Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-11-19
TAKE YOUR OWN.

THE REPUBLICAN party has again
successfully depended upon the ''edu-
Gated conscience" of the people of
Washington State. "Thou shalt not
steal!' How unctuously the old party
boss recites this pious superstition to
the shrinking pattern OF the free(O
American citizen who has just slipped
into his ragged pants pocket a small
share of stuff from the "bar1' adj
vanced to secure his vote. "Thou shalt
not steal" reiterates the purchased
agent of moneybags to the moneyless
man who by purchased legislation has
been legally plundered of his home, of
respect for self and faith in God.
"Thou shalt not steal, remember who
pays the freight when you drop your
vote And SO he did remember a gi-
gantic lie and dropped his vote for
Plutocracy. Poor wretch How dan
gerous is a little learning the only rem
edy for which is great deal of learn
ing. When our half biped, poor fellow
dropped his vote for Plutocracy be-
cause of those few dollars in his trous-
ers, or that chance of employment or
even the drink ofwhiskey, ifyou please,
he thought Plutocracy waspaying the
freight and having some slight rudi-
inents of good, old-fashioned manly
honor still sticking to his ribs he
honestly thought he owed Plutocracy
his vote when he took its p money
parted from for that purpose.
Half biped poor fellows, one and all
let us pause and consider whose money
he was taking when he took the bride
for his vote. Why just his own, to be
sure, and ifthe agent of Pluto-anarch-
ism were kind enough to offer him still
more upto 81 900 or thereabouts, our
free American citizen(sic) should
promptly pocket it and softly MARBLE
''my own shall come to me- ard then
serenely proceed to the ballot box and
vote just as if he had not been paid
meager instalment from his own estate
just before election day! Nor should he
for one moment indulge in any sickly
regrets over any foolish small talk in
the way of solemn promises sworn to
or otherwise that he may have been
obliged to indulge in TO obtain the
$50 or $50 from his estate-his uncle
is worth some sixty to seventy bill
lions, you will remember, "Uncle Sam
is rich enough to give us all farm!'
Will the pit please rise and sing?
Since this open, running sore of bri-
berry is upon the body polite past all
cure of moral suasion it is but aggra-
waiting the disease to teach" Thou shalt
not steal in it's crude form. Teach
them rather, We light bearers ofreform,
that every time the old parties open a
barrel before election day they are to
pocket everything in sight and then
go right in just as if this insignificant
occurrence had not happened and vote
still more solidly for the party of
reform. This lesson faithfully taught
from now until next election day and
we are free people. Neglect it for two
more years, leave preacher and priest
to be just what they always have been
-thecat's paw of the greedy rich, and
unmolested leave them to manipulate
the educated conscience" of the mas
ses whose thinking they do and it will
be too late to stay the tide of bloody
revolution, Let the true reformer who
wishes to eyolute and not to revolute
teach the masses as has been mildly
hinted-to take their own-and we are
saved in peace to make the minimum
here and now. Should our friend with
sawdust from the barrel in his pocket
feel sentimental after the transaction
just let him step over to socialist head
quarters and start a barrel with it.
"The hair of the dog is good for the
bite" By all means let us have
a barrel.
SARAH WARD TEMPLE.