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INDUSTRIfII 9 FRGfciDOIYI. L PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE BROTHERHOOD OP THE CO-OPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH (Entered .i; the i1 ■ ito cc, Edison; Skagll County, wash., as second OLi-.-- mail matter, i Term. of Subscription: One Copy, One Year '... ?1.00 s;\ Months M Three Month* 85 To members of Brotherhood. 50c per year, Foreign—sent by tnembei - 11 per year. EDISON; SATURDAY, JULY 2. 1888. MEANS AND ENDS. The editor has received several let ters commending his attitude on a one-plank platform. One of the let ters I print, with my comments, in •another column. Socialism is an end. direct legisla tion is the simplest and best means of securing all desirable political ends. socialism among the rest. Socialism is the apple, direct legis lation is the tree. Speaking tor no one but himself.the editor wishes to agitate and educate [or socialism; but would rather vote for direct legislation. His reasons are that on a one-plank platform a large majority of the voters of Wash ington can be won for direct legisla tion at the coming election. There lore let us carry this reform, and so turn the legislative guns (now used by worse than Spanish tyrants for the destruction of the people) against the trusts and corporations. Unjust special legislation Is the foundation on which Is built the plutociacy of today. Just general legislation Is the foun dation on which we will build the economic democracy of tomorrow. Legislation is the keystone of the arch of Industrial progress. We are ready to build the arch and should at once prepare the keystone, lest the arch, once built, and wanting the key stone, should fall into ruins. Legislation is the foundation on which all our reforms are built. Without proper legislation we can have neither colonies nor any other form of co-operative effort. With direct legislation we are ready for the co-operative commonwealth. Briefly stated, the socialist argu ments for a direct legislation, one plank, campaign are: 1. Socialism will never come through representative government but only by direct vote of the people. therefore let us get direct legislation lirst. 2. A majority of Washington vo ters favor direct legislation, but only a minority favor socialism: therefore let us carry this campaign on a direct legislation, one-plank platform, and put off other issues til! some future time. Exemption of small homesteads from taxation, and public ownership and operation of mono] ■ • are re forms of ast importance, but— I. Neither can safely be put into effect by our present "government, by irresponsible politicians, in the in terests of monopolies." .'. It is doubtful if either could carry this fall. Therefore I. favor, for state legisla-j ture. a ore-plank platform, favoring j direct legislation on petitionof 10 per .cent of the voters. «):i such a platform we can win with :i i ousing majority, '!• »I< £< I'irj'-t Today, fcaya Tomorrow.— Tne private draws &13 •'> month till killed or disabled. If killed his wife draivsfli a month. If wounded the prlwate draws about enough pension to | •,";;,' hU board at a lodging house. 1:' "... ■ survives the war with whole tkin,\he will at i-r.ci- go to work to help <)ay i'iT the national debtTalart'c port'.nt of which is for salaries on the following generous »cale, and remem ber thht the private gets $13atnbnth; Admlrafl. 113,000: vice-admiral. 80,000; rear-ad.miral. f'3,000: commodore, $3,000; jbaptain, 8J.50O; commander, if.'t..v>o; l.leutenant-comraander, ?2.>ikl; lieutenant, iJ.4"*l: master, 11,600; en sign, 81,.100: midshipman, fl,000: ca det midshipman, 1300; chief engineer, (4,400; ilet t surgeon. Heet paymaster, and Meet engineer.'(4,4oo each: sur geon and paymaster, •?^'. - i»>i each: chaplain, ■*'.'..'>< ■''. * * * Debs Leaves the Social Democracy. —At the recent convention of the »<i cial Democracy there was pronounced division over the colonization ques tion, one faction favoring and the other 6ppo«in,7. When the vote was taken, the number favoring both col onization and political action was ■".!: thote opposing! colonization '.*'. The minoritVi inch-ding Mr. Debs, imme diately organised the Social Demo cratic party, onulnes aitnilar to those of the Social Lavbor party. •J. «5« # A New Step in aocialism. --Several cities and countio tt have bought and ire now bperatlnfvjhelr own printing I lan: - The unlviwsal testimony i* that a great lavin'/ is effected and at the Hinf time 'ii ■ workers get' .-I o tir hours and h "nher wajts. The contractor [sweatei ) however has lost his job. Some Good Spaniards—Who are Still Alive, In Barcelona, Spain, the socialists are Insisting that the gran dees, who shunt about "national honor," should themselves enlist, So just is this demand and so numerous I are the socialists, thai the attention of the government is railed to the I fact that there are no volunteers at Barcelona, Spanish socialists favor Cuban Independence. Suppose Ameri can socialists start an agitation fora regiment of millionaires! * * * Gold Bug Patriotism. ■■ In the last campaign we heard much of "na tional'honor" from men who panted to get] 742* grains of (diver for each ■>' | grains the government owed them. The war ctme on. Did one of these millionaire " protect-the-natlcnal honor" men enlist? Not at all. One of them had just bought the "Merri mac" for $100,000, but he was so anx ious to protect-the-natlonal-honor that he gave—oh, to, be sold the ves sel to his country ■•380,000. So another patriot serves his fatherland in true gold-bug style. >£• •J' ►I* Socialism i 3 Growing.—l-ast year the French socialist vote was 1100,000, this year it is over 1,000,000. In Bel glum, during the past four years the socialists gained 88,000 votes, while the clericals church party) lost 22,000 and the liberals lost 20,000. In Eng land the Independent Labor partj has elected To members of school boards, 0" guardians. 58 town coun 11 --lor», -•" parish councillors, 10 citizen auditors, 4 rural district councillors, and 2 county councillors a total of 205 elected persons. To these from 80 to "0 Social Democrats have to be added, besides Fabians, etc.. in arri ving at the total socialist representa tion of the kingdom. (5; V :>5 But One Solution.—An exchange says: "Some way will yet be found whereby capital and labor may co operate." Hardly. Co-operation Is between equals. Capital is the pro duct of labor. Peace will come in but one way, by the workers having all the capital and the drones none. Capital is dead: has no right, no voice. When every laborer is a capitalist and has one vote In the di rection of the joint capital, there will be peace. Workers can co-opt rate in the use of their capital: but capital and labor—bah! such talk makes us weary. A carpenter uses his hammer: as a rule he doesn't con sult it nor allow it to vote! * * * Oxygen Monpoolized. — Reformers have all along agreed that a* land is as necessary for standing room as air is for breathing', private monopoly of land is as unhuman and Immoral as would be private monopoly of air; and rent for land (apart from im provement* as much robbery as would be a "breathing charge" or rent on air. The only reason why air baa not been monopolized and rented has been the impossibility of controlling it — the difficulty of preventing tropass ers. The .Tune Cosmopolitan con tain- an article showing how air is liquified, so that "after the machine has been In operation a few minutes a stream of liquified air runs steadily into the receiver." Four-fifths of the air is nitrogen useful only by way of diluting the life-giving oxygen. Nit rogen is much more volatile than oxygen, so thai by leaving the liqui fied air a few momenta the nitrogen evaporates, leaving the oxygen still liquid. Now let a world oxygen trust be formed and we will be ready to pay for the privilege of breathing —will pay air-rent, as we now pay ground' renti for, of course, after 1 have "Invested my capital" in an oxygen bottling machine, I cannot be ex pected to let people breathe air for nothing—would pauperize them, you know! £« >ji »»< Two Reaediss.-~The editor of the Co-operative Era report* a conversa tion with a wage-slave: "We'll fie all right Boon's times gets better." "What will make times better-" Will 1 can tell you what will tlo it in just a minute, and there's nothing else will j —a good war," "With whom would j you go to war" "Don't make any difference; anybody, .lust so's a- We can kill oil half the men. There's too many men. If half were killed jo.T the res.t of us could get work." To bfi sure: to be sure. This wage-slave is half right! there arc too many men I for the natural opportunities NOT YET MONOPOLIZED. But suppose t that instead of killing half the work ers wind then saddling the cost of the war on the workers not killed) — sup pose we try killing monopoly. This will be simpler and more humane. Of course it's wore in accord with prece* j dent to kill men, rather than moaop loly, but we reformer like to try ex | perimenls, and killing monopoly would be something brand new. In the event that we co-tinue the :.r. cient custom of sparing monopoly ar.d • killing half the men, it will be much cheaper to select by lot and kill by poison. It will be well, too, to pro. j vide beforehand that land and other 1 natural opportunities of labor should not be further monopolized or else in a few rears wi will need to kill off a , lot more men. EDISON, SKAGIT COUNTY, WASH., SATURDAY, JULY 2,1898, Direct Legislation, One Plank Plat form. Editor Industrial Freedom: 1 am more than pleased with your editorial on •■Tin- Only Way to Unite' 1 [by making direct legislation the entire platform. Ed], For years 1 have been laboring to impress the truth, of your ideas upon the reform ers, and I have succeeded in a much greater degree than in any other re form work in proportion to energy ex pended l lind the chief obstacle to the complete prevalence of your view to be the unwise socialists who act as though to promote direct islationto first place in the political program is to put 1' socialism aside or backward ill a second place. This is teetotally er roneous, and I hope that our more il liberal brethren will soon sse that it is. The fact is that if wo make di rect legislation our first {step all re forms are second, and no one is com pelled to Struggle with or retard an other in order to get recognition for Itself. You cannot fully realize the great goad that editorial will do.com- Ing as it does from so true a. socialist source. I will send you proceedings of Re form Union convention of May 2, which lias called a special Direct Leg islative convention to endeavor to unite all true reform elements in po litical action for direct legislation,in cluding imperative mandate and pro portional representation. The* con vention is to be held in St. Louis Nov. 2*. of this year. I want to express approval also of your editorial, "Toothpicks and Street Cars." and your choice '•Combe 1 Moral Philosophy,'! as one of the desirable books for your educa tional department. 1 have long admired your intelli pent, systematic ami effective work. Sly confidence grows. If a branch is not started here. I will join as a mem ber at large and take a share, not that I expect to join the colony, for I prefer Labor Exchange wor! in the city, but to aid you and to have an "anchor to windward." Yours truly. Sheridan weiiste*;, -,„ 711 Union Trust Bldjr. 1. " st. LoulUi Mo. [We are glad to print this letter from Comrade Webster, who repre sents the Social Democracy in the St. Louis Citizens' committee. Manifestly the only way to unite the reform forces is to put everything else in second place until direct gov ernment is secured. We prefer the term direct "govern ment.' 1 Direct legislation really in cludes simply initiative and referen dum, while direct government in cludes also direct nomination of all candidates, thus abolishing the county, district and state conven tions as well as the political boss; direct election of U. 8, senators and the president! the Imperative man date and proportional representa tion. That many socialists are inclined to oppose a one-plank platform on di rect legislation, is unfortunately true. They fail to see that a single Com pal gn will give us direct legisla tion, for direct legislation now com mand* a three-fourths majority in this state. With direct legislation carried we will not only be able to carry socialistic measures, but they will be safe when carried. Speaking only for himself and not for the B C C, which is not a political party, the editor most earnestly hopes that all parties and factions of reformers will unite on a dir.ct legis lation, one-plank platform, It's a winner. In iv! jJ. I was chosen by the populists of rant county.a- delegate to the state convention and member of committee on resolutions. Our i.rst plank endorsed the national platform, and the second plank was devoted to direct legislation. Nine other planks were added, when, think ing the platform too long, we voted to make the i.rst two planks the plat form and the other nine "appended resolutions." This was, i believe, the first in stance: in which any leading party made a campaign on a direct legisla tion, bhe-plank platform. That was six years a;, ro. and the movement was too new to enlist much .-upport from the politicians, who abound in the populist a* in all other political parties. Today, however, the politicians see which way the wind Is blowing, and a direct legisla tion, one-plank, campaign will win,— El>.] * * * Frunehi*M en Fortunes.—l have a list of 4.047 millionaires, prepared by that plutocratic organ, the New York Tribune. Following each millionaire* name is the (assumed) business in wnich he made his money. Nine out of ten became millionaires by means of special privileges granted by leg- The Christian Commonwealth, or Union of Families. First colony lo cated at Commonwealth, Georgia] Members have "all things common," Entrance fee, the whole heart; treas ure, life. The poor, the proletariat, the outcast, as welcome as he rich. Whosoever will may come. Object— unsellish Ihing, service, sacritlcen that shall save others and bring brotherhood to all men—Christ our leader. The Christ spirit of non-re ssistanct our defense. Propaganda, the .Social (iospel, published monthly. Corresponding secretary, G. H. Gib -1 son. WORDS OF GHEER ■prom Our IV^embei"? and prom Otrjer Likei the Plan. 1 like your colony plan very much and I believe you will succeed. California. Leroy Henry. Very Satisfactory. I lind your Industrial Freedom to be a very satisfactory paper. New Hampthlre. (<. B, HOitt. I lo Hungers i'"or It. You cannot put too much detail about the colonj- into the paper. T ■imply hunger and thirst fur colony notes. Henry < lovan. Wishes Success, Enclosed find money order for $20 to apply on membership feet. We hope in time to be in Washington. All success to those in the van. Florida. W. C. Spencer. His Heart's All Right Enclosed 61 for sub., and dues. I have been unable to keep up my eou tributions owing to stress of circum stances. But my heart Is still In the cause. Tennessee. C. (J. E. All in I!!:- Power. You may be sure 1 will do all in my power for the cauie. I would be with you now if circumstances would per mit, but for the present ! must be one (>:' the reierves, Massachusetts, John Bray, Interesting and Instructive. Have received your paper and Sad it both Interesting and Instructive. May your efforts to right the wrongs of the present social and industrial conditions be crowned with success. ■ Ohio. B. W. (.ibbard. And He Helps 'Em to Boom. Am triad to see thlngi a booming, and look forward with hope to the time when I can join you in the bat tle for emancipation. Knclosed find 110.90 for dues. sub., etc. Nebraska. Sec. No. 1. I Nothing Can Prevent Success. I am anxious to get the paper regu larly. I think it is well edited and nicely printed, and I admire it and look for it every week. Nothing can prevent you from succeeding. Kansas. 1). M. Dunn. Proud of It. 1 wish to acknowledge, though per haps somewhat tardily, the tirst live numbers of your, or rather our, pa per. a* a member of the BCC lan proud of it. Should delight to cast mv lot in a 15 C C colony. Coloraco. F. P. Blake, M. D. /Wants Every Issue. We have received the Brit and second Issues, and desire to not miss a single issue. We are delighted with the success of the colony department. | We almost envy you who are permit- 1 ted to lay the foundation of this great ever-growing movement in the very desirable state of Washington. Kansas. Bina A. Otis. Still Organizing. In visiting the colony some titn»; ago. 1 was very much impressed with the necessity of a proper water sys tem in case of lire. The trance move 1 think is a very good one, and you can mark me down for i~>, lam talking up our principles among the boys and expect to organi/.e another little local. Washington. Peter I- Olsen. lie Gets Disgusted. 1 take more interest* in receiving and reading Industrial Freedom than any paper i receive. I sometimes get so disgusted with this competitive system that I make Up my mind 1 will try to sell out and go to Kquality, and if I can .sell 1 will do SO, but until I do sell I will do all I can on the side to help the good work along. California. C. W. man. In the Highways and l>\>ways, A mission wagon of the Co-opera tive Commonwealth arrived in this town on Wednesday. June loth. The party consisted of Mr. A. S. Kd wards. Mr. J. B. IJeardpley and Mr. S. Irvine: also Mr. John P. Lloyd Of Chicago, who delivered some interesting lec tures on the social disease of the present system and the evils of labor saving machinery under the competa tltre system, They have held live meetings in succession and the audi ence Inci cased at every meeting. By distributing literature they have done; good work for the socialist movement and the comrades of L, U. No. I of Illinois and all others interested in the glorious cause were sorry to see them leave for Hammond. Ind. - • Illinois. Hubert Clayton. A Lasting Victory. I hope to be one of you soon. 1 will then be helping to redeem our almost lost freedom, and instead of fighting with the gun and sword, we socialists will lijjfht with the brain and brawn for a more lasting victory than our nation is now engaged in. No blood for us: but justice and equality is our motto, and by example as well as pre cept we hope to establish this most blessed truth. Utah. D. X. Foy. A Free Motherhood. 1 have read with much interest the lirst number of \'our paper: I like very much the name you have selected. Industrial Freedom means a yreat deal. It means the emancipation of woman. Women are not only slaves to drudgery, but many of them do not control their own person. In my humble judgment three-fourths of tlie children born come into the world against the wishes of the mothers. Enforced maternity, what a crime against humanity. Charles A. Fisher. The Ladles. Bless 'Em. [ think the insurance fund part of our colony is all right and will sub scribe *'J for the fund. Eugene Hlg irinsof Xo. i of Michigan authorizes me to put him down for %~i for the in surance fund for the colon\' in case of Bre, or any other thing. We have not had meeting's due to the Warm weather of late, but will soon start. Will then send in more subscribers to the paper. It is all light and I will do what I can for it. Our ladies of the )>((' are to have an ice cream social; the proceeds to go to the colony. Michigan, F. R, Dowsett. The Downfall of Oppression. The first copy of • Industrial Free dom, the oryan of the B C C, received today: many thanks. I read it very carefully from the start to the end of it. and saw the progress that our in fant colony, Equality, has made since its birth. Hope the boys do their best to show that socialism ha.-* come to stay: that the red, ragged Bag of our ideas wil be Boating on every part of the globe in the not very distant time. Cheer up, boys, the time is ap proaching very fast when we will see the downfall of oppression. Please Bad a money order for $1 for sub. and dues. Colorado. Alphonsus \V, Dacca. Getting Thick as llnckleb?rries. When I started in last fall I did not know of two socialists in this county. At present there are more than a hundred who are already confirmed socialists or strongly impregnated with socialist virus. Some of them are quite prominent citizens. Please send me a supply of literature for distribution and tome applications for membership, and I will proceed to work at once. I will send for a bun dle of books in a few days. Send me a few Industrial Freedoms to use in obtaining subscriptions, I have re ceived two copies of the paper and am greatly pleased with the progress being made in the colony. Oregon. J. F. Porter. Here's a Worker. I am distributing literature, solicit ing people by letter and in person, and am meeting with considerable success. I first tell people of the move that is being made for indus trial emancipation In Washington, and most of them express their sym pathy and show considerable Interest, l find with ma people that it is not good policy to mention the term so cialist at tirst as many are so pre judiced against socialists that they will not listen to argument if that I terra is used. Afterwards many of I them are surprised to find that they are socialists. You can count on my rendering the cause all the assistance in my power. California. Ross J. Miller. I ' '' " ' I Spread the Tidings. Enclosed find P. O. money order for $1, for which please send me the Iwok ■•Equality," which I see you advertise to members for that price. As soon as I have read it I shall lend it to osi ers in the hopes that they may see as I do, that socialism is our only hope for better times, Our new paper i all right, and 1 hope the subscriptions will continue to come In, as 1 have no doubt they will, I can't see why the majority of the Working people don't embrace socialism more readily than they do, for anyone ought to see .it ■ glance how things are going and how hard it is to get a job once you lose one. 1 have got several of the boys Interested enough so they ask me questions. I want to read my paper, M I am in hopes of getting some subs, in the future. A. B. C. I THE ADVANCE OF ] : UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD, 1 ♦ •* ! The Finland women have the right of suffrage, but they also work carpenters, paper-hangers, brick. layers and slaughterer*. Two Socialist! have rigged out a wagon at Girard. Kan., in which they propose to travel about the country delivering speeches and selling liter* ture. In the recent elections to the can tonal legislature in the canton of Berne the Swiss Social Democrats in. creased their number of seats from three to 14. , A year ago the coal miners of Banksville, Pa., established a co-op. eratlve store ■■ li.ich has already cleared over $3,00W»?lt will be mad* a co-operative department store, , Twenty-five members of Cigar makers" Alliance No. 38 of New York have raised a fond of about 13,001) and established a co-operative factory. Every six months the profits are to be divided among the shareholders. The town council of Tarnopol. a Galicia, Austria, by force of circum stances, decided to operate a bakery and sell the bread at cost to the peo ple. It also appropriated 1750 for the free distribution of bread among the poor. The Marxist Parti Ouvrier(Guescle'B group) contested 105 divisions at the recent French elections, and in created its poll from 152,724 in 'li.'Uo 371,217, or 144 per cent. Six of its candidates were elected on the I :-• ballot. George Belt, a well-known British Socialist, was elected to the school board of Hull, coming in at the head of the poll with over 33,000 votes to his credit. F. W. Booth, another So cialist, got a seat in the board of guardians. On the Russian government's neir railroad in Siberia the fare for immi grants has been put at 81.50 for 1,200 miles and $3,50 for 4,000 miles. Got. eminent ownership does not seem to conduce to keeping up charges to anj great extent. An industrial and manual training school is to be opened up in Coving ton, Ky.. in tile near future. •'. i). Festner, an energetic Socialist, is the chief promoter and would like to have the co-operation of Socialists in and around Covington. The prime minister of Japan intrc< duced an act In parliament which ex< tends the elective franchise to five times the present number of voter-. The most advanced nation of the far East seems to be rapidly pushing ahead of European civilization. Socialists of Sweden have two daily party organs, one at Stockholm anil the other at Mahno. There arc also two Socialist weeklies and a few trades union organs edited on Social -Ist lines. The movement in Swedes is said to be in a rapid state of growth. The German government now fur nishes its soldiers with one meal i day. If they desire or need more they have to get it at their own ex pense. The press has started on I campaign to better this state of affairs, but thus far have met with no success. Agricultural co-operative associa tions composed of women have oume Into existence in the province of i.:•• land. Russia, within the last fe* years. Most of them are engaged it the dairy business, and some of the butter produced is exported to tier many and England. The agitation for the titan ment of the referendum has assumed formidable proportions in France Much space is being devoted to it hi leading papers. Paul Descham th'< French politician, has lately ben disturbing the exploiters by advocat. ing a municipal referendum. The Petite Republicjue (SoclalUt account of the balance <<( parti it the French chamber of deputies: 2* opportunists, 190 radicals and Social ; -t radical*, -!!■ reactionaries, 4' Socialists, ■}.-> ralllsts. 26 revisionist anti-serai According to thl ac count the strict Socialists made a gait of 11 teats. There are seven regular Socially organ* published by the Socialists It Spain. The places' in which tin' &> cialist movement is strongest ait Madrid, liiliiao, Barcelona. Malaga. Matruroand Valencia! The Spaniard who have done most to spread S.-'.-in!- Ism in their own country are I'abk Feleaias, F. Dii ... G. 'Queiido airi Mesa. In Berlin no ar.imal may be kii'edß under a heavy penalty; except at thiH municipal slaughter' bo;ise. EveijM animal is not only subjected to » I close (scientific investigation, I ut ■ specimens of its blood and tissues an mined under powerful mici» Scopes, 4.*» lady microscopic*, wit eyes trained to the work, being cor itantly employed. During the recent insurrection i' the Italian workpeople the govcrr mer.t put the railroad employe* under military command, and they weit thus entitled to i: cents adny.tx sides their wages as railroad" es '■">'- for meals, etc. Hut they <!«■ termined to turn this military stipe* 1 into their strike fund. A- soon as tfcf authorities heard of this "unpatri otic" action the military board ill ceased, p The convention of Austrian Social ists, held at I.in.-, resolved to use an meat i>ossible against theabsoiuti&H the government proposes to inanpH rate. The Hungarian govermmcra was severely denounced for its por*H cution and "outrageous treatment I Socialists and agricultural I.ilhwiH who dared to revolt against ■ tyranny and exploitation to whUH they were subjected by the rich •■ the authorities. |J li i- claimed that the best «!?!■■ ways In the world are in l'rti--iW Germany's roads are almost <'*<•■'' ■ sively the property of the goverrM ment from side to side, and thtsfl management entirely removed frosM local authority. The excavatinfffH the earth Is from two to live tV« deep, and wide enough for t«o w.il'O'Ml to past) easily. The stone is ■■"■l >« courses from bottom to top as to fint|H new Granite Is the stone used. ■ M