Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-01-28

Jail, but the authorities got
IL on to their graft and locked
them out. We do well to boast of
our great and prosperous country
when we have to lock our jails on the
inside!
zone half the world does not know
how the other half lives" and neither
does it care continental, any farther
than profit, loss and rate per centum
are concerned. Beautiful system?
The grandest ever conceived
That is no "pipe dream" about
Bro. Nosovitch and my pipe. He is
better now, thoroughly convinced of
the advisability of milk food" for
"babes" and properly grateful that it
was my pipe he tackled instead of
Bro. .Jolly's.
Everyone is earnestly entreated not
to hold anyone but myself responsible
for my utterances. If | may not
write as pleases me l will not write
at all, at the very contemplation OF
which dreadful circumstance civiliza-
ton stands aghast.
The army officers are .quarrelling
among themselves as to whether the
beef furnished the government was
fresh, picked, embalmed or just plain
rotten. Having been packed, hap
hazard, for profit under our glorious
competitive systemit probably was.
One beauty of sending clippings in
letter, as suggested by Bro. klam-
~ roth, is that YOU can select such as
i will fit the recipient. Sauce for the
goose" may be "sauce for the gander'
but the very clipping which will bring
one heather to the fold, will drive an
other still farther away.
People will persist in disagreeing
/ with me. Of course it is very unreal
sonable of them, but it can't be help
ed. Still | am willing to join hands
1 with anyone to forward any theory
we hold in common, though we may
be at complete loggerheads regarding
the eventuality of the eventual or
the whichness of the what.
Do believe in partisanship in local
politics? Verify, do, brother, | be-
iieye that a man who is sound on eco
monte questions is more apt to be so
! on the proper method of building
road or constructing ditch. | would
rather have a man on the school dis
trict board whom believed to be right
on national questions than one | knew
was dead wrong on all.
The editor of the bright and breezy
| little Co-operator cites his experience
in metropolitan journalism as proof
of the width of the swath he proposes
to cut. His allusion in another column
to walking the streets of Chicago
> hungry would indicate that the eX-
perience was of more value to the
good brother, possibly, than to the
zone of six leading dailies"
Cooperation, industrial or political,
is not ''brotherly love-. OPm getting
so drag my trunk against the bed
room door when the advocate of that
holy passion is abroad in the land.)
/ 1t is a straight business proposition.
Sentiment has no more to do with
cooperation thanit has with smoking
herring, and the sooner we realize
/ this the sooner we will reap the bene-
! fits of associated action.
| have it on the authority of plu-
tocratic journal that the East Indian
laborer, who lives on three cents a
/ day, is strong and healthy. 1t is now
4 i'll order for the American working
! king and voting sovereign, who per-
sists in squandering four or FIVE cents
day for grub, to say why he con-
tinues his shameless extravaganza,
when it requires a closer and closer
grind on the part of the capitalist to
accumulate beggarly $10,O0O,o 900
No one can have a greater rever-
ence than myself for those heroic
characters of history who have at
tested their faith in their creed at the
stake or on the gallows. My rever-
ence for creed, however, is lessened by
the knowledge that it was creed
. which nerved the headsman's arm as
well as strengthened the heart OF the
| victim upon the block. Who is to de
| fine the difference between the relig-
ion which suffered calmly at the
stake and that which applied the Ia
tai torch
believe in using the word social.
ist' instead of the word reform
If YOU mean socialist. Reform Is
any old thing. For instance, the EN-