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

the last campaign. Revenue inspectors
are finding cellars full of unstamped
beer, cigarettes and cigars, purchased
before June Is in the hope of escaping
the war tax. So goes patriotism to the
wind when it touches the pocket book
even though the store keeper may fiji
his window with flags to draw trade.
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SAY. friend: you who want to rush
Off to war with Germany. France. or
any country for the sole reason that the
capitalist-owned press says Isle EN- ="
Did you ever read the history of
Ancient Rome? You have. you say?
Well, do you remember how the aristo-
cratic and moneyed class of that coun-
try kept plunging the people into wars
that the common herd might find
neither time nor inclination to think
about the cXactiOns and eXtortiOns of
the robbers and tyrants at home?
Hadn't you better read that over again.
John. and then think about it real
hard? Just try it.
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SOME of our American cities are put
ting in the Bertillon method of identi-
flying criminals. AS pluto paper puts
it: Tools to spot crooks They
should 90 slow with this new-fangled
spOtting business, or else wen have the
darndest race of spotted people Il circus
manager ever went crazy over. Just
imagine a Carnegie or Il Letter sitting
patiently under dingy and hot canvas
pathetically trying to earn a per cent.
selling cheap photos composed princi-
pally of spotted skin and stage smile.
Better call off this spotting arrange
ment before it gets beyond the law-set
limit of uninllucntial thieves.
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"IF you have $50 to put away for safe
Keeping. plaintively appeals Wash
ington county paper. go to the post
Office and become Il bondholder. The
Republican party is of. for and by the
common people" The statement anent
bonds may he true. but the above cdi-
tor is seized Of a sort Of moral logic
that is very queer indeed. Bonds mean
bondage. whether the slaves are bound
by paper or iron shackles. The fact
that they allow me or any other indi-
Vidual TO purch Use a so bond by which
my children or someone else'S children
may ever be kept in poverty and s}ay-
ish labor that its interest may he paid.
is not. to me at least. proof that any
party that enables me to get such mon
strous control of the coming genera
tionS i. either "of. for or by people. e
1t would rather prove to me that such
a party or such Il system was agin,
against and feminist the people.
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WHAT means this sudden change in
the appearance of the Seattle daily pa
pers? Where oh where, are the loud
flashing headlines Of scant metaphor
and bullying patriotism; Whence has
gone the staring, blackfaced rumors
that are to be equally blackfaced in
DENIAL tomorrow? Has Washington
newspaper patriotism no place from
which TO scream its defiance, at somuch
per scream. to the enemies of America :
endeayors. Alas, Like the morning
mist before the rising sun, it has gone
glimmering to hidden recesscs and cor
ners, vacating its prominent and
money-making headquarters that King
Gold of Klondike may spread his shin
ing treasures there. Gold, gold, gold
now screams from the breastworks OF
our throbbing journalism, while the
patriotism" of Yesterday hides crouch
ing behind the throne. 'Tis not, my
friend. 50 much our words today rs are
our actions of the morrow.
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AGED. ont of work. hopeless, George
Henry Sandy, II septuageuarian type
setter, shot himself through the head
on Friday morning in his room at 220
Third street. lie was very deliberate
in his preparations for death. wrote
several long letters, provided for the
disposition Of his few effects, and then
fired the shot which ended his life.
Some OF his letters are pathetic IN
one he wrote: 81 have endured insults,
sneers. humiliation, hanger. contempt
and poverty until life has lost its
charm and now is uncndmable.n After
commenting on the greed Of capital he
SAYS. $50 the world will ever be- and
when the laboring man finds himself
crushed in spirit, dependent hungry
and unable to continue his fight for ex-
istence, he win prove his wisdom best
by dropping out OF sight