Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-03-25


Ia eking out precarious living
on dying POLITICAL principles
and foreign ads will miss their pat
ronage muchly.
Ignore politics, if you WILL and then
ust watch and see how politics will
not ignore you.
The reason there are so many alb
kurd arguments against socialism is
because those who understand social
ism are not arguing against it, unless
for money.
Say you, with the lone suspendcr
and the frayed overalls any dividing
No" would be hard on you, wouldn't
It, When you divide the profits with
YOUR exploiter few more times you'll
be all right.
Do you ever see a Standard Oil Co.
ad? | reckon not. You can buy its
~il-or sit III the dark. Do you get
The benefits of these savings? Not on
|yoar tin type. John D. attends to
shat, as is etninently right and proper.
"a good government and a suffer
mo world are contradiction, is the
subject announced by Rev. Alfred w.
Thompson of Tacoma. would like
Ito hear that sermon to see which fac
|tor he was going to eliminate to get
around the contradiction.
No, sonny, don't believe trusts are
Increasing. When two or three trusts
eombine into one the number decreas-
es. But the business OF trusts is in
treasing Capital, large capital, has
practically ceased to compete. If la
Dor does not take the hint it can help
tself to the kick.
How are YOU coming on partner?
Are you getting any nearer your mod
tst ambition of a competency now
md q sure provision for your old age?
ls it not true that every time YOU let
10 to spit on your hands for q fresh
hold that some chance slips through
hour fingers? You better think a
Thought or two.
Do you think it is Just the proper
thing fer person to live from child
hood to old age without doing a
stroke Of useful work, living II luxr-
sious idlencss upon the interest of the
denominations of some ancestor? If
the scheme carried out to its extreme
is wholly wrong, any tendency tow
ards it is wrong.
1t is getting fashionable to denource
trusts, and it is n poor newspaper
man who does not get TIP and take
1.-TWO or three falls out Of the trusts be-
fore breakfast Well | never cared to
b. in fashion. have been telling you
competition was a back number, ard
every new trust is an object lesson i'll
proof of the fact. It's coming, fellows,
surely coming.
Here is yopr Simon-pnre trust, gen
3tlemenl 1t is capitalized at $3.50
Dos, 1856, and is to handle the antha-
cite coal business. 1t is estimated
that 81, 100000 will he saved i'll OPP
Grating expenses. OF course they
won't raise prices just because they
/ have 4 chance. They never do. The
4 fact that this money will 20 into the
. pockets Of a few who do 40 work in
stead Of a large number who did use
less labor is a point in economies not
/ to be overlooked. Some of Mckin-
! ley's Jobs that are hustling after men
| will pick them up / don't think.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are
counting tics.
Some little feeling has developed in
the business VS., love argument
which was started BY an iuadverteut
paragraph Of mine a few weeks ago.
| Some Of the most af'ectionate advo-
Gates OF the sentiment side have
caused good II. S. postage stamps to
be cancelled that | might be advised
of their opinion that / was a dead
match for Balaam's travelling COM
panion and no less an authority than
the Co-operator refers to my super
fetal knowledge" which is the most
unparliamenrary method OF calling a
man q blanked fool have yet encoun-
tered would be ungratetul not to
acknowlede hc numerous letters Of
cOmmendarn for which am as tru-
~ thanked as for the helpful glimpses
OF my d, raj, mental and physical lr-
worth ne editor has given 1t out
cold 81 the controvefS IS about
esldcd nud I have found hlm q trae
proplN "A such matte Brt | "if
ritg paragraph mo-" and then IN
SOL 81 Is vigilance acugh he cru
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