Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-06-03

When she finally resolved to leave
us she assigned as her reason failing
health, and when she realized that we
could not then return her fee she asked
us to grant her the right of transfer
ence of membership, saying she might
trade it to someone for a team and
wagon or other property which would
be useful to her in her struggles with
the competitive world
At that time she must have had
good opinion of us or she, being so
CONSCIENTIOUS, could not have enter
tanned the thought of inducing a far
mer to part with his team simply to
fall into the hands of band of thieves
as she now intimates we are.
With this statement we will dismiss
all thought of her "high moral oblega-
ton to speak against the manage
ment(?)."
We are not thoroughly organized and
do not claim to be but we desire to be
and hope that those whose ideas of
organization are so perfect will help
us to organize, but we now know by
experience that to abandon effort at
critical moments is not helpful and
this some of her petitioners did.
Mrs. Temples sad wall that we do
not furnish more than travesty ona
home, moves us to say that this is
true if we are to compare our present
tenements with the luxuriously fur
nished mansions of the rich, but we
may just add that onr houses are no
worse for the said Mrs. Temple than
for us and we are very thankfully &C.
cupying them yet.
The $16O which Mrs. Temple paid
in bought for her what it has bought
for all other members, the opportuni-
ty to build home. If all of us run
away no one will ever have a home
here, but if we remain and toll as
most are now doing we shall have
homes at some time in the future.
The great trouble with Mrs. Temple
as with some of her associates, is her
failure to comprehend the colony pro-
position. Many seem to consider
themselves as separate and apart
from the colony. They deal with the
colony as they would with corpora
ton; they pay in money and expect a
delivery Of goods without further OBJ
legation on their part, whereas the
payment of the $16O simply gives
each of us the right to help ourselves
and all others to make homes.
The charge that a certain "set" rule
at the colony and care solidlv organ
lied to defeat incorporation" can only
be characterized as false.
Many of those now favoring incor.
poration have at other times favored
the present form of association and
vice-verSa.
1t is grave question and one that
some of our best lawyers seem to be in
doubt about as to which is the better
way for all concerned.
The fact, if it is fact, that one of the
pillars of non-incorporation may have
said: eve will not incorporate be-
cause if we do we would be response
BILE for our debts, 'cuts no figure in the
case, for the simple reason that this
consideration has had no weight with
the great majority of those who have
opposed incorporation, and then the
chances are that such remark was
made in Jest to annoy some who had
grown verdantly aggressive in their
advocacy of Incorporation.
The writer hereof has favored and
still favors incorporation, but he has
not and does not ascribe unworthy
motives to those who oppose him.
1t would seem that even Mrs. Tenn
pie must admit that those who desire
to sustain the present methods have
a right to do so, and no one who as
sociates with us and becomes a part
of us as she did can consistently inn
pugn their motives.
We would gladly pay back the men,
bership fee of every dissatisfied person
but having invested money arising
from fees and donations in machinery
and permanent improvements it is i'm
possible for us to return such fees at
this time but we expect to do it as
soon as it is practicable, besides no
one has ever paid a tee in here without
having been notified that he could not
expect return of the fee at an early
date. No one can Justly complain of
The colony on this score