The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-09-11

a was the case in South Carolina. What
has stopped this The money that our
Government borrowed in good faith. Has
the Government paid too much for lss use
We think you will find it is no fault 81 me
Governments, bat of those who rebelied az |
ainst the Governments. These are questions
that REQUIRE your weightiest consideration. |
We are not to be swayed BY vast factories
In the interest Of any asplrant Tor poi'u
cal honors
The workiusmsn Of this country are
vast DO yer, can take care Of themselves, and
will not be hoodwinked by any political 90
mspoeue ia or out Of power. What We want
are low taxes on the necessaries OF NE m
hopest adminissrstion. reasonable hoaTs OF
labor and such compensation for the time
made 40 will afford NJ IN independents living.
= want no 10 nd monopolies any more shan
We want money monopclies or labor mono
poles. We want the same chance TOT the
poor as is accorded to the rich. We do mot
want to maze the rich man poorer, but the
poor mai richer. We DO not propose 90 wage
q war on capital, and we do not intend TO
let capital wage Q war on nc. Capital and
labor must work In harmony, and all labor
reforms to be made successful must be
formed on the same principle Of political
economy.
We feel that in the person Of President
Ulysses 8. Grant, the workingmen Of the
country have strong friend. After the vast
quibbling Of the Attorney Generals and
others in authority whether Congress meant
that you should have o DAVIS wages for
eight hours labor. President Grant order.
ed that eight hours were day's labor, for
which there should be no reduction of paw
He 10 the type OF Americanism as handed
down BY the fathers; he cannot be an aris-
trocrat he cannot feel himself above the
common people, any measure looking to the
elevation OF the workingmen Of this coun-
try we believe 10 sure to have his support.
The colored men Of this country Thoroughly
endorse him.
Gentlemen, again thanking you for what
you have done, and hoping you may finish
the good work OF uniting the colored and
white working men Of the country BY some
positive declaration Of THE convention,
wish You complete success.
PLAN FOR ORGANIZATION OF A NEW Party.
To William Jsssup President o. the New York STATE
WorkinRmen's Assc ciAtion No. 835 West Eiehteenth
Street, New York, july ID, 1893.
DERR SIR To every American Of ordinary
intelligence and foresight, who is actuated
by the high impulses Of candor and patriot
ism, it is alarmiDgy sppaI ent that almost
all financial and political power in this
country is cow being rapidly and suIrepti-
ciously concentrated into the hands Of
very small number Of our people, and that
this baneful course OF events, il not speadiIy
checked, will inevitably give irresponsible
and memorable mastership to the few and
entail CALLING and governing vassalage on the
many.
Very soon, indeed, must we have voluu-
tary change for the better in the admins
tratIon of all our public affairs, or else in
less than ten years from to-day seven eighth
Of our people will have fallen victims TO a
worse tyranny than that which has recently
driven, aud is still driving, millions Of good
men from the mOnaTcbisl and military des.
potisms Of the Old World.
For this seriously unfortunate condition
of things am Ong as bold that both the Dol.
itical parties now in existence, the pro-neRro
Radical party, and the pro-slavery Democra.
| tc-are about equally responsible and
hold further, that since the deplorable death
Of the Republican party by vile absorption
into the Radical ranks nearly three years ago
there has not been in the United States any
party worthy Of che support Of those vast
muitltudes OF our counlIymeD in every Sec
ton Of the union who are controlled by en-.
hgh tened sentiments aud upright motives
Profoundly impressed with this conviction,
have elaborated my views upon the sub
ject 10 paper entitled "The Necessity for
the Formation and Suggestions for some Of
the Bases Of New Political Party"
In regard to the best method, time. and
place for bringing the contents OF the papsr
here mentioned before the public (prnvlded
! the conteLts IN the main meet your appro-
batlon), seek conference with n committee
OF a. least three earnest and prudent men,
bers # your association, and would be clad
Il you yourself weul1 be one Of the commit
tee. respectfully request, therefore that
you will DO me the honor 70 name such COM
Inittee, to meet and confer With me accord.
lngly, and ask this Of you in your represen-
tative capacity with ell the more confidence
because 1t has been my endeavor to show
how Insid:ously and effectively, and how
generally with all, monetary and political
power are now being welded to undermine
the dearest rights and interests Of the work.
ingmen and working women Of our country.
| As for the several points to which ! thus
solicit your attention, have neither time
nor space to mention them would offer
for your consideration q single issue-thas Of
ton, TO the Southern States. Before the
war slavery and the Democratic party we're
the great Chinese walls that debarred Nor
thern and European emigrants from settling
in the South. Fully satisfied in INV own
mind that both Of these walls were &c only
to be battered down, did what cruld 70
ruze them to the ground and most heartily
and constantly do thank God for anything
and everything that have been enabled 70
do to that end
| WANTED to see the Southern States like
the Northern States, filled up, or filing ap
with white people, and with white people
only, so that they might become in every
respect homogeneous, prosperous, and pro-
gresslve. This 10 what | am still longing to
| see; IL 10 what | have long labored for in
truth, it is one of the principal OBJ
jects that have Influenced me in addressing
10 you this communication. But the IRA
tional and fanatical leaders Of the Radical
party and their black and barbarous minIons
have erected between the North and the
South, as barriers against civilization and
progress, Ethiopian walls far more formid-
aole than Chinese walls; and the consequence
Is that you, and millions of other worthy
white c:tIzsns, are still restrained from e.
tablishing your homes in the Souta-a great
part Of which is, BY nature, the garden spot
Of the American Oontinent-and, what il
yet worse, this unnatural aud unjust condl-
ton Of restraint is rendered prospective for
you aud for your children forever
That the colossal walls and bulwarks
which the Radicals have most unfairly and
foolIshly built in the interest Of the negroes
arc quite as difficult TO overlap as those
which the Democrats built 10 the special in
terest of slavery, and that all these walls
and bulwarks have uniformly served with
equal force and effect TO fence out and keen
out from the South white emigrants, from
whatever part Of the world, az it seems to
me, unequivocally shown il the following
table.
(Mr. Helper here in iugss IN a fearfully