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

"Over-production."
Or because there are too many shoes
made. the people are going barefooted:
because there is too much flour the
people are going hungry. In a word,
the creation of plenty is the reason
people have nothing.
Should you ask one of the sovereigns
whose herd is not in power the same
question, he will answer that it is be-
cause his herd is not in power
Should you prove to him that his
herd advocates and is pledged to en-
force precisely the same rule as the
other herd, it makes less impression on
him than the same information would
if impaired to rhinocerous in his
native Jungle.
No ray of thought can penetrate the
mind of a type of the real voting
sovereign.
He is a fixture.
One of the herd.
If you were to ask him what ''cou-
pom" was, he couldn't tell whether it
was made of brick or mortar.
If you were to ask him where the
millionaire's five thousand dollars per
day comes from. it would be to him an
idiotic conundrum.
If you were to talk about 'contrac-
ton" and Expansion" of the volume of
money, it would be Greek to him.
But talk to him of the parties, -
and the word Party" brings him to
life. He'll talk. talk talk. He'll ges-
ture. gesture. He'll overwhelm you
with the history of the party: he'll
drown you, dose you. lombard you with
words, and talk, and gestures: and talk
and words in which you could no more
find the trace of an idea than he could
find or trace the reason of his condition.
There are voting sovereigns who
seem superior to others in intelligence,
who can actually perceive that both
parties are one and the same in princi-
pie: that no relief will result in the
election of either.
Yet strange to say, should you ask
one of these sovereigns, why not vote
against both parties?" the answer
would be-
"Should l vote for principle, l would
throw my vote away
You might inform him that no man
ever threw his vote away who voted for
principle: that no man threw his life
away who died for principle. Yet ii
would have no effect. not on one of the
voting sovereigns. IL would only bring
forth more words, gestures, and words,
until you would come TO the conclusion
that nothing under the heavens save a
double load of "a strong solution of con-
centrated evolution would ever make an
impression upon his plaster-of-Paris-
like brain
Time only moves him. --removes him.
The real danger of the republic to-
uds Is us NotiuS noNcISisHs.
Your railroad monopolists, your bond
holders, your land-grabbers, are not
half so dangerous as your voting
sovereigns.
1t is they who are the source of their
country's evils.
There is not wrong to-day that
would not be Immediately righted were
il not for these voting sovereigns.
1t is they who are continually voting
TO enslave themselves and their fellow
men.
Their moving and projecting inn
pulses are hate, sectional luminosity, re-
ligious bigotry, intolerance. class pride,
shallow conceit, barbarity, savagery,
cannibalism, spleen, bile, dyspepsia,
jaundice, gall, decay, disease, meanness,
greed, idolatry, fraud, crime, theft,
gluttony, lechery, debauchery, and con
stitutional ignorance.
Ignorance is the base, misery the
column. and fraud the statue browning
this monument OF uncivilization.
There Is no need for any OF this in q
republic where an intelligent people
can alter all things.
Thus through the convention" and
the ''sovereigns," this beautiful twin
calf institution OF our country, individ-
ualism has absorbed the lands and
waters of the people, until the spoliated
whole have but the right of passing
along the roads and viewing across
fences rich and fertile domains, design
ed by the Almighty for them, but
through this ignorance voted into per