Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-01-14

MUSINGS a M055BAGKo
Independent
How1er

ism may be an all right issue, but
"there are Others.
Some of our plutocratic friends are
getting in mighty deep water. They
boast that their feet are on solid
ground, but they neglect to state that
their heads are long way below the
top of the drink.
1.-THE Royal Crown Soap Co" is the
euphonious and attractive title of a
firm across the Canadian border,
patriotism and the incentive to
gain sometimes make queer bedfel-
lows as sure as you are born.
The people are getting tired of trying
to keep their heads above the waves
of prosperity and indifferent as to
whether the "fatted calf is white or
Waller so long as the choice cuts al
WAYS grace the tables of the exploiter
Upon the front of a Tacoma store
is conspicuously displayed the sign,
1--WE Pay No Rent. No one ever sup
posed you did. Jones invariably
paws the rent as well as the freight"
The poor devil actually seems to en-
joy it, too.
We are told that American military
rule in Cuba suits the commercial
classes. That settles it. If anyone is
so verdant as to think there is any
disposition among the powers that
be to bother about the feelings of any
other class it is time they were unde-
ceived.
The Coming Nation has initial let
tiers on its front page which it gravely
announcesare the work of a local ar
fist land they are artistic) and that
they are supposed to represent the
little Ruskinites at play. Jupiter!
They must have an elegant climate in
Tennessee.
An editor asks, when did the bal
lot ever free A people ?" After wait
ing long enough to hide the fact that
it was the editor of Industrial Free
dom, am constrained to exercise my
birthright as a Yankee and answer
it b., asking another, to-wit: When
was a people ever freed?
Municipal or national ownership OF
public utilities for profit is a long cry
from socialism 1t is long way
ahead of private ownership for extor-
ton, but it is not socialism by a
town site. Relief from taxation
through the profits of government
operation of monopolies is of small
avail to the propertyless wage-worker
The field for inventive genius was
never wider than at the present time.
A sedatve that will keep a hungry
man quiet and a lens which will give
notice of a cut III wages the APP
pearance of a life-size Autograph of
Brig-Gen. Prosperity are two wants
which the continuance of Mckinley
prosperity is rendering "long-telt''
If anyone has any doubt of Uncle
Sans ability to expand and to con-
fer the blessings of civilization upon
an alien race they are respectfully re-
ferred to the history of his experience
with "Lo, the poor Indian. The old
gentlemen has civilized the noble
red man out of some Of the finest
land out of doors, and | have four
cents that say his hand has not lost
its cunning:
see strong leanings toward So
cialism among some OF the most val
ued populist exchanges. do not be-
lieve that policy alone dictates their
course, though they are observant
enough to see that that way lies a
goodly list of paid-in-advance sub
scribers. 1t is my opinion principle
beckons them on likewise. 1t would
be strange to see such old warehouses
as Judge Tugwell, Bob Turner and
Charlie Cline worshiping the straight
silver calf with the democratic under
bit in his off ear
1t rather amuses me to see Co
operationists" "as-
"wHAT'sIN sociationists' and
A NAME?" other lists" ring
ing the changes on
all the words which apply TO COM
Mned effort in order to get around
the good old honest terms socialist
fand socialism They think to tuck
I the hostile citizen away in their
municipal ownership trundle bed,
sooth him to slumher with some KIND
of a "Co" cradle hymn and have hum
II waken full hedged socialist. Their
| plan OF campaign seems to be to lure
the unsnspecting victim up the pleas
ant Associative slope and then
IA kho1a b.,,, ,,acl, apd CrQn over the