Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-06-10
CAN 1T BE so?
Brother Editor:
Napavine, Wash.

Brother Editor:
president Mckinley is conscientious,
Christian gentleman" said Mr.. Willery in
the latest number of Industrial Freedom.
The editor of the paper states that he is con-
WINGED that the president is not entitled to
this commentator. Well, for myself, do
not here commit myself to either side of the
contention; the quarrel is very pretty one,
and all "have reason as the French say
But it strikes me that it does not matter in
the least what the president is; what he does,
is the essential thing. Granted that he is
both christian and conscientious" Spain
is both christian and conscientious but it
would be very hard for us to get the Cubans
to admit that that nation which so brutally
MANNED and butchered and tortured them,
''for srevenue only" can be held up for
admiration or defence, be Spain never so
''Christian and conscientious That mob
that burnt the poor wretch in Georgia not
long ago. with such a fendish exhibition of
malice and revenge, was no doubt highly
'Christian" and profoundly conscientious"
The slave owner and the slave beaten of
quite recent American civilization, was also
in very many cases a Christian with con-
science. The distinguished general that pen
ned up in the "black hole at Wardner some
four hundred of his brother men, is surely
another Christian with conscience, and may
safely appeal to the president and the pow
ers that rule our present Christian 'civilza-
ton to uphold and commend that "Christian
and conscientious protection of the divine
rights of property. So, too, with George Ill,
and Bloody Mary and bloodier Elizabeth,
and our later worthless, Cecil Rhodes, Pull
man, Prick, and the whole tribe Of those who
have, by ''man's inhumanity to man." made
countless millions mourn-they are all
'Christian and conscientious" gentlemen
and ladies, and any editor that is so base as
to traduce one of these magnificent products
of that Christian civilization whose funda-
mental principle is the survival of the fit
test, should have immediate notice served
upon him that Mr. Willery "wishes his paper
discontinued as soon has his subscription has
expired" conscience, and 9 Christianity,
what crimes are committed and condoned in
your name.
Let us grant that all these personages may
be styled, indeed, Christian and conscen-
tious, and let us thank that spirit within us
that is working for righteousness, that the
day of such conscience and such Christiani-
ty shall not endure forever. Socialism is a
gospel of higher conscience and nobler
Christianity: were it not, who should strive
and pray and yearn for its coming Social
ism is a civilization far higher and purer
than any civilization that has been produced
by the Christian conscience of any nation: it
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more than money, human life more than pri-
waite property human need more sacred than
human greed. 1t transcends infinitely, in
justice, equality. fraternity, humanity, all
the civilizations that have been or can be
produced by the present most Christian and
conscientious rulers and monarchs and bosses
and statemen and parliaments and congresses
and legislatures. Socialism has for its ideal
and justification an industrial society of the
whole nation AYE of the whole world in
which not nearly every man, but every man
shall have work and Il livelihood and life.
instead OF toll and want and mere existence
1t is absolutely certain that Comrade Willie
ry can never have seen the real light of the
coming day, or he would hasten forward with
out stopping to pat upon the back that highly
'0nllStlan ana CONSCIENTIOUS CuleI cNGcu-
tive of our nation in the closing years of this
century which, in comparison with the true
light and the glorious splendor of the century
of socialism the twentieth century, will be-
indeed as "darll as Brebus."
We must hasten. says Mayor Jones, in his
admirable gospel of "'The New Right we
must hasten the coming of the day of coope
ration by proclaiming the gospel of brother
hood. Now in procaiming that gospel, we
cannot and VIC must not hesitate to b and as
reactionary, as outworn, as inferior, as
blame worthy all such christian and consci-
entious' competition and warfare and penal
retaliation as are produced as the natural Off
spring OF the present lower civilization
e zen when land especially when these results
of fratricidal competition eliminate In the
administrative acts OF our chief magistrate,
and are exemplided in the "Chri-tian and
conscientious" ignorance of the presdento of
the United States of America and Asia
Yours for higher conscience and nobler
Christianity,
Wan. MCDNIrr.
Olympia, Wash, May 10, 90
Gov Lee of South Dakota voices the
sentiment of the truly patriotic people
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