Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-12-17

PlutOcracy seeks the world for prof
its and the protection and backing of
this country are an essential factor to
this end.
We can well view with alarm the
fate of the cane sugar industry of the
United States with Hawaii and Puer-
to Rico added, reciprocity with Cuba
and the annexation of the Philippines.
To deprive the labor of the Southern
cane fields of their heritage of work,
their employers of their investments,
is of no moment to these annexation
fellows.
To crush the embryOtic industry of
beet sugar in California, Nebraska,
Kansas and in our own State ofPenn-
sylvania is nothing to these anneXa-
ton fellows.
To destroy or make Improbable
the industry of growing fine cigar to-
bacco in Florida and Texas, and to
interfere with the manufacture of CT
gar making in the United States, to
turn all of this over to foreign work
ers under the protection of the United
States flag, to the loss OF our own cit
liens, is nothing to these annexation
fellows.
To destroy the growing rice indus
try of the Carolinas, Louisiana and
Texas, which, under protection, has
grown to such proportions that in a
few years the importation of foreign
rice would have entirely ceased, an in
dustry that is turning lands other
wise almost untitled for cultivation
into profitable sections, all to be men
aced and in a few short years ruined
because of our civilizing and control
ling the Philippine Islands-all of this
is nothing to these annexation fellows.
To interfere with and check in the
bud the growth ofvarious fiber indus
tries of the Southern States, by flood
ing America with the products of the
Philippines is nothing to these annex
alton fellows.
WORK NEEDED AT HOME.
Now they throw to us a sop and
solace that there would be no immi-
grafton from those islands to the
United States. Well, maybe not. Yet
even this phase is no minor matter
In the going days of sailing YES
sells it was equally distant to Africa,
vet at q cost five times greater than
to-day the negroes that now number
ten millions were fastened on our
country.
Affairs in the United States as re-
CARDS the common people require the
attention, and can engage all OF the
existing Christianity, patriotism and
all that can be conjured up in the
heart of plutocracy right at home.
Not a day but that people are starv-
ing to death for want of employment.
Not day but that human beings by
the thousand are ushered into being,
born of American parents, who view
with the greatest solicitude and fear
the future, that but indicates want
for the family. Millions of Americans
are but 30 days off from starvation
whenever they are out of work.
Yes, this country needsintrospection
and the eve of humaneness turned
upon it's own people.
Where is the American workman
who to-day builds hopes for prefer
ment for his sons in commercial lite, or
for an honorable political career?
Some 80 years or SO ago, especially
in the country, the talk of the family
of a winter evening would be OF a
bright future.
The old man would point withpride
to his son and say:"There is our John;
he has the stuff in him for a Congress
man, and hceven might be President. "
And of another: 1--WE are fitting him
out for a merchant He has the bust
ness knack and will be the rich man OF
the family" Do we hear such talk
now? MOI It's but that we may live
escape poverty and the poorhouse
in our old age. -,
Shades of Andrew Jackson and old
Abe Lincoln This country now is rl-
led not by the common people, but by
plutocracy and the imperialists. Be
fore we are'down in the dust (all otus)
we must turn in and down plutocracy
and imperialism. / for one would ra-
Their see the Philippines and their IN
habitants go to the uttermort depths
than to have additional weapons OF
power placed in the hands OF our
masters, the plutocrat and imperialist,
Let them get off the horse of state,
It's TIC turn now of the common
reop,e to ride. I. ~