Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-22
ACETATE.
ORGANIZER.

ESDOSA
We cooperate for the benefit of
the few exploiters, why not cooperate
for own benefit.
1t is not the theory but the dyna-
mics of socialism that now claims the
attention of the world.
One successful experiment in indus
trial cooperation will be worth many
thousand tons of literature.
If we would have industrial freedom
we must cooperate, and we shall get
political freedom by and through the
initiative and referendum.
1t is coming. A municipal coal
yard is asked for by some of Boston's
most prominent citizens, and they
will get it.
Through cooperation must come
industrial freedom; political emanci-
pationmust come through direct
legislation.
Monkeys are worshipped in some
parts of Africa--Ex.
And they are worshipped all over
Europe and America if fashionably
attired.
Those who plumber the toilers say
Thou shalt not steal" but they say
this to try to protect themselves in
the enjoyment of what they them
selves have stolen.
Does putting rich robe on a thief
make an honest man of him?
If not.does the endowment of col
lege or the building of church
cleanse robber and make him ire
spectacle?
Can an oil tank be cleansed by few
feeble, hooking PRAYERS? If not, how
does Rockefeller get into good So
ciety"?
Now after nearly two years of re-
publican prosperity, the monopolies
are exultant, happy, boisterous, inso-
lent and the people are growing poor
and yet poorer.
Thousands of the toilers of earth
have been cast up to drift with each
current, caused by the wild lurches of
monopoly, yet some workers think we
ought to be resigned and thankful.
Politicians would possibly recon-
mend parade, but sensible men and
women know a funeral procession
would be vastly more appropriate.
One of our labor papers says of Jas.
J. Hill, the railroad ling, 'He is a
self-made man: by industry and cour-
age he has raised himself from an
humble position in railroading to a
place in the first rank, which he now
holds"
BY what kind of industry has this
amassed his millions? His in
dustry and courage has not made a
single soul happy; it has not added
one moment of JOY to the life of any
one.
His is the industry and the courage
that plumbers honest, useful toll of
is just dues, and yet Jas. j. Hill, who
simply allows the men to work for him
day after day and year after year to
wear overalls and chew tobacco. is
not to blame for the system which
enables such as he to rob honest toll
IF its fruits.
Will those who oppose socialism
give candid answers to the following
questions:
Has everyone right to humane ex-
stence?
Should every man make most of
himself and his powers?
Are men free and equal?
Is the brotherhood of man reality
Or mockery?
Do you believe that all persons have
an equal opportunity in the race of
life?
Ought they to have an equal oppor-
tunlty?
Are men entitled to what they
create?
Do they get it?
Can a healthy social organism
starve while some others revel in lux
uries?
An honest answer to any one of
these questions is an Indictment of
the existing social order.
If this be true you surely will want
to bring about better conditions.
If you do not approve of our pro-
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