The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1864-09-17
TIE TRIBUNE" AND TIMES" ON
LABOR AND ITS FRIENDS.

cause of its Copperhea3 brother the Times, and
out-bids the Timss in its venom, SANDER, and
shameful abuse OF Labor and its friends. The
Tribune fairly bowls with rage. Some of its
lords and masters Of the Capital clase have
stirred them up with "long pole" and, like
goaded hyena, they fairly yell with fury.
And this is only the beginning. The will
howl still loud They will Islander still more
founy, and lie still more brazenly AMI wickedly,
at every step of our progress. The Tribune
MUST howl Its patrons and keepers win make
il howl The Times has not even this excuse
Its former friends are largely panied at its
course. The movement Of the Times is purely
personal and malicious one. It's editor was
once a poor printer himself, and by gouging,
grinding and good luck, has become rich He
now turns his back in purse-proud contempt on
the very class from which he sprung Dressed
with rufied-bosom shirt and lordly broad cloth,
and sitting in gloomy grandeur" amid the
solitude Of his own desolation, be turns IN
his ineffably lordy nose at all that reminds
him that he was once a greasy mechanic"
himself. Il is always so. The ydrrenu cod
fish aristocrat is always the bitterest upon
labor-a dissenter always most venomous We
think the iitor of the Times has been misrep-
resented. We think he is right in saying that
he cares nothing about breaking up the
Printers Union, except so far as il affects HIN
Sublime sefshneSs. Oh certainly not If
he can only have around him poor helpless
sneaks who sell their honor and manhood at
his bidding, il viii just silt his imperial will
What cares he for others SO long as greasy
Labor does not come between the wind and the
nose Of his nobility!
The Tribune exhausts its Billingsgate against
Messrs. McCoraas, HaIlit' and Schlsger. Can
any body tell why. Other speakers said the
same things and endorsed the same ideas. We
wonder if the TrI5uns thinks Laboring men do
not understand that a man never curses a shoe
most consistently and continuously stood by
Labor-therefore they are attacked. They let
the others of, under the hope that these " roar
ings of the Bull of Bashan would scare them
from any farther attempt They tried to scare
our true, tried and patriotic friend Hazlitt in
the same way; but they sadly missed their
van lie is made Of "sterner stuff
The Tribune demands to be let alone. Let
every body mind their own business. Oh!
oh oh! Such 8 meless impudence The
Tribune, which lone little else except TO
misrepresc It our movements, Witty our speak
ers and lie lost shamefully about our proceed
ings-wheh absolutely charged our very first
mass meeting, composed Of the most respectable
Workingmen, az being made up in the great
body of pick pockets, thieves, gamblers and
shoulder-hitters- nd which has prosecuted US
1t every step since. now turns round and bawls
out to be let alone - Oh you hypocritical,
unprineipled and lying sheet, how dare you
blister your lips with the lying declaration that
you are the friend Of the Labor cause?
The Tribune in its rage. has no line 70
argue, but republishes extracts from an old
stolen lecture full Of false doctrine las shall
show when have more time, professed te
be written by one Of its editors. But while it
cam, argue il has its old unfailing source Of
lying and the Niger" When it can do
nothing else il can bleat about ''slave-driyers.
Alas gentlemen % of the Tribune, your old
demagogueical cry il worn out We are no
longer going TO permit you to make dupes of
us by your false statements and past hypocr
ical catch-words, nor mislead us from protect
ing our own interests and rights have
already made yourselves rich b. lg about
the negro, for whom Won coz ed not hg. You
have also got one editor in the fat Office Of
Postmaster, another retired with fortune,
while third is running for Lieutenant Gov
ernor. You have got just enough t. satisfy any
decent set Of men out Of this negro business,
and we don't mean to be taxed to death, nor
starved to death, nor to BE. further ridden,
booted and spurred 10 our own ruin by this
senseless cry about the niger. This is white
mans question Our brave soldiers in the field
are taking good care of the " slave owners and
slave drivers" To them we leave them. We
are not on the negro slave Of the South just
noW. That game is up. We are just at this
present writing on a more import ant subject.
We are determined to prevent wholly un-
scrupulous set of scoundrelly and hypocritical
politicians and purse-prOud, moneyed aristOcrats
from hv;noinO want and slavery to tn doors