Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-07-23

If our cOnsuls abroad could dilute
their reports with arguments as to how
American workers may consume their
own Over-supply of food and clothing. |
believe they would show more of an
American spirit than floats to the sur
face of their capitalist hogwash about
cornering markets in Tasmania or
Siberia.
THERE were 2SS business failures
week before last. as against 2l6 the
same week Il year ago. And Dun and
Bradstreet keep right on yelling pros
perity". And the same increase in
failures used to be cited as proof of
panics and hard times. And the great
American mind thinks its trolley isn't
off.
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THE GlassblOwers Union has agents
in this section looking for location for
a cooperative glass industry. Come on,
boys. Puget Sound is Gods country,
and there's lots of us to help you place
yourself where you will get more just
share of what you produce. "On to
Washington" is to be the cry again.
and this time it will not mean bloody
victory TO free few million black
slaves, but peaceful victory that will
bring emancipation to tens of millions.
both black and white.
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IT Is either a rare forgetfulness or Il
belief that its readers are gibbering
idiots that leads the Pittsburg. Pa,
Dispatch to call attention to the desper-
ate attempts of Spain to prevent the ex-
portation of silver as an object lesson AS
to monetary depreciation. 1t wasn't so
long ago that the American people had
to bond themselves and their children
in order to keep gold from being eX-
ported for Il year or so. If the argu-
ment of the Dispatch is sound then its
own financial basis is knocked to the
four winds.
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\ SOCIETY in Leghorn is considered
remarkable from the fact that it com
prises no fewer than 5000 members and
their sick are succored and buried gra-
tuitously. That doesn't seem remark
able 10 me. 1t would. though. if it num-
bered 70.Oo0.000 members and allowed
its sick to die through their inability
to pay profit to the physician and
be flung in piles in Potters fields because
they left not enough behind to pay the
undertaken and coffin trust several
prices for burying them. And it isn't
Il foreign society either.
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IN many parts Of the South wage,
range as low as - cents Il day: in
Washington state you can see advertise
ments for elderly men who will work
for their keep: in New York city over
10000 women receive wages INSULT
cient to support them without resorting
to vice and thousands of children in all
our big cities are being ground out of
both moral and mental existence for
from } TO IL cents day. In view of
these facts it does not become us to rail
at any foreign country AZ the home of
''pauper labor" No; not even Spain.
run from 10 cents to 81 go per day this
beats our negro labor all hollow. and
women receive from % to 60 cents per
day. In connection with the less
amount of labor performed, and the
lower cost of living, | fail to see any
thing, so far as prosperity is con-
cerned, that we may boast over.
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SEATTLE papers are regrctting very
deeply that so many people go to klon-
dixie unpreparcd, and they tearfully in
form their readers that some 10000
people may 20 hungry and suffer il they
are not induced to come out. This all
sounds very well. but for the life of me
! can't tell whether the papers desire
To prevent needless suffering and disap-
pointments, or are working Il stav-away
game that those already there may hog
il all. In the meantime the papers
might testify to their consistency by
also regretting that over 100 times 39,-
900 people, and right in the states too,
and among such civilization and condl-
tions as these daily papers themselves
create and maintain, are, will and have
been suffering, starving. freezing,
dying. and filling our asylums and Pot
ters fields at an cyer-incrcasing rate,
and at rate, too, that would leave a
dozen klondikes in the din and misty
distance.