Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-02-04

to part with the useless and ex-
pensive United States senate;
Ia but they are becoming weary
of the useless and expensive manner
of electing the senator's.
am requested to remember that
every question has two sides to it.
So it has, stranger, so it hasa right
side and a wrong side.
Anyone who is willing to wait for
reform to come through the old par
ties must either have lots of time, or
a mighty good job while he waits.
Will you stick to the question, Mr..
Plutocrat? Some people would like
to know what service you are render
ing society in return for the good
things it is showering upon you?
The tramp questionis receiving con-
siderable attention and will continue
to receive more until the remedy is
applied. In its varying phases it COW
ers the whole economic question, aud
socialism is the only remedy.
An estimate of $4,000 for vaca-
tons for postoffice clerks is a part of
the appropriation bill. Wonder what
it costs Carnegie, for instance, to fur
nish his employees with vacations
| tell you this government slavery" is
just awful to contemplate!
The attempt to canonize Pingree
rather tires me. He is simply cute
politician who trims his sails to catch
the popular breeze. 1t is not given
to a man to advance as far as he has
and no farther He believes more
than he preaches-or whole lot less.
The millennium is at hand. The
Standard Oil lion is lying down with
any number of lambs-the lambs in
each case occupying a comfortable in
side position. And every time Praise
God Barebones Rockefeller swallows
competitor he whacks up with the
church.
A good comrade, casting about for a
comparison, evolves "as dead as the
devil. His profanity is something
shocking, and his logic a blamed sight
worse. The devil dead Not on
your tin type! He is very much alive
and doing flourishing business at
the old stand.
The proposed scheme to license the
BARRIERS is good one. Then let the
state hire a sufficient number to do
the act tonsorial to all corners free.
There can be no possible objection to
this for man could not hold up the
state for hundred clean shaves and
a. al.
Socialism is the question of the
hour All other doctrines pale into
insigni6cance before it, No fat offices
in plain view are required TO keep up
| its propaganda. There are no dor
mant periods between campaigns in
| its work. There is more interest in
it, outside of pecuniary interest, than
i'll all other propaganda put together
Some one wants to get the unem-
ployed on the land. What for? So
that those who are on the land may
become unemployed? ! presume that
turn about is fair play" but there
/ are some who are Utopian enough to
believe a system can be inaugurated
which will provide productive labor
for all and an opportunity to share
Ill the products.
The organs of plutocracy are unit
as to the ACCESSIBILITY of letting" a
certain undesirable element starve.
But they wont starve. Nothing will
induce them They are not built that
way. Public sentiment, as yet, will
hardly uphold the policy of locking
them up where they could be 'let" to
starve with advantage to themselves
and glory to our common country
Some donbt the efficiency of the bal
lot, and they may be right. 1t APP
pears to me, though may be wrong,
that there is no other hope. In this
connection it is well to remember that
we have no precedent to go by, since
neither the ballot nor the bayonet has
. yet conducted a successful revolution.
If the ballot, intelligently used, can
not solve the problems OF the day 1T
seems to me nothing can.
Ot all the tramp propositions the
one to put them "non-competitive"
labor appears the most illogical TO
: me. 1t would be all right if there
was any snch kind of labor, but there
is not unless tits ,inproductive labor.
A system OF public works which dis
eliminated, in the giving OF employ
ment in favor of those who have