was Signed, and
Claimed the Philippines by
Right OF Conquest-Is Greatly
1rritated Because the Question
as to the Responsibility Of the
Maine Disaster Was Not Sub
mitted to Arbitration.
The record-union., 1898-12-18
ROYAL ssx;ss fsxcxs
" ABSOLUTELY PURE
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome

ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW yoak.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-29
COOPERATION OR WAR.

While Equality colony may not in day
solve the problem of right living-getting
the most out of life, i. e., propagating within
reach of its inhabitants the largest spirit
growth possible-it can and does in measure
consistent with the financial ability of the Or
ganization and the capacity of the individual
to wisely grasp the opportunity of leisure. set
him free to work out his own salvation. But
the idler who designs to live off the toll of
others should stay out in anarchy where he
can less conspicuously be parasite upon the
lean body of Labor. If did not believe in
the intellectual and spiritual possibilities of
high attainment under well systematized CO.
operative living for the least as well as for the
greatest, | would not waste pen-stroke
writing about it. From experience of the past
we know that the war spirit sleeps but ftfully
We know that at any sunrise the Intoxicating
call ITO Arms may sound around the world
and render the average citizen, the common
voter and everyday sort of man who makes
up our ignorant, unreliable majority, that re-
morseless, irrational and dreadful thing-a
war maniac! What have they who do not
want our social troubles settled by extinction
that is what science applied to inventions of
engines of destruction has made the CORY
word War mean today-to do that the i'm
pending crisis may be passed without the
wanton sacrifice of that sacred thing that gov
ernments can take but cannot give-human
life. Simply, as | see it, evolve a condition
of peace. How? First, last and all the time
by self-culture of every noble and altruistic
attribute of the spirit.
Second The efficiency of this. it is granted,
is experimental, but SO far in history nothing
better has been offered-by communal living
Every colony should be rousing headouar-
tiers for the Peace Angel. Labor would far
better unite and cooperate with such means
as it has in the way of machinery. employ the
labor check as medium of exchange and 90
to work for itself, peacefully leaving the ac-
cumulations of wealth to the possession of
men who by fair or foul means have acquired
them. Teacher, producer, man and woman
of the great middle and lower classes $50 call
ton, or it is face the gatling gun, system
of cooperative colonies in successful opera
ton would make it possible for every worker
in the word-the mind tolers foremost in the
ranks-tO quietly walk out of my lord 5 and
my lady's employ and leave that barnacle on
our Ship of State-the capitalist classic do
that most soul culturing thing upon it.
self. Ten Thousand sacks of gold cannot
evoke dinner.
SARAH WNRD TEMPLE.
Equality Colony Wash
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-29
B c c STEAMBOAT.

"If you only had a steamboat" We have
heard that remark a thousand times at head
quarters during the last six months; we have
heard it so often and from SO many persons
and sources that we have concluded that we
MUST have that steamboat
Reason No l. The freight TRANSFORMATION
for the B G. and the colonists has cost rs
directly and indirectly hundreds of dollars,
and nearly every fraction of that amount has
been lost to our treasury. Had we owned a
boat hundreds of dollars would have been
saved and earned and added to our excheouer.
Reason 3 The business of TRANSPORTATION
on upper Puget sound is one of the most lucra-
tive of all the local industries. Tons and
thousands of tons of oats and hav and other
produce are to be transported this fall and
winter from point to point along this coast,
and the competition in this grain-carrying
trade seems to be exceedingly slight. Why
should not the B C C get large share of this
remunerative business?
Reason ). Think of the effective propa-
ganda that B G G teamboat, bearing the
banner OF Industrial Freedom. and plying up
and down, and in and out. and all over the
waters OF this magnificent Puget Sound. must
OF necessity accomplish. What a splendid
adjunct to the mission wagon on land would
be the mission boat upon the sea.
With $500 in the steamboat fund the B G.
could complete arrangements for the pur-
chase or building of a suitable boat. Already
we have on our list of B G c members num-
Der of persons capable of constructing and
running our boat-ship carpenters, marine
engineers, machinists, pilots, ETC. All we
now need is the money.
If the members of the Brotherhood want
that boat surely there should be no delay or
difficulty about getting it as soon as the asso-
citation quickens to a knowledge of its needs.
If every member of the B c c subscribes 80
cents or more to this fund we shall easily
have sufficient sum to permit lis to procure
our steamboat at once.
DO WE WANT A BOAT?
Send us your subscription and your sug-
gestions.
The local union or the individual member
that does most to procure for us the necessary
amount to purchase our steamboat shall have
the privilege of naming this B c vessel of
Socialism.
Send remittances to National Secretary B
c c, Edison. Wash.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-29
A FEW THOUGHTS.

The only way to regulate a natural mono
poly is for the people to own it,
Gold has less actual utility than almost any
other metal, yet goldbugs talk forever about
the intrinsic value of gold.
Some men have more faith in the corrupt
politicians of their party than they have in
the great body of the people.
If the people could vote on each law separ-
ately, they would get over the habit of swal-
lowing platforms in lump.
The man who will not change his opinions
for fear the people will laugh at him is
liable to be laughed at for his stubbornness.
Those who are hunting for standard of
value" are having as hopeless search as
those who sought for the fountain of youth.
Money is only the representative of proper
ty. VIII anyone tell us why the representa-
tive of a thing should have greater rights
than the thing itself?
Railroads which cannot afford to provide
devices to protect the lives of their employees
can always afford lobby to protect the
pockets of their stockholders. Thomas +.
Watson,
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-29
THE CARS PEACE CONFERENCE.

lcannot forbear lifting your thoughts for
moment to wider horizon than our own: that
larger circumference that binds us in one
family with all the nations of the world
From one of them has lately come a message
so strange, so unexpected aud above all. so
profoundly significant, that it does not seem
easy to eXaggerate either it's importance or
its timeliness. | am speaking of course, of
the recent ukase of the emperor of Russia,
proposing conference of the great powers to
consider the subject of international dis
armament
Most opportune is it, | think, that, in the
ear of nation already dizzy with the dream
of what it may achieve by conquests through
the force of arms, there should sound that
strong, temperate, and most cogently rea-
soned message which rings through the ukase
OF the emperor of Russia.
1t is an unanswerable Indictment of the
folly and essential madness of the inter-
national race for increased armaments, ships,
and forts, and men, piled up in ever-greaten-
ing proportions until. at last. the utmost
limit of a nations resources in men and
money has been reached: the last man has
been dragged from his family; the last shekel
has been borrowed from reluctant creditors:
and the empire or the republic makes its wild
plunge, at length, into irredeemable bank
ruptcv.
Has such folly bewitched and blinded us?
Has the lust of empire and the passion of
conquest made the people so mad that they
cannot see the mischiefs and the misery that
such a policy is destined to entail? Is it
true above all. that the followers of him who
came to teach men how to beat their swords
into plowshares and their spears into pruning
hooks, are eager, instead of striving to abolish
the bloody and brutal duello of nations. to re-
enthrone it? Are peace and happiness, truth
and justice, religion and piety'' to prevail
among us by cutting one anothers Threats?
|. for one. disown so barbarOus conception of
our calling in the world as at once a libel upon
our civilization. and q dishOnOr to our common
Lord and aster.-BishOp Potter.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-29

In your issue of Oct. - you say; THE colo
nization department of the Social Democracy
- in fact all that now remains of that once
noted organization, - is now located in
Seattle, Wash" This conveys an erroneous
impression and is likewise Incorrect as to
the facts.
The Social Democracy as an organization
is still alive and has branches all over the
United States who remain loyal to the old
organization, Owing to litigation and attach
ments inspired by the boiters, their official
organ. the Social Democrat. was obliged to
suspend publication Steps are now being
taken by the Chicago branches to buy a
printing outfit and resume publication so that
the members throughout the country may be
again informed as to the progress of affairs.
From Maine to California the organization
still exists, though many people would like
to see it dead
The colony work inauguratcd by the Social
Democracy will be carried on by the Cooper
alive Brotherhood on true Socialist lines and
will not be on Communist Anarchist lines.
While thanking you for the kind notice you
gave us, we feel that the Importance of or
work and the power behind it are such as to
warrant the most extended notice in paper
devoted to voluntary Socialism. such paper
should be more concerned i'm the appearance
of a new method OF cooperative endeavor
than the capitalistic press in the appearance
of new comet.
However as we shall soon have our own paper
we shall of course be i'm position to reach all
the members of the Social Democracy and all
other organizations and give them full details
on cooperative work and socialist admins
stration.
| trust that you will Ice kind enough also
to insert this letter SO as to correct the wrong
impression in Your article that all that
remains of the Social Democracy is now in
Seattle.
Fraternally yours
CYRUS FIELD WILLARD.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-29
The Rights Of Man.

We will lay down few self-evident facts
or propositions.
First-Each and every person born into
this world has the same rights in it as any
other ever born into it.
Second-Each one has the same right to
the fruit or result of his labor as any other
Third-Each one has the same right to
the free use of the free gifts of God his
Creator as any other.
Fourth-No man or combination of men
have any right to deprive any other of his
God-given rights.-Rev, d. Oglesby.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-29

We might have twenty military bands and
Thomas orchestra playing in the park every
pleasant afternoon and everybody might shut
up shop early and 90 up to listen
Every farmers wife might take a vacation
and come to New York for the horse show.
stopping at the Waldorf and doing the theaters
in the evenings.
Every body might have clean clothes to put
on every morning, from head to foot. and
enjoy that self-respect which nothing but
clean clothes and godliness can give.
We could build big laundry over on the
Jersey flats, turn the Hudson River through
it and wash the city's clothes by machinery in
an ever-running stream.
And we might distribute the clean clothes
through pneumatic tubes that would blow us
in our clean shirts and socks every night.
And we might grasp every man we meet by
the hand, knowing that be was friend and Il
brother, and not a sort of brigand plotting day
and night to cheat and rob us.
All these things we might have and many
more. We ask it in the names of Faith, Hope
and Socialism. and to them be all the praise
and glory. Amen
Yours, for Heaven On Earth
/DIBO.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-29
ORGANIZATION DEPARTMENT.

The following members have been commits
stoned to act as deputy organizers:
f. d. Festner, SOB Pike St, Covington, Ky.
Rev. l.. L. Finley, Brice, Ohio
Marta Bethune Jones, Norcross, Ga
Rev. \. a. Worsley, Sylvania, Wis.
n. a. Quale, 5l6 Mitilin St. Madison, Wis.
w. c. Lewis, Amethyst. Colo.
n. Grassland, Blue Island. H.
Fred Eichholtz, Edison, Wash.
John Cloak, l0l Harbine Ave, Dayton. Ohio.
II. H. Hart 1872 Indiana Ave-, Toledo,
Ohio.
Cyrus NJ Hawthorne, Roseburg Ore.
Pitt Whited, jackson. Mich.
j. w. Farchild, Mizpah. Ky.
Rev. y. ID. Hale, Haskins. Ore.
c. Bishir, Hutchinson, Kan.
Rev. TheO. a. johnson, Rushmore, Ohio.
c. NJ Dewitt, Springfield, Ohio.
Thomas Hickling, Box l06, Sandusky Ohio.
Miss Helen J. Wescott, Manhattan, Kan.
Rev. Chas. II. Vail, I'll Hanna ST., Jersey
City, Nj.
Mrs, C. H. Vail, 81 Hanna ST., Jersey
City, M.
4. T. Mcdonald, Newaullum, Wash.
b. C. c. LECTURE BUREAU.
The following members have expressed
their willingness to answer calls to lecture
in the interests of Socialism and the Brother
hood. For terms, dates, etc, write direct to
lecturers:
MISS llelcH / outer (llt uOltu I'M IcfSOHUlOf|'
Hotel Pelham, Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Marion H. Durham, Burlington, Iowa.
Levi 5. Lewis, 5l2 Hamilton ST., Albany,
n. Y.
Mrs. Clara G. Hoffman, $40 Rialto Building,
Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Katherine Lente Stevenson, The
Temple, Chicago, Ill.
Mrs. Josephine l.. Church, 1888 Dorr ST.,
Toledo. Ohio.
Rev J. Stitt Wilson, 252 w. Chicago Ave,
Chicago, Ill.
Mrs l.. G. johnson, 1923 Forestville Ave,
Flat %. Chicago III
j. w. Lonsbury, Toledo. Ohio.
l.. Klamroth, Equality Colony, Edison,
Wash.
Send all funds intended for Equality to
the Colony Secretary, addressed to Belfast
Wash Send all other funds to National Sec
rotary. Edison, Wash.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-29
Better Than Bellamy.

Yes, that does seem impossible" but
that's what they are saying about 1.-The Co.
opolitan." Read it for yourself. We have a
special arrangement with the publishers and
can furnish copies of this splendid prophecy
of the coming cooperative commonwealth
for a very low figure. Single copies Il cents;
two copies % cents; 10 copies 81. If you
haven't read the THE Co-opolitan". you are
not abreast of the progress of this co-opera
tive age. Send orders to National Secretary
b G c, Edison, Wash.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-29
DEAR LITTLE PEOPLE

DEAR LITTLE PEOPLE
1t is showing hard here in Kansas, al
though the leaves are still green on all the
trees. You may have heard of Kansas
winds; | had before | came here and [
thought of our March winds blowing across
Boston common; but the wind that is
sweeping the snow and loosened leaves be-
tween my window and the distant hills to-
day would be called a tornado. | think if it
visited quiet Boston.
have been asking you children to write
to our Corner about it whenever YOU saw a
kind and brotherly act done but have not
set a very good example, have l? Perhaps
that is why so few of you have written. I
will tell you in this letter of something
that is Frightening things little, right
where it is going on.
One of our college boys is quite sick:
hope none of you children have ever been
sick away from home, and found out in
that way how lonely and homesick it makes
one.
But one of the other boys knows, andso
he spends all of his spare time with the
sick boy, waiting upon him, sitting with
MN, tai hlilS 10 nun anu CHtGIlUB Nun up.
This well hoy might be off playing football
on the team that has just been started
here; or he might be reading in the pleas
ant. cosy library: or he might think he
needed all his time for study: but he doesn't
do or think any of these things: he just
comes down from his classes-a mile and
half-and does all he can to make the sick
boy forget that he is sick. Don't you
think he knows our motto. even tho he
never heard it? And don't you think. too
that he is very much happier boy than he
would be if he did some of those other
things that boys all like to do?
In our last corner we had letter from
little girl only eight years old. Can't all
the boys and girls who are just eight years
old write us a letter? Don't let il keep
you from writing, if you can't think of any
thing special to tell us just tell US what
you like be to do, and what kind of sto-
ries you like best. if you have nothing else
to write but let us get acquainted at all
events, and writing plenty of letters is the
way to DO it. Lovingly,
SISTER HELEN.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-29
THE "NUTSHELL."

The proceeds from the publication of
'Nalshell,' or the varying Length of Days
Fnd Nights, are to be applied to the Broth
|rhood steamboat fund until that fund
amounts to $1,000, or we otherwise have Il
satisfactory boat fully paid for.
This lesson is published as a leahet for use
in schools.
On good book paper, illustrated > plates,
10 pages. Single copies, postpaid cents.
EGO per 100
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-29
SCENERY VIEWS.
rotary

we have excellent Photographic views
of Skagt County scenery and of colony
buildings; price 30 cents each. L. Us
ought to keep samples.
-Four for 81, 10 for S2.25, Is for 50. Order
Equality photos by number, as follows:
Schoolhouse. No, /; Lewis Place No !: The
Clearing. No. 3: Sawmill, No. 4; Ranch
Kitchen, No. >: Cabins. No. Is: Apartment
House No. Z: Interior of Cabinet shop, Edi-
son. No. s: Interior of Composing Room in
Printery. No. 9: View of Presses and Press
room, No. 10: Printery and Main Street OF
Edison No. IL; Dining Room of Hotel Free
dom. No l.; Forest Lane Leading Into
Equality. No. Is; No. Apartment House,
No. II; Equality Colony, group of houses and
Of people, No. Is; Equality Horticultural
Nurseries No. is.
~-~~>-~~-~s-.~~~~~
How proud we shall be when we can give
statistics of our steamboat tradef
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-29
Cooperative Insurance.

We now have over 5000 worth of prop
erty liable to destruction by fire Such loss
would seriously cripple our work. In few
weeks we will have system of waterworlls
atfording much protection. At present we
have no protection at all. Hence we call on
each of our more than 1900 members to sub
scribe for as many of the 81 shares ofinsWance
fund rs 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 to the amount Of
his subscription. Send in your letters at
once, stating how much you will take. We
don't want to pay eNtOrtiOnate rates to the
old-line companies and so ask our own men,
bers 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.
OLIVER +. DARR, Soc
HELEN NJ. MASON. Treas.
b. +. CLEVENGER. NJ. w.
WM HUMNIET., Distributor,
d. BURGESS Editor.
Belamy's great book Equality" sl.25
You can get Equality" and Industrial
Freedom one year forSl.jO.
The New Time promises to give quite a
a space to history of Equality Colony i'm its
November issue.
New Time and Industrial Freedom one
year for $l.25.
We very much need p inch extractor,
and would like any laundry machinery which
is in good working order.
~ Write to treasurer concerning suhscrip-
tions. Address communications for publica-
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-29

NATIONAL BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Sresident-Rev Myron w. Reed, Denver.
| Col.
|ecretary-Oliver P. Darr, Edison, Wash.
Sreasurer-Miss Helen M. Mason, Edison,
i Wash.
|rcanizer-A. T. Mcdonald, Newaukum
Wash
)ean-Prof. Frank Parsons, Boston, Mass.
kditor-D. Burgess, Edison, Wash.
kaster Workman-B.l +. Clevenger, Edison,
WASH
Sstributer- VIM. Hummel, Edison, Wash.
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PRINTER WANTED:

Must be capableof taking full charge of
country news and Job office; must be
strictly sober and industrious and a geuu-
inc reformer: none others need apply; send
reference: state wages expected, and If
agreeable a steady Job awaits you Nd
dress "A, Industrial Freedom.