Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-20

vT is an odious comparison. but in
1 view of the heavy and general cuts
in wages the past few weeks among
coal miners, wire workers, garment
workers and others. / have a fearful
suspicion that the prosperity from Can
ton. Ohio. must have got so shaken up
in the same capitalist bag with the
prosperity intended for Canton, China,
that the labels became transposed.
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THE burgling business is going out
| Of style in England. The whole fra
ternity of burglars in London earned
but 500. 600 at their profession last year.
while the equally something-for-noth-
| inc fraternity of Lombard street sew
eral times cleared more than that in
one day Off their hapless victims in free
| america. 1t makes all the difference
i in the world, nowadays, whether your
tools of trade are guns and iimmies or
laws and idiots.
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THE millionaires at Newport are
celebrating in gold-trimmed style the
return of the dove of peace. They have
b right to celebrate if anyone has.
They've pocketed several million dol
lars in bonds and will stow away in
their jeans millions upon millions yet
30 come in interest. Let them cele-
brate: they've got both time and
money. You fellows can keep your
hoses right down to your lopsided
rindstone of idiotic industrial and
nancial policy. And every time few
parks fly from the tips of your noses
boiler patriotism.
Isn't this strange? A Pennsylvania
PAPER says: Local coal operators much
|hagrined at the placing of the Eastern
Minnesota railroads coal supply with
Nest Virginia operators. Why should
Ot the order go there? Wages are
ess the workers treated more like
prutes and of course the coal can be
bid for a lower price? Don't be cha
(rined at your own idiocy and the re-
(llt of your own greed. You helped to
brce the miners into voting for con-
nuance of the competitive system at
be last election. Don't cry baby be-
puse you aren't the cheapest hog in
be pen. There are others, and the
eautiful system you are so anxious 10
phold is breeding still cheaper line
swine. Am so glad you are being
Fatted in the neck by your own child.
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BEFORE the war several reform pa
ers took occasion to claim that the
anne of war was to be played 10 catch
e suckers of people. WAR, war, will
pushed they said, until millions
bonds are issued for the alleged pur-
se of carrying on the war. But no
|oner will the bonds be issued and
Dboied 10y our financial sharks than
e money power viii call Off the dogs
war that the plunderers of the peo-
may enjoy their ill-gotten gains in
ace. Has the prophecy of the re-
I'D press come true or not? The
nds issued TO carry on the war?l
We not yet reached the purchasers
they have been issued. and that
all The war our financial slave
'erS wanted. How much longer will
people allow themselves to be made
Ns and brakes of that those who
Their work nor fight may profit by
game;
NHAT' I thought this here fnan-
question was all settled upon a
hd basis with the election of Me-
ley and the gold standard. Yet
are the New York bankers hush
opa new member who incautiously
red to pay slight increase of in
est ON deposits. "Such an Offer"
declare, "invites disaster, which
certainly come when the first real
hgency in the money market oc-
> HIM. So the sherman repeal
the reserve bond issues and the
Is and speeches about the superb
OF the gold standard were
poppycock, eh, just to fool a
er peopleY And panics are still
" eh, and money stringencies, too?
" well. But what on earth is Me-
ia doing that he doesn't look after
tender little fnancial-prosperity
y which appears 10 be having Sc
attack of wilt. knew the whole
z was a mass of bosh, but | hardly
'eted to see them own up TO it
e so quick.