Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-04-26

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pie. You and yours will get your de
serts some day. Mark what we say.
Clippings from "CoId Chisel.'
WoRKISGMRY: Now that the fuss, Hat
ter and fzzle, attendant on the advent o
bis ex-Excellency, has subsidized; and tn
articles employed by professional politi
clans, to lure you back to their tolls, hav'
signally failed, as your mastery mac
tivity" has clearly shown, it may not b.
out of place to offer for your considera
ton few suggestions which it would bt
desirable that we all better understood.
Self, you know, is the leading principle
| in all men-high or low, rich or poor,
industrious or idle-so that, starting from
that point, the first suggestion would be
an inquiry into how far the interests Of
labor have been forwarded by blind
adherence to party leaders The task
we're an easy one, and need not delay us
long, were we confined to the enumera-
ton of advantages conferred on labor by
the present masters in politics; but an
insurmountable difficulty would be expe-
rienced in searching for microscope
powerful enough to discover any.
This is not astonishing; it is but the
legitimate result of the usual mode
of organizing political parties. A few,
by virtue of great seryice-probably OF a
questionable kind-or from natural
learning toward intrigue, or, better still,
by the right of impudence, will under
take to run the Legislative machiae with
the greatest self-complacency, aud with
the confident air which warns meddlers
not to dare step between "the wind and
their nobility" And why not2 they are
the pillars Of the State. To question
their capacity, their integrity and their
right divine would be saerilege because
you might "ipjure their party" So highly
has this idol been exalted thatitis manly
to scheme for il, moral to lie for it, and
honorable to steal by it, with leaders
ready at a moments notice to sacrifice
everything but themselves for it. The
daily elimination and recrimination of
each party proves this to be the present
state Of affairs, and it is worthy of no.
tice that charge of any kind of moral
obliquiiy made by one party is certain to
be answered BY the other with the fish
wife's uDanswersble argument of you're
another" The party organ grinders ap.
pear to think that the proclamation Of
their opponents guilt is a certain proof
Of their own innocence. That both are
near right 10 their estimates Of each
other is not far from the truth, and more
men are beginning to believe both than
either party inagines
From an organization Of such material
can anything good be expectedf More
especially how can labor look for bene-
cts, when il bears no relation to the power
which sets examples so worthy Of imita-
ton, and which claims control of mems
minds and conscienees. Labor can make
no claim 10 the exalted morality usually
&c, up By partisans, has no interest in
common with them, and, of course, can
not expect them to trouble their ex-
banded intelleets with its affairs. They
believe that labor has no rights which
politicians are bound to respect; aud
they are best in so believing, for, the
harder q workingman has 10 toll for ex-
istenee, the more he will produce; and
the smsller the STARE Of the productions
himself aad family can live upon, the
larger the amount to be divided by the
party in power; as. according to that old
political adsge, ITO the victors belong
the spoils." Therefore labor need not
expect anything; for we're its interests
properly cared for there would be no
spoils,as il is the pickiugs obtained from
that with which professional politicians
and their satellites feather their nests
Close that door upod them and they
are done for. Every other entrance
is guarded against such marsud.
ers; there is no end to laws in
favor of money capital, but none to guard
labor capital; and, if proper protection
was given TO the poor mans capital, q
great many LEADERS would be forced
TO do a deed their souls sbhor, and 90 to
work. That would not irjure the COM
munity much, but it would be the greatest
possible punishment which has befallen
political genius since Adam was boy.
Experience proves that ell political
psrtiears are good for is the close atten-
lion To the eleventh commandment
Man mind myself; and the working
mans only hope is TO stick 10 the same
text, for whatever is beneficial to them,
aud through them to employers and
others. mus. come from their industry,
their morality, their intelligence; and
the best proof Of the latter will be their
determination TO cut loose from all poll
tical trickery. Coin CHIsEL