Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-05-27

ism and then disappeared, SO capital
ism is now developing socialism, and
when the new social system has been
completely evolved the last vestige of
capitalism will fade into history.
The gigantic trusts mark the
change in production. 1t is no long
er competitive but cooperative. The
same mode of distribution, which
must inevitably follow, will complete
the process. Cooperative labor will
be the basis of the new social svs
tenn and this will be done for use and
not for profit
Labor will no longer be bought and
sold. Industrial slavery will cease,
for every man there will be the equal
right to work with every other man
and each shall receive the fruit of his
labor. Then we shall have economic
equality. Involuntary idleness will
be horror OF the past. Poverty will
relax its grasp. The army of tramps
will be disbanded because the prolific
womb which now warns these I'M
fortunates into life will become bar
rem. Prisons will be depopulated and
the prison labor problem will be sol
we'd. Each labor saving machine will
Tighten the burden and decrease the
hours of toll. The soul will no longer
be subordinated to the stomach
Man will live a complete life, and the
march will then begin to an ideal civ
illzation.
There is a proverb which the Latin
race sent ringing down the centuries
which reads "omnia vincit amor
or Glove conqueres all things" Love
and labor in alliance, working togeth-
er,have Transforming, redeening and
emancipating power. Under this be-
nign sway the world can be made bet
ter or brighter.
Isaiah saw in prophetic vision a
time when the nations should war no
more-when swords should be trans
formed into plowshares and spears
into pruning hooks. The fulfllment
of the prophecy only awaits the era
when love and labor, in holy alliance,
shall solve the economic problem
Here on this occasion, in this great
metropolis with it's thousand spires
pointing heavenward, where opulence
riots in luxury which challenges by
perbole, and poverty rots in sweat
shops which only Shakespear or a
Victor Hugo could describe, and trans
fer to canvass would palsy the hand
of Michael Angelo-here where wealth
and want and woe bear irrefutable
testimony of deplorable conditions,
the wrongs perpetrated upon Les Mis-
CRADLES, and pleading as best | can for
higher civilization.
The army of begging Lazaruses,
with the dogs licking their sores at
the gates of palaces, where the rich
are clothed III purple and fine linen
with their tables grooming beneath
the luxuries of all chimes, make the
palaces on the highland where fashion
holds sway n music lends its charms,
a picture in the landscape which, in
illustrating disparity, brings into
bolder relief the hut and the hovel in
the hollow where want, CANT and
haggard, sits at the door and where
light and plenty cheerfulness and
hope are forever eXiled by the despot-
ic degree of conditions as cruel as
when the Gar of Russia orders to his
penal mines in Siberia the hapless
subject who dare whisper the sacred
word liberty; as cruel as when this
boosted land of freedom commands
that a far-away innocent people
shall be shot down in Jungle and
lagoon, in their bamboo huts because
they dream freedom and independence
These conditions are as fruitful of
danger to the opulent as they are of
degradation to the poor. It's neither
folly nor fanaticism to assert that the
country cannot exist under such con-
ditions, The higher law of righteous
ness, of love and labor will pervail.
1t is a law which cOmmends itself
to reasoning men a primal law en-
acted long before Jehovah wrote the
decalogue amidst the thunders and
lightnings of Sinai. 1t is law written
upon the tablets Of every mans heart
and conscience. 1t IS law infinitely
above the creeds and doPmas and
tangled disquisitions of the church
es-the one law which in its oper-
ations will level humanity upward
until men redeemed from greed and
every debasing ambition, shall obey
its mandates and glory in its tri-
umph.
Love an labor will give us the eco
nomic-Industria Democracy-the
equal rights Of all men and women,
and the emancipation Of all from the
vicious thraldoms OF the centuries.
Don't blame Il, ckeleller. You would
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