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I^ioi trial Freed®mrD Published weekly by the Broll.eil.oo_ Co-operative Commonwealth. (Entered at the PtWtofßce, Kdisan, Skagit Oounty, Wash., as second class mail matter.] TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Cop. . One. Year SO ". "' Six Months.... 25 Foreign- sent by members $1 per year., • ■-. EQUALITY, SATURDAY, APRILS He brief: for it is with words as with sun beams. — the more they, are condensed the il -ener the? burn.—SOUTHEY. Do you believe the people ought to rule Monopolies need more denunciation, it helps them. The; Fog Horn of Lansing, Michi gan, came down on us like a sheep en .the fold, and to save trouble, we just put it on our X list. Men who go to congress to steal by means of purchased law, look with COB tempt upon those who steal a little something to eat. Had any of our renders ever ohscrv ed that so soon as we have a volun tary raise in our wages there is a cor responding raise in rent and other ne cessaries? The Algcr-Hanna-McKinley aggre gation arc coopcrators, too, the I-'illi pinos help the United States to take Manilla and now Uncle Sum is paying them back. Women working for wages so low that after paying board they have only 25cts. left, and yet our specula tors end their sycophants are shout ing; ' Prosperity!.'. We shall soon begin the publication of .^serial story by Clinton Bancroft. This story is a continuation of the A T A scries and will be of interest to all cooperators and especially so to all Labor Exchangers. ——— / If you have lived without labor you have wronged Borne one; If you la bored and did not get the full prod uct of your toil some one has wrong ed yon and you arc a loo! to continue such conditions without protest. The old nullifierß must turn uneasi ly, in their graves as they view the -case and certainty with which Alger nullifies the acts of congress; but then the world has made mam* advances since their day. r 4-^ ■- Were socialism inaugurated life / would be robbed of some of its gaiet ;' ies, as, for instance, such tragedies as those witnessed at the burning of the Windsor Hotel, in New York, re cently, would never occur, but you sec socialism wont: work as does com petition. Miss Helen J.Wescott has a lengthy and well written article on Equality Colony, in 'i he Coming Age. A care ful reading of this article would give the reader an excellent mental picture of our colony, and from this article much may be learned of our aims, ob jects, plans and purposes. McKinlcy seems very desirous that the killing of the simple minded I'hil lipinos and the sequestration of their goods, lands and chattels shall pro ceed in accordance with the principles of truth; honor an l fair dealing! "So mote it be," but how can an honest man juggle so with words? - The Class Struggle of San Francis co is one of the very best of our many exchanges, and it is with regret that we learn that it is not supported as it .should he. It seems to us that those who be lieve in the methods advocated by the Class Struggle should at once rally to its support. No true socialist paper should be allowed to suffer for lack of *. .support. A manufacturer wrote: "The peo-«. pie want masters. They think they are helpless and it is cur duty to make them believe that they are so. Our; afgurncrnst; They think they nreslaves; I empty stomachs; naked backs arc our Have no fear of the workingman; '■■•'■'■ ■...■■""- 9Jl__«__-____':.'. " He is too cowardly." Now, reader, is this not nearly a true picture? If you believe it to be true what remedy would you suggest? If you arc willing to sacrifice all you have and all your hopes of a massing wealth, and if you arc will ing to endure hardships and privations and to bear with the foibles and weak nesses of others, you might join some colon}'. Colonies must and will flourish, they have a high mission, but very few persons arc qualified lor effective service in the colonies of today. . We do not have a picnic here and few of us expect one until after the lapse of many years. Whatever you put into a movment of this kind, at this time, must be Con sidered a freewill offering to the cause otherwise you will meet with disap pointment. Many good people tire useless here and some who are not considered of average ability or aver intelligence arc most useful. Possibly no one can tell in advance whether he is suited to the demands of colony life and many whose exper ience in life would seem to fit them for usefulness'here find that they cannot adapt themselves to the conditions of life made requisite by changed rela tions of persons and tilings. Experi ence is necessary to correct judgement and such judgment may reject you and then all your contributions arc swallowed up in the great movement and you are left to struggle along as best you may. This may seem hard and it is hard, but can you escape your fate in any other way? If so it were wise to do it, but do not fail to observe that the race always pays the cost of its re demption from exacting and enslav ing conditions. If your substance is not consecrated to the colony movement it will be ab sorbed by some of the other endeav ors to solve the problem of the ages. Vim may direct the course in which your efforts and your substance shall flow, but you cannot prevent the hopes, the sacrifices. They .arc inevi table. Agitate. Organize! Educate. iDUCATE. Read and Think. All intelligent workers realize that they arc plundered. How are they plundered? By concerted action of those who presume to rale and do rule by cooperation of the absorbers are the toilers plundered and then the plundered hope to correct their wrongs by humbly submitting to the robbers and meekly imploring them to case up just a. little. Harsh words are so offensive when used by the toilers, but bullets arc just the thing when used by the ah sorbers. It seems that tlic white man and all men have other burdens than those catalogued by Kipling; and with some it is the lack of a burden in the ordin ary sense of this disagreeable term. New inventions and improved-meth ods are divorcing thousands from all opportunity to toil, but this fixes up on them the modern burden of inevit able poverty even though possessing the strength and the skill and the will to create enough to supply every de sire. Don't you know that this is true? Is it right to deny people the privi lege to toil when they are willing able and so desire? _N . ----- tsl j Socialism! f Socialism! A What is Socialism? Some people make themselves ridic ulous by trying to. discuss socialism before they have made a stud} of it, before they can give the most rudi mentary definition of it. They could avoid such humiliating exhibitions by rending Industrial Freedom a short time. It tells what socialism is and after reading about it a short time you will know what it is and i hen you can intelligently sup port or refute it, just as you think right! / »>^ ___, . _a J Voting, merely voting, without an intelligent comprehension of what you are voting for, and why, is a .most disastrous mirage as all the past attempts at such voting prove. What we lack is intclli'.ancc'and tin til we get that neither voting,;nor sbootir.g will avail tir- anything. LETTERS FROM OUR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS Old Age Comes on But — ; Mr. Editor:— 1 sec my subscription lias ex pired. Enclosed find 2<ic. for six months ex tension, beginning with No. 46. I wish you every success. Old age, poor health and poverty prevents me from being with you, but 1 shall sing the song of Equity" Bight, Justice, Socialism during my declining years. Yours fraternally, W. A. Marsh, Wash. A Tonic. Enclosed find money order for $1 for the renewal of my own subscription, and also that of Bro. It. J. Brickman, of Olympia. We find it (Industrial Freedom) quite necessary to our mental digestion, and relish its criso ness. We take it for the same reason that we eat gooseberry pie. It's line, and we like it. Oregon. E. E. Martin. Fear Competition. Enclosed find 20;: for two months dues end ing April 30th. If ■! could have worked steady this winter I would have done better. I hope to do better next time unless competition fails again, which of course wouldn't lie anything new. Those colony notes of the different colonies is an excellent feature of 1. F. "fours as ever. Arnold .1. c. Zander, Wis. The Issue of 1900. There is no socialist, party in this state and I think there should be; not only this, but in every state where there is none. I reason thus: Whereas direct legislation is one of phe fundamental principles of social ism; andfCwhcreas the people are not yet en lightened enough to cut loose from, party; therefore we should make the socialist party a means to an end, using It as a lever to raise the people up, educating them in direct leg islation, and any and all means whereby they may be taught their collective power and majesty through the agency of the ballot when properly used. As our legislature has already taken steps to Ing about this much needed reform, now appears to be the nick of time to agitate thoroughly on direct legislation: and we dare in.! leave Oils most Important duty to the management of the old parties. "Eternal vigilance" on the part of the peo ple is the only thing that will ever make di rect'legislation of any practical value to the country. Organize. Yours for progress, Isaac 11. Keyes, Oregon. A New View of Issues for 1900. Being a reader of our paper, 1 of course, read Comrade Peltoo'n article on -'The Pro per Issue for 1900," and lake this opportuni ty of expressing my views on the subject. Socialists have been hammering away at poor old Competition on one side, while Monopoly or combined capitalist? have been dealing death blows on the other, with the result that competition is really dead, but awaits burial. Now the socialists and combined capitalists were not lighting competition from similar motives, but from contrary ones, hence they are consequently antagonistic. Wi.h com petition buried, there will coma the final struggle between these two remaining eco nomic systems, viz: Associated production for Industrial distribution, or associated produc- ion (lor the benefit at all . a collective di'trl bution on an equal basis. This conflict will be at first a ballot one, followed, no doubt, by bullets; but as the first is near at hand, we will confine ourself to it. These are the principles on which the lines of battle are drawn: Ist—Monopoly under the banner of repub licanism. ' 2d- Competition trying to be restored un der democracy, .'id—Equality under the banner of socialism and direct legislation. There, is but one dot* of the socialists, which is, do not compromise with On- en mies, but stand firm for our principles, for to cater to their caprice only invites our own downfall. Owen 11. I'hilbrick, cal. Read the Past—Live in the Future. In our last number of I. F. we find a letter from G. E. l'elton, and in closing the array of iris views he .... -: ('Comrades, let a. hear from you." Though my sex condemns me to stand in rank with criminals ami Idiots like , them denied the ballot - yet there is not a so yl-liit of you all that can be more anxious for the success of socialistic principles, or mm distressed in see the highest cruelxl in the it CO advocating fusion. all my sentiments "blackest reason" if you will, but have a cure lest "the last national campaign of the nineteenth cent or- becomes memorable la future history us tho turninjr point/—where socialism was entrapped, betrayed and slain, and with the assistance uf its friends. Why can we not profit by the light of pas', experience: Fusion slipped in and betrayed and killed the L'uio:i Labor party, and a 'oin fusion did th ; twine dastardly deed for tho Greenback party; and last but not least it bus offered the same Judas kiss t;> populism; and where is the young giant of ye-itenlair Wlku this last deed was tioae, just as it seemed as If a victory must boine to populist ic lnuncrsin IVO.I, 1 cried om, :■. des'oiur, ("Where Is there anything so_ufe again*, tu slon," and my husband hii-t.-ued to comftirt .mewith the assurance j that "-ojiaiiam will never ruNo," but here we have' a suggestion from the highest ofilcial, und cur hearts grow faint »i;hiu us. • ■ '-y!__WW_s__R3»^i:-.:''V'- - :j..'. 1 have no ambition to roiute all tho old chop SMI-W-Wll luli llliinii mi i ii IV worn platitudes,but do most vehemently scout the alroit coinage of the phrase, "a union of reform forces " Stripped of all verbiage it. is fusion. Fusion involves compromise; com promise involves a surrender of principles. Is our comrade ready to surrender socialistic. in his effort to cement 11 fusion deal Bear it ■ ■'-', in mind that a now party when once it drops a principle can never again take it up: and so soon as such party drops any part of its principles it is doomed. But even when all principles are retained fusion is disastrous. Look at the his! popu list platform laid down at Kllensburg. There they laid down a good platform in which di rect legislation was the main plank, and to this platform their democratic allies promised a most hearty support: but in the campaign that followed, their speakers were silent as the grave on this principal point, and the speakers who came to Klickitat jingled the little tin rattle of "free silver- only this, and nothing more." On our county fusion ticket were candidates from the three parties to the fusion, and among those nominated as populists were two socialists. Though both were of the best, both fell far behind in the fusion vote. If Comrade I'elton himself were given a place on the fusion ticket ho might be sur prised at the support that he did not, receive. 1 fully agree with Blge Eddy (who is a so cialist after my own heart* that a union :>f re form forces is desirable, but we must be sure that these forces are educated, in reform Did it never occur to you that if anyone is thoroughly permeated with reform they will no longer drill with either of the old corrupt parties! Do not. I beg of you. hug to your heart the "purified democracy;" they are the same who voted and hurrahed for drover Cleve land, and would be quite ready to do it again. did not party policy suggest a more popular plan of action. The gentleman speaks of parties being in a disorganized condition. Docs he not fail to notice that Is one of the results of fusion? Scientific socialism has never fused and is not at all disorganized, In Europe, where till phases of socialism turn a cold shoulder to fusion, the cause Is forging ahead most won derfully. Our comrade says In substance thai he firm ly believes In socialism, "and not so very many years ahead either," and a little far theron talks of "the fallacy of attempting the establishing of full all around socialism in the present or near future." A fusion or union of this various branches of social! m Is greatly to be desired, but here would be no surrender of principles, as they hold to like principles, and differ only in methods. My husband voted the state socialist ticket, voted * for the two socialists on the fusion ticket, because they Were socialists: and vo ted for equal suffrage. Our son lost his first vote for the same, and l am proud to have reared a son to choose so wise and well. They did not expect to get any thing they voted for. but voted for principle: believing with Way land thai "it Is better to vote for what you want if yon don't get it, than to vote for what you don't want and get it." My husband lias been a socialist for sixteen years, was un old time abolitionist, and still believes in the Oarrisonian doctrine of "No agreement with death, no covenant with hell." Mrs. 8, S. Long, Wash. Owing to the .sure on our space we are compelled to leave out many, very many, ex cellent letters. We hope our friends can ap preciate oar needs sufficiently to excuse us. He Remembers Us. Friends at Equality: Not having forgotten my promise i.i many to let them know ho- I fared in th.- world, I take this opportunity to write, seeing also that I have sun.,, tomato seed to send you in the hop- that you can make us •of them. These seeds were grown in Humbolt county, Cal.. from seed sown in May; tin- fruit ripened in September. I' thought this doing well for such a large to mato, 1 forgot to tell your gardener that root pru ning is a good thing fur tomato plant, up to the time the- begin to blossom. Should the plants be Inclined to spindle up Just make them thin.; you are going to dig them up, and they will grow strong and stalky and throw out lateral branches. There is where the 'rult grows. Try the plan mid be .-,,„ --vinced. » Well, there hasn't been any anxious look ing 'capitalist around asking mo to accept a fat salary for looking after a light job, and if the mountains do not come to Mohammed, before long, Mohammed most start for tho mountains. iam quite well; my «Id baa al letti ■ Give my regards '■' Fro. Yokcy, ns I forgot to bid him adieu; although we wore quite chum?, ilcst ■ I-hes and '-ii regards to all. M 11. OO] Cons V Equality bolntiy wants a few good milk cows and has the cash to pay for them. 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