Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-08-06
THOUGHTS, 1... Uncle

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CERTAIN phases of wartime patriot
ism have their recoil Little Johnny
Binte of Brooklyn, N. Y, aged Syears,
stood his younger sister up against the
wall to ''play Spaniard" with her. He
didn't know the pistol was loaded. But
little Lucy is as dead as our children
are taught to desire Spaniards to be.
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CHAS. II. BLISS, one of the foremost
of our social reformers, is now to the
front with colonization plan. Lord,
how these cooperative efforts are crop
ping out. Socialism is in the very air.
Some $1,000 acres have been secured in
a delightful place in Florida and 800
pays for a membership and guarantees
an inalienable home. His plan is not
exactly socialism, but there is enough
socialism to it to contain and foster the
germ of success. Send ) cts in stamps
for Bliss Quarterly containing an il
Illustrated outline of proposed colony.
1t will be interesting reading.
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THE scramble for good thing is
the way an eastern paper puts it. speak
ing of the late bond issue, and the sue
cess the banks had in gobbling the
major portion of the alleged popular"
loan. In Pittsburg, Pa, ) banks alone
have secured $4,000 worth, and of
course, as even the papers admit, ''the
ways devised to circumvent the provi-
sions of the loan were unique" One
bank controlled 40 names for applica-
tions in the $500 class. But then, you
see. the banks had hollered patriotism"
so loud and put out so many flags, that
the fool people all got to watching out
for Spain, instead of the plunderers at
home.
THAT enterprise" we hear boosted
of as sure road to success under our
competitive system would, ! verify
believe, lead our ambitious business
men to placing toll keeper at the
gates of heaven and sending all penni-
less souls to Hades. In many cities
where cigarettes are prohibited being
sold to minors some concern whose lust
for greed is even greater than that
which the Spaniards say is our national
curse. has devised combination of
chewing gum and tobacco. Anything
to get money, you know. BY the side
of money the souls of little children
stand no chance whatever. Let's vote
some more for this poisonous system Of
competition and private profits and the
degradation of our children.
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SOME people say beauty exists by con-
trast Granting this statement to be
true it explains much of the mystery
surrounding the alleged beauty of the
competitive system that has been both
ering me greatly If the beauty of the
competitive system depends upon its
contrasts then is it houri of the East,
Bowery coochi-coochi, and IA thing of
beauty forever. There is in New York
Il single block so densely populated and
so poverty stricken that the average an
nual income of each of its residents is
but ~ a year. Ii extends from Second
to Third street, between Avenues b
and G. and contains 3,3js inhabitants:
and several mile north of this is its an
tithesis- the block between Fifth and
Sixth avenues, Fifty-third and Fifty
fourth streets, where only 5ll people
live. yet their wealth aggregates
S40O. 000, 900.
IHAD an idea that Christ died for the
whole world and not for Il part of it
that had not then been discovered, and
had a queer notion that our Father on
high was Father to all the children OF
earth. But il seems | was mistaken,
Judging from the actions of thousands
of church-goers and professed Chris
tians, who really ought to know more
about such matters than |. Here they
are threatening to burn and drive out
the heather" Chinee working in
Puget Sound canneries, and they have
been tickled to death everytime a few
hundred foreign" Spaniards, who were
personally in no wise to blame for any
trouble that might have previously
: existed, have been killed. will have
: to revise my ideas of Christianity
When propose that Christ must have
died for all and that the Chinaman
the Hindoo, the Spaniard and the Hobo
are just as much the children of God as
, any American, no matter how high OF
how low he may be, angry protests and
: threats of rope abound. Something i
gone wrong with our religion.