Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-01-07
Ernest Halliday is night watch.

Perhaps some one can send us a copy of
Dynamic Breathing" by Gertrude Steb-
bins.
A dentist could make good wages probably
by paying Equality visit for few days.
There are plenty of stumps of all kinds here
to be pulled.
That staunch pioneer war horse, Alexander
Pugh, has gone to take a job cutting shingle
bolts You will hear from him regularly
through these pages.
Peter L. Olsen. Chinook, Wash, donates a
campaign book of 1885, entitled ''The Parties
and the Men," Thanks This brings back
memories of a hot time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kirk of Seattle paid us a fly
ing visit this week. They went home with an
enlarged idea of our work and its Importance
in economic development.
The entertainment given by the Equality
Dramatic Club on New Years eve was proba-
bly, the best yet. The members of the club
are working diligently and deserue success.
The freight on our donkey engine from
Chicago was $500. Under universal socialism
this amount would carry it all around the
world. Let us work for government owner
ship.
Mr.. Joel Wright and his wife. son and
daughter, came up from Arkansas to view
this socialist landscape DER, with the inten-
tion of entering in the army of colonization.
They joined and we give them welcome.
at SHOWS, cries the school boy. Hurrah.'
Oh well, that may be all right to put in a
book, but it doesn't prevent a mans fingers
from aching AMI his feet feeling like two
slabs of ice, all on account of the ''beauti-
full"
We are blessed with excellent music in
Equality. We try to fill out well rounded
life here, as near as circumstances will per-
nit, and all feel that we owe a great deal to
our musicians, who put in considerable over
time in this way
We are in receipt of a book of rapid calcu-
laticn, from Comr ide Frank Voigt of Deca-
tur, Ga. This brother has got himself into a
habit of giving us presents, and like Hippity
Hon. got 10 goin. and couldn't stop. Well,
may be we can do something for him some
time.
Mr.. j. w. Heritage donates some valuable
literature to our library. The list is the Birth
or Freedom, Tale OF Two Nations, Harvey's
Coin, Brain and Bible. Our brother may
carry with him the consciousness of good
deed done and to rest assured that we here at
the front appreciate such thoughtfulness and
generosity.
Mr.. George Washington Lafayette Allen
a name to conjure the dead with attended
our Christmas festivities and entered into the
spirit of the, occasion by dancing jig, al
though he is II years old. He has several
times been sheriff of Whatcom and Skagit
countless aud says Equality will never be
without Il friend and defender as long as he
stays above ground.
From every direction come inquiries con-
corning Equality colony. The people are
aroused by the trend of events to seek some
economic place of refuge. The trust, and
that other monster the international trust, is
making nine-tenths of human labor unneces-
sary and reducing the remaining tenth to a
humiliatng slavery. Industrial cooperation
is the only road of escape.
Bro Hannah had singular dream. He
was no doubt surcharged with the gleeful
spirit of Christmas. He dreamed that he said
glee was the best thing in the world, and
some one disputed it and piled up $40 gold
pieces in his hand, which, however, he could
easily lift but when they began to pile on the
glee he could not hold it up. This proves
that glee is better than gold
We have received d Photograph of Prof.
James G. Clark, now deceased, of Pasadena.
Cal. presented to Equality colony by Mrs
May Bowman Clarke. The picture brings
back sweet memories of music and poetry to
those who were so fortunate as to have known
1.-THE poet of the people" His many friends
are trying, by the sale of his book of poems.
to build monument to his memory Orders
for the book may be sent to w. c. Bowman,
South Los Angeles Cal.
Talk about heroes-the heroes of a war
are not in it compared to our boys who roll up
their sleeves and tackle the road proposition
We have always been dreading that road
work and somehow putting it off because it
was a big job, but Carey Lewis, G. +. FELTON,
Jesse Pomeroy,'A L. Rogers, A. b. Monnich
b l.. Cochran, +. l.. Irish, b. f. Clevenger
and some more brave and brawny ones have
made such havoc with the trees and stumps
that the job is shrinking up to an ordinary
undertaking. Head workers are good and
necessary, but these road workers must be