The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-10-10

81 165lSa W. 3 oss ~ rseslvsd.
nr. Hins. Of Ohio, then presented Che
following
npcusrr azrons.
Mr.. Rpzus.-xs - Y ne 0ennissss
on Platform I'D not hrlnf ohls 66Slnlly con.
cur In IN Fsport of ~ uajority, I beg
leave to sutnit : minosify report:
Having been born nnd nnrtured - the
great cause of libsrty, equality, and fFater-
nifty; having devoted twenty live years Of
residing and thinking on she philosophy Of
human progress, and having given ten Of
the best year. Of my life . the propagation
.ofthoss doctrines which Have believed and
still believe are not only true, but would, II
acted upon by our governments aud people.
IN time make this world universally
working world, and universally oonfsrtA-
bic world, with no one condemned to seryile
toll, absolute dependency, shameful degrA-
dation, and an enforced misery, hope for
q respectful hearing.
Mr.. President, on meeting the committee
found one question npon which it vas i'm
possible for me TO CONCUR with the majority
but was glad to find on almost every thing
else there was = perfect acc ,rd, though
was compelled To diff ' i'm the majority NJ
to the expectancy OF now striking in the
behalf ola certain measure, and also, ~ 10
the mode Of attaining certain great results.
As to the wrongs to be remedied, and the
high objects to be attained, there il no dis
agreement; and | sm happy to concur with
the Committee il the following:
l. That all property is the product Of
labor, that all people saould labor, and con-
sequeptly that all people should have al
things 10 proportion to the labor performed,
the skill employed, and the prudence OK.
creased.
z That the national banking system is an
exclusive engine Of capital, and should be
abolished.
8 That the United States should furnish
the currency OF the Country, aud that Dc
State has constitutional right to emit bills
Of credit.
4. That national notes should be substi.
toted Tor bond notes, and the bonds Of So
cnrity should be taken up and cancelled.
o. That the exemption Of banking capita
and Government bonds from taxation is nj
outrageous favorItism to capital.
3. that our monetary, financial, and re
VENUE system, betrays a studied design. 81
shield non-producIDg capital from Its JUS
proportion Of the burdens necessary Tor Ih'
support Of the Government and bear,
heavily upon the properties class
Z That 1.-The pubic domain should b,
distributed Us widely as possible am9n,
the people" and none but actual occupanu
should be permitted 10 have any portion 0
II.
g. concur also on the subject Of th
eight hour work.
y. That intelligence aud virtue are Ut th,
foundation Of all excellence.
III. That the co operation among labor
ers Is Indispensable 10 n complete remedy
Tor the wrongs 10 our Industrial system.
III. That there shout be general gan
ization and corporation amo1g all the IN
dustrial class for the purpose of eifectiB,
reforms.
IL. And fully concur with what il salt
IN respect Co tenement houses, lyceums, re
moyal 70 the public lands, and strikes
Thus far, Mr.. President, see my va,
clear in the path marked out by the major
ity OF the COMMITTEE, bat on some question
which | consider vital | must say oi thi
Committee as Mir. Johnson Of the Whit
House said when he hcld out against eleveI
Ut the jury, thar he "found them u b.
eleven Of the mos. obstinate mea be eve
knew"
We cannot expect TO bring about the per
feet results of all truth in a day or even
generation. The laws Of nature take Tim
for working out great results; intellectua
and MORAL dsvelopement is slow process
We aaye no god Thor 10 swallow 40 the se,
nor no Mrs PaTtingtou to sweep il bacI
with her broom. Tue way Of progress i
much like the fooiE attn which PlIDy de
scri0ed as sometimes worn in she nardes
rocks by the constant passage Of the litu
ants with their stores and merchacdlxe
Still, by the enactment Of wise laws, by III,
impi ovcment Of education, ana by co-opo
ration among the toilers, auselioratioa caI
be Inaugurated, and the blessings OF trad
soon become happily conspicuous.
Mr.. President, must now very brief
state the points wherein | am forced, Wit
my present light, to differ with the com
mittee.
1. lcannot agree in the doctrine which th
committee seem to consider fundamental tha
"money monopoly is the parent Of az mono
poles" The child ~ not the parent Their
was something before money was known
Money monopoly was unknown previous &
the birth Of commerce. IL is trade assiste,
by wrong legislation that 10 the parent o
the money monopoly. But there vas some
thing before commerce was born, so that w.
must find parent for that child OF sin, a
it has grown up under very unfortunate
schoolmasters. What was before comm rec
4i,riculsure and manufactures- though az
riculture was first Of al. This was ID,
first pursuit OF man since be emerged frOu
nomanic liie. Agriculture is right in Itself
but like commerce, it was 1t fest, and sti
is grossly abused. What has produced tn,
disorder in agricultural It was aGd still IL
land monopoly. This is the Satanic paren
of all the horrid monstrosities Of all that ex
lst in socisty-ssve and except always tina
ignorance and undeveiopment were tn
cause of land monopoly. The great 60
monopoly is exclusively rooted in til. soil
and nowhere else. The trunk OF this tree i
prodigious and supports many far spreading
branches. One Of these branches il the mo
ny noARfoiy WIKI she coMmittts cSk
si1er the cause VI all our woes. It il but
branch of the tree. The committee are saw
ing away most Justify Ut the branch. Sup
pose they succeed in Looping it off by To
aid OF some superhuman ex.rtion that ma
for the moment, dam up the flowing on
from the cause and stay the effect, wha
have they accomplished The trunk Of To
tree is unhurt, for not a single root is dis
turbed. The ssp flows up 40 freely as be
fore, and straightway the stump Of the liml
amputated BY the surgery Of the committe'
begins ~ heal. and another branch Of Wig
orous aud rapid growth is started, ana sool
ripens its portion Ct the vile fruit shed upon
oil society from the whole tree, and which
the people are forced to swallow. The re.
medy, therefore, ID, in my judgment. at th'
root Of the Tree. Provide for the total abol
ifion of land monopoly and this deadly Upa,
tree dies, and under the dry 70: viii sooI
disappear.