Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-05-13
DeCeiVinQ The Voters.

Deceiving The Voters.
The Des Moins daily News, the st.
Paul Pioneer Press and Chicago
Tlmes-Herald, all republican papers,
are bowling for a repeal of the tariff
on all goods that have been c0rnered
by trusts. Foryears these papers have
been bowling for tariff to protect
the American voting king against the
paupcr labor of Europe, and predict
ing that free trade would make this
country bowling wilderness should
1t be adopted, but now they are will
ing pauperize their infant minded vO-
ters as the only way to stop the trusts
from rObbing the people, Did these
papers not know all the time that
they were lying to the people about
the effects of the tariff? If they did
not, have they sense enough to know
what will be the effect of their present
demands for free trade as a remedy
against trust eXtOrtion? | rather
think rot. Free trade is not the rem
edy for trusts. The coal trust is sell
ing coal in Europe-in what would
the abolition of the tariff on coal in
jure them? And the same with oil,
leather, iron, machines and hundreds
of other things. Copper of the
world has Just been trusted, How
will free trade injure it? You will
have to buy of the copper combine,
even if you go to Europe, These re-
publican papers have gotten themsel-
YES into pretty pickle by their sub
serviency to the manufacturers in the
past and they can't get out of it, ex-
cept by having the public go in to all
these lines of production and distri-
button and furnish the people at cost.
| would not be surprised should the
republican party soon champion free
trade-and then raise the national ex-
penses by increasing the internal rev.
enues. The republican editors are gay
deceivers; their work is very coarse,
but then they have their voting cat
tie and hogs pretty well blinded so
they do not catch on. The prOpo-
sition is one to deceive the voters and
hold them in the party while the
trusts are being perfected Then they
will be SO much stronger than the
government that they will rule with
out the voting cattle.-Appeal to
Reason.
II. WENDENBERG, of Kansas City,
stole a turkey last Christmas. He
has been in Jail ever since and has
Just been sentenced to prison for two
years. 1t cost the public several hun
dred dollars to protect the owner of
that turkey and he lost the turkey at
ter all. property is sacred but human
life is not. Would it not have been
cheaper and better to have furnished
the poor man with useful labor that
he would not have had to steal his
family's Christmas dinner. But we
are ruled with such wisdom, by such
pure officers. Corruption i'll politicsis
also a crime. | wonder if tie Judge
and the court officers would like to
answer with their life that they never
did any thing to get office that was
not worse than the stealing of a tur-
KEY? The laws are for the rulers to
enforce, not obey,-Appcal to Reason.
1t is ques enable public policy to
annex severalmillion members of races
who are given to more frequently
changing their governments than
their shirts
The best way to eXterninatc the
weed is SO carlullv SOW only clean
seed.
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