Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-06-04
MUSINGS OF A MOSSBRCK.

some people can for the Goulds and
Astors who are putting up their
yachts and their dollars to help Uncle
Sam out of his little pinch.
1t is natural for me to enthuse over
a gift according to the ratio of the
donors possessions to the gift rather
than to the aggregate amount.
Those who expect to see these peo-
pie go sailing down the stream of
time with full sized halo are going
to get left.
Wait, stop, hold up, hello, kings ex!
This war can't go on until we are re-
organized.
The army and navy are socialistic
institutions. They're owned and oper-
ated by the government. We indi-
vidualists, who don't believe the peo-
pie should operate a horse car line,
even, can't stand this.
Let us let the contract of whipping
Spain to the lowest responsible bid
der.
In order to give room for a specu-
lation we might call for bids for lick
ing the dons with side bid on
France, Austria and Germany, con-
tractor to take his chances on hostil-
titles.
Joking aside though it would be no
joke to turn the army over to the
much Wanted "private ownership.
do you know why the army is nation
allied?
1t is because it was the first place
where the imperative necessity OF CO.
operation became apparent.
Even when man conquered his enc
my with a limb pulled from a tree. on
which he thoughtfully left as many
sharp knots as he could, he soon saw
the advantage of system.
When the primeval man first got
partner to go with him on raid and
they saw how easy the 'individualist'
who was looking around for trouble
ALI by his lonesome" fell a victim to
their combined efforts, cooperation
in military affairs was an established
fact.
The upper milestone of the increas-
ing cooperation of capital. and the
neither milestone of the increasing
competition of labor may grind slow
ly but they will crush the competi-
tive system to powder nevertheless.
There are too many people in the
world, and they produce too much.
Consequently, large portion of them
are in want.
They're Dragging about the excess
of exports over imports again. If we
could only manage so as to send
away everything we have got and
get nothing back, wouldn't we be
rich.
The political pot is beginning to
sizzle. 1t will soon be boiling in great
shape. Get in your work before the
steam blinds the peoples eyes.
y cooperative productive system
and an individualist distributive sys-
tenn hitch all right, of course.
We produce SO much food we can
scarcely keep from starving, and
clothing is SO cheap we are freezing.
Is capital following the competitive
system they are advocating Tor the
workingmen? Nit.
They are combining and co-opera-
ting in every line, Trust after trust
is forming.
oh, but YOU say the small capital
lists are competing. Surely, but the
small capitalists are not capital"
If cooperation is good tor the rich
it ought to be good for the poor If
it is good for the sugar refners it
ought to be good for the wood-saw-
yer-.
Ard the people are catching ON.
They are beginning to see which side
their bread is buttered ON, or rather
they are beginning to see it isn't but
tered At all.
Prof. Jordan is reported as saying
that the unemployed are "intemper-
ate. licentious or worthless" This
may be, but all the worthless. etc,
are not unemployed.
WHEN we have freed Cuba from
foreign tyrants maybe the Cubans
will help free us from home tyrants.