Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-22
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DRESS PARADE DIPLOMACY.

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DRESS PARADE DIPLOMACY.
A war has been declared and fought
to liberate and feed the perishing Gu
bans, and now while the people still
starve, the administration ostenta-
tiously sends an imposing delegation
to Paris, to see if the Spaniards APP
prove of the part we have taken in
the fracas.
This is in striking contrast to the
"shirt sleeve" policy which prevailed.
in the early history of our country,
and which still prevails in self-re-
specting countries.
The average man is not able to see
just why we should pause in our wild
career for glory and send silk
stocking delegation to Europe at an
expense of quarter of a million Just
to find out whether we are doing
things according to Europe's code of
etiquette, but the average man does
not seem to be considered to any
great extent unless it becomes neces-
sary to interrogate gun or frowning
fortitication, and then he suddenly
blooms into useful being, and is al
lowed to prove his patriotism by star
wing in some secluded spot. or dying
through the neglect and incompe-
tency of such superior beings as r.
A. Alger.
After all there is consolation in the
reflection that our rulers are enter
prising, at least. Have they not
bnilt several sleeping cities?
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The republican and the democratic
parties have been straining every
fiber of their beings for these long
years to better the condition of the
working man. AS evidence of the
truth of this statement examine
their platforms for the last 30 years.
One would suppose that any injury
to single worker would break the
heart of either of these labor cham
pions, but still the condition of the
worker is growing steadily worse.
Possibly the worker would now be
willing to have the two old parties
cease their labors of love. So much
disinterestedness deserves a better
fate, but then this world is not always
appreciatlve. "a
The worker is ungrateful enough to
entertain a bare suspicion now and
then, that his party is quietly rob-
bling him while protesting so much
against robbery.
Such things have been done, but of
course political party whose lead
ing lights are church members
would not be guilty of such low prac-
tees.
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The rulers of Europe look with
alarm upon the gorwth of socialism,
not because they think socialism pro-
poses any vicious changes, but be-
cause the new order will put these
useless rulers to work to earn their
support in some honest way. 1t is
this feature of socialism which so
fills the rulers of earth with alarm,
but their attempts to destroy social
ism have utterly failed.
In Italy the prosecution of social
lists has degenerated into cruel per-
secution with its usual results, the
rapid spread of the doctrines of So
cialism.
All over the kingdom the socialists
are making rapid accessions to their
ranks, and even the union of opposi-
ton forces has not been sufficient to
defeat the socialists in some of the
municipalities.
This news is, of course, very inspir-
ing to socialists everywhere, and gives
all of us new hope when we see that
the tyranny and oppression of the
Italian government cannot drive our
brothers from their purpose.
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Colony notes, and hope they will now
be feature of each issue.
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