Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-06-10


tablished. Give the capitalistic calf
rope enough and he will hang himself.
am glad the lads eased up on the
slack of it and are letting him have
his little caper.
The people are grooming Mayor
Jones for the Ohio gubernatorial cam
paign this fall. If he should win out
he will come pretty near being TT in
1900.
Sam Jones is not Sam Jones. That
is Mayor Sam Jones, of Toledo, social
ist capitalist and politician is not
Rev. Sam Jones, of nowhere, plutocrat
preacher and all-round parasite.
Gen. Wilson, chief of engineers U. s.
A., visited the sound and was enter
tanned by our L. $. senator, our con-
gresham and-the counsel for the N
p railway, And we wonder how we
got here.
Helen Gould spends 500, O00ayear
on churches and charities-and alb
serbs many times that amount for
which she renders no equivalent 1t
lacks a whole lot of being a stand. off
with her.
If England continues her encroach-
ments an the Transvaal Republic she
may learn to her sorrow that it is bad
policy to corner a Dutchman. She
may find it heap easier to take hold
than to let go.
Now the travelling men are lining
up against the trusts, but the trusts
will go serenely on. The elimination
of useless labor is one of the problems
of the times and the trusts are work
ing it out to q finish.
Mothers meetings arehaving a high
old time discussing fnery in dress.
The general concensus is that it is
relic of barbarism and tends towards
vice How happy the ''wimmen folks
OF the toilers ought to be that this
temptation is removed from them!
A. B. Brown, of Centralia, has my
thanks for a copy of the Light of
Reason one Of the numerous polite
al novels that are going the rounds
1t is written by A. B. Franklin and
published by Chas. II. Kerr & Co. If
his friends continue to remember him
with books the "Mossback' will have
to start Book Review column.
| will put up quite a scrap for direct
legislation, pure and simple, and fight
to a finish if public ownership and
public employment are added. But
between Is to l and z to l, or the
degree of "benevOlence" to attend the
assimilation of some So a head Ma
lays respectfully, albeit firmly, decline
to enthuse.
The cheerful idiot of the Johnstown
PENNSYLVANIA Democrat pirates glibly
of that industrial absolutism which
the individual will practically lose
identity and initiative and become a
mere machine" Yes, yes, bub. You
have got it down fine. You'll be the
Goliah to knock out the socialist Da-
vid you bet.
| have no objection to throwing it
it into them under any other name
than Socialism but | feel like draw
ING the line at reform" 1t is too
blamed vague aud indefinite, and ut
terly out of order as applied to our
propaganda A reform journal
may be any old kind OF a thing, but it
cannot he a socialist publication. II
socialism means anything it means
something higher and better than re-
form. Reform is merely patching
up, a fixing over; while socialism
stands for the inauguration of an en-
tirclv new system. Thcrcisno reform
about it. It's noQucstion of building
a new Jail out of the old one and using
the old Jail until we get the new one
built. There is no material I'm the
competitive system which we need to
incorporate into the cooperative. In
some cases we may need to get the
old hulks out of the way to make
room for the new, and to such ! cheer
fully apply the torch of reason
and common sense. In many other
instances the ground is new and I'M
broken. We have only to build up
Out upon REFORM Is the present dish
so savory and nutritious that we can
thrive upon a warmed over mess
of it. |, for one, am sick of economic
hash the ingredients Of which are in
Justice and fraud lust tell them
that You saw me" and that wasn't
squawking for re-alignment of forces
on the same old wormv propositions.
am sick of political chestnuts Give
me something fresh.