Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-02-18


bot at present in touch with the Min
nesota idea, but out in this neck of
the woods we make.a distinction be-
tween grand larceny and Christian
Y brobity.,
To call an opponent in argument
Ignorant may silence him, but cor
Vince him-never. Ten to one he will
Tefuse to take your word for it.
A youth OF IS attempted suicide in
Ehehalis, this state. He ought to
have read the gold-bug republican
papers and thus have kept posted on
the great opportunities open to in
dustry and integrity
Il Competition between the states for
&divorce business is the latest fad.
Some OF the central states are wing
with each other in shortening the res
idence of Divorces to catch their
trade and attorneys fees. ~
If you don't believe Our competitive
Esystein is almost divine, take red
$pencil and mark the list Of the crimes
kind suicides rs they appear i'll any ie-
sue OF one OF our great dailies. Every
fhing is all right, you bet.
n "Abide cheerfully by the will of the
&majority." Abide cheerfullv by the
will of a mud hen! When has con
trol of the spirit in which we take
Eour medicine been added to the sa-
Cred and divine rights of majorities?
Ri Some of our plutocratic exchanges
*-are becoming alarmed lest the trusts
shall point the way to cooperation
and socialism OF course they will,
deary, and your little penny -a-iine
scares will delay the process not a bit
In Massachusetts, where large
| bountieS are paid for the destruction
of the gypsy moth, it mas been dis
covered that the exterminators put
in proper proportion of their time in
propagating the pest, in order not to
exterlninate themselves ont of ajob.
Thsre's nothing like the incentive to
rain
A good brother in Seattle-as good
as they make EN-, as | can attest
from personal acquaintance-sent me
some barber tools with instructions
to loan them to the colony. This |
have done and our delighted barber
proceeded to shave every one a month
in advance, and to cut their hair into
the middle of next September.
The second act in the war for hui
mainly" opened when hostilities be-
gun between the Americans and the
Insurgents. The subiugtion of an
alien race, occupying non-contiguous
teIritory is the most radical depar-
ture from the precedent of our govern
ment ever inaugrated. The beginning
Of the end, even, is not in sight.
lust what form the socialist move
n1ent will, or should, take in the next
campaign is largely problenatical.
But we can SOW the good seed. The
tine is favorable for its termination.
1T is n time for education rather than
denomination. 1t is no time to dis
courage any movement, howeter con-
uervative. in the directson of the &C.
operativo commonwealth,
There Is no reas on why Uncle SANS uni
8orms in which his soldiers are 70 march
and Eight, should be purchased where they
are Thrown together like cheap. ready -made
action garments for workingmel. -Bingham-
con Republican.
But every reason, | suppose, why
the clothes of the nottingham, who
must produce it all, should be thrown
t0gether of cheap cotton. Bah!
"A valued exchange, which is doing
ycoman service in socialist propagan-
"a, is insistent in the declaration that
d socalet colony is an lmpssibility.
Il All right, comrade, have your own
contrary way about it. II colonies
can furnish safe harbor i'll which
70 ride out thccompetitives storm that
" strewing the commercial coast with
business wrecks; centers OF propaganda
TO spread the gospel of cooperation,
they will do a grand work, even II
B INV Sincere and earnest friend should
choose to call them gold-bug republi-
can institutions.
4 rise to remark, and as usual in the
al of rising VII probably get sat
lawn upon, that the people who have
Ia most faith II Equality are here,
prking e. Ike that future a sue
<ets. They not saying anything,
Ind they AZ saving wool 1t IS
=, tIispsua cement to those Who have
I'D "cold Get" and quit t. .ay they
I've to do certain cunt OF