The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-11-26

anu mean 10 RFlHu our WOiAhS Oi"90'S
into dust, or force them down into the
cursed mire Of seryie obedience TO
their unjust and unwarrantable de-
mands.
But without they have power TO bri-
de he winds marshal, at viii, the
clouds Of heaven; widen the poles;
reverse the globe in its orbit I; trans
form water into fire. and fire into wa
ter; order and create ferociOus beasts
OF prey at word turn the earth up
side down and scatter its inhabitants
to the four winds Of heaven, they will
not succeed IN transforming this gov
eminent into an engine. No one Of
| their number shall ever be mantled
with royal purple, nor disgrace this
land Of God and Washington with q
detestable imperial crown and, We,
the people, know how to prevent il,
and mean business when we say it shall
not be done.
The people, seeing the trio meant to
convert them into chattles for their own
use and behOOf, TO save themselves and
posterity from entering into perpetual
slavery, began the labor union party
organization in the year ls66. This
party was intended then, as now, TO
serve az a timely antidote TO the bond
ca bydrophobia Of the country, as a
check Oh the omniyerous grasp after
The gain Of oppression, and TO dispense
Justice and equal rights between the.
labor and capital ofthe land generality
In other words, it Is intended to rein
in capital as with stiff bit bride, that
they who produce it may not fall into
hopeless slavery before he rorks Of oar
OWN HANDS. And we viii now cour-
teously inform the trio, that we have NJ
made up our minds not to register as
their surface trash, but viii not object
To have them become cur servants till
they are better taught in the beauties
Of the improved system that will
tolerate no wrong between those who
produce, and those who are to control
the wealth Of world But look again in
the mirror Of truth.
The trio carefully watched the move
ments Of the Labor Union party, and
as sODR as they saw the sovereign ele-
ments Of our great country rising as
I terrible as an army with banners, TO
r save themselves and posterity from en-
G tering into worse than absolute bond
4 age. they Immediately put their hellish
e engine Of coolie slavery to work, think
: ing they would compel us to bow and
lick up the dust, submit to the yoke,
I and be driven Ike oxen under the lash
for All time to come. But disappoint-
ment belongs 10 erring mortals, and
they will doubtless mourn in sack cloth
and ashes, when they are automatically
informed that their overwhelming en-
terprise is al Of q dash knocked into
- pI.
a Anyone il prophet enough to see,
L that if no iuyiucible talisman shall
step in ilrtween the oppressed and the
= oppressors, to hold the one in check,
: and rec0nsile the other to the laws of
r Justice and equal rights, this land viii
q soon be the theater of a revolution that
j., will quake the earth to it, center. L
am for peace Oh earth ana good will
~ among men, and see 10 Just reason
Is why the most appalling Of All imaglI-
c. able calamiticS should not be prevent
a ed, and all, both rich and poor, made
u happy and prosperous without another
deluge Of human blood
There ~ 10 reason why capital should
- muzzle labor, that produced ID, nor la
u Dor 20 70 war against those who hold
and control it. Brains ever have and
N ever will control the product u muse4eu
But it were an cgreglous wrong for
brains TO absorb le products Of mus
e- Gle, by morbid engineering, and with
b. hold what is justly due 10 the power
n that produced it.
v Right is a merciful master to an But
wrong, in the shining hah'amcnts NJ
right, is ever cruel, monstcrous ana
Is unfeeling tyrant.
u BY importing coolies into this couu-
Ie try to take the places of those whose
n soverei On right il is to dwell in the land,
\ and be happy and prosperous, each
= under bis own vine aud fig tree, by
4 their patent system Of public and pri-
\ vate robbery in ten thousand different
y forms, by their icy GOODNESS toward
those who have carried the hud to build
y their fine houses toward those who
" have built their great cities opened
" their canals F; built their railroads Gov
l. cred their waters with vessels u make
n their commercial intercourse with for
~ eign nations both honorable ana profit
= able; checkereI their land an over
! with public roads and tarnpikes filed
. the land with all kinds Of machinery
\, andaimpcments Of husbandrv stored
\ the cities and towns with all kinds of
needful merchandise and served tlrm
AS dependent servants i'm all depart
!. ments oi industry, and in all magma
7. bic pursuits, and lastly, and more Than
y I'LL, went into the army TO defenI heir
y lives and Ili-gOttOu wealth, pouring ont
!, their blood tor them Ike a delure of
+. Nater leaving their wives and little
4 ones u become widows aul orphans.
! and merci.essly doomed in myriads IF
!, Instances, To mourn away All intolera-
- bic existence under the dark frowns IL
h those who had stripped Them IF their
a all (; and who had 10 token Of Kindness.
nc soft word Of mercy to Offer in ex
: change for the sacrifice Of their blood.
/, and the fall stores Of wealth they Gre
4 ated for them by the labor of their
] hands. No pencil can outline the PIC
! ture OF desolation, and TO paint its
I shades to develop it, striking eolors,
i the SKIN Of the limnlr were utterly
abOrtiye.
+ The relcessiag potosr must come, and
5 come (soon) nol0, Or the land will be
: made to smoke Ike world On fire,
} when myriads OF those who have full
y stores will bite the dust and make the
Z welkin vocal with their hlllow groaus
+ Of hopeless despair.
! Ny advice to the robbers IF the PEG