Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-07-30

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believe that a general
war would kill off enough Of the labor
ing people to temporarily solve the la
Dor question. Those who were left
could be paid larger wages and live on
a higher plane" That this sentiment
exists cannot be denied, and all talk
thatC Christianity has succeeded in Chris
tianizing the world any during the
past 1900 years falls fiat as pan cake
| may be a bloodthirsty Socialist and a
heather, and everything people say
am but | cannot realize for a moment
how any man or any woman protesting
to love Christ or in whose hearts flow
the red blood of humanity. can desire
war, with all its sufferings. and horrors
and death, that those who survive may
| get better ''wages." And how the
higher plane of human existence can
be made to rest upon the bleeding
bodies of our fellow men is also an in
scrutable mystery. 1t will be noted
that these good Christian people would
go to the extreme of killing off unne-
cessary workers for mere ''tempor-
airy relief" However, it may be a
good thing that this war does come. If
it does hope from the bottom of my
heart that the unnecessary people to be
killed will first be chosen from among
those who desire the thing to come to
pass. Further comment upon such an
inhuman, heartless proposition l am un-
able to make. 1t stands a comment up
on itself, its own monument to the
greed, barbarity, selfishness and ungod-
illness of men. To call themselves
Christians is to mock God himself. Oh,
We preachers of Christ: be this the re-
suit of your teachings? Let us slay
our brothers, that our masters. mayhap,
will give to us a part of our brothers
portions. Shame. shame, We herd OF
American cutthroats.
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THE time will come when the real
handspring of our war with Spain will
be known to all men. The vast in.
crease in production through the intro
duction of improved machinery and the
lessening of the home market through
lowering wages and fewer workers. ne
cessitates the securing of markets in
other countries in which to dispose OF
the surplus products which find no sale
at home. though our workers are sadly
in need of al those products. The war
is not, nor has it been for the cause OF
freedom, save in the minds of the hon
est people who have allowed them
selves to be fooled, The war is in be-
half of capitalism that profits" denied
them here through their own rapac.ty
and the development Of the COMPETE
tive system may more surely come to
them from other sources abroad.
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THE beauty of the competitive system
and the security Of homes and future
advancement under it can be no better
illustrated than 10y late news dis
patch. Speaking of a severe hail storm
in North Dakota the past week and the
losses occasioned thereby it says: "A,
a result OF the storm many farmers will
lose their farms" Isn't this glorious
Who wouldn't vote for conditions 50
secure that an ordinary storm passing
over your home sweeps it into the craw
of the money lendery Anyone who
wants it to be different is crazy auar-
chist The idea of desiring anything
else than chance to lose everything
we have every time it rains or SHOWS.
Vote for it some more, you fool farmers.
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THE optical nerves of the American
press are in very bad way indeed, Here
we have been treating them for near
sightedness, and now IL turns out they
aren't troubled that way at all. They
are SO blamed farsighted that they can't
see Il case OF a tyranny, suffering or i'm
Justice unless il is several thousand
miles away in another land. For in
stance. they saw the horrible insult to
our flag when a Mexican spoke disre'
spectfully of it, but they couldn't see
anything wrong in our flag being shot
down and trampled in the mud at
Iazleton, Pa, some time ago.
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YES, this is glorious country. The
only trouble is that it isn't our country.
Ii belongs 10 the other fellow, who is
either foreigner or blows in his money
abroad ON titled manikins, $4,000 din
ners, fast horses, and equally fast
women. I've got through praising the
other fellows property. II he thinks
it worthy of being hollered about he
can do the hollering himself.