The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-07-28

Cmc.eo, July 18th, 1866.

To the ..ditor Of the WOREISGHAss ADVOCATE.
S,h, Labo, Is the ALL sustaining quality
Of the civilized world without il the nations
OF the earth would Lc irretrievably bank
rupt In very short time famine would
go broadcast throughout the land, and yet
the laborer il the man who gets less VI the
Iartries, less Of the cam forts, and even less
Of the ner&s.sries of life, than any other class
Of mankind and although all other classes
live from the earnings Of the laborer, yet the
laborer gets the least Of everything but
labor Of this he shall have the full amount
OF ten hours il day. Why is thist Be
cause the worki ,gmen have net the time to
devote to the study Of governing, and oil
course are Obliged to- allow those to govern
who have not time toI labor, because it take,
them all the tifne - coh.uye to get tht
money earned BY the laborers. 1t is easy
enough to see mhat the difficulty is, but moi
so easy to I'd, edy it. To remedy an evi
we must first know the cause # that evil
What then is ts1ea;. cause that the man wh'
labOrs cannot get iOll Rpay for his work an'
but a reasonable timefs Because, if he stoI
to learn the rule byA which to accomplish
this he will starve himself snoa all others, q
the time required would be TOO long %
admit of eompIrting his education without
producing this unhappy result. Hence, the
party must rule who does net labor, as the
laborer has not the time to educate himself
for that purpose.
What then can be done? Send men to
legislate who will give the laboring man the
best chance Of any one Of the non producers,
and BY this improvement the lebcrer will
have u better chance. If, for instance, he
reduce the days work to eight hours, he
would then have two hours more each day,
and 3I3 days would give 624 hours, ~ more
ih4.., one iull month each year. 4.an
This month would give the workingmsn
| two hours each day, ia which he ooalI read
all the news and have half an hour TO con-
fer with his co-laborer, which would do muct
towards rendering the laborer as wise as his
neighbor, and give him much better judg-
ment in political matters, even after the
first year This is only one of she means
to be used to render the workingman as
capable for legislation as his neighbor, the
trained politician. Let this rule alone be
pursued, and in Is years twothirds the
legislators Of this country win be laboring
men. 5.'f aA
| We would here state one other plan which
would be likely to accomplish much. The
laboring nen are not As we have already
seen the rich men they are poor because
they get less pay. Suppose then they begin
now, and each one buys the house heliyes IN
rather than. pay rent. When be has paid
the amount Of his usual rent, for five years.
the house (nipe cases ip ten) is paid for ;
meantime, he will take especial care to do
many things to- improve its value, and, the
increase Of the value Of the property wlA
double in less than five years add TO these
advantages the fact that any man can save a
little more Of his earnings if be will, and
with this little he can pay little more than
his rent would be, and 10 ten years from II IS
DAY, every worklngman wh5 now rents o
house may own his house, and have few
hundred dollars over, with which to add 70
his importance. We would here remark
that the character which wealth gives, u
leyen the werkingmen, is envssA - Aisius,
them to try and accumulate what they Cal
land To save a. much as possible Of wha
A FRIEND or LABOR.