Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-04-29


- action, for then all the old
party leaders will tumble over
one another for front seat in the
band wagon and the control of the
whip and ribbons.
And now it S glue combine. 1t is
no exaggeration to say the trusts are
sticking to it.
How will it be with us the next
time a European country runs up
against the Monroe Doctrine?
Alger declares he will not resign.
Well, who in Texas wants him to?
Let the rest of the administration
resign.
1t isn't so bad, according to some
of the plutocratic press, to swipe the
product of the poor if you are liberal
in the spending of it.
And now Croker is out for a MUM
cipal gas plant for Greater New York.
We're getting into heightened COM
pany, aren't we fellows?
Two women are held in San Fran
cisco for robbing a man. Thus does
our beautiful system hold out new op-
porttnitics for the fair sex.
EX-U. S. Senator John l.. Wilson is
reported to be afraid of trusts Should
think he would after his experience in
trusting a republican legislature.
dollar dinners and ten-cent dinners
sometimes are remarkably similar
says the versatile Tacoma News para
grapher. Somebody s been telling
him, sure!
The alcalies of the Porto Rican
towns are ordered by L. S. proclama-
ton to reduce Us far as possible the
cost Of the necessaries Of life" Gee
wh:z, how is that for paternalism?
Industrial progress is bringing in
telectusl advance in its train. Those
who first saw the menace of the trust
now see its logical and inevitable con
clusion, viz: universal cooperation
Administration organs continue to
speak Of the presidents foreign pol
lev. A great many people would
like to see it as we'll as hear 50 much
oft. Trot it ont, Me, trot it out.
Japanese 1aborer5 are coming in by
thousands and it is an open secret
that they are brought in in defiance
OF the immigration laws. White Ia
borers will have leisure to ponder On
economic problems.
Some man with a bulging brain is
fearful lest the ships in the Oriental
trade bring more goods here than
they take away. What a calamity
Let us not allow them to bring us a
bloomin' thing.
THE lethargy that has settled down
on Tacoma enterprise for so many
years" is to be thrown off by the
organization of the Tacoma Land
Co. All the hopes of its thousands Of
citizens centercd in one measly corpor-
alton
The cxpansionist not only knows
the workings of the human mind, but
he heap savvys the workings of the
divine will Otherwise how can he
know that the burden of benevolent
assimilation has been laid upon him
by the Almighty.
The Standard Oil Co. having cs-
capped an unpleasant investigation
through the criminal expedient OF
burning its books, its piOus president
has acknowledged his Indebtedness to
the protecting power Of Providence by
putting up a hundred thou, to Il re
ligious college.
Mayor Jones', ofToledo, didn't abide
by the decision of his party convention
worth a cent. lleran on an independ-
ent tickct-and ran like a scared wolf
He was too radical for the machine,
but not a whit too radical for the
people The people are not SO con
servativc as some politicians would
have us believe.
Public ownership along progressive
lines is standard populist doctrine
1t is, too, doctrine behind which a
strong public sentiment is rapidly
crystallizing. If they abandon it to
make a speciality OF some apparently
more popular principle some other
party will reap the benefit of the effeC
tive propaganda they have done
along these lines.
There are many little economies we
can practice which will enable the
benefactors. whose wages tide us over
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