Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-06-24
A Mild Roast.

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A Mild Roast.
Dear Mrs Eddy: Your sudden elevation
to the position of editor of the Woman's Col
umn is complimentary and fitting tribute
to one who makes such modest pretentions
to literary skill, and pleads mex oerience and
lack of mental training as reasons for accept
ing editorial honors with trepidation Make
no apologies, dear sister, your salutation is
sufficient to set at rest the question of your
ability to ''fll the bll' as chief of this de-
partment, and now that you have so good a
start and made SO favorable an impression
on your audience, just take up your pen in
behalf of of the sisters and make it point
to give us each week both sides-the good
and the badof colony life at Equality.
Give us the plain facts, cold as they are, in
good old fashioned English. We don't like
metropolitan airs, besides it is too much
trouble when we are deeply interested in
reading this corner to be obliged to ransack
the dictionary to find the of meaning words
which only serve at best to confuse and mis-.
lead. We are all interested in Equality, and
it is cheering read the good impressions of
dents OF course there is good side and a
bad side to all enterprises. and Equality can
not be an exception. but | for one do not ex-
pect those brave souls who have made such u
gallant attempt to solve the riddle OF coope-
ration, could in the space of few months
succeed in creating perfect conditions under
which heterogeneous group of people con-
ssting of all tongues and natonalites could
come together under enc big circus tent and
live harmoniousy
Such expectations would be preposterous
at this stage Of mentality. The human race
has not yet reached state Of moral con-
seriousness that wiz enable il to make
heaven of this earth in five minutes. The
millennium is some distance oil yet but it
seems there is class of individuals in this
world who are never happy unless engaged
in throwing cold water on every blaze of hui
man love and enterprise Like a chicken
hawk they sean the social horizon with the
eyeglass of envy and hatred, and every faint
rise of smoke locating brotherly endeaver,is
pounced upon by these merciless vultures and
the kinding wood of union and association
scattered to the four winds; then, after res
toring former conditions they are at ease
and sleep sound at nights. Such people aie
mud on the chariot wheels of progress, and
will never be content after reaching the next
world. They remind me of the old woman
who found fault with the style OF St. Peters
beard, thereby winning pardon for her de-
linquent husband on the ground as Peter de-
cared, that man who could live lifetime
with such wife was entitled to everlasting
peace aomng the angels
do not intend these remarks as personal.
refer simply TO that class who in times past
have braced their feet and pulled backward
whenever an attempt to better human condi-
lions has been made. All attempts at colo.
nization by laborers have been hampered by
these barnacles. Equality may or may not
have few OF this fungi for aught know. 1t
is too bad, repeat, that this balky class will
persist in throwing stumbling blocks in the
path of progression and thus prevent to the
extent of their influence, the realization Of
the goal of happiness SO long struggled and
fought for 10y humanity
Let Ms hope that the clouds of discomfort
that hover so threateningly above US will
soon be swept away by the magic wand of
evolution and that Equality ard all other col
onies Will be permitted 10 remain and pros
gress as standing monuments OF the energy
and perseverance Of the n0blest aud best
routes of the 10Th century
Mrs L. p. Hadley
Napavinc, Wash.
T. ST. am not Offering suggestions. but
should you in the future decide to open a
fashion corner in the l. f., be sure and
let your husband take charge o: this depart.
ment His description OF an Equality bon
net short time ago proves emnently quail
flied to fill this position; it will be necessary
however to give him few lessons in this par
ticalar branch of science as / notice he is A
tribe green yet on 'how women dress IL
is all right to get the cart before the horse
in discussing the questions OF the day. but TO
get sailor hind side FORE or a petacoat
wrong side out" he would certainly do
during his innocent blunders, would be AN
objectionable offence, and you know it would
be trying" to him to get cornered and be
obliged to acknowledge the corn or "con-
ccde point" Mrs III
The Equality bonnet article was writ,.n,y
Prof HOGAN