Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-01-14
ANOTHER COLONY.


body is supposed to be light hearted
and glad, is here, and yet how many
multiplied thousands of little hearts
are sore and disappointed because OF
old Kris Krinkle's failure to fill their
little stockings; and hearts of grown
up children are aching this day in
unison with theirs-nOt so much be-
cause Santa Claus visited them not,
but that the economic conditions pre-
clude the earnings of livelihood and
the little extra which they would so
willingly have expended to gladden.
the childers' hearts!
But | feel sure my comrades in
Equality have enjoyed the holidays
even tho, it may be, the presents and
dinners and sleigh rides and balls, etc,
were not up to the standard they
had been accustomed to. | feel sure
of this because know your freedom
from those "carking cares" that
haunt the minds of those about me
who, with drawn brows and care
worn faces, are in constant fear of
that peace destroyer want" as they
struggle and strive in this hell of COM
petition for the bare necessities of life.
Some weeks ago was talking to a
party of four gentlemen about my
wish to aid in the establishment of
b { { colony on tract of 455 acres
in this state to which | hold clear
deeds, and spoke in rather severe
terms of the false conditions under
which we are forced to live, character
izing the competitive system as one of
commercial cannibalism. One of the
party (and by the way he has lately
suffered business reverses" that are
likely to prove fatal in the end) re-
Marked
1.-The laws of supply and demand
and survival of the fittest govern the
commercial world and a man gets
value received for his labor and his
money if he is shrewd and business
like, | am willing, perfectly, to take
my chances with men and things as
they are, and don't want any colony
life in mine"
lnreply to my question if he wanted
and expected value returned for money
expended, he replied Eyes"
DO you get it when you pay taxes?
| asked.
mo; can't say that dots prac-
tically money thrown away" he an
swered, without any value in return
in proportion to the expenditure.
DO you get it when you employ
lawyer" q knew he had enioved GU
some sad experiences on that score
lately.
"No; not always In fact, | deem it
a waste of funds, in majority of in
stances, to hire lawyers-that is, for
the average business man to do So"
DO you get any return value from
what you pay preachers?
MOI he replied emphatically, "they
are parasitic class that preys upon
the credulity of the people"
"And what about doctors?" asked.
"Well' he replied, 1.-THE doctor some
times earns his pay, but not always
hes the best of the lot you've dis
cussed.' To which | assented.
| argued that lawyers, doctors and
preachers are today, and have long
been the worlds rulers after he had
admitted that conditions could be
better, but just how to bring about
the betterment he couldn't say,
told my small audience that the world
is ruled and governed through the
tear OF three Scarecrows
The lawyer frightens people out of
a fee through fear OF the chain gang
and penitentiary.
The doctor scares them out of fee
through fear of the grave.
The preacher parades "hell and it's
horrors" before the mortal vision as
their future condition if they fail, or
refuse, to support the church and the
preacher.
So the people are governed through
their fear of these three things-prison,
grave and hell-poor things.
Now, | wish to aid in establishing a
Georgia colony of people who are I'M
afraid of either, and who are willing
to accept as their motto. seek the
truth: accept facts; fear nothing but
the doing of wrong
How many such are readers of our
national organ? If | hear from a
sufficient number who are willing to
JOIN me in this work, and if space is
allotted by Industrial Freedom, will
write fully about the land, it's loca-
ton, advantages and disadvantages,
etc
We read Industrial Freedom as
soon as it arrives. Even the children
are interested i'll the colony notes of
the three colonies, and ask me innum