Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-06-24

live HilCS. FMS move mas not been
made from choice, but it appears to
me that my duty lies in this direction.
Yes, we're a great country. The
bone and sinew of our land are-on
the chain gang Just as good men as
you are my friend, are counting ties.
You know it as well as | do but it
don't suit you to admit it.
| hav'nt heard of any reformed $50
cialists," but every once in a while
some one who has been hanging on
to the ragged edge of prosperity by
the skin of his teeth lets go and falls
with dull thud into the ranks of the
calamity howlers.
My retirement to the Rainier woods
will in no wise affect my '1iterarv"
iabors. | shall continue to throw it
into them to the best of my ability so
long as the Throwing" and what |
can do on the side will bring me
bread (and incidentally, Strawberries
and cream and quail on tOast).
Organization is the secret of success
in every enterprise. We have a GER
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duction even under the competitive
system, but distribution is almost en-
tirely planless. Result, overproduction,
SO called, warehouses filled to burst
ing and the people in want goods
rotting on the shelves and people go
ing in rags. Oh, you can't improve
on present conditions.
Will | stop calamity bowling? Not
by a townsite. A ten cent raise in
wages does not turn my liver pale,
the more especially if accompanied by
the letting out Of twenty per cent of
the worknen. AS | have perhaps
told you | strenuously object to piling
up millions for the explOiters that |
may have hundreds; to building them
palaces that | may have a blooming
vine.clad cot full OF draughts and sec.
ond-hand furniture.
"The trusts must be destroyed or
the system of individuahsm will
cease" SAYS the S. F. Examiner, and
goes merrilt on to lay the straws OF
sophistry and eXpediencv in the path
of the incoming tide of concentration
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straw. 1t sees the inevitable but can
not resist the temptation of laying up
a few more shekels against the rainy
day it fears may usher in the abOll-
ton of want and the fear of want.
''Smash the machines, they are ruin
ing us" said the workmen when in
ventive genius began to develop, and
the heartless machines which had TAX
en- their Jobs were smashed fine. No
more were ever built and labor is still
living on the fat of the land because
it's producing capacity is kept down
to a minimum | don't think. Now
the small fry business men are going
to smash the trusts and department
stores and win out by keeping up the
waste of disoreanized competitive
effort. 1t is just as easy as lying!
This Christianizing and civilizing
the Malays is no fool of a job. When
we Christians got in our work on the
Affects, the peruvians and the North
American Indians we out-classed them
at all roints, we had gunpowder and
armor and they had bow and arrow
and a hunted look. The Malay, in
his long struggle against Spanish
domination has provided himself with
Mausers, Remingtons and rapid-fire
machine guns, which make his rcsis-
tance to the true faith stubborn ard
effective. But Wen fetch him yet.
Shell the Jungle
Ding Dong Bell cry the d. l.. men,
1.-THE truth shall make YOU free" and
then they go on to tell any old thing
but the truth They don't know II,
poor things, they are sincere, most of
them, but their hopes are bent on the
immediate future rather than on the
completeness of the victory, and SO
they beat their discordant tom toms
to drown the noise of the real struggle
lest the ominous sound frighten some
of the weak kneed back into the ranks
of the enemy. They are either ignor-
ant of history or they ignore the tact
that all real, effective fighting has
been done on principle and with the
means nearest at hand, Let them
search their own hearts and tell us if
the matter of means ever interested
them until they had an end in sight.
How then do they expect the interest
of the ignorant, self-satisfied majority
who vote the q. n o. or the d. q %.
ticket with straightness and dispatch,