The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-03-05
FROM LONG ISLAND.


He takes but q narrow view of the
grand revolution Of Labor now agitat-
ing the civilized world who seeks to
limit it to q special class of toilers, or
bind it within the limits Of . nation.
Every day, over the land and under
the ocean, the wires are telling q diff
ferent tale. In every part Of the civil
lied world Labor Congresses are calling
to each other; different organizations,
it is true, but holding similar views,
and pressing rapidly forward to attain
similar ends. Hardly have the pens of
the reporters ceased 70 indite the pro-
ceedings Of the Labor Congress Of
Philadelphia before the workingmen of
Europe at the Congress held at Basle,
planting their feet firmly upon the land.
hurl their defiance 1t the aristocracies
of Europe hardly has that latter event
fully transpired, before the agricultural
laborers meet in their FIRST Congress at
Washington, and now we are told the
former aerfs of Russia are taking hold
Of the torch Of liberty, and holding it
80 proudly, that this very day the cable
informs us that the Emperor of Russia
threatens to cancel the incompleted re-
forms he had commenced for the peo-
pie Of that country.
E~xD~~-Aowo - mAn~xy aIan = -
same. A tale of woe and misery la
borers starving, and idlers and schem-
ers triumphant The civilized world
crammed with goods in boundless va
riety, cities rising Like magic. noun
talns tunnelled, isthmuses sunderel,
continents spanned with railroads-all
performed by the hands of hardy toll
ers, whose reward has been, and In, in
the large generality of cases, q pit
lance scarcely sufficient TO sustain life
in themselves and their families.
Wealth distributors rolling in pride in
their carriages and piling up mountains
of money, while the wealth creators,
whose labors sustain them, can hardly
afford to buy boots. As i'm the mate
rial world, 20 in the moral. A perjured
Emperor sitting triumphant in Paris,
and defying an indignant people to un-
seat him, surrounded 90 he 10 with his
pretorian guarda In our own
country the seats of Legislators filed
with wordy lawyers, and the halls |
whence the laws emanate, from the
Houses Of Congress to the pestilent |
pot-houses where the members who gil |
them are nominated, baptized i'm blood
and putrefying with lust and crime,
The laws q farce, partially enforced in |
some cases, and wholly neglected in |
others las in the case Of the eight-hour
sdict), by men who are mot unfrequent-
y mere tools Of powerful corporations,
md filter (if they had their deserts) to
Itand in the prisoners dock. that nit on
he bench of justice. The pulpit silent,
waiting to be pushed into Christianity
~ the people, IN i'm the case Of the
Ibolition Of slavery. The churches
themselves, like the synagogues Of old,
lsurped by the Pharisees, and the
working people crowded out Of the
anne by money taxes unknown to the
'ncient churches) too grievous for them
o bear. In our marts, knavery the
ule rather than the exception; weights
nd measures adjusted by State laws
n spite Of the Constitution q fourth
f the food and almost all the drink of
he people poisoned to insure unholy
aims; cheatery being commonly
ermed smartness, and successful vii
Amy redounding 70 the credit Of its
erformers.
The centres of law and order being
hus corrupt, it in NO wonder that
rimes are on the increase. Atrocities
against which the ancient pagan Ro-
hams refused to legislate 10 too horri-
lie to be ever perpetrstedl murders Of
sthers, and even Of mothers, by their I
of husbands by wives, and {
ives by husbands, becoming common.