Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-03-18
A M0NIMNS OPINION,
ON FEAR AND COMPLAlNINGS.

tree, and then, doubtful if the artistic
perception of the general public was
apace with his highflown conception
found himself constrained to label his
work, This is Tree, the writer of
"a Womans Opinion" in q previous
edition of Industrial Freedom now
finds herself craving space to expati-
ate little on some ideas about
fear and those poor-houses of the
mind, in that article She may again
go ''gaily speeding away over the as
trail plane to some slight cxtent-not
to spite the editor(who is q neighbor,)
and to be socialist, wholly unmind-
ful OF the Bible injunction regarding
ones neighbor were poor thing, in
deed-but because there, in the realm
OF thought, is the cause of everything
we see. All we materially experience
at Equality and abroad over the world
all things physically tangible are but
effects OF thought. Is it the tree, the
earth, the ocean? These are but eff
fects of the Creators thoughts. Is it
the mansion, the growing crop, the
thoughts applied to the crystalized
thought of GOd-the resources of ma
ture-provided by an all-wise, bcnefi-
cent Intelligence that is beyond the
grasp of human understanding and to-
ward which our attitude should Ger
tainly be one Of gratitude and faith.
Since, then, all things are the results
of thoughts it remains as a natural
consequence that the physical condi-
ton here and abroad over the world
will never be elevated to the noble
standard of life and living all we'll
Wishers of humanity hope for until we
make a better condition of life and lOf-
tier ideals for our race a mental fact
with a large working majority of peo-
pie everywhere Now, who is meant
by ''We' in that last sestence? Why
every refOrmer in existence led by the
reform press The duty Of these now,
it is one Woman's opinion, IS no long
er to teach the people of their disas-
trouS plight, Ito continue which viii
cause the nation to move permanent
" into its own, selEcOnstructed poor
house, made for it bY the fears of the
people as individually but to trynoW
to stay the tide of despair-Which is
always helpless in It's very nature-by
seeking to fiji the minds OF the people
with thoughts of plenty, peace, love
and home. We can safely do this
knowing that the law is that when
the great, popular, public mind is
filled with such thoughts it must fol-
low as surely as effect ALWAYS answers
cause that the physical public will be
fed and housed III its own beautifully
supplied home That is a scientific
fact which will wash and never crock
or fade.
Equality colony lived first in the
mind of one individual-as every plan,
invention or scheme of living must
first be conceived from divine inspira-
brought forth into substantial realism
as the tree from the seed of thought
then it spread to the minds of small
number of rcformers III the East, then
abroad over the world to some three
or four thousand relormers and we
see in the result-Equality Coopera-
tive ColOny-a physical something
which can be counted, measured,
weighed, hence the materialist who
can feel, see and taste it says: well |
declare! There is something here, af-
ter all. This is Equality
But it is not. 1t is only the case
ment, the husk, the shell, if you please.
In the concerted mind of the peopld is
the only real Equality colony Let
this change and what have we? Dis
bandment, riot and perhaps blood
shed; a deserted village on the hill
side and a fat snap for the lawyers
who "settle up the business.
Now if the concerted mind. which is
the only real Equality, (also the only
real world outside is dominated by
fear instead of faithits sure demolition
is at hand-shaken to pieces by the
ague of terror, frozen to death by the
congestion of despair Terror Des-
pair. In the condition those two
terms describe all is weakness-no
hint of anything but suffering and dis
solution,-no building power any
where III sight. | must maintain that
fear of poverty dominates about sev-
en-tenths of the world and that that
feeling certainly appears to me, (trom
conversations and otherwise, ITO have
cast his lot here. He may not have
feared for himself, but for others, and
so nobly have come here to cast his
wealth and his destiny with us for
whom he is concerned as a class. Now
this may be true
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