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

One Of the oft-repeated objections
to cooperative colony life rs that 1T rs
"too much like slavery" In fact, DO
less parsonage than K. 6. lngersoi
objected to socialism on the ground
that it meant a surrender OF nd1vld-
ual liberty.
The fact is that under the competi-
tive system, the only absolute liberty
the worker has, untrammeled by GUS
tom and legal enactment, rs the llber-
ty to starve and 60 naked, and even
then he viii be arrested 1t he goes
naked in pnbhc!
The essence ofslavery consists IN be-
ing compelled to labor at the behest
of another for that others proht or
gain. Now if this definition 10 correct,
where is the boastsd liberty of the
worker? j..
The man who owns farm, free of
remembrance, must give np a large
PROPORTION of his produce to satisfy
the greed OF the railway corporations,
and board of spectators, so, that at
the very best, he rs more than haif n
slave. This eonpeIs him to refuse en-
nloyment to the farn laberer, who IN
turn must compete with ali either Ia
borers for Job and thus be more and
more slave The manufacturer hnds
himself in the same predicament, and
thus two kinds of industry are pitted
against each other to the utter ruin OF
both. And if the factory hand is idle
he cannot buy the farm produce, and
this in turn prevents the farmer from
buying the manufacturers product,
and both employer and employee sink
together in one common gull.
The ultimate result of the cornpeti-
tive system is the absolute euslave-
ment of all producers of wealth. 1t is
a. clear case of the big fish eating the
little ones until at last only the big
gest can survive. And in this case, the
big fish will be those who have mono
polized all of natures resources and
all of the implements Of production,
which the little fish, by their votes
and their subserviency to political par
ties has enabled the big fish to gohble
into their capaGouS NAV.
When that period comes and IT y
rapidly coming, the sacred ~ night OF
suffrage will be taken away Rom the
(m)aescs who now abuse it, and all
labor will paas into the serfdom ofthe
middle ages. Every student f history
and of law knows what the condition
of the masses was in those DAYS.
One of the laws of that period was
called, JUs PRINUA NOCTps, or the
right of the first night, which can on
" be here explained by the hint that
when a serf married, the owner OF
the serf claimed the privilege whidh
of right belonged to the bridegroom.
No slavery about that was there?
Another of those conditions of the
good old times" was that the serfs
passed as chattels with the land
when it was sold
Under our present system what 10
to prevent the coming back of those
conditions? "Oh, we have our great
educational system and our church
institutions that will prevent it. !"
Have you? Where are your school
teachers or college professors who
dare teach the truth about plutocracy?
Did not Prof. Parker, when comforting
the degree of Doctor of Laws on Pres.
Nc Kinley, say that the doctrine of
popular sovereignty was a species of
hlasphemy? And did not the late Ia
mcnted president Of the B. C.. c, onss
lose his passionate Of wealthy Den
yer church for preaching the trne doe
trincs Of Jesus? And did nSt Prof Be-
nnie and Andrews, and Rev. Eana..oss
share similar fate?
No, the schools and churchss ara toe
deeply imbued With the age to pre-
vent the coming Of thsee dire salen,i.
tics.
The slavery OF sociahs@ 10 merely
the enforcement Of wholesome rules
and regulations whKh are necessary
to conserve that higher liberty which
comes with enlightened law.
The percon who objects to the gene
raj dining room of the colony, would
hvc at a hotel . LIFETIME end never
think of Directing to the general din
ing room there. And the laborer who
objects to the systematic allotment OF
labor in the colony 80 that tkerc shall
be no wasted labor would short kim
self hoarse IN favor of the eight hour
day outside of the colony. He would
rather work eight hours for boes,
producing twenty dollars worth of
wealth, get one twentieth for himseh
and give the other nineteen twcntieths
to a corporation than to work eight
hours in a colony and get the net pro-
duct of the DAYS work The former