The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-08-15

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Another point which may Be infsrrsd FROM
Mr.. Birnsy's hitter, d this "that L u not
wise TO AK for all you want. TO this IL
may be answered, that Garrison did 30 in
the case 81 .sbiack slavery" and succeeded.
If ma mean 70 overthrow 1money -alaxeEy,2
We must follow his example. But II took
thirty years 10 effect the change. Yss he
had 10 deal With an inert mass that could
not cid him In bis reform. We, on the con-
srary. need % guides, being an active and
educated people, armed With political, intel.
IsctuaI, moral and physical power, to eject
what changes we will
Neither can We sympathize with Jndge
Birney when be complains that In all re-
forms s4the material rewards fall to the neo-
pbytes or eleven hour saints" He who
serves this cause, which Il the cause OF man,
for fameor pelf, win obtain oil be deserves,
when he gets nothing. " he wants the
flesh pots Of Egypt let him 60 to Egypt and
get them. He is no reformrr, he has mis-
taken his vocation. The Frrlorn Hope, who
now undertake to head the people in their
attack upon the fortress Of mammon. can
hardly look for better fate than to leave
their bodies ia the ditch. And should a
leader be chosen ia this crisis, depend upon
II he would not yet be hailed as a conquerer
but cnreed az q malefactor.
As Judge Birney disapproves Of the indie
pendent position Of those who proffered him
the nomination, it is proper here to glance
at the two platforms and see whether they
are fitted to bear the weight OF man. There
were two questions on which the Republi-
can doctors disagreed, let us see how Plan
Ghetto solved them The irst was dispute
as to the letter and spirit OF the law with
regard to the payment Of the hve-twenty
bonds. The answer was 9 pay them accord
ing to the letter and spirit Of the law" This
is like the answer Jack Falstaff gave to
Simple when he personated the Wise Woman
of Brentford
Clmplc-il yVu ptcuoC9 AaAouAY Wy A1osNt
wishes to know II it be his fortune to have
Mistress Anne Page--or NOT
Falstaff-Tell him, ii is his fortune to
have her--Cr no
The o.her point was the value OF United
States Citizenship in the case of the negro.
In settling this, the orac'5 declares it to be
diplomatic coat which must be worn in
Carolina and broken off in Ohio, Mississip pi
u a. n -. -
ticut. As to the Democratic platform on
the same subject, it IS broad enough to hold
the fire-eaters Of the South and the sboli-
florists Of the North, for It only objects to
what no sensible man ever claimed, viz
Negro supremacy" Seymour and gold
payments for the East, Blair and paper
money for the West. The latter tells US
that the present reconstruction must be an
initiated, the former, that the President
can't perform thai operation.
But these parties are not without their ex-
cellencies The Democrats by resolution,
sympathize with working men," the Re
pub,icans, in their platform, sympathize
with all creation. of the two " sympsthies"
the Democratic Is the best II is more def
mite. The other is faulty, because working
N en- do not sympathize with the lazy portion
of creation. The parties both stand over
bleeding labor, like the crowd round the
wounded hod-earrier who had fallen from a
scaffold. Poor fellow says one How |
pity him signs another But neither party
practically recognizes Labor, as the little
Fren Gilman did the hod-carrier, by stepping
up briskly and saying" my good friend,
Pm sorry, one dollare" Neither the Re-
publican nor Democratic party in any way
congratulates US on the passage Of the Eight
Hour Law, or recognizes its expediency and
excellence.
Had either party practi cally acknowledged
our flag we are willing TO acmit it would
have merited our support. But neither has.
Under these circumstances what is left for
as but to look out for some good men who
are willing to fight, and, Il necessary, suffer
for the truth. There are such men. And
there are some Josephs of Arimathea too,
who love justice better than gold. There
were some such, we know, in the year 80
and it were sin 10 doubt but that we shall
End some Of their descendants in the year
1865.
R. w. HUME.