LIBRARY

OF THE

GNTY OF ILLINOI

INDUSTRIAL DESPOTISM, SHREWDLY CALLED FREEDOM. (Illustrating the Wage-Earner's "Freedom of Contract.")

BY

GEORGE R. KIRKPATRICK

"The cannon's prey has begun to think, and, thinking twice, loses
its admiration for being made a target."-Victor Hugo.

"A nod from a lord is a breakfast-for a fool."-Proverb.
"The poor souls for whom this hungry war opens its vast
jaws."-William Shakespeare.

First Edition, August, 1910.

Seventh Edition, Fiftieth Thousand, June, 1912.

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR,

WEST LA FAYETTE, OHIO

COPYRIGHTED, 1910,

BY

GEORGE R. KIRKPATRICK.

All rights reserved,

including that of translation into foreign languages.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT ON PAGE 350.

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By the same author:

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'HIS book is dedicated to the victims of the civil war

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in industry; that is, to my brothers and sisters of

the working class, the class who furnish the blood and tears and cripples and corpses in all wars-yet win no victories for their own class.

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