Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-02-18

Direct legislation, Public Owner
ship and Public Employment for the
unemployed are the coming political
issues, and che who is not with us is
against u.s..
There is some hope Of reaching men
by socialist propaganda now, but as
soon as a campaign begins they will
draw their heads into their partisan
shells, all sarnee turtle, and you can't
touch EN- with a ten foot pole.
The number of great journals and
leaders who are advocating some form
of public ownership is increasing rap
idly. | am willing to meet them lit
tie more than half way, and try to
turn their public ownership into So
cialist channels.
| am not throwing any boquets at
Pingree, Altgelt ct al l can't help
bnt think that many Of these radical
old party leaders know upon which
side their bread is buttered THEY'RE
doing work that has to be done,
thOtgh, and their attitude shows the
direction Of public sentiment.
After March 4 Washington will not
take a back seat for any of the states
in her Representation i'll the upper
house of milliOnaircs, Money makes
the mare 60 1t also sert Addison
g. Foster to the United States Senate.
improperly used?' Why no 1t
would take a vivid IMAGINATION to
conceive of the improper Use Of money
IN a senatorial campaign, unless it
was in failing to use enough Of it.
My experience with the weather
department was highly unsatisfac-
tory. It sent me last years report.
lift imagines that | have the nerve
to attack the strongly intrenched Wo-
mans Column with such an ancient
weapon, it is away off. They, having
kept at 1t TIL they heevv ei4ssIrE,vv i-t,tfr
usual rainy season into a veritable
Klondike, are happy, and your ser
want is out-classed at all points.
We are engaged in no cheap cam
paign for temporary class advantage.
The cause we advocate is n mighty
revolution which shall work a radi-
cal change in the history of mankind
A day or two of hard work, weeks
discomfort, some slight personal sac
rihice is as nothing in the great strug-
gle. Socialists should be made Of
sterner stuff than to consider such
trities.
If the editor of Industrial Freedom
or the board Of the B c c does not
''cut me off at the pockets'(in which
ct,o1I a-,1on,,A,- +A E,,1
other medium through which to ex-
press my thoughts, some other source
to supply the wants of my family
and myself l shall devote my atten-
ton principally to the political situa-
ton. That way lie my inclinatiOns;
there is the great battle-ground. l
have no desire to disparage colonial
ton, las a means to an end" as Mrs.
Odell So forcibly puts it. All | can do
in that line will be cheerfully done,
but | feel that there are Others who
can cover that field much better
than one 50 thoroughly convinced as
myself that rcliticalactionis the prin-
cipal way out.
Quite a number Of the good people
here in Equality have been walking
on my frame with their hob-nailed
shoes. hgurativelY speaking, because
| said that "brotherly love" had moth
ing to dowith cooperation. So | wish
to take it back? Not on your photo.
In the first place, am not built that
way; in The second, what said is an
indisputable fact. If anyone cannot
agree with me | am very glad to
know that they disagree. Conse-
quentlv have only the kiddliest of
feeling for those who are certain that
am dead wrong. | wish to re-iter-
ate that cooperation as 4 plain bust
ness proposition is practicable; that
il is not necessary to found it upon SO
intangible thing as mere sentiment,
firmly believe that the sooner this,
or any other, colony, comes down to
the point which divorces sentiment
and business (real business, not the
cut-throat proposition of the compel
ititive world the more successful it
will be. can say this the more
frankly inasmuch as it is none of my
business. Much as | desire the es-
teen, the brotherly love, If YOU will
have it so, of my fellow-men, | cannot
keep silent upon this, to me import
ant basic truth, that cooperation, lc-
cal state; national or worldwide, is
as exact science as the muitiphca-
ton table, and that we need not wait
until men are evoluted INTO angels to