The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-06-29
WORCESTER:
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 90, 1881.

" 'ne "oIklngnens party" and of GU
making an indirect and unprovoked attael
upon the Workingmen." Now we pra1
, our readers, again to turn to the article il
the Spy OF the 9Th inst; which has ELECTED
lhis TRADE from the Plebeian, and see i
tney can, by any possibility, discover augh
thereln, which looks like an attack, eitbe,
dlrect or indirect, upon the working men
IL they can, we wiki give them credit for op
Tics, whose ksenness is eoualIed only Inv
those OF the Editors of the Plebeian. And
as 10 illusions to the Workingmen's Par.
w, we may answer that we know CT nc
such party. Il is libel upon the WORKING
men 10 call them a party. They are too
numerous, and compose by far too great q
portion OF the population, to be DESIGNATED
by such name. There can be no nnrtv
without an opposing party; and if the few
IN our community, who are not working
h-en, should attempt TO organize an opposi
ton to them, they would form a faction. too
contemplate In numbers, TO require any par
y organization to put them down. Besides,
IL is ridiculous to talk about "the Working
mems party" when it is a notorious fact.
shat, SO lar from their forming a party, thew
are, themselves, divided into opposing par-
! ties. Let any man look round in his own
, neighborhood and see if such is not the fast.
Let hlrn take any considerable number of
working men, and he will find them, differ
ing IN spnIon on every political question
which agltates and divides the community.
There has, indeed, been much said and
written about "the Workingmen's party"
but 1t has generally been by the most idle
portion of the community, by those who are
too lazy to do any thing, or by those delicate
bodies who would perspire at every pore at
the idea of dissrranging their dress or soil
ing their pretty fingers by manual labor
These are they, who talk about working
men" and the workingmen's party"
These are the men, who, in the very spirit
OF demagogism, seek, through the cabals-
tic influence of name, to become leaders
OF new party, and thereby to acquire a
standing to which neither their talents nor
their services entitle them.-a standing
which they never could hope to attain by
any other means. 1t is such men who have.
! all OF sudden, discovered that the working
men have been imposing upon themselves
Tor the last half century, and have been
electlng, by tremendous majorites, their
own worst enemies to Office. 1t is such
men, who, to reduce the nominal amount of
our, State expenditures, would have them
paid as they are in other States, and there
by increase the burdens of the mechanical
and agricultural classes of the community,
while they diminish those of the commer-
cal and more wealthy portions, who reside
IN the cities and large towns, aud are best
able to bear them.
The Plebeian speaks of the Spy as the
ofnclal organ of aristocracy in Worces-
ter County" We have been too long ac
customed to this kind of slang from those
who find the Spy in their way, and who
hope to build themselves up, only by pulling
US down, to pay much regard to it. For
once, however, we may be excused for de-
parting from eur usual practice of treating
such things with silent contempt. for the
purpose OF examining the ground on which
the present accusation rests. Ifthe Editors
OF the Plebeian, by the aristocracy. mean
those, whose wealth or peculiar situation in
lite gives them disproportonate influence,
then are they altogether wrong. Do they
include the officers of the General Govern
ment! We are placed under the ban bv
them, and net even a Post Master dares. un-
der the fear of losing his office, TO publish
his list OF letters in the Spy, how much so
ever more he may believe the public good
to be thus consulted, than by publishing it
IN another paper. Do they refer to the
prominent men in our State Government or
their friends? Another paper is, and long
has been, the reel pent of their patronage,
and the organ of their communications with
the public, if any such they have. Their
communications have not enriched OR col
omns, nor their patronage our purse, any
farther than tho Nv. al.
OF the amount annually charged them as
subscribers for the paper. Their patron
age ny way OF advertising and jobs of print
ing, have chiefly taken another direction.
10 they refer to the professional men of the
county, 1t is fact, that, from the first con-
nectIon of the present Editor with the Spy,
uhwearied efforts have been made, among
the professional men, to build up rival es-
adjustment, and to direct the public pat
ronage from this paper to that. So far, has
this been carried into operation, that impor-
taht legal notices, affecting tho interests of
the inhabitants of towns where the Spy was
extensively circulated, have been diverted
from its columns and published in those of
a paper, the name of which was hardly
known IN the towns which were interested,
and which had not three subscribers within
their limits. So far has this feeling operat-
ed, that one of the Editors of the Plebean,
himself, was, some two or three years since,
IN the practice of recommending that other
paper as preferable to the Spy, as medi-
um OF advertising, when, if he had informed
himself on the subject, he would have found
that the subscription list of the Spy was
more than three times as large as that of
the paper he recommended,
When, therefore, the Editors of the Pie
ban speak of the Spy as the "organ of
aristocfncy in Worcester County," they
make an imputatien which has no basis to
rest upon. And when they couple this
with with charge against us OF attacking
the worklngmen, it comes with an i'll grace
from them. If we ever should make such
an attack, they are not the men TO call US
to an account for it. That is something to
which our relative situations do not entitle
them. For great portion of the life ofthe
editor of this paper, he has toiled with his
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