Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-06-24
SOME OF DEBS' EPIGRAMS.

St. Adams, Vt. p. f. H.
SOME Of DEBS' EPIGRAMS.
81 would rather be right with the
minority than wrong with the major
ity."
Excessive wealth is as demoralizing
as extreme poverty
"The present day rule of business is
might against right-cunning against
conscience"
character should count for more
than cash"
"Under present conditions it dosn't
pay to work. 1t pays better to- work
those who do"
Beneath a ragged coat may be
noble soul"
"Selfishness is moral suicide
"John Browns is aptly called the per-
cussion cap of the civil war"
1.-THE demagogues ofthe past are the
demi-gods of the present. 4"
"Many man who is poor in money
is rich in principle
Under the capitalist system thou
sands of working men have been re-
duced to walking hunger pangs,"
I'VE are told that every citizen has
an opportunity to be president; but
thousands of them would swap their
chance for square meal.
"a mortgage works "a hours every
dav, and never suffers from Indigestion
or lack of appetite"
"The competitive struggle has often
been called the survival of the fttest.
1t is more often the survival of the
slickest."
eff the arm of corporate greed could
reach Old Sol there would be meter
on every sunbeam"
Nothing is clearer than that all the
commodities required in daily lite are
now in the grasp oftrusts. This means
that, industrially, the people depend
ent on the trusts are slaves. They can
only get what the trusts decide they
shall have. They must pay the price
set bv the trust They must work for
the wages and during the hours i'm
posed bv the trust. All liberty is as
good as gone-there is no freedom of
market left And as the trusts are
established by law, it follows that
these trusts can poison the springs OF
legislat they do. We have
democracy, but it is a complete econ
omic monopoly, all the forms ofliberty,
but liberty itself dead. The next whirl
will involve the collapse OF the whole
machine Pueblo Courier
The Russian governments reported
bv English newspapers to have made
an important change in the Mosaic
law. The fifth commandments made
to read: Honor your father and
mother, your ruler and his officials,
that thy DAYS be long in the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee. -
Teachers are required to see to it that
no other form is used The starving
peasants have no special reason to
wish for long days in their God-given
land under present conditions, which
are truly notwithstanding. Honor the
Gar and his officials while the people
starve.-Soc1al Democratic Herald.
A democrat writes to say that il the
governor of Missouri approves street
railway monopoly bill passed by the
legislature, the State will go republican
next year. But that won't help the
State a particle. What an absurd
thing for State to do because demo-
Gratis approve monopoly.
Social Democratic Herald.
Money in New York City rose to l6
per cent on call one week ago last
Wednesday. 1t was caused by the
withdrawal OF $S,000,000 from the
banks to pay for the American Smelt-
ing Co.'S, subscription stock. The
country barely escaped financial
panic Jeflersonian.
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Government should be a servant OF
the people, to do its sovereign will; 1t
should not be an overseer to keep in
subsection the servile slaves ofthe rich
plutocrat and to assist and further
the aims of the schcming politician
and robbing money king. People S
Press.
1t takes brains and backbone to
think and work against the stream