The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-07-03
The O 9eat Industrial Party.
RoTTEsNsss or AL The POLITICAL ORGAN
IZATioHs or THE DAY. The REPUBLICAN,
PARTY OUT or FUNCTION.

PARTY OUT or FUNCTION.
When any organization Of lntelizences,
whose object in orzanIzu. was % effect a
giv.a purpose, has, through tne action Of
its genius and force, accomplished that pur-
pose, II becomes deluuCt Effective effort,
without purpose, ~ an anomaly w moral
society sud social science ana intelligence
which belongs OILY w a certain class y.
beings always assumes ana Is morally or
immoray accelerated II ratio tn the natural
susceptibility Of that intelligence, and tie
friction of .oumstsnces upon L. When
intelligence is organized into numerical
force, i is always done for purpose; and
the inertia Of that force depends upon toe
zeal With VIII Nd il is directed upon lis enc
my. But hs ring beaten los enemy aud ac-
c1mpishei its purpose, il il ~ longer Nh
organization t5r purpose, since tHat pur-
pose OF object IN annin!lAted ny the victory,
ana TIE y ganizltion is deluuct that is,
left purposelgss Nevertheless tae form 0f
organized force ana Intellectual union con-
tuues though ~ its inertia " has pierced
its target and flies beyond into demeraliza-
ton.
This statement shows the exact condition
of the Republican party to-day. I'd other
DAYS there existed mighty eyil, against
which 4 vast force Vt intelligence was organ
ted. F0r more than twenty years This orr
ganz8uon marsAailed its argument ana
eloqueuce against the greatest local system
nj iuiquitg that ever existed In course Of
time Il took form and tangibulsv ana as-
sumed q name. II assumed the name 0f the
Republican Party, and It's career viii remain
~ history until me end Of time The con-
tact 0f opinions lrei the conteDdi1Z Iuteii-
Ieuces both Of the party and It's enemy, until
each eXasperated with the others acrlm0ny,
having exhausted the held Of recrimnstion
and debate, took the feld Of arms. ~ four
more years slavery lay PROSTATE, al inani-
mate victim, and its horrors now exist only
W. memory and record Here We have then,
a. a consequence a vast organization sud
denly lefj without an enemy, and there ex-
listing no longer an evil against which 70
direct its intelligence, il Is mauling al ran
dom with brute force, the dec0mposeI car
case Of it, ancient antagonist, i0r the ID oral
inertia Of that intelligence had assumed an
impetuosty too great 90 lodge its arrows In
sthe object Of is vengeance. The mass Of
organized force, ike the momentum II pro-
iectiles hat have pierced ~their target, Aies
%, destroying indiscriminatelJ friend ana
foe such il the Republican party.
Meanwhile, by reason Of the general 'u-
mination caused by these great intellectual
energies, as also BY American theories ID
general, there arises another still more i'm
poTtant subject Tor decate and legislation /;
more important because more universal
The scales that have ever blinded the moral
vision Of workingmen have fallen off, and
they behold themselves in chains. We're
they the victims Of tie majority their case
we're hopeless, for then tneir only appeal
were 70 charity but viewing themselves 10
vast majorlties, there arises a m0mentous
question, Shall miuOrities rule Again the
American lyceum, which Is the American
nation, opens its books and begins the en-
rolment OF disputsnts-the American popu-
lation, male and female. They are to debate
afhrmatively or negatively. They are To
collect together a the arguments within the
sphere Of their diversified comprehension.
The existing usal Is are to be arIaigned be
tore the tribunal OF popular censure, and as
fast as they are found subveTsve Of equality
and just dealing among men, they must
yield 80 systems that supersede them.
These discussions have actually begun.
Men ana women ofAll professions are enrol
hing themselves in the phalanx Of the right
or the wrong, the negative or the stfirms-
tive of this question, whose analysis involves
all the genius and pTofoun lness Of inteIli-
s5nce. Il is thus that the great American
Industrial Party becomes irrepressibly an
organism, formed by the voluntary rally Of
the teemng millions-the majorities that
toll and produce earth's wealth and comforts,
against the ostenIatious mInorities that
monopoize them. 1t is impossible for free
dom to develop without discussion, and these
Contestants IN debate must organize and
choose sides, AS the organization has be-
qua, so the party has begun, and it must
assume the name of In3ustgial P.frffE because
1 i discusses the great question Of industrial
reform.
Few seem conscious Of the importance
which these industrial movements assume.
The great majOrities pass them By as they
would. the idle babbling Of idiots, but the
4 true brain If labor has always been under
rated, and the demonstrations Of this and
succeeding years will show that the poor
have sensibihties and genius sufficient 70
redeem themselves from the monstrous tv.
ranies Of minority 10 power.
G. 9oRNE WARD.