Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-03-04


eowardly and criminal.
Do you know that thousand
men have to cough up 81 900 apiece
to make one millionaire. 1t may be
that there is where your home has
gone to, partner.
Municipal ownership is proving a
decided success wherever tried; the
average saving over private owner
ship being fully fifty per cent. 1t is
the entering wedge of socialism.
The republican beer-garefen at
Olympia went out in blaze of pyro-
technics with every promise broken
and a new record for extravaganza
established. May we never look up
on its like againl
Oh. you're afraid of a dividing up
are you? Well, it must have been
quite ''divvy" that gave the other
kllow palace and you the shelter OF
roadside tree. No wonder you do
not want any more of it.
Some of the brands of socialism the
plute organs put up are a great adj
dition to the worlds mirth; and the
manner in which they knock the stuff
ing out of these men of straw is a
revelation in the art of war.
CONSTRUCTION and control by the
U. S. government" is the first, private
ownership with government control
the second, scheme given by the pres
ident for an ocean cable to Manila.
Whew! a dadbinged socialist!
Ridicule, SOOTHING and abuse are the
weapons they bring against us. Ar
gument? Dear heart, they have none.
| don't believe in the election of
United States Senator's by the people.
Don't believe in their election at all.
They are fifth wheel
Don't imagine for minute that the
Equalityites are going to crawl into
a hole and pull the hole in after them
when the time comes to vote. No
man, or set of men, will dictate their
political action when the time comes
for casting their ballot.
"But it was the cleanliness of abso-
lutte want often found in the homes of
the proletariat" says the Tacoma
News. Yet these conditions have pre-
vailed under the democrats. You
can't he consistent calamity -howler
and support any of the old parties.
Socialism is the only real live issue.
Free silver has fallen into ''innOcuous
desuetude" the tariff has committed
hari kari. Expansion is a necessity.
since Americans are not built to run
from an armed enemy. Throw it into
them, fellows. They haven't leg to
stand on.
One great trouble with the people,
God bless them, is that they don't
know when they have Out-grown or
worn out anything. You see them
strutting about in tattered, moth
eaten laws. and admiringly contem-
plating the figure they make in a con-
stitution that don't come halfway
down to their knees or elbows.
Haven't said ANYTHING about per-
sonal liberty for a long time, but have
been doing heap of thinking. Won
der what the blamed thing looks like
and how much it costs cord. l re-
member one man who declared his in
tention of doing as he pleased, and he
did He is now doing" eleven years
for the state and the warden reports
him an earnest advocate of personal
liberty.
greatly admire the workings of a
complex machine. That's why Pm
stuck on the republican party. Every
part fits into every other part. Even
the country postmaster is little cog
in the mighty mechanism, and Gar
of his own little dominion. This par
ty makes the humblest place worth
striving for, each one being allowed
complete control over all those under
him. The g. o. p. has made science
and success, for itself, out of ma
chine politics.
must emphatically dissent from
the opinion of Mrs. Temple as express
sed in another column, though TIE
privileges OF her Sex give her the 'fsI
word. have also studied the Cues
ton carefully and cannot help mt
think that her astral" poor.l SEES
must have been evolved rom nm
instead of witacut. Whatever aay
he said of Eqt ,ity, and | co tss TO
n prejudice in us favor, it is not the
weak kneed people who cross. conti-.
nents To embark in an undertaking Ot