Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-12-03
THE DONKEY ENGINE FUND.

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The weather is various and sundry
We need laundry machinery-that' what
we do.
Our old water soaked friend, ]. Pluvious,
is on the rampage.
More woodsheds are being built. We
have mania for woodsheds.
We will print the weather statistics as
soon as we can make the arrangements
Extensive prepdrative are being made for
our Xmas entertainment and one for New
Years.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. c.. B.. Jolly
is seriously i'll; having had stroke of paray-
sis on Nov. 20.
The Sun, of Shelby, Nebraska prints
sketch of Equality colony from the pen of
Bro Randolph.
-Comrade B. Z. Preston of Colorado is
with us and likes it well enough to tack up
his application.
Our carpenters did some work for a
neighbor. 1t is pretty hard to get them to
leave our own immense amount of work,
though.
"A comrade remarks that they charge 20
cents piece for AK handles in this country,
and then properly adds, That's helve a
note
BY referendum vote we are to build
COW barn on the ''option"-the 100 acres of
land we bought last. 1t is said to be fine
location, and the barn is badly needed.
The carpenters have completed the'wood
sheds and you would grin to see the boys of
all ages mutilate the logs that are dragged
under shelter to be manufactured into fuel
The correspondence bureau is receiving
letters that indicate an exodus of wage slaves
to Equality colony in the spring That means
that we must build up the machinery fund to
put them to work.
- Mr.. George Schwartz of the Joes Bay Co
operative colony, donated six volumes of
Thackeray. They will make mighty interest
ing reading these long winter evenings. We
are grateful to the donor.
One friend, writing to the bureau of cor
respondence, says that he is one of the great
American voting kings who is tired of his
e. own rule. We advise him to take dose of
cooperative medicine for that tired feel
ing"
Rev. H. s. Wallace of Oregon, q Christ
ian socialist, is here taking notes on any kind
of socialism. He thinks of starting colony
in our sister state. He lectured Friday even
ing on THE Law of Progress in forcible
and logical way. He shows himself an ad-
vanced thinker, and we wish him success in
whatever he decides to do.
Equality had its first wedding last Sunday
morning. Bert Savage and Kate Halliday
were the contracting parties Rev. H. S.Wal-
lace of Junction City, oregon, oficiated. The
ceremony was beautiful and impressive and
congratulations We're showered on the young
people, who are very popular in Equality.
May their life be a long and happy one, with
just as much Of the sweets of life as is best
for them is the wish OF all Equality
Mr. Chas H. Pelton, brother of "our
Ed" Pelton, of Equality colony is here
on visit. He is member Of one of the
largest cooperative associations in the world
Uncle Sans army. Without meaning any
discredit toward the rank and file of army
boys, we could call that organization the
Great Cooperative Human Strengthening AS
sociation. This shows that the cooperative
force is neither good nor bad in itself, but be-
comes so only as it is rightly or wrongly used.
Bro. Chas Pelton would rather belong to a
cooperative army Of construction than to
one of destruction. if circumstances would
permit. Like ''our Ed" he is a staunch be-
lever in this industrial movement. He is
somewhat weak from sickness contracted in
Porto Rico, and is here on q furloagh to stay
about month to s:raighen up.