Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-15
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goes into effect this month.
= 1t is only question of time when
the whole state of Washington will
be celebrating a like event.
For the present every other form
of machinery or fund of any kind
must give way to the donkey.
Butter, eggs and chickens are the
foundation of a living, and will have
our attention at the first oppor-
tunity.
Bro. Williams has secured per-
NIT to teach school, pending the time
when he will take the regular exami
nation.
Dur brass band is discoursing
some excellent music for amateurs.
heard them say they needed some
more instruments.
The mechanics built copper bot
toned boiler and furnace for cooking
fruit, and the women force are MAX
ing good use of it.
Mrs. Jolly has charge of the little
ones in the nursery. She is striving
to do the best she can for the coming
socialists of Equality.
Vet a few days more and the saw
mill will be buzzing and roaring and
slashing through the logs as thick
through as you are tall.
Mrs. Jollys classes are growing
enthusiastic and thus We are assured
that they are making some progress,
under adverse circumstances.
We are going to celebrate our
first anniversary on November 1st
The oce aston is an important one and
we hope to do it justice. More about
it later.
Our oats are threshed and in the
barn. The yield is over 1900 bushels
This would be immense for the east
ern states, 'but is very ordinary here,
and the lateness of the sowing is the
only cause. 1t will be different with
us next spring.
Bro Gunnison has been elected
superintendent of the department of
fisheries. That means plenty of fish
for our tables-unless indeed the very
election of Gunnison caused the fish
to take to the woods with their tails
between their legs.
There are five applicants posted
on the bulletin board to be voted on
October 10th, as follows: Elias ALL
berg, millright: Oswald Kaden, black
smith: Orus Williams, teacher: VIM.
Morris, carpenter and mill hand: Carl
Hoffman, machinist. Good men and
true, these.
The setting up of the sawmill is
nearly completed. 1t has been
slower job than we expected, but it is
certainly well done. No pains have
been spared to get it firm, heavy and
durable. When we get running we
shall be glad that we were so careful
to build it right.
The laws of Washington require
the teacher to devote 10 minutes each
week to talk upon patriotism. This
opportunity ought to be turned to
great use by showing up the shams of
our present competitive system.
Latter day patriotism, which is con-
stantly on parade, is Il mockery. 1t is
a cheat.
Philosophers, sages and poets
once deplored and denounced the hor-
rors of war. but the terrOrs of peace
far exceed in extent and in shocking
details all the calamities of war. Our
war with Spain and the supervening
peace is an apt and prac illustra-
ton of the truth of the foregoing
statement.
A steady though small stream of
visitors continues to flow into Equ ali
ty. OF course we cannot please all.
but most of us take fresh courage.
We have talked socialism long
enough and now it is time to begin.
Everyone seems to feel this and every
word of encouragement they give us
makes lighter the work of Inaugural
ting the Cooperative Commonwealth.
We will begin building in dividual
homes in about two or three weeks.
But don't expect palaces. Box houses
of two to four rooms that can be adj
ded to as we get the time and ma
terial. Nothing Is TOO good for social
lists, but we must deny ourselves at
first in order to increase our working
capital. Then when fully supplied
with machinery ever worker is to have
as fine a house and grounds as the
idlers in capitalism enjoy today.
Bro. Candee does not do himself
justice in criticising Equality colony