Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-01
B. 6. G. STERMBORT.
6tWF you only had a steamboat"
We have heard that remark a


4 thousand times at head
quarters during the last six months;
we have Shearu it so often and
from so many persons and sources
that we have concluded that we MUST
1haye that steamboat.
Reason No. l. The freight trans
portation for the B C G and the colo
nists has cost us directly and indi-
rectly hundreds of dollars, and nearly
every fraction OF that amount has
been lost to our treasury. Had we
owned boat hundreds of dollars
would have been saved and earned
and added to our exchequer
Reason 2. The business of trans
portation on upper Puget sound is
one of the most lucrative of all the
local industries. Tons and thousands
of tons of oats and hay and other pro-
duce are to be transported this fall
and winter from point to point along
this coast, and The competition in this
graln-carrying trade seems to be ex-
ceedingly slight. Why should not the
B G G get a large share of this re-
munerative business?
Reason 3. We are offered for head
quarters of the B at Anacortes-
the shipping and grain-freighting
seaport and center of this section
the use, of two commodious build
1
ings lone for the Offices of the ma
tional board of the B c G, and the
other for INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM and
a three-year lease (free) of 300 feet
of fine water front. The facilities
offered to us are extremely valuable
and advantageous for our headquar-
tiers, and our use. of them would mean
largely decreased expense for the
| B G G, and largely increased accom-
mediation; but we cannot avail our
selves of the water front with ad-
vantage until we have THAT BOAT.
| Reason 4. Think of the effective
propaganda that B c c steamboat,
/ 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 splendid adjunct to the mis-
sion wagon on land would be the mis-
sion boat upon the sea!
With $500 in the steamboat fund
the B &C could complete arrange
ments for the purchase'or building of
a suitable boat. Already we have on
our list of B G G members number 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 association quickens to
a knowledge of it's needs. If every
member of the B G c subscribes so
cents or more to this fund we shall
easily have a sufficient sum to permit
us to procure our steamboat at once.
Do We Want a Boat?
Send us your subscription and your
suggestions.
The local union or the individual
member that does most to procure for
us the necessary amount to purchase
our steamboat shall have the privi-
lege of naming this b c C vessel of
Socialism.
Send remittances to National Sec
rotary b C, Edison, Washington.
Comrade Fall, of Newman, Calf.
writes: Il think the ownership of a
steamboat one of the chief essentials to
the colonys success, and | would re-
spond to your appeal for funds, but all
of my available funds | wish to turn in
on my entrance fee | think the boat
should be called THE Socialist" as
every person that saw it, and therefore
would be a great advantage for social
ism"
What do you think of Comrade Falls
suggestion? Who has a better name
for the boat? How about Industrial
Freedom: We should be pleased to
have suggestions for name for our
steamer from all who contribute to the
fund.
The steamboat idea is beginning to
take: we have letters from Bro Ler-
mond in Maine and Bro. Candee in
Ohio. and from other comrades, COM
mending the plan and wishing it a
speedy fultillment. If each member OF
the b G c will add one dollar or even as
little as fifty cents, to the fifty dollars
now in the fund, we shall procure that
boat
SHALL WE HAVE A b G c STEAM
BOAT?
Better Than Bellamy
Yes, that does seem impossible,
but that's what they are saying about
"The Coopolitan". Read it for your