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,/ • Tel the greed of man i pre
, over his religion and sense
| „v. just so long has man sooth
*h\s conscience into an unnatural
,-p. B:Kl life hat. been made""a cruel
Vje^peribd of plunder and out
• and i hoarding | and f avaricious
?*'#?-instead of the healthy, hope
k happy journey .the great ' Creator
Pled life tobe.^^^^^t^tt
\[jn build great cities and orna-
t them with public parks and
r tains and "polished church build
i Bfai^lltbc" glitter of wealth fascl
i t -8 men and draws them into these
i -traps, the same as the I lighted
. fascinates and draws the
■uiipbtfe?V fly into its flames. :
C^jtyTvf^ely these city builders plan
u^r'^J^ Nothing is made public
r-ftre js/fJiat will psw a revenue, or
f taf n'wi'l \ The park and the church
ud trie fountain are nice to look at
ore s Ktomach Is full, and his
My is warmly clothed, but they
lean" nothing at all to the hungry,
i f>!, tobless, moneyless man and
'i hi mills fend the factories and the
v! road; the city lots are not
; cm tion and public property—
J, [..en the hydrants are free.
t.lv the ? tirofitless i institutions are
i"adc. ciani non"property, and, in the
b-nes.-io/i". >f these profitless lnstitu
038.thousands go hungry and ragged
icugh itf c, wondering, all ' the time
(j?.ijseTA.il mighty' made such a pal
iii ; 'e'*»jer of humanity./ ';
flgP^i jw years ago the willing
•<r .).', And the means of earning
JWtmg In the great l cities, and
i a am tent to draw water and
i |w|tw and carry the hod for just
; -<fard to sustain life and
1 k •.family up in ignorance and
;y«W[' following in the father's
f * j * rid wearing his chains.
,J|otskm?*'-' I»*'i1 »*'i growing harder
'Willi for the honest workman.
|*Hmi^ has crowded him out. Ma
li ' ""enlv requires a little grease
l" ns's u;^y.':.1i while the machine
hi a^JJ* Ihe image of God" require*
.Ta- If >•»« meat and clothing aiil fuel,
ai tfcs only thing left for thejlabor
l^SP J? do is to get away rim the
, i -setfeulesof the nineteenth cen
tbest hum in traps that ire set
i* ' riciims and crush them un
it j -ueYvflof greed. t r'' i
V' ■ fr,s2' T oppression becomes too
tit|li?'^l« little bit of pride and
|r(ci»nii*dl|ice still leftTuncruihed in
,{i ''■■': bosom of the slkve, he
p ■ i .tl** .- for some portion of. God's
* i]f» * vUete he can get accent to the
4 fr^tte other natural e|-ments
1 » • Intended from the wry, be
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used y/ the corrosion of greed, is
1 i^k!-! ndly and lovtngcfeature.
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IP lone but
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If it was not j wrong then. it is
equally justifiable now. A The: oppres
sion is ten times greater now than i it
was when the pilgrims left their na
tive shore and trusted themselves to
the waves and to a God of justice,
and came to live '.] among savages, in
preference jto thej persecutions I and
oppressions '; of \■■ a . so-called ; govern
ment. : -■:.''■'<. . ,f . , ;
Some :'■.- well-intentioned socialists
have opposed the colonization plan,
and have advised the slow process of
voting ourselves back to the soil, and
the freedom that* belongs to f every
human being. ■'-''■$
But, my brothers, men and .; women
and little children are starving in the
accursed cities of plutocracy, and to
wait ion j the ; slow process of i voting
men -who/ do not £ yet realize their
wrongs, while these houseless ones are
starving In the streets, is not much
short of entire desertion,
.'* I have] always ] favored ( the colony
■ plan," though unable to join f one my
i self, and I hold these brave men who
have cast their lot with the fortunes
of | Equality, "as' the peers of j those
liberty-loving men t? who came to
America to 'brave the tomahawk and
scalping, knife /of £ the | savages, in
hopes <of ! building ft or/ themselves a
home ', where the oppressor's hand
could not rob them of j their freedom
and the profits of their toll. '. '/-/
True, they have not the savages to
fight at Equality, and J the wild \ war
whoop of :| a / barbarous people will
hardly be heard there 'during the at
tack that will j, surely ibe made\ upon
the | working \ people * of f this "| New
America: but - a '■} wiser, shrewder,
more cruel, ' ed-cursed people '(" are
lying in ambush and |devising ' means
to crush the ( independent spirit of
those who would ( attempt to build up
a civilization where the stomach of
the* worker / is ■ looked * after, as well
as his 50u1. ., , (?-'''(/■'•
f I am as proud /to ( assist these bold.
bra men and women in advocating
the cause of / humanity, as I would
have been £tqf follow): after Jesus
Christ, working for ! the . same grand
and laudable purpose." (/'(; ''("■'■//
I doubt very much if there is a sin
gle person In the colony, or will ibe
during the next \ ten years, who has
not suffered ; hunger and f, privation,
sometime and some where during life.
Only those who have suffered j priva
tions, and " felt the pan of hunger,
and have lived and laughed through
it all, are capable of suffering in the
cause of humanity. 7"*,?,'./ *''.- ; '-"" •.:■ j
V Who but they know the many gaunt
and hungry faces'thatare ever peep
ing out of the shadows, and ever urg
ing them on."" I.Who ■ but they \ have
but to close their eyes and | look back
Into memory and see a mother hush
ing a famishing babe to sleep at a
breast where nothing' but a burning
misery remains?,^,'-*.•- 'j.r -'///'?
'And the stains of blood; and, sweat
and oppression and wrong they trace
but' along the ragged i path* leading
back]to a lonely cradle that was agi
tated by, a■; mother's"! knee, while her
hands were busy sewing and patching
the/poor little threadbare dresses of
the sleeper—are they not lit to write
a new declaration of independence,
and write liberty and justice above
every humble door? .''''''jSwP^B :
£'Mckinley"saysi that true patriotism
consists of a faith in God, and a reso
lution to pay the bondholder his inter
est in gold. / I never yet heard him
advise anyjot her /sort of ; patriotism.
He says nothing about/ loving;, hu
manity, '([and | feeding (, our starving
countrymen—not one. word, j' ■,■'/,
*| If (there' lire not better patriots In
[-'.quality—better and truer men
than this Mckinley, then the work is
all a cruel failure, and pood will ul
timately crush out all that Is noble in
their, hearts. :,?/ ' ( \
/:But these pioneers are built of bet
ter stuff. They l "who! suffer and 1 love
through it all, are , not • the butterfly
men!of f plundered ( fortunes, s They
are ever the true patriots of! every
nation under the sua: and this New
Ami:::ica will have [ its soil 'enriched
and moistened with the .tears and
the hopes and love of as true men
as ever C t'oin hands of their
Maker; and | liberty and justice can
never he rooted out of such a soil.
■
The April number of Current
Thought wntains an article on the B.
S" re. written by our National
J£r, fir* <-aadee.
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EDISON, SKAGIT COUNTY. WASH., SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1898.
Jf CO-OPERATIVE COLONIES.
;iJv\C■■■'■/■« «BY BIGE EDDY. '.'■-,
■;: /' (Written for Industrial Freedom.) , 'i '
fj With all deference to Patrick Hen
ry, I believe we may judge of the
future otherwise than by the past.
To be sure, it were folly to ignore the
lessons of the past; but if history is to
repeat itself,' as conservatives are so
fond of | asserting, few of ,us ? would
care to take the trouble to make it.
If the future is to contain no grander
growth, no ■; enlarged S fieedoni j for
mankind, then is there no meaning in
the ?, words ; evolution, i; advancement,
progress.-'
£ I believe in complete governmental
co-operation; In ,' its justice; In its
practicability. Ido not believe that
isolated cooperation is a substitute
for it, but do believe it can be made
an excellent means to this very de
sirable end. " : .'..-:•..
I believe that, T if the promoters of a
colony are actuated by the proper
spirit,"^ and • use good :; business l judg
ment in the selection of a location
and the conduct of their affairs, suc
cess Is an assured fact. '..> ■■2'<'' ''
|] It goes without saying that '{ the
spirit necessary for success along this
line Is j the spirit of I co-operation. f I
cannot conceive of a colony .working
In harmony and /achieving: success,
the members of which believe In com
petitive strife. When a colony goes
to pieces there is no'need/as in the
Maine affair, for a board of Inquiry
to determine whether the explosion
came from without or from within.
jjlf a'colony is actuated by the spir
it of co-operation its chance of suc
cess Is in the same ratio to the chance
of an individual in the same location,
as its collective capital and '. produc
tive, power is to that of his. Yes, and
more than this, for both capital and
power, may be multiplied many fold
by co-operation, and waste and ; fric
tion minimized.
We cannot expect, under present
conditions, that any man with suffi
cient capital to purchase labor-saving
machinery is going to be satisfied
with ordinary wages. , But with/col
lective ownership, the full value fof
the product may be returned to the
owners, less a sum sufficient to keep
the machinery in ! repair and (to re
place :it 1 when '■ worn I out. ?(A,' colony
properly ; conducted, heed; not I carry
an idle accumulation of /property,
for its productive power is a bank up
on f which it may safely draw, with
out danger of protest. (-/
>Its machinery need not rust out in
idleness because, for " domestic; pur
poses, /it need '■ have (no'; more than
enough tb'supply. the demand. ,
■/As to the location of "Equality,"
the ' first 1 in the Brotherhood's series
of "colonies^'though I have never seen
it, a"residence" of • dine years in .west
ern j Washington, together' with the
description given of its site'by visi
tors, convinces me, that;it is an idea!
one. "i Not oily is the' climate and soil
capable of producing/the largest pos
sible/percentage^ of the necessaries
and luxuries of life, but material is at '
hand, from which? by the application
of • comparatively ' inexpensive/ ma
chinery, /articles , can ( be I produced
which will sell in the markets/of the
world. S Thus" the money, necessary to
purchase the few things/which/can
not be" produced at home can' soon be
obtained, and the future expansion of
the movement be provided for/as the
beginning has been, by the "reserves."
The cosmopolitan character, of the
Puget \ Sound population is the best
proof " of i the adaptability /of, the cli
mate '* to « people of (all; climes and
nations.
iAs to the business management, a
careful study of the/principles of the
11. C. C. convinces me that it Is lodged
in the only. place where so Important
modioli can/be"; safely- s entrusted,
namely,;, the majority (of thos? t con- ]
cerned -the Brotherhood at large. / : |
Internal dissension and {jealousy
are most to be feared lii enter;
of this/ kind. The equality, guarau
teed' every /member/ of the (Brother
hood should* and doubtless .will," elim
inate this disturbing element.
*"" But best of all, this movement never
overlooks the fact that while the suc
cess of j Its colonies f means much for
the Immediate relief of large num
bers of the tolling; masses, yet |the,
grander principle, that universal
and|world»wlde|c^peritiou?|l^tK|
one towards which we are journeying
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and on which the eye must be stead
fastly fixed. For the sake of the
millions to whom relief, if it come at
all, must comeTsbon;*^or/the ( sake of
the leavening „ power , | which j success
along this line will have upon the
masse* and! for the sake of the vast
work of which it is believed Equality
colony is" but the small/beginning,''^ I
hope for the success of "Equality"
colony}' of Edison, Skagit Co., Wash
ington./ 11^/ and '/the-? Brotherhood
movement of which it as yet offers
only a glimpse has my best wishes? as
it will have my most earnest efforts. (
COLLECTIVISM vs. CAPITALISM.
' , 11Y REV. GEO. CAN DEE. •;"'
When we/talk of capital we want
in the first place to understand / what
is meant jby capital. It means" all
kinds of! wealth | used| by men to pro
duce more wealth. It Includes a sew-
Ing needle and everything between it
and a Corliss engine; it includes a
hoe and 0' a gang •of . steam plows; a
wheelbarrow and a locomotive; a rail
road and [a/ canal—anything /used' to
produce more wealth. Capital would
be worthless, It would 'be of no value
unless ; worked by men. (: Capitalism
means the private ownership of cap
ital—capital downed by certain indi
viduals and worked by hired 5 labor.
It involves the/whole'vast/ industrial
system in competition. The time has
come when one capitalist is constant
ly / striving : to outdo another, when
one ( laborer is endeavoring to beat
his fellow. In my own city of Toledo
workmen are constantly besl to
sell their jobs, to give them up so that
some other man, perhaps more needy
may have a] chance |to earn a living
for hit- ,"lf and family.- Competition
is the result of capitalism. ((( /
.On i the other J hand, what '; do we
mean by collectivism?*"--. It is \ co-ope
ration, the// means '; of production
and .transportation being owned in
common by the men who work those
things. :<V.. (;;.: ;''/r//:;;' /'-•'/.(/
, ( It is absolutely necessary tto .' have
capital. Labor cannot make war on
capital, You may have been misled
by people who do not understand, but
capital and labor must work together,
just as a chopper must use his axe to
hew a tree down. The chopper with
out the axe vould be? powerless to do
his work: the axe without (j the; chop
per a useless implement. The conten
tion Is not between capital and labor,
but between capitalists and laborers.
Now we; must j have ("capital; we* want
it vastly multiplied. We haven't got
half enough of it.. ; ' (■! ;
Machinery is going;, to (.take tin
place of the great. mass of labor and
I expect, that in another, century, the
machinery £of I today will be' looked
upon as being as clumsy .in (Compari
son witp the new inventions? as is the
wheelbarrow in comparison with the
locomotive. What we want istohave
the tools of J production owned by the
men who use them. • We don't want
to have/a few I capitalists owning ail
the tools arid laud. .((The Creator cre
ated the land for every biddy, and not
for a few. There has been a wrong
distribution 'and 'we arc contending
that there ought to be equal owner
ship. | A / '.'"•' ;",'';
/ Another, element of collectivism is
that all the capital and land shall be
, worked collectively by the people,un
der wi c management,' just as s great
| railroad corporation Is controlled, in
; the first place it shall be owned, and
( In the second place worked by all th«
/'workers/(;,/■.,','-;:-';,■'','(.. (
jZ 1 When*. Jesus'(gave * his' groat com
mandment, it had two branches, and
the first was like unto the second,
"Thou ehalt love thy neighbor an thy
self.". That doesn't mean thai 1 shall
go about hugging and kissing; every
man.and woman- 1 (,meet/ but fe that?l
shall live for? the , benefit of j my. fel
lows.'/ They"/ are '.. my [ brothers," all (of
tl:em« makes no difference as to
what?their station in life may be, of
what klnd"bfj?ibtheathey wear. 'SrP
clalis'm??Vn|ll^J^We«t /sense? means
the bettc mant of*very human be-:
iiigbnltlw'fface/bfTthe{earth?,: We
con tend'l that unj» the ; socialistic
pUntlwjio »onidJi't|be/a inllU'oualre
upbnl the face of the i earth \ that
. wuuJa^''y^'JSw»feoff.// They ((would
be|"fett«J^ffr^||ear.Uh'at''th'ey or
ii cßldten wes>ld ever ; "come/tb
wj'nt.-afti by/tb'e thought that there
wald he «*»^atfe/tug han being*
"•'. 'S* r *«. ••*«••;«»•.. ;•',•*. •••••
atv*t ||iif^«; ; K*i>{l:«vs^*'v
More would be produced j and com
petition '; and \ waste 1 being | abolished
every man might), become wealthy.
And wealth is what makes all ; our so
cial and intellectual, ;esthetic and
ethical j- distinctions. Co * and study
the genealogy and surroundings of
what we call our first families. What
makes them }' any/different' from oth
ers? The only thing that they and
perhaps their ancestors for several
generations were betteroff than their
neighbors??,..
Then we hold that there/ should be
an equal amount of i time contributed
by allmen and women —to the i com
mon cause. At first/, they // will /be
obliged to work eight hours a day. af
terwards six hours,' and ;; finally/ when
the system . becomes § more general
and perfect only four. We ) contend
that each person shall *be /taxed an
equal amount of time of each day
until they 'come toold age/Then they
can draw their pay Just the same.and
old age will become what it ought to
be, the]"hw6etest time/of life. Then
we | contend that I there/shall £be an
equal division of all property. Under
the competitive system each man who
gets rich has got ; sbmethirg 3he has
not given an equivalent for. Under
this system no man needs any more
than he can use. In sickness and in
old age everyone would be taken care
of and paid an equal proportion of the
goods' of ; the socialistic ;f community,
just as though he were ?in active ser
vice. We need vastly more than (we
have of this world's goods, and if la
bor were I rightly ;directed every' one
would have more.;(...";"',
All that you could put into any co
operative enterprise is a partof your
self.^ We are ii'oihg to dethrone mam*
, mon and enthrone maii?i.i;-^g^.»
'/See what ; a"- wretched condition we
are in on account of this system of
competition.. Thousands r are dying
for the;; necessities of , life because
of . the competition v between capital
ists trying to put | things • upon the
market cheaper than others and put
ting in labor (saving machinery, de
prlvlngfmen of employment; and
bread. '>,'■'„/'■•'•.. -„/.';..
'v The average production of a labor
ing man is $1,81.1 a year, while his
average wages is about $300. Eighty
three per cent goes to capital, seven
teen per; cent to "the laboring man.
That's about the ratio.
MEDITATIONS OF A MUTTJAIIST.
'„-':■■'- ■;■■■■ '!" /".." '" • ' -';[''-
'A '<'.'': . (FIRST SEBIE3.)
You may look in vain through: the
dictionaries of a decade or two ago
for the term Mutuallst'/.Theiword is j
new,;. perhaps,/ but by. grace : of \ the
sporadic' apparitions, through civili
zation's earlier and unconscious ages,
of what is best in human nature, the
doctrine involved lit the word mutual-
Ism Is not entltely novel. It is ..aid
that Socrates ; and Plato never u<ed
the word humanity, but they surely
apprehended the human idea, and
they were to some extent humanitar
ians in a world that was distinctly
non-humanitarian. bio, too, the the
ory of mutualism ; existed for a long
while before the able Dean of the 1!.
C. c. so admirably set forth bis philo
sophy of mutualism. The living em
boulment of • perfect mutualism in
days of old. was beheld In Christ; but
there ; were sautualists among,.men
even .before the. days of the lowly
Nazarene' who . went • around doing
good. ' -
..*:./.;
* The gospel of mutualism -may be
summed up In the. selfsame, words as
those that summed up/the indivisible
one-half of the religion .that .Christ,
sought to inculcate—Love thy neigh
bor as thyself.- Thellneof CteavVgej
between modern mutualism and the
mutualism of I'-. . '.' .1 ■■ v-. /of, old,";, Is '
found In the fact that modern mutual-:
Ism /lies nearer, unto action and far
,ther off, from mere belief.;' Modern :
mutualism, does, as, modern, religion j
should, / put the ■ accent (on tin-, act i
rather than upon tin- belief;, it holds
I more to'a man's conduct than to a
i man's professions, . ; I
'•";v. : •- ■ ./,.*,-/-•.;, ' i / ;!
/.What' inline. I fcrtilltv,} socialism :
dl»j»laysl§But twenty-five:yearsaßJoi 1
and the native-born socia. of jtlie.;
Unitedi B'tates could'lk;' counted >on
the finger* of one t hand; now., la esti
mate-: from > the, recent (election*; to!
Milwaukee, Chicago?'^beboyg»»?jTa»;
Milwaukee, t'hicngo, SI.
cMui.t!- a;.'d; elsewhere, the »oclall<itlc
.
- vote of this country Is about 1 /in 20,
I or over three-quarters of a million
. votes. In other words/ the socialistic Jf
- strength, to guage it from the stand
-1 ard of ,the.voting franchise, has gain-<i
r ed several thousand per cent, in this
f country'in, the last two 'decades./^ At >
t that stupendous rate of growth the %',
- United: States; should \. be v absolutely
1 socialized in another decade,', and the
I twentieth century* should 'dawn upon
r the inauguration of the Co-operative
: Commonwealth of America. '
- \x ,;/. - .-v./ ";;"*"'?v.v ■/" ,'./;', v.
1 ;■; A citizen of the coming common
- wealth, who happens /to; be ja* little /
I versed in the lore of the padlock and ./.
- the turf, gives me the/ following
i "straight tip." Socialism is sired by 1'
I Suffering or Sympathy, out of Know
-1 ledge or, Natural Reason; Industrial
i Competition is sired by Selfishness or
! Conservative Superstition, out of Ig
i norance or Timidity. Socialism is a
1 fine young thoroughbred, tipped by
> the talent to carry off in a canter the
i great Futurity stakes in the Coming;
l Race: Competition is an ausgesplelt:/
r selling plater that will be left at the ,
) post' or,, the quarter, or a > long/shot //*
J nag that will be all out at the half
: and die away and be 4 lost in , the'
! stretch. J May the best horse win, but
i ou form it looks like •a •: walkover " for
: the co-operative colt.
; ".- ©' -. . . . ...• . . .;.
. -/ Here is a very significant utterance
- to come out of the" mouth of a pro
' feasor; in a leading/ university of
- America*. V; Sidney; Sherwood, Ph. l>., )
- Associate Professor ;^-, of / Political
'. Economy/ John, Hopkins universityHv
- in ihe ] recently published universi'v
- monograph on .''Tendencies in/Ameri-lf
- can f Economic Thought," closes! his //
B seventh chapter (The '. Individual ■ and Si
I the State) with these very significant t|
' sentences: / ' .. "'v ■'.'•'■ • '.' .'/I
', "The entire country has been prac- j.^
' tlcally occupied and made accessible '|
• to development.: Further, the gen
' eral industrial revolution has wrought ;f|
■ its work, ■ here "as elsewhere —steam .»'
and electricity have transformed our i t)
I methods of. production and' thrown /
; our products Into the general mar
■ kets of the world, i. Under such cir-,,J
i cumstances, - unrestricted/ competi
• tion leads "> inevitably ? to/ combina
tion. Nowhere in the world has the
tendency to great industrial combina-/
tions shown, such vitality as in the
United States.;.lf the masses of the
American people ever ; become con
vinced that the only",way, to preserve
equality and freedom'"of (economic
opportunity is; through the public as
sumption of the industries now man
aged by the trusts, no country in the
world will swing into state control;,
with eater rapidity and decision.
The logical outcome of.the extreme
individualistic > philosophy In which;
| the American republic was conceived,'
is state control of industry—as'the!
means ,>: defending the Individual.,
aga.il.; the coercion , of overgrown 1
coutbijatljn. Some middle ground
must be found,".' if we »oi«.J save
America from socialism."
*
Save America 1 "from socialism! *'
Well.-'lf socialism .ties not ...in
' America from' America j' where is say- 1
iiig grace to be found!" Nay, the lit-/
[ tie leaven that leavens the whole
! body politic of modern civilization,
and that will preserve i i against in
herent corruption, is socialibtic re-;'
form and advance.' If the whole mass \
of modern economics were not soon to '/.
jbe ■ leaveucd with the quickening;
leaven of socialistic co-operation, it
would Vcorrupt and putrefy against ;
all posible preservation ' but social i
X! save it.
*
-•'The fundamental doctrine of social
ism is Inherent in these maxims:
iJet \ them that produce posarsS) li'
them' hat posi<ess,:produce;, let''all
possess; that all may prudi:ce, and let
all produce, that all may jK»»aes», let
no man j monopolize" pro*) net ion, lest
Ue monopolize possessions and' let in.
mati * f uionopnllze ; pvjn»e»sliiu lest lit
Bioiiopuliise production. '
$t*:] ■ .;:
ConapctStlon makes "irr the artifl^ :
clal Increase of the natural; luequali- '■■■
ty »if man with man, a»id for the con
> M-quent diminution of husuHuJu-tUee'"
, i ami human helpfulness•*fsi-ot*efAVion X :
| iniulr.iizes; IneqbaHtj ■' art-l *ui.i**ftiH«» f
the'scope, and'cap.»cjt>: of jn^lice
,: and love. ,■■ . „'■ i- ■'*',' ''•«.-'
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