Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-03-11

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terms and bitter phrases.
too conservative. am holding it in,
friend Give me credit for that. |
don't write half of the mean things
think,
am not as "sot" against special
/ privileges as some. But it is my con
viction that they should be accorded to
the weak, not to the strong.
An exchange says only the two old
parties count; that the others are only
places of refuge for the kickers. 1t
strikes me we're about to the pass
where only the kicllers count.
am not stuck on the constitutions
am sorry to say consider it back
number. But | believe in lawfully
changing it's undesirable features, not
in Ignoring them. Who said anar-
chist?
| ann not a colony member SO the
instructions of We Colony Notes man
to send stamps when writing do
not apply to me. You can send
postal orders, bank drafts or any old
thing.
federation for those who think
along similar lines or are searching
for the light as we think we, see it.
But if we don't give it to our open
and avowed enemies i'll the neck we
deserve slavery.
"Mush and milk propaganda may
I've Id off IN a
the gift. I" If evervOne is "hail fellow
well met" and existing conditions not
deserving Of unqualified condemna-
ton, what are we agitating about?
Harsh words may butter no pars-
nips, but it just strikes your uncle
that we have was5ed nearly enough
kind words and grass-green grass
on that urcllin up III our apple tree.
Another hat full OF rocks, please, and
quick about it!
"The news from Cebu, one of the,
Philippines, lis good. The coolies are
willing to work at reasonable wages.
That is the touch stone of civilization
and, at home or abroad, the machine
guns will rattle their protest against
any other condition.
believe the system that advocate,
socialism, will bring the greatest good
to all; that it will promote honesty,
good will and plenty. know the eX-
listing system, competition, brings
evil to all and promotes rascality,
strife and want. Is it any wonder |
am slightly in earnest?
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of California down to acorns and
wild beans Still some pessimstic
people fail to see that it is our Christ
ian duty to spread it among the isles
of the sea. Can it be that part of
the ''White Mans Burden" is to be
seed beans and oak seedlings?
Why we're getting a shorter work
dav, fellows. More and more of MS
have no work day at all, unless you
call it work to count ties and live off
the scraps thrown from the late Geo.
Pulllman's dining cars. But OF course
that is a picnic, for have it on I'M
Questioned authority that most OF
YOU are "tramps from choice, Vote
for Mckinley and Aiger and beet with
chin whisker,
United we stand, divided we fall, "
is glittering generality, meaning
less platitude, though silvcr-tongucd
orators, hmbcr-jawed spell-binders
and leather lunged transformers roll
it in their mouths as q sweet morsel
Union cannot be too highly comncd-
ed; butit takes homogeneous elements
to make a successful union. An nm
successful union is worse than divis-
ion
Once again / assert that ! viii not
'bc good. | shall keep on throwing
ii into them People who object to
being criticised can mend their ways;
existing wrongs can be righted. Then
VIII my niue. maligned musings be
changed to honeyed phrases But SO
long as legalized robbery. injustice
hypocrisy and snobbery broad
n the land, just SO long = give
them the best, or wor- 4 you VIII
have ii SO, that have,
Mct lsy is past r OF the art
of how not to tell it. one has the
least aa Of his prca ! policy on
any lln .ortant queste 3ut the next
month viii force us haa1 A congres>
of his party was elet ecd last iall. bui
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