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

% HE early bird catches the
n worm" is an old competitive
saw. But when to be an early bird
means to stay up all night to be sure of
being doled out halfil loaf of stale bread
in the early morning it is about time
the saw was reset and sharpened.
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NOTHING is more pitiful or more
Illustrative Of the degrading depths to
which this might-have-be been most glori-
Gus nation has sunk than TO read in the
leading daily papers of the country long
and nauseating defences of war on the
ground that it is blooming business.
God help q nation in such extremity.
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BEING in the swim ourselves | know
the Salvation Army will appreciate the
little joke when I inquire how their
colonists in Colorado are going to sus-
tain life and revel in luxuries on three
acres of cantalopes and an acre or two
of onions? Such a supply of staple
provisions is enough to make ones
mouth water, and eyes. too.
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SCIENTISTS have discovered q fact
that must be unpalatable to the haters
of Chinese. 1t has just been estab-
lished that the average weight of the
brain of the Chinaman is greater than
that of any other race save that of the
Scotch. No wonder the inroads of
more intelligently-directed Chinese in
dustry is raising havoc among their
less brainy competitors.
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STILL the advance of Christian civili-
zation and beneficient competition goes
on toward the brotherhood of man q
Another mile stone marks its progress.
A centrifugal gun, capable of discharg-
ing 10000 bullets a minute into human
hides and human souls has just been in
vented by an Englishman. who is no
doubt church-goer and Il God-faaring
man. If he isn't he win have most
pressing cause to be in the near future,
if God is just.
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IT costs the world over 100000 o
day to maintain its armies in time of
peace. There are &.7O0,Oo) men thus
engaged. What an enormous amount
Of productive energy is lost: what an
amount of hate of brother towards
brother is thus piled up that the Bible.
or Il dozen Bibles. are helpless TO over
comeand what an atonement must come
in the future when their armies become
as reeds, and the ambitions of the rulers
as Il breath on the glass of time?
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IN the past or weeks the price of
the necessaries Of life. such as -four,
potatoes, beans, pork, etc. have adj
vanced in price over an average Of 80
per cent. Such is the justice parcelled
out by our competitive industry that
wages have not advanced of per cent
though several hundred coal miners
and longshoremen are on strike trying
to gain miserable 10 per cent. Oh,
our industrial system is splendid
thing for the fleecers of men. And it
is wonder the fool lambs of working
men can not see or feel their own pluck
ing under it.
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FIFTY years ago but 600, 600 copies of
the Bible were sold yearly. This has
increased to 1000 600 year. And yet
there are today millions more people on
the verge of rushing at each others
throats and far more idlcness. destitu-
ton. jealousy, crime and insanity than
could have been imagined % years ago.
don't mean to infer that the Bible is
TO blame at all. What I desire to say
is that if more care had been taken TO
push the sale of Bibles among civilized
people instead of wasting them ON the
heather the result might have been tar
different and far better.
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IN view of the plutocratic unoercul-
rent toward an extension OF territory
and the maintenance of standing arm
les in proposed colonial possessions. the
query OF the Pittsburg, Pa, Dispatch
is very pertinent;
Did the United States go into this
war to support American principles or
to discard them for imperialism y
The common people, friend Dispatch,
went into the war honestly believing it
was for American principles. but the
future historian will show that the war
was proposed and carried on that the
Imperialism of money and pmtocratic
power might more firmly uphold the
right OF Greed to plumber Need.