Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-03-04
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Ella Matthews
4 M0NAN'S OPINION.


There are two motives for coloni,.
tion-one is Fear the other Fa;tS
The prospective colonist imbued VIII
fear is afraid he cannot make livin..
for himself and family out in Anarrhee
where they are. The Reds of wan
Street headed by the trusts can. ana
do, create and obliterate laws bv mr.;
vate contract with the Gangi in Wash.
ington at SO much a literary ward
and it has come to the troublous nass
that for benefits nowadays nobody Z
in it any more but the nobs-hencs
these Tears! Hence this desire to trv
this last chance for life-colonization
The man don't know where we are
going to end! Individually he is NOR.
ally certain of having an opportunity
to chant cover the Hills to the Poor.
house" with great appropriateness in
the very near future. So he dwell,
fondly in his thoughts, hugs it I'm
when corn takes a drop and he has a
crib full Of it to sell, when wheat
takes a rise and he has -four to buy.
when hogs are .'out of sight" and his
are all dead of cholera, when it is wet.
when it is dry, when it is hot and
when it is cold. This man who-and
l say it advisedly after mature study
-is the average cooperator that /
have conversed with-fings upon the
canvas Of his own mind the rueful
picture Of himself and family, in COM
pany with their kin folks, blood rela.
tions and friends along with the en-.
tire working classes on the road to
the poor house! We are taught that
on the astral planet which though in
visible to the average physical eye is
as real as the material planet
thoughts are things. Such being the
case this man has really built for him.
self dreadful, dreary poor-house to.
wards which all his mental creation
of human dependency are sadly
creeping, with himself and family
heading the dim and drizzly process
sion,-going "Over the Hills to the
Poor-house". He is afraid-and it
is duly acknowledged here that his
fears are materially we'll founded
that he nor no one else of his kind,
can get a living. He frightens his
wife; keeps his poor-house forever in
sight until the afflicted woman feels
that she wants to join most any old
thing, (even cooperative colony to
be sure and get bread and beans and
cabbage, and not starve to death like
John says everybody is going to. So
they bring their poor-house along
with them and come to Equality.
During residence here of four months
have been compelled to run smash
up against these astral poor-houses,
dozens of them moving every (which
away" about over the colony
grounds until have rather lost my
ground hold a good many times and
have, indeed, moved temporarily into
several of their poor-houses, and am
not sure but this very article is writ
ten within the desolating walls of one
Of these bastiles of Despair.
Now, what wish to say is this
that we must abolish our poor.
houses by simple child-like trust, stern
self-reiance and strong endeavor.
We must know beyond shadow of
doubt that in the great store-house Of
the universe there is abundance for
all, and that as ye ask we shall re.
ceive. Then let us learn to ask right
by turning about and changing these
poor-houses into lighthouses and
then move in and inhabit these pala-
ces of the spirit and soon must the
physical condition correspond. 1t is
the Law and it cannot fail When all
these poor-houses that are being
dragged about our village and farm
shall have changed to rich-houses
then, and only then, will the sun OF
hope dawn for Equality and through
it for the world.
1t is the old need and the old cry,
Let there be Light" And this time
we will be obliged to be our own ere
ators and bring forth our own light.
1t can be done-nay it must be done
or this effort at reform, and all its
success means for humankind will go
'Over the Hills to the Poor-H House.
1t is the Law!
SARAH WARD TEMPLE.
We very much need a "a inch extractor