Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-06-10
The Good He Might Do.
Very sincerely yours,
Massachusetts. Helen M. Brayton.

HS OOOu IlS M1SHC 10.
was surprised in picking up late copy
OF Industrial Freedom to sec an article from
aspeech of Robert G. Ingersoll on socialism
What is going to happen? Can it be possible
that this big-hearted apostle of agnosticism
who has spent half his life in Staying myth
cal ogres of superstition and freeing the
minds OF men from the blighting curse of
gods and devils has at last discovered that
the human race has other foes as fierce and
destructive to life add liberty as those VINO
inhabit unknown regions in the realms of
space.
Has he at last arrived at point of con-
seriousness which tells him that his fellow
man needs a tonic for the stomach as we'll as
the brain? 1t seems to have required a great
many years for this great advocate of mental
freedom to make this important discovery.
There was time when | thought Robert
G. Ingersoll a god in human form, and that
some day in the future he would occupy the
presidential chair of this nation. but alas,
after reading his numerous gems" of truth
and wisdom for several years, and bordering
deeply over his many virtues, till l really be-
lieved a second Daniel had come to Judgment,
imagine my surprise and humiliation when
one Cay | picked up a little book on the
money question written by SOMEBODY don't
recolect now by whom which contained nu
merous extracts from speeches of this cham
pion of human rights, and discovered to my
chagrin and disappointment that he was
boiled down, died in-the-wool gold-bug. Jer-
usalem fell! 1t was bitter pill to swallow,
but | "downed it," and from that day dropped
this arch-angel of fraud as | would poison
adder. | learned for a truth that 'all that
glitters is not gold" No more did the sill
very notes of his soul-inspiring melodies
charm my dull ears and leaden senses. All
mastery logic and wisdom on that old sub.
iect-so dear to the human heart liberty"
seemed to be glittering generalities, and con-
ventional platitudes reiterated to deceive
and enslave mankind.
1t was hard to believe that a man who had
achieved such an enviable reputation for wis
dom and veracity could repudiate the great
trust and confidence reposed in him ty the
common people, by pulling the wool over
their weak eyes on so important a subject as
the worship of gold-the worst and most ty-
rannical of all the false gods that have ruled
man in the past-thereby proving himself
willing tool of plutocracy, in securing votes
for the. perpetuaton of the republican party
THE sworn enemy of industrial progress and
the Guardian of canitalism in this western
half of Rothchild's KINGDOM. Sucb Is the
mower Of creed, such. also. Is consistency
of liberalism in worshippinr an Idol who
holds instiee in one hand and its twin on
nreqsion. in the other.
II is one of the .icns Of the timesr whom
such mon come forward of thoir own accord
and a,nbroce the doctrines Of socialism
straw which tolls which wav the wind of fota
Is blovinc II will now he in order f p
Snsol,or r. .al and Chann.,v Deney to cop,e
fo,tb and make tbeil. how to socialism. If is
indood encouraoino to know that these shin
lino liohts of plutocracy are at last advoca-
ting government o yncrship of public mo-
ponolies Gnrnrises meyer come sinole those