The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1867-09-28

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cetas Wal please remit Immediately to the
treasurer, J. Hlnchchffe, Belleville, Ill, the
amount due from their organisation.
J.C. c. WaALEr,
Pr -. ". L. U.
sITOR ULTRA CREPIDAMI
sst issue we referred to tho state
). eminent divine regarding the
des Unionism, and took occa-
in toto the charges brought
In doing so we claimed
/ had proven itself the cham
pressor-snd failed to take its
upon the Labor Question.
alton has been directed during th g
present week to an article n the Adcance,
4 relicio-sectarian- poiSAcal journal. recsnuT
established in this city. but which aspires
we unasrstard, to the position now occupied
BY . e New York Inaependent Under the
J.. caption q Y The IfoyLfAg Men of the Present
Dag" the writer attempts to prove that the
evils Of which they complain, exist for the
greater part, ID their own Imagination, aud
ihat only the idle and depraved, those who
are to Ley o. vicious to work, find cause
-of complaint Nilh ~ present organization
Of society. Bat as we have no desire to
msrepresent We prefer the writer should
should sneak for himself In his opening
remarks he says :-
several years pas preooneerted and sys-
. effort have been made by demagogues
called friends % American mechanics
ring men, TO cause them TO be dissltis-
siseCnteuted With the position TO which
aeARuley u all has assigned them in
this world. Strikes q ss.sGISsssss gigantic char
acter have been organized and carried on fofa
many months, at a cost of millions Of dollars
and thousands of men have hung about IN idle
ness while themselves and their families lecke ed
bread, or ate that &C charity only to &c to work
at last at the wages offered them al Grst, or in
s0ale cases even less
Now Il that isn't stealing the livery Of
heaven to serve the devil in, what j. ? We
hsTe some respect fer the higbwayman, VINO
revealing his true character, demands Your
money or your life; we have noGe for the
individual who, presuming on the sanctity
Of his Office, prostitutes the functions OF
minister Of the gospel to shield the wrong
doors; who, Anaconda-lke, besInears bis
victim with saliva, by appealing to his reli-
gious prejudices to sustain villainy against
which the vengeance of heaven is assured.
II is this superlative cant and tracking to
Inammon which has brought the modern
church into dis-eputs, and cansed the work
ing classes &c lock VI its teachings with
suspicion and 5istfust. Did the writer sup
pose for moment, that such twaddle would
conviice the wotkingmen of America hat
God designed hey should bow the knee to
the Oppresser, or that it was crime to COM
r bine Tor their mutual protection To ascribe
such intention is the rankest blaspbemy,
and the ynsn who indulges in 1t is az arrant
knave.
ng class Of periodicals, (Of which the
promises 10 be one which seldom
meet question on It's merits, there
rer failing expression, which affords
when ar other remcdies have failed
cry -demagogue This is considered
10 he an unanswerable argument. Now, we
FnA'NtA HhO ~ hAOWt WuO 10 Vic 0clu6kOkue
in This instance, the man who denounces
the wrong and charges the crime to its
authorize devil, Of the man who sanctions
It under the plea, that to do otherwise ould
be g to be dissatisfied With the position to
which the Supreme Ruler had assigned them
= in this world" Such we insist were not
the teachings u Christ and such, without
irFeyerance, are not the teachings Of reason
and common sense.
There is no mistaking Lae aim Of the
quotation. That it is inten, ed as a blow At
Trades Unions is self-evident. The dis
content" alluded to doubtless refers to the
demands Of he working classes 90 both
sides Of the Atlantic, TO reap some OF the
advantages which their own skin and In
telligence bave conferred on their employess,i
and is but relash Of the charges ruhg out
by the secular press. We should like 10
kE"w from Nbich source the writer derived
a--ssls- aathes. y Gar stating that abe supreme
ruler intended thrs tAese who ',crsaia The
wesihF q tie world, should live in obscurity
poverty, while the drones Of society.
reveI in luxury from the proceeds of others
toll This certainly 10 Calysnism with
vengeance, though We are afraid Il viii fall
stisl born % the minds OF those to whom II |
is addressed. While on this subject We /
:, would ask the editor Of this pseudo religious /
sheet, IL in all bis experiences he ever knew
minister Of the gospel who saw the finger |
of God in the call from a.ywSalthy to
poverty STRICKEN esaFeh, 0sswho thought he
was dissatisfied with tAs position % which
the supreme ruler had assigned him when
the inducement to the call contslned an
advance cst VI, Door 3s
;. If miAisters, instead Of being the lick
spiftles and apologists Of wrongdoers, and
dabbling in the politics Of the day, would
emulate tho example Of the master they
profess to serve, and denounce sin in HIGH
Places lknow no disancsion between tho /