Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-05-07

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sisted by man.
The freedom of man proceeds along
well defined lines of evolution or rev.
olution. First comes the freedom OF
mere living-the freedom just to eX-
list. a freedom such as other animals
enjoy, in a like low stage of natural
development; then comes freedom
from physical slavery or serfdom, In
their Oldest sense, the enfranchise-
ment from physical bondage to a
slave-master. the freedom to live
ones own physical life as ones
own physical mastcr-personal Tree
dom: then comes political tree
dom. freedom from political bondage
and slavery, the right Theoretically
as a free man to free suffrage: and
then comes (but not yet has it GOMEZ
freedom from economic slavery. free
dom from the bondage of wages at
the behest of every individual wage
master. freedom from the slavery OF
ever imminent poverty and always
possible pauperism, in a word, IN
DCSTRIAL FREEDOM, that freedom
which lets man work out his social
salvation without trampling upon the
rights of his brother man, and with
out rising on stepping stones OF his
crushed brethren to higher economic
or Industrial tyranny.
The industrial world of today, the
world of wage slavery, goes branded
with the mark of Cain: man has slain
his brother, and all the while he
strives in vain to quench rcmorse in
a plea that was outworn ages before
the days of the first prophets, the
lying plea, WHO is my Brother"
Let us make modern parable of
the Prodigal Brother-the brother
who is so prodigal to himself that he
has forgotten the very fact that he
eyer had brother. After long age
stepped in ignorant sellshness and
sclf-seeking ignorance of the most
inhuman kind: after spending the
substance of his brotherhood in riot
Gus living for self alone: after sink
ing to the level of the beast that
knows no tie of fraternal feeling: af-
ter all this degradation in depths of
oblivion of his fellowman's sonship to
the universal Father of humanity,
this modern Prodigal Brother sud
denly receives into his consciousness
and into his soul and emotions the IL
Eliminating and preserving grace of
Brotherhood, and he opens his new
seeing eyes upon world of fellow
beings, his brothers, for so. long a
time wronged and renowned. And
then the Prodigal Brother, so long
proc igal to himself alone, so long
prodigal to his worse self, prodigal to
his own selfseeking, his own egotism,
rises up within himself, appalled, at
all the sorrows and pains that have
come unto his whole family-the
whole race of his brethren, because
man hath not known his brother, be-
cause man hath cried, and cried in
derision, Am | my brothers keep
er?' And then the Prodigal coming
unto himself and finding himself one
with all his brother-men, and feeling
anew all the fraternal nature that
so long abode in him dormant and ig-
nored, cries cut: 81 shall go to my
Brothers dwelling: once more and
forever we shall be brothers: we shall
abide together in harmony and help
fulness: his needs shall be my needs,
and my joys shall be his joys, and
ours shall be the glory, and Brother
hood shall be among all our race the
zone law, one love, one element"
Now. how shall this sense of the
Brotherhood of man come TO be felt
and realized in all hearts? Many
things will make for it, but among
them all there is no factor so requis-
lite and significant as the factor of
Industrial Freedom. Make all men
industrially free by abolishing indus
trial slaves and industrial masters
the slaves that wear out pitiful life
in the pitiless service of an Implying
master, commercial individualism:
give to every man according to his
deeds and according to his needs in
Just system of industrial cooperation,
a system in which equality of econ
omic opportunity is made universal 4
system in which congested and glut-
tonous wealth and lean and starving
poverty are banished alike from hu-
man company; bring about through
industrial freedom the contamination
and perfectio OF social civilization,
and the golden age, the age of the
brotherhood of Man shall be inaugu-
rated and the happiness Of the few
alone. by yielding place to the many,
shall point and lead the way to the
happiness OF all-all for each and
each for ALL