Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-07-30

yet - uay Tor a little while. 1tld1-
culous? Not a bit more so than the ex-
pressed desire Of many law n order
anarchists who want a general war
to kill off surplus labor and so raise
wages.
How the SINNERS skin: The Moore
investment Co. of Seattle. Wash, is
appealing through the daily papers for
purchasers of house lots for $3.50 each
and interest at ONLY 6 per cent. The
size Of the lot or the actual generous
ness of the company cuts no figure in
this argument. The fact remains that
the operation of the present system has
resulted in the forcing of human beings
to pay as the price of life. several hun
dreds of dollars. and in many cases an
endless and voracious interest, for some
thing that never cost anyone cent.
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AN American genius who has had
charge of the household of Emperor
Josef of Austria. succeeded in effecting
a saving of $1,000. 600 year in the ex-
penses of the cuisine department. Our
daily papers haven't got done talking
about it yet. and their linotype ma
chimes have had to get new set of
matrices for exclamation points, But
when we call attention to leak in our
own postal department where saving
of twice $1,000, 900 may be effected, and
other stealings wiped out, the only
thing that appears to me remarkable is
the way the saving ISN'T accomplished.
WHEN real estate agents tell an ig-
norant victim that the price of house
lot is exceptionally high because of the
growth of the city. ETC., etc.. and we see
the gullible idiot promptly fork over
his cash. satisfied with such reason. it
makes me fearful for the reputation of
the American people as to their alleged
wisdom. Inasmuch as it is the people
themselves who make a city grow by
living there it is hard to understand
what kind of crazy logic it is that in
duces them to Willingly pay someone
for the benefits they had themselves
already created. But so wags the mad
world along.
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IT i q most terrible aPraignment OF
our idiocy and mismanagement to make
a tour of real estate Offices and see what
we have done with the glorions borf-
tage lcl u, bv our forefathcrs. We
have NOT received in return even a mess
of pottare. il has all been stolen. and
we countyed at the stealing. Millions
uDan millions of acres of land all over
the country. and land that will become
necessary TO the public welfare his the
nation G.yelops. i, now i'm the hqad. of
syndf.t.s. Ii can bee trutbfailv stated
thar tn.commoa peoule. the citizens.
the workers. can not secure even
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De ""at from water fronts or o'hef
natural resources and upon cheap land
us,fgl Dglt bv having tribute Co the
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must u-' DID distribution ana e&thange.
Oh. ye american citizen, We jeer az
tho itu.rauca of the Roman freeman nf
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THE PARTITION OF NINA among the
great powers is hailed by thoughtlc~s
and i.rr..,.pt ueo,,la es on advance of
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Gus powers hug Themselves i'm dellrlous
and idio,ic joy every time they win a
WOW ni..a of tarritorv Thay do mot
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see zoos ''l"' 'neE are 'H"O Oie very
victoric- they celebrate more surely
mean their own undoing. 'Rah for
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