Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-13
THOUGHTS. 1 ss Uncle

o1RlhES are TOOu Things OccaSlOn-
ally, even from q Socialist point OF
view. The long-cOntinuing coal strike
in Wales is forcing the English govern.
ment to consider the ACCESSIBILITY OF
owning the mines to assure itself need
ed supplies. Hope they won't do as our
government has keep Chinese workers
employed and home workmen idle be.
cause the former are cheaper.
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SOME minister whose ideas have not
risen higher than an African voudoC
doctor, finds occasion to claim that
Christ has chosen our nation as the
instrument to make the islands of the
sea rejice. He permitted the gallant
men of the Maine to be blown up" etc.
etc. ] don't believe Christ had any
thing to do with the Maine at all. She
was blown up by some cowardly Span
ish official who was either prompted by
a greed for reward or by the devil.
The blowing up of the Maine was not
of divine origin, and ! am surprised to
see desire to lay the crime onto God.
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WHEN we get through with Spain,
let's turn in on the Spaniards here at
home. There are plenty of men in the
United States who are fitted by nature
and by training to place in history
with Cortez, Pizarro, the Duke of Alva
and Weyler These worthless robbed
by means of fire, sword. torture and
crimes too foul to mention. Our Span
iards rob through the subtler agencies
of tariffs, gold standards. mOnopolies
and labor-crushing devices, all of which
tend to the same results-misery and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Tribune.
The only fault with your good scheme,
my friend, is that when we get through
with Spain our capitalist Spaniards al
home will see to it that another row
with some other country is Immediately
kicked up to direct attention from theil
own crimes. 1t is the same old story o.
Ancient Rome.
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Der of American companies will soon be-
organized to develop the industries o.
Santiago and the surrounding country
and American corporations will soOr
have several million dollars invested in
the eastern end of Cuba.
This is the way Cuba has been freed
from the rule of the Spaniard only to
no ,p,paI ovar IN tho aouallv ,parni lass
rule of the American capitalist. That
the rule of the American capitalist Is
merciless, and that there is nothing &c
choose between the Cuban reconcen
trado and the American out-of-work
read the daily papers for accounts o.
33 per cent reductions in wages, sui
cides because of starvation. our great
army of fallen women. new iails, poor
houses and asylums, and increase il
abandoned babes.
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LABOR organizations of the pure anC
simple order. and various unthinkins
individuals, are making themselve,
ridiculous protesting against the fur
nishing of so many OF our soldiers Will
prison-made uniforms. Such protest,
also show their lack of logic. Wha
under the sun they have to protes
against I'm blessed If | see. Haven
they always opposed Socialism? ApC
voted for competition? Aud isn't ~,
the lowest bidder" the basic principl,
of competition? And doesn't even tn,
most childish idiot know that the low
est bid depends upon the lowest wages
and the lowest workmen in Other
senses. tooy Come boys, have littl,
sense: The capitalist and the Social
list are both laughing AT You for hurah
ing and voting for a thing and theI
whining about it after you get it.
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NEW YORK banks, the ones st
anxious to help the government, YOU
know, by hogging all the per cen
slave shackles that have just beer
forged, are still further evidencins
their patriotism to their own poke
books 10y purchasing Canadian-Londol
sterling exchange 10y reason of it no
being subject to the , per cent govern
ment war tax. Are you plodding, work
ing ignoramuses ever going to get /
into your heads that all this display o
patriotism" by your masters is mere
IN to blind you TO the fact that they ar
using it TO coin money out of your hides
Can you ever get it through your won
dering noddle that they who toll hav'
To pay for everything the hecessitie
of the nation, the vagaries and follie
of the masters that taxes, stamps
etc, etc, are but to make you imagin'
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