Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-25

Guiding the one having least second
choice votes, and so on.
A great deal of time is saved by
this plan: ''log-rollingn is hindered:
and a fuller choice of candidates Is
given. Unless himself elected, 40
man can spoil the chance of a friend
by splitting his vote. Therefore
man is willing to be a candidate as
representing some advanced princi-
pie. and his friends will vote for him
in the same way, knowing that they
will have a chance at stronger can
didate, if their favorite proves to be
weak in popular favor.
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WE see that the railroads are re-
ceiving double rates for carrying
soldiers. Very patriotic. Anxious to
defend the national honor. etc. ETC.,
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OF the boys who went down with
the Inflated Maine, ten were subscri-
bers to The New Time; yet some peo-
pie think the army dangerous to re-
form movements. Over half the Ger
man soldiers are socialists.
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SOCIALISM presents theory of gov
eminent which discards the idea of a
masterful power standing apart from
and above the people.and accepts the
Jetfersonian idea of a government by
the people in which paternalism can
not appear because there is in it no
recognition of paternal authority
New Time.
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THE line of industrial evolution,
spanning this country, has run
through these grades: Man, Partner
ship. Association, Corporation, Trust.
The next grade is the evolutionary
process, and that is the public owner
ship of all things where franchise
creates a monopoly. Displace the
private trust, where PROFIT is the
object by public trust where SER
VICE is the object.-[New Time.
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THERE are two conceptions of good
government: paternalism, or the gov
eminent of children according to the
will of their father tor the good of
the children: and of fraternalism, or
the government of all the people ac-
cording to the will of the majority
for the good of all. The first sort of
government is called patriarchal, the
second democratic. What we have
in America is the government of all
for the profit of few, and may well
be called plutocratic.
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The only way yet found to preserve
political liberty to all the people, is
to limit the political power which any
man may WELD, as in providing that
the same man shall not, at the same
time, hold the Offices of legislator,
executive and Judge; thus preventing
political tyranny of officers. So the
only way to preserve economic liber
ty to all the people is to limit the
economic power which any man may
WELD by providing progressive in
comes and property taxes, thus pre-
venting the economic tyranny of mil
lionaires.
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The next time that you hear a
workingman say that machinery, in
vention, is the cause of hard times
and all his troubles, just ask him
whether the trouble is in machinery
itself or in in the ownership of all
machinery by d few. There is an
army of 10000 souls each of whom
should have half a pound of beef
steak each day. If instead of this
equitable division, which would bring
health and strength to all. the whole
amount should be drawn by a dozen
men, the result would be an intolera-
bic stencil, contagion and death: out
of the midst Of which some starving.
feyer-stricken patient might call, in
his delirium. The curse of this
plague stricken camp is that there Is
too MUCH beefsteak.".