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Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

1t seems that the white man and
all men have other burdens than those
catalogued by Kipling; and with some
it is the lack of a burden in the Ordin-
airy sense of this disagreeable term.
New inventions and improvements
DDS are divorcing thousands from all
opportunity to toll, but this fixes up
on them the modern burden Of newt
able poverty even though possessing
the Strength aud the skill and the will
to create enough to supply every de
sire.
Don't you know that this is true?
Is it right to deny people the priv
leee to toll when they are willing able
and so desire?
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

If you are willing to sacrifice all
you have and all your hopes of a
massing wealth, and if you are will
ing to endure hardships and privations
and to bear with the foibles and weak
nesses Of others, you might join some
colony.
Colonies must and will flourish
they have a high mission, but very
few persons are qualified for effective
service in the colonies of today.
We do not have picnic here and
few of us expect one until after the
lapse of many years.
Whatever you put into movment
of this kind, at this time, must be con-
sidered freewill offering to the cause
otherwise you will meet with disap-
pointment Many good people are
useless here and some who are not
considered of average ability or aver
intelligence are most useful.
Possibly no one can tell in advance
whether he is suited to the demands
of colony life and many whose exper-
fence in life would seem to fit them for
usefulness here find that they cannot
adapt themselves to the conditions of
life made requisite by changed rela-
tions Of persons and things. Expert
cnce is necessary to correct judgement
and such Judgment may reject you
and then all yonr contributions are
swallowed up in the great movement
and you are left to struggle along as
best you may.
This may seem hard and it is hard
but can YOU escape your fate in any
other way? If so it were wise to do
it, but do not fail to observe that the
race always pays The cost Of it's re-
de1nption from cxacting and enslav-
ing conditions.
II your substance iSnOt consecrated
to the colony movement it will be alb
sorbed by some Of the other cndeav-
ors to solve the problem of the ages.
You may direct the course in which
your efforts and your substance shall
flow, but you cannot prevent the
hopes, the sacrifices. They are inevi-
table.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08
Read the Past-Live in the Future.
Owen II. Philbrick, Cal.

In our last number of |. +. we find letter
from G. II. Pelton, and in closing the array
of his views he says: Comrades, let us hear
from YOU" Though my sex condemns me to
stand IN rank with criminals and idiots-lke
them denied the ballot yet there is not a so
lcialst Of you all that can be more anxious for
the success of socialistIc principles, or more
distressed 10 see the highest oflici a in the b
c G advocating fusion. Call my sentiments
"blockest treason" if you will. but have n
care lest the last national campaign of the
nineteenth century becomes memorable in
future history as the turning point'-where
socialism was entrapped, betrayed and slain.
and with the assistance Of its friends.
Why can we not profit BIZ the Light of pas.
experience? Fusion slipped in aud BETRAYED
and killed The Union L1Dor party and arain
fusion did III same das.ardly deed for the
Greeuback parry and last but NOT least il has
offered the same Judas kiss To papulism; ana
whore is The young giant yesterday
when this last deed was done. Just "a IN
seemed as II victory must come TO popnhsi-
ic banners in 1909, / cried out in DESPAIR.
"Where Is there ANYTHING se-urs against ia.
sion, ana my husband hl-t ned 20 comfort
me with the assurance THAT "-osiaism win
never Fuse but here we haze suggestion
from the highest official, and eur hearts grow
faint within as
have no ambition 70 rcfate all The old shop
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08
He Remembers Us.

Friends at Equality: Not having forgotten
my promise to many to let them know ho'-
Jared IN the world. take this opportunity to
write, seeing also that have some tomato
seed 10 send you in tie hope that you can
make use of them These seeds were grown
in Humboldt county, Cal. from seed sown in
Nav; the fruit ripcned in September. |
thought this doing well for such q large to-
mato,
forgot TO tell your gardener that root pru.
ming is good thing for tomato plants up to
tho time they begin TO blossom Should the
plants be inclined to spindle up Just make
them think you are going to dig them up.
and they will grow strong and stall5y and
throw out lateral branches There is where
the 'rut grows Try the plan and be con-
WINGED
Well there hasn't been any anxious look
ing capitalist around asking me TO accept
lat salary for looking after light lob. and IL
the mountains do not come to Mohammcd.
before long, Mohammed must start for the
mountains am quite well; my cold has al
most lett me.
Gave my regards to Bro, Yokey, as | forgot
to bid him adicp although we were onito
chums. Best wishes and kind regards IN all
NJ NJ Cnro
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08
The Issue of 1000.

There is no socialist party in this state ard
| think there should be; not only this, but in
every state where there is none.
| reason thus: Whereas direct legislation
is one OF the fundamental principles of social
ism; and, swhereas the people are not yet en-
Hghtened enough to cut loose from party:
therefore we should make the socialist party
means to an end, using it as lever to raise
the people up, educating them in direct leg
islation, and any and all means whereby they
may be taught their collective power and
majesty through the agency of the ballot
when properly used.
As our legislature has already taken steps
to bring about this much needed reform, now
appears to be the nick OF time to agitate
thoroughly on direct iegislation and we dare
not leave this most important duty to the
management of the old parties
Eternal vigilance" On be part of the peo-
pie is the only thing that will ever make di-
rect legislation of any practical value to the
country. Orgaaize.
Yours for progress,
Isaac II. Reyes, Oregon.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08
ACETATE.
ORGANIZE.
EDUCATE.
READ and THINK.

All intelligent workers realize that
they are plunde1ed. How are they
plundered? BY concerted action of
those who presume to rule and do rule
by cooperation of the absorbers are
the toilers plundered and then the
plundcred hope to correct their wrongs
by hunblv submitting to the robbers
and meekly imploring them to case up
just a little.
Harsh words are so offensive when
used by the toilers, but bullets are
just the thing when used by the alb
sorbcrs.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08
Socialism,
Socialism,
What is Socialism?

Some people make themselves ride
ulous by trying to. discuss socialism
before they have made a study of it,
before they can give the most rudi-
mentary definition oft.
They could avoid such Illuminating
exhibitions by reading Industrial
Freedom a short time. 1t tells what
socialism is and after reading about
it q short time you win know what it
is and then you can intelligently sup
port or refute it, just as you think
right.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08
LETTERS FROM OUR
MEMBERS And FRIENDS
Old Age Comes on But

Mr.. Editor:I see my subscription has ex-
PRED Enclosed find 2Gc for six months ex-
tension beginning with No 46. | wish you
every success. Old age, poor health
and poverty prevents me from being with
you, but | shall sing the song of Equity,
Right, Justice, Socialism during my declining
years Yours fraternaly,
w. A. Marsh, Wash
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

Voting, merely voting, without an
intelligent comprehension Of what
you are voting for, and why, is n
most disastrous mirage as allthe past
attempts at such voting prove.
What we lack is intelliecnce..and I'M
I'll we yet that neither voting, ror
shooting viii avail us ANYTHING.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

Mckinley seems very DESTROYS that
the killing Of the simple minded Phil
lipinos and the sequestration Of their
goods, lands and chattels shall pro-
coed in accordance with the principles
Of truth, honor and fair dealing so
mote it be-" but how can an honest
man jugglc so with words?
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08
A Tonic.

~ OIllC.
Enclosed find money order for 81 for the
renewal of my own subscription. and also that
of Bro. Il. J. Brickman, of Olympia. We
find it industrial Freedom quite necessary
to our mental digestion. and relish its crisp
ness. We take 1t for the same reason that
we eat gooseberry pie. It's fine, and we
like it.
Oregon. +. E. Martin.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08
+. E. Martin.
Fear Competition.

Enclosed find zoe for two months dues end
ing April 30th. III could have worked steady
this winter would have done better. hope
to do better next time unless competition fails
again. which of course wouldn't be anything
new.
Those colony notes of the different colonies
is an excellent feature of !. f.
Yours as ever.
Arnold J. G. lander, Wis.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

Miss Helen J.Wescott has lengthy
and well written article on Equality
Colony, in The Coming Age. a care
ful reading of this article would give
the reader an excellent mental picture
Of our colony, and from this article
much may be learned of our aims, OBJ
jccts, plans and purposes.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

Women working for wages so low
that after paying board they have
only 25cts. left, and yet our specula-
tors and their sycophants are shout
ing; Prosperity.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

We shall soon begin the publication
OF atsserial story by Clinton Bancroft.
This story is continuation Of the
a T a series and will be Of interest to
III cooperators and especially SO to
all Labor Excllangers.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

Owing to the pressure on our space we are
compelled to leave out many, very many ex-
cellent letters. We hope our friends can APP
preciate our needs sufficiently to excuse us.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

Were socialism inaugurated life
would be robbed of some of its gaiet-
les, as, for instance, such tragedies
as those witnessed at the burning of
the windsor Hotel, in New York, re-
Gently. wonld never occur, but you
see socialism wont work as does COM
petition.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

If you have lived without labor you
have wronged some one; If YOU la
bored and did not get the full prod
uct Of your toll some one has wrong
ed you and YOU are a fool to continue
such conditions without protest.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

Had any Of Our readers ever observ
ed that SO soon as we have a volun-
tary raise in our wages there is cor
responding raise in rent and other ne
CessaricS2
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

The old niillifiers must turn uneasi-
lynn their graves as they view the
case and certainty with which Alger
nulli6es the acts Of congress; but then
the world has made many advances
since their day.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08
What Is Communism?

A Narrative of the Relief Commn,,.
whose members combine all their proue.,!
and live and work together for their up,.v
enjoyment, assistance and support. II a;sal
full explanation of the principles. orca she
tion and practical details of Community X.
the same as in the Altruist communist ~
pages. Price SOC. BY A. Longleyy, 2Sl9i ON u
street. St. Louis, Mo. Jaw
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

The Fog Horn of Lansing, Mich-
gan, came down on us like sheep en-
the fold, and to save trouble, we Just
put Il on orr X list.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

Men who GO to congress to steal by
means of purchased law, look with
contempt upon those who steal a
little something to eat.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08
Just printed for the Brother
hood. A special BCCedition of

CIVILIZATION CIVILIZED, With blue a.,
ers containing B matter: 10 cents ~,
copy: 10 cents per dozen; Sc per hupdpj
BELLAMY'S NEW -''EOUATITyn
Publishers Price $l.25. Our Prico =.
members 81 90.
A PLEA FOR COMMUNISM fFinel. 6eo,.
per copy. 30 cents per dozen,
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

The Alger-H cKinley aggre-
CATION are cooperators, too, the Fill
pinos help the United States to take
Manila and now Uncle Sam is paying
them back.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08
Cows Manned.

Equality colony wants few good milk
cows and has the cash 70 pay for them. Noar
by people take notice.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08
What Do You Think Of ilS'

We win send son Industrial tree'N-
one year, Norton Monthly i1r one. fv'
Ten Men az N0nev Island all l1r DNt
Norton'9 monthly Is clean, nf'sa's
paper. devoted to reform IN every
ment OF activity. IA
Ten Men of Money Island i. e
most widely read alegories Of tn 'A
SCud nj subscrlNsiogs no
INDUS TRIAL FREE 2CN,NsAs
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

Monopolies need more denunciation
it helps them.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

He is too cowardly." Now, reader, is
this not nearly true picture? you
believe it to be true what remedy
would you suggest?
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

Do you believe the people ought to
rule!
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

Str BAY ClpH, TIE only propeller on the
route leaves Whatoom an %. ma.
sU DAYS. WED EeDAys q rrroAzs
te1ves Commercial Dock. Takona, nj ep.n
Nuy Dock. foot OF Main ST. Saatile. "a gp.,n
Tuesday = Thursdays and Saturdays FOR
An o""tes y f,hpY nand w a n
rare 70 seattle. ~: Round Trip, 81 80: Ta-
coma, Hl2i Round Trin. 82
nv. a. ELLIS y SON. owners.
~. ELLIS, Trail Mgr.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

BE briel: for it is with words as with sun
b,ams-the more they are condensed the
deeper they burn. -SOUTHEY.
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

EQUALITY, SATURDAY, APRIL s
Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-08

Mrs. S. s. Long, Wash.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-05-06
FIRES SWEEP
over DAKOTA PRAIRIES
Great Destruction of Farm Prop-
erty Near KimbaIl and
Sioux Falls.
FLAMES THREATEN FORMER TOWN
KimbaH Citizens Spent All Day
Fighting Fires to save City,
Several Homes Wiped Out
South OF Sioux Fails.

Kimball, S. d., May 2.-Sever be-
fore has Kimball experienced such a
day as yesterday. From II o'clock in
the morning until Z at night citizens
hadone continuous struggle with pral-
RE fires which threatened the own
As a result OF these fires four or five
farmers within a few miles of town are
completely burned out, hundreds of
tons of hay are destroyed and hay
lands are ruined. Byrne d Stone
berger, cattle men, have lost about
fifty head Of fine, large steers.
Throughout the day the wind blew n
gale. At Z o'clock in the forenoon fire
was discovered making for town from
the southeast. Back fires were imme-
d~iately ser and after an hours hard
work and aided by the wind, which
veerediinto Il west course, the fire was
changed 10 the east, saving the town.
Scsrcely had citizens returned TO
town when the wind again changed 10
the northwest and half an hour later
another big fire was seen bearing
down on the town from the north.
After more hard fighting, aided by the
constantly changing wind, the fire
passed on to the southeast. The Sec
ond fire was set by a farmer burning a
stubble field six miles north.
Witnesses reported that the head fire
was as high as an ordinary two story
building at times.
Particulars are meager at this time,
but il is certain that three or four per-
sons in this vicinity lost everything.
One woman is reported seriously
burned.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-05-06
ley, ~inaudibly
10 AND THE STRIPED STOCKINGS.
They Were "Mystined" and So Was the
Untutored Child of the Forest.

The returned Lewistonian fell to talk.
ing over a revolver that he carried in
the arrest of a desperate in New Mex
leo, and then he diverged and told this
story:
"Once when we were going down in
the Indian Territory, as we rode out OF
the village we passed the house where
a New Brunswick girl had just come I'd
live in the little prairie village. There
had been considerable joking about the
new arrival, and as W. passed she came
out to hang up her washing on the line:
l rode a little red pony-one that | had
snapped a shcsgun for-and when J
saw the New Brunswick girl hang up .
pair OF the longest, biggest-striped stock'
ings | had ever seen, | rode right up in'
to the yard and under the clothes-line
and seized those stockings and pulled
'em off the line and rode away.
"All that trip down across the hot
plains and over the rustling buffalo
grass the boys plagued me about those
stockings. | had put them into my
trunk and kept them. | don't know
why | took them or kept them. Z,
well, we got down into the Territory
and among the Indians. They are great
gamblers, you know, and we bet with
them everything we had. We raced and
won from them all the money and
blankets .hcy possessed.
"The blankets were United States
army blankets, but we can use them by
cutting out the u. S. AT last we came
down to foot runners, and the Indians
brought out their man. He was tall,
broad chested, and long limbed. He
could go like the wind, and our best run.
ner was nothing compared with him.
Why, he vas the best physical man J
ever saw. He looked at our man and
his thick lip curled in derision.
".He no good-get a man.
The savage was stripped to his skin.
| looked ut Il a \
Jake, | said, you wait n minute
Then | went and got those stockings.
When | brought them out they created
the biggest kind of a sensation, and the
curiosity to touch them was something
comical.
"They just wanted to put their hand,
on them to see what they were. | did
not let them satisfy their curiosity, but
carried them through tSe crowd as il
they were holy relics.
Jake, put those on and Il with
them, | said.
"Why, l can't run with those on he
said.
"Yes, you can. Don't you see that
they are mystitied?"
"He put them on, and though he was
a large man they came clear to his
hips. We pinned them up, and he
started with the big Indian. II was
plain by the faces of the greasers that
they had lost all faith in their man as
against the striped stockings. The In.
dian ran a little distance and then fell
behind, with his eyes fixed in terror on
those stockings. He was beaten. And,
do you know, | sold those stockings to
the Indian for five ponies and a rifle"
-LeUiSt0n Journal.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-05-06
JUNTA ON NEGOTIATIONS.
Declare Luna Is Not A~guinaldo's
Representative.

London, May 1.-The members OF
the Filipino junta here made the state
ment to the Associated Press that the
peace negotiations between the United
States authorities at Manila and Gen
eral Luna were unofficial in character.
Luna, the junta asserts, does not rep
resent ~Aguinaldo's government. 1t IL
further asserted by the junta that Sc
cret negotiations between President
Worcester, of the United States Philip
pine commission, and a representative
of Aguinuldo have been in progress
since before the attack on Malolos. The
following conditions, il Is alleged, were
proposed after the capture of Malolos:
The Americans to issue a proclama-
ton granting the Filipinos s~elf-goyern-
ment, political, civil and religious
rights similar to those enjoyed by the
people OF Canada; the Filipinos to CON
troll international mercantile rela-
tions; the Americans and Filipinos to
enjoy equal rights in the islands; Ma
Mia to remain in possession of the
United States until congress decides
otherwise; the American flag to fly
over the capitols OF the islands and in
the most prominent positions along
with the Filipino flag, except at Ma
Mia, where only the American flag
shall fly; all vessels to fly the Amcri-
can flag with that Of the Filipinos; Iio-
man Catholic clergy to be under the
same administration as in the United
States, Spanish clerical direction and
intervention to be abolished; the
status quo of rural property belonging
to the religious orders to be main
tanned without return to antebellum
state Of affairs; hospitals and schools
formerly administered by the orders,
TO be handed over to the government,
the orders TO retain only their present
town property; the secular clergy to
retain their property.
The junta asserts that ~Aguinaldo, in
view OF these proposals, agreed to
withdraw from Malolos, but that OTIS
proclamation, after the occupation OF
Malolos, failed TO grant self-govern-
ment on the proposed lines. This, it
is further asserted, caused the hostiIi-
ties, following the capture of MalolOs.