The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-08-14

poOI pay auu l0I dear 1000 WOTh loE Uou-
BILE rent, clothes at three times their proper
value, and h.eat at three times what 1t
once cost. Take no rest, enjoy no relaxa-
ton let work be your thought bysday and |
dream by night. Cease not from your toll
when the sun goes down be at it ere he
peers down upon the weary world from the
east Learn so work for work itself; ex-
pect to lay nothing by for your old age,
when your joints have stifened, and your
back becomes bent. Begin when your
arms have but the tender sinews Of chill
dren, and know no respite when old age
shall come upon you.
Work to feed your family, if you are un-
fortunate enough to have one IT you have
none, indulge in no such luxury as marriage
You cannot partake of extravagances of
any kind which now belong only to the
rich. Work for yourselves and the tax
gatherer And in these tiery days, when
the days are SO long and the labor so ex-
hausting, divide up your time into hours
give the first hour to paying the interest on
our debt; let the second hour belong TO
those who collect this tax and keep for
themselves as much as they return to the
Government; appropriate your next hour
tor the expenses of an administration which
costs in time of peace hundred and fifty
previous administ ration. Set aside your
next hour to support standing army an
army whose sole duty for the last three
years has been to see that the Republican
party obtains the colored VOTE Give your
next hour to a navy which has the onerous
duty upon it of junketng through Europe.
This will bring you pretty well t. wards the
middle of the day. The intermediate
space you may have to yourself, but the
noontide hour is sacred. Above all it is
fitting that when the heat is intense and al
most unbearable, when the vertical rays of
the god of day scorch like tongues of fire,
good full hour should be devoted to the
support of the children of the sun Let
the middle day hour be devoted to the
| Freedmen's Bureau.
Work, that the soldiers and officers may
still draw their pay, SO long as they vote
and make the blacks vote the Radical tick
ct. York, that a worthless, bady-buit
and rotting navy may make show in the
eyes of the world, sufficient to cover the
| frauds committed in its construction.
Work, that second army, ten times
as extravagant and exacting than the
| former-an army Of office holders-may
draw large salaries and have liberal steal
ings; but above all, work, that the negro
!
! If your child starves. Government with
iron hand will make you do your duty by
your colored brother, though the brother
OF your flesh and blood mag perish of want
before your eyes. 1t may be that you long
to rest, especially during the greatest heat,
during the hour after your prlncip meal
but your obligations towards the blacks of
| the South forbid it. Millions must be
raised for the Freedmen Bureau; mis-
! hons more must be spent in collecting
those millions, and labor pays for all. 1t
! Is labor that feeds the idle, clothes the lazy
and supplies enjoyments to the dissl pated.
LABOR pays taxes, supports government
and government clerks keeps up armies
and feeds the world. Every workingman
must subscribe his share towards the main
tcnance of every idle man. Those who will
not labor, live on those who will.
Farmers, when you are bringing home
your sheaves Of wheat, lay aside one out of
every fifty for the negro, that his belly may
be filled tailors, out Of every hundred
suits of clothes that your nimble fingers fit
together, contribute one to the colored
man, that his back may be covered me-
chanlcs, one hour in every FIVE hundred
that you build is tor the black man.
| Whether you wish it or not, the Govern
ment req lures this, and you must furnish it.
\ our wives and little ones may 60 hungry
and naked and homeless, but the Govern
ment, by its relentless taxation, secures
full stomach, a comfortable covering and a
good roof for the negro who votes the Radi-
cal ticket. Work for the black man, you
owe him so much When you were fight
ing fight against his masters, which held
up liberty to his eyes as a certain result of
the struggle, he helped you SO powerfully.
1t Is true he built his master forts where
your dead bodies We're piled up When you
tried to carry them 1T Is true he hoed his
master 5 corn, that the rebel armies might
not lack for food 1t Is true he guarded his
master family when threat OF insurrec
ton would have terminated the war and
secured his freedom and your safety; but
| he did these things under compulsion. lie
could not do otherwise anu save his pre-
! clol, black skin; and now he votes the
! Radical ticket
Why should you not work for the black
man? He elects Congressman he carries
political triumph with him he holds the
balance of power he chooses Presidents
and rules the nation. He objects to work
he prefers to lie in the shade and dose
while you are toiling for him in the sun.
| lie has been made to work so long that he
! obJectS 10 IL ana prefers that others should
do his share. Blacks have been slaves for
hundreds Of years it is time they were
masters for while. Without the Decessi-
ty of assisting the negro we should not
need the Freedmen : Bureau without the
Bureau we should want but a small army
and navy; without the negro and the
Freedmen's Bureau, and with a reduced
army and navy, the host Of tax gatherers
might be diminished three tourths aud
taxes would almost cease to be burden
But the negro votes the Radical ticket If
you love him and the advantages he brings;
| If you wish that he should live u ease at
your expense F; that food should be so
dear and flesh and blood so cheap - if you
want taxation searching and heavy; if you
desire to see your children barefoot and
your wife worn down with care and labor
| if you wish to have no provision for your
old age, and to look forward to sickness or
disability Or want of employment as worse
than death, why then, farmers, mechanics,
artisans, laborers, work and vote tho Radi-
cal ticket. -Neao York Citizen.