Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-07-23
THE ADVANCE OF
UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOn


pal electric lighting.
The kingdom of Saxonv cast q,
Socialist votes, or nearly one.b,,'U
the total poll of 604, S21. at +bo
elections to the German Reicb..s
The Swiss national assemblies,
a law prohibiting the manufac,
sale, import, and export of maj
in which yellow phosphorus is J,
gredient.
Lately there have sprung miD
GUM several cooperative brevs,
who supply good and wholesome
at reasonable prices. The M,
brewers view this with alarm
have petitioned parliament to
cooperative breweries illegal.
The New South Wales govern
has decided to do without the ali
middlemen contractors in bpi
the first section of the Invercll.Nl
railway, and the work is to be ca,
out by day labor under Governs
supervision. This is as it shouH
and will save costly arbitration /,
which generally end in neecipr
country for the sole benefit of pr7I
enterprises, Brisbane Worker
There are 333 electric light pIa
in operation under municipal owl
ship in the United States. They
located in thirty-nine States and
ritories, furnishing 26,0s7 arc ii
ard 81, 40 incandescent lights
representing a capacity of Il
horse power. Ohio has fl munic
plants; Michigan. 30: Illinois, 81; M
nesota, %: Iowa, %: Missouri. I'D
diana, Is: New York, II: Pennsylu.
ID. and Massachusetts,. IT,. nj
figures were compiled by the
Electrician of Chicago. The q
majority of electric lighting pi
are owned by private parties, d
being 1900 plants in the UI
States that are thus owned.
The citizens of Western Texas
bordering territory are buildiu
railroad of their own. SO far nj
cent in cash has been expended
labor. The farmers are toiling |
early morning until sunset, IA
tracks and making the road-bed, i
merchants who expect to reap |
material benefits from the road
completed contribute their shan
ward its construction by donatiOl
goods. When the road is finished
co-operators can snap their tnge1
the vast railway combination "
has for years oppressed them.
street which at first ridiculed thtI
ject and treated it with general
tempt, is now bitterly opposed 1
The attorney for the Pierpont /
gan roads will apply for injund|
under the Interstate CommerceI
The approximate figures of tn
tai Socialist vote cast at the ID
parliament elections in Germarl
officially given at >, l25, 600: this
roborated by the Socialist organ|
waerts. Thus the increase sincsl
is 33S. 262 and 691, 102 since 1890.
doesn't look much like as if the n
list movement had reached its eli
in Germany. Kaiser Billy will
to get a hustle on himself and
crease his army proportionatt1
he will fall behind in the wild |
Socialism and militarism are ruHI
in the Fatherland. But ii is a ~
well established fact now that
more the obnoxious military ~
which is sucking the life-blood
the nation, is enlarged and elaN
ed upon the more vital and ID
irrepressible and irresistible VII
the German Social Democracy
compact and splendid organial
Militarism of the German kind !
best breeder of Socialism. Bal
Kaiser is too blind to see it that
and his folly will lead TO disas
results for him.
The following table will conw
idea of the Socialist vote cast
comparison the total anti-Scd
vote cast by the various non-Sc'
parties is also given. The diS
selected are such as compriS
large cities and industrial ca
the strongholds of Socialism:
Socialist Mona
Constituency Vote ISL
Berlin Is district. l55, 100
Brunswick. ..... l2,S00
Stettin .......... 10. l9S
Breslau e districts. 21,2s6
Hanau. ........... l2.53g
Otfenbach ......... IL. 100
Karlsruhe ...... 9,023
Munich > districts. 26,03l
Nuremberg ...... 22,0@
koenigsberg. ..... l3,5l3
Lubbock ..... 9.19S