Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-07-23

III dnOllief lcJlef nc attributed T. Is
troubles to the inventive genius of his
fellow craftsman. and bames the type
setting machine for robbing him of his
only means of existence.
Sandy was single man, native of
England. Il years of age. He was IL
union printer. but latterly had found it
very difficult to obtain work. and told
an acquaintance recently that he had
eaten nothing for three days. Among
the papers left by him. all OF them
neatly written. some in pencil. some in
ink, was one to his landlord. reading as
follows:
| think the union will pay you at
least three-fourths of your claim
against me for rent. This is the only
means have Of liquidating my indcbt-
edness. and the condition in which
found my bed last evening is the final
blow that brushes me into earth.
have struggled hard to get employment
and earn money, for | wished to live
and do something for the good of man
kind: but the fatcs were against me.
and accept death by my own hand in
preference to starvation and the men
tai torture have been subjected to on
account OF my poverty.
From one of Sandy's old-time ac-
quaintanccs it was learned that he was
once well-tO-do. He invested his money
in mines, losing it nearly all. Coming
TO this state he resumed the trade of
his youth and worked at it until the
general Introduction of type-setting
machines made his livelihood precari-
man, with very high ideas of honor
and considerable dignity of manner.
| San Francisco Examiner.
/ Thus while the echoes of American
victories crash through the world.
while the multitudes acclaim and the
cannons rejoice, goes IL soul to it,
Maker. to lay at His throne the unde-
niable charge against His children OF
soulless inhumanity. of cruel robbery
and of refused opportunities. Think
We Just God can welcome the onward
sweep of a nation wherein images made
of Him are crushed. ground and bro
ken. robbed of virtues and hopes. that
an unjust system. upheld by the greed
and criminality Of man, may continue
| like Juggcrnaut on its devastating and
ruthles, course? Homeless. hopeless.
blaming the machine or the individual
rather thln the system which makes
virtues vice, poor Sandy is but type
Of Il vast and growing army who. de-
denied opportunity at every turn, and
robbed Of the fruits of their labor. seek
/ in the Unknown that s!wcea@a and that
rc-t denied by an inhuman world.
Poor Sandy, Like danger signal
myself and thy act loom red across the
path of modern progress. Is thy strIi-
/ flee useless. as has been that of thous-
sand, Of others. and must other men
| and other women and other babcr be
cast by thousands upon the otTal heap
of commercial capitalism ere the
sleeping heart and benumbed brain of
the common people Shall awake to save
our nation and humanity?
sleep on in peace Sandy: 10y thy dy-
/ ing thus hast Il scale been removed
4 from the money-encrusted eyes of JUS
ticc: and through thee. maNhap. may
/ like sacrifice of other men with ideals
rs high as were ever yours. and hopes
as dear. he forever ceased. Thy pro-
( test. humble ana mild though it seems.
rings load and forreful through the
aisles OF heaven and shocks into motion
/ the stlt-actUsing conscienres OF men.
UNCLE SAM