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

| feacIllng out Win MS claws Tor the
victims Spanish greed has just been
forced to drop. 1t is a gigantic mort
gage-lOan scheme. backed by American
financiers of Chicago and New York
and its agents are already at work in
Santiago trying to inveigle the war
embarrassed Cuban merchant and
planter into its tolls. The journal
facetiously demands that Shafter estab-
lish Il rigid quarantine against this
common enemy of mankind. The Jour
nal forgets that modern wars. as a rule,
are not carried on against a foreign foe
that the common people may be pro-
tected from the capitalist ghouls. 1t is,
indeed, quite the reverse.
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IN an account of u banquet recently
given in England it appears that the
American and English flags everywhere
predominated. and at one end of the
dining hall large picture of the Prince
of Wales rested against the Stars and
Stripes, while that of President Me-
Kinley was EMBODIED in the English flag.
Surely, patriotism must be sunk to a
very low ebb indeed when the draping
of the picture of such useless. de-
PRAYED vagabond as the Prince of Wales,
can cause other than disgust and feel
ing that one flag has at least been
deeply and foully disgraced. a drone,
a libertine, parasite. representa-
tive of royalty that our forefathers
died in protest of-the stain can never
be brushed away. 1t is sickening, dis
heartening. and BODIES i'll to the real
and vital principles of this republic.
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LAW is q most curious thing. and not
the least curious part of it is that law &,
like lie. necessitates an ever-growing
and never-ending growth of laws to
back each other up. The police of one
New York precinct have regulation
against wearers of short skirts, though
since when has the grip of dreaded
prternalism descended upon this mod
ern Gomorrah know not. neither do
know why, when or how Il short skirt
became the subject of legal guardian
with impunity if you but own bicycle,
and if you don't you can buy fake"
bicycle check at any of the competitive
hardware stores in the tenderloin dis
trict. The law is not alone unsuccess-
full in suppressing short skirts, but it is
making dishonest men out of mer-
chants. Another ridiculous law to sup
press the aforesaid merchants is now
in order.
THE Chicago dailies have all advanced
their price from to ; cents. The rea-
sons given are several and various. the
principal grievance appearing to be in
creased cost of paper. The Tribune
naively admits what | have been so
long trying to convince the suffering
readers who wade through my columns,
and that is: "rhe war may be over in
short time. but the results of the war
will remain" You bet. dear Tribune,
, and if YOU had been little more hon
est you'd have also admitted that the
very capitalistic masters you serve and
for whom you are willing to swindle the
working people into voting for, are the
ones who are responsible both for the
results and the continuance thereof.
For the transfer of Cuban wage slaves
from the Spanish capitalist to the Amer
lean. the people of the United States
will have to pay both dearly and long.
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AMERICAS war record is very liable
to become furnished and shameful If we
are to believe what we read in the
papers about rotten rations, mistit
clothing tall this, by the way, is part
and parcel of the competitive system J.
bungling of generals, ETC., etc, until
T one would think that true patriots, in
stead of wanting TO hang Socialists for
; telling the truth, should turn their ut
tention and their ropes toward men
, who, it is openly charged by the daily
papers, are permitting our soldiers to
! be robbed on the one hand by con
, tractors, and on the other, to die, like
, rats in Il pen, Of yellow fever. 1t /,
claimed that Gen. Shafter had but two
, ambulances to carry of his injured, in
many instances the wounded lying
bleeding and diving, unattended, upor
, the field of battle. To read of tn,
bungling of some OF the officers II
, shameful and disgusting. If half wha
is claimed by the daily press is true
} many is the general and departments
5 officer who should be drummed out o
the army and their uniform. which
; they have disgraced, stripped from
them.