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The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-09-24
Fi.OM L0T6 ISLAND.

ASTORIA, N. ~, Sept. l3, 1870.
z the E8itor Of the WoazrsasAx'S ADVOCATE.
! write this i'll the hope that the
French Revolution, now successfully
established, viii sweep out If existence
the present money system. Interest
for money, national debts, and the
manufacture Of paper wampum, dur
ing the past three centuries, have play
ed the very devil with the rights OF all
producers. Sacrifice the producer to
the traiiicker, and the tratficker to the
financier, has been the order of the day.
Rob tile soil tillcr, the miner, and the
laborer, and reward the schemer, the
Spectator, and the idler, is the motto
of the nation. The reason that things
are SO may be traced to the reversal of
the laws Of God, as recorded in the
Bible, by legalzing usury or interest
for money, and alternating the soil from
the masses Of mankind, by arbitrarily
placing a money value upon the land
and the use thereof
AS A National Labor Reform Party
it will be our duty as well as our in
terest to oppose these destructive sys-
tens which are running the United
States. We are ground to death also
under the wheels Of the Juggernaut OF
Trade. The Panama Railroad is said
10 have cost life for every timbertie
no matter-man is wOrthless-rall-
roads are property. -Four hundred
| thousand human beings are pegged
into moral and physical death in the
tenement houses Of New 1ork-the
death rate more than doubles the birth
rate-young men dare not maryland
young girls are starved into Prostitu-
| tion-no matter, let the car Of Jugger-
naut roll on-throw in those parodies
Of pandemonium which We term Halls
of Legislation, thoss places wherein
jus ice il dispensed rom the bred
Scott Court Of Washington, TO the
dlngy holes where the grog-elected JUS
tees Of the peace of New York, sell
Judgment, and we can have a faint pic
ture Of the evils of society which
has elected mammon for its God.
The Crimean w ar taught Russia the
evils of serfdom, and in it she paid the
price Of its overthrow. The Moloch OF
American chattel slavery was conquer
ed at a cost Of at least FIVE hundred
thousand human lives, and as many
crippled men. What the penalty may
be that will be required of humanity
before the dethrOnement of mammon
and the destruction OF money slavery Is
fully ACCOMPLISHED no man can toretell,
but the writer believes that in this
French and Prussian war the atone
ment is commenced. Let us remember
that the legislation of interest for mo-
nev, the foundation Of the nation II
debt system, was condemned when
commenced in the sixteenth century by
both the Catholic and the Protestant
Churches the first has always anathe
matized it, and as regards the two first
laws decreeing it in Great Britain, pass
ed in 1915 and 1871, the unanimous
voices of the Protestant Bishops, then
sitting in the House Of Peers, were
given against them. Furthermore, to
ease their consciences, they were per-
mitted to place in the acts Of Parlla-
ment referred o,that. though sanction
cd by the Legislature, in the opinion Of
the English Church, the giving or tax
ing Of usury or interest for money VIZ
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-09-24
The Chinese Labor Question

At regular meeting Of the Work
ingmen's League, of New York city, at
Putnam's Hall, few evenings since,
Hon. ). a. Hennessey presiding, the
following was presented:
Mr.. Williams Rogers read a state
ment showing the relative amount Of
wages for which the Chinese and Amer
lean mechanics could afford to work.
Taking into consideration the sum it
would take to support both,it appeared
tn at the Chinese could work for one,
sixth the wages tile American mechan-
les could work for. lie hoped the
WORKING classes Of New York would,
on the coming election, send Repre-
sentatIyes to Congress and the Assem-
bly, who would look after and defend
the rights OF the woI king people.
Mr. Purdy, III tae Iron MOulders
Union, said they should send men from
their own ranks To represent them ia
the Legislature-men who would work
here for the interest Of their fellow
mechanics, and then return to their
homes and resume their trades to work
tor their own and families living. He
called upon them to throw aside ali party
political feeling and opinion, ana return
men to Congress and the Assembly
Sho would seek only the interests Of
heir constituencies, and not their own
aggrand!zcment.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-09-24

SADIE on Republican government from
a quarter Of million Of freemen-from
men who know their rights, and know
ing dare maintain then-will make a
would-be dictator of Europe look well
to his laurels and his rear Now that
the empire-the relict of barbarism-
has been disposed OF, it is passing
strange that a cruel, relentless warfare
should be waged against a people who
have declared that they desire peace,
and the welfare of the German nation.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-09-24

Your untaxed gold est-bearing
note now due. and payable in govern
ment legal tender currency, is making
banking capital on which 90 per cent
Of its face or par value is issued in
National Bank notes for your currency,
on which have to pay 10 to Is per cent
additional interest, which .lakes the
whole amount of interest over 20 per
cent, you are required to pay on every
dollar Of the currency which your note
il deposited to secure. While at the
same time the incrla se Of national
wealth, in which You share equally
with all the industrial classes of the
United States is only 8 per cent, which
forces upon you a clean loss of about
IL per cent annually upon your share
of such currency in favor of bankers
and bondholders. Interest on money
being the agent in the distribution Of
net gains between capital and labor,
this power of the National Banks to
control the rate ofinterest in monopoly,
by contracting the amount Of their
worthless currency, compelling you to
pay triple or quadruple rates Of in
terest Just as they see fit, and this
monopoly Of money enables them to
control the Legislation OF Congress in
interest, that - growing from bad TO
worse, as proven by the finding bill,
and authorizing the issue OF S45 ,OO0, 200
this currency, and with drawing S55,
O00,O 900 of the peoples greenbacks by
the last Congress which means the
perpetuity Of this outrage indefinitely,
extending through a period Of forty
years, and with drawing by degrees all
the greenbacks and supplying thenlplace
with National Bank trash and nothing
else, with the obvious design Of and
knowingly intending to rob labor Of II
per cent or more on the whole volume
Of currency necessary to the business
and industry, the base of all productiou
IN the nation.
All this mOnstrous fraud is perpe-
trated by the party in power, under 8
pretence of Justice Ito bankers) ant
loyalty to government in direct viola
ton Of the constitution which is The
worst form of treason. As the powe
granted Congress and prohibited tn,
States implys the obligation "to emf
bills Of credit, coin money, and regulat
the value thereof, pay the debts, anC
promote the general welfare" it j
clearly violation of the Constitution
to refuse to ''pay the debt" to author
lie or permit private bank corporation
to do what a State may not do, espeC
tally when these rotten sV ndling con
Germs make your untaxed note, bankin
capital, and you are compelled to pa
gold interest on it, and more tina
double interest for the use Of money.
10 BE CONTINUED.
The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-09-24
CHICAGO AND ClNClNNAIL
SATURDAY, sept. "a, 1870.
THE CHINESE PROBLEM.

There rs every reason 70 otlleNe 'ua'
the great mass Of tbs working classes
ot lhc United States are fast coming
N thc position CHAT e"''r. Proh'o't''"
furnishes the only satisfactory So'u''o"
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keep them out, so you will readily see
that the principles Of reform are lost
sight of, and are drowned by the pre-
judice of the leaders. In the interior
of the State it is different. There the
masses are fully aroused, and their re-
cord and conduct will compare favor
able with those OF any other sections of
our country.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-21
FRANCE RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTINUING
THE WAR.

It is said that Bismarck is ready to
make peace Why should he not be? Is
there any doubt but that he was willing to
keep the peace before it was broken? He
gave every token Of such disposition,
for his denial Of any participation in the
Hohenzollern postulation was not only q
peace offering, but it was one that man
bent on war might we'll have declined to
make. What was there to prevent Prussia
from making a friend of Spain, that did
not present itself to prevent France from
doing the same thing? Both countries
were striving for auxiliaries. Bonaparte
made Denmark and Sweden unfriendly to
Prussia. He had set Austria and Italy
against her. He was intriguing with
Russia. On every hand Franch
diplomacy WAS surrounding Bismarck
with enemies. Spain presented an OPP
portunity to acquire an ally for Germany.
Leopold, of Hohenzollern, was suggested
as candidate for the Spanish crown by
the leading man in Spain. Germany had
given many capable rulers to Europe, and
as Spain had just cut loose from the
Catholic Church, and was anxious to sever
her dependence on France, Minister Prim
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-21
WORK TO BE DONE.

There is yet q great deal of work 10 be
done before election day, and q very short
time TO do it in. The committees will
have their hands full, and every voter
who desires the overthrow Of the corrupt
and proscriptive party now seeking to get
control Of the State government, should
afford every possible aid and facility to
the completion of their labors. In fact,
in tim bs like the present, voters should
not attempt to over-burden the commit
tees, when it is known that so much is to
be DID ne. Every man opposed to the
bogus Democracy; every man who desires
an ho1 nest and economical administration
of the State and city governments every
man Who wishes to see a General AS
sembl " comprised of honest and intelligent
men a nd good Republicans, should con-
stitutd himself committee, and 90 to
work to secure full vote of all who are
opposI I'D to rowdyism and locofocoism, and
at thd same time ferret out those mer-
cenarf wretches, who, for o small con-
sidera ton. have perjured themselves
by taking out fraudulent registra-
ton papers That there are many
such, is well known fact BY
ferredng them out and spotting them,
they 4nay be detected in the attempt to
vote pom their fraudulent certificates of
regisd ration, obtained by perjury, and be
made to pay the penalty of their offense.
Thesd are duties the members of the COM
mite can not perform. Hence the ne
cessidy for every man who desires fair
and onest election, to take upon himself
the d 1ty OF hunting up these minions Of
fraud and corruption that they may be de-
feated in their designs to cheat the legal,
bona fde voters out of the right Of choos-
ing those who are to have the management
of p lbhc affairs. Let no Republican
stand and wait for others to do what he
can 10 and what he knows should be done,
and done promptly. If every good citi-
zen does his duty, and his whole duty, o
glori bus victory will be the result
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-21

A Nraft drawn in st. Louis or New
York bank, for s615, was altered to de-
mand S2500, and the latter amount was
paid In the settlement the St. Louis
house refused to allow the difference be-
tween what the draft was drawn for and
that at which it WAS paid. Suit was
brou ght and tho defense set up was the
gend raj rule that the party who pays a
forgE Id draft must suffer the loss. The
banA admitted the rule but alleged that
the 1T Louis house did not adopt sufficient
safed yards to protect its draft from alter
atioIl, and that, therefore, it was RESPONSE
BILE for having furnished an easy oppor-
tunilty to allow cheat to be practiced up
on the public. The case being submitted
on this question, as to whether the draw
ers bad been sufficiently guarded in max
ing their draft, the verdict was against
the ia, and judgment for the entire amount
was given in favor of the bank. Parties
will see that they can not exercise too
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-21
agency certificates, mixed dates, sold at
S6}. Five hundred dollars Metropolitan
warrants sold at 90

agency cerunCateS, mixed OaC0Ss 6Olu AZ
S61. Five hundred dollars Metropolitan
warrants sold at 3d.
Although Slaughterhouse seems to tend
up again, 100 shares selling on the street
at $18 75 and 200 at SO, yet s1S was all
that was bid at the board last evening.
Nothing was done in Ship Island ex-
cept the bid and offering noted at the
board
In new State warrants sales were made
of $1,000 at 725; $500 at 72s. and $3.50
at 733.
In city railroad stock, no sHles were
noted, excepting twenty-five shares st.
Charles street at GG, and fifteen shares do
at &C.. At the Board ten shares Orleans
were offered at So.
The Barbarin Gas Light Company still
advances, five shares selling ct so yester-
day, while the bids therefor ran up con-
siderably above this OF the evening Board.
Betting on the street was not so active
as it was Tuesday aud Wednesday, Not
only drunken men, but sober ones get
''picllcd up every night and day in New
Orleans. Look elsewhere for the steamer
race
At the Board last night there were sales
of $1,000, 5000 and $1,000 gold at 1921,
and $4,000 old seven per cent city funding
bonds at 70, The offerings and bids we're
rs fellows.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-21

The First Ward Central Radical Republi-
can Club held very interesting meeting at
Polymnia Hall, Wednesday evening. Mr..
Swift was unanimously elected president,
vice General j. r. West. resigned A vote
of thanks was rendered General West for
his services to the club, and for his zeal in
the Republican cause, and he was elected
an honorary member by reclamation. After
the usual business, the club adjourned to
meet next Wednesday evening, at eight
o'clock.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-21

concluded that hberal-mlnded fr1nce
from Protestant country might assist in
making Spain what she ought to be. HIS
broad Christianity would insure religious
| liberation, and his German utilization
! might give to Spain that strength which
would enable her to recover somewhat OF
| her former greatness. She lost her power
struggling with Germany, and why should
| she not 90 there to recover it?
France made this the pretext for a quar-
| rel. Prussia did what she WAS not re-
quired to do, in making studied appeal
for peace by officially denying that she
| was at all interested in the candidacy of
| the Prince of Hohenzollern. This was
not enough. France demanded that
| Germany should forever exclude Leopold
from the Spanish throne. And not being
| answered. she made n declaration of war
| on q purely personal matter of etiquette,
| as to the treatment of her minister She
wanted war Bonaparte himself declares
that he was forced into the conflict by the
people of his government. And even
without this imperial assurance, the past
and present speech of the organs and
tribunes of France is sufficient to estab-
lish that the French owe the responsibility
of the war to their own desires. 1t is
plain, then, Bismarck did not make the
war, nor is Prussia responsible for its con-
tinuance. We feel satisfied that King
William will make peace much more
readily than he went to war !;
and that his terms will be as
liberal as. his marches have been glorious.
But he can not make peace until there is
a power to treat with able to sustain the
treaty after it is made. Suppose he con-
cluded terms with Fayre tomorrow which
Paris rejected2 Suppose Bazaine refused
to support what Trochu granted? Prus-
STA must have damages. France must pay
them. Metz must either be dismantled
or surrendered, SO that it will no longer
menace The frontier of Germany. Who is
to concede this necessity? Alsace and
Lorraine, captured from Germany over
century ago. are to be disposed of, either
by being returned or by being erected
into neutral and Independent power be-
tween france and Germany. Where is
the autll ority to make such treaty on the
part of FranceS These questions must
h. II 10
peace, However anxious he may be to con-
clude the war
AL the interests of Germany demand
peace. Her people are an industrious
and thr fifty race. They at all times pre-
fer the loom and the axe to the sword and
the musket Their country is teeming
workshop. Its industry is now paralyzed
A million of producers are away from her
machin E shops and fields. All her vast
energie are now engaged in spending and
destroying wealth. Commerce is still
The sci fences are neglected. No wonder
Bismar Eek is willing to make peace. He
did not want war, and it is natural that
he should want to get out Of it. But he
is not capable of making peace alone.
France helped to make the war, and she
must b elp to make peace. She drew the
sword md she must sheathe it. All rests
with her And it is folly to cast any of
the blame for a longer continuance of the
struggle On Prussia. She is in the right
now if she was not before.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-21

The Secretary of the Navy has tele-
graphed an order to San Francisco remov-
ing Commodore Truxton from command of
the sloop Of war jamestown, for violating
the soil of Honolulu by sending armed
forces ashore to compel American Consul
Adamson to place his flag at halfmast out
of respect for the death of the Queen.
Truxton is placed on waiting orders. The
: Secretary of State has sent strong repri.
uand to Consul Adamson for allowing a
personal difficulty with members of the
royal family to prevent him from showing
tho proper respect on such an occasion
y Consul Adamson will be relieved by Mr.
Mattson, the new appoiatee, in about 9
ROnth.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-21
QUARANTINE.
RR0CLAMATION ny THE GOVERNOR
HrArH OF LOUISIANA, J

1rArH OF LOUISIANA.
Executive Department !
Few Orleans May q, lS7a
WHERrm, An act OF the Legislature, approved
March Is 1855, entitled AN sot to establish quarap-
tine for the protection OF the State" provides thai
the Governor of the State shall issue his proclsma
ton, upon the advice of tho Board Of Health. d..
claring any place where there shsn be reaseu 70
believe pestlent contagious or infectious d,seas.
exists, to be infected place. aud stating the num-
Der of days Of quarantine to be performed nv shs
vessels their passengers, officers aud crews conins
from such place places.
Now. therefore, in pursuance Of the provision cf
the act aforesaid, issue this my proclamation and
declare the plsces hereafter named to be infected
places and that all vessels. together With ofcers
crews ana passengers and cargoes arriving Tram
such places or having touched stopped at any q
them shall be subject to . Quarantine Of not lees
than ton days, OF for longer period a mav.he con-
s,dsred necessary BY the Board of Health. IN TAXA
effect from and after the FIFTH DAY OF JUNK.
1870. Any Violation Of the quarantine laws, ae hare
proclaimed, will DO severely punished.
TING places which are hereby declared infected a
Aforesaid are the following. to witt Havana Ma
tsnsas, Trinidad Csrdenas, st. Jago, all on tia
Island OF Cuba; Port Royal and AinteEc bay on the
leland Of Jamaica; Jaomel and Port-su- Prince ON
the Island OF san Domingo the Islands of St Thorn,
as, Martinique and Gaudaloupe; Campeachv. IN
Yucatan; Belize. in Honduras; vsraCru Alvarsda.
Tsmpioo, Astamoras and Tuspau, In Mexico: San
Juan. IN Nicaragua; Chagres. AspnwaZ and Porte
Bello in Central America; Msraoaibo. in Venezuela
Laguayra Island Of Trinidad. BIO Dc Janeiro. Para
Cayenne, TN South America, and Nassau, New PROM.
dence
Given under my hand and the zeal OF the STAT.
this thirteth day Of Nav l8N and of tl,. ia.
pendeaoe Of tho United States the ninety fourth
II. G. WARNOTH.
0ovsEner u Louisiana.
GEORGE =. BOWIE,
Secretary q otnGe. mvag
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-21

by order of the President, the Hornet has
been released, and the vessel delivered to
her owner on the bond of the Hon. Benja-
min F. Butler and the Hon. w. E. Chand-
Ter, that she should not violate the neu-
trality. On her last seizure General Butler
was at once apprised of the fact. He left
Lowell, where the news reached him, imme-
diately for Washington, and the result Of
his visit was the arrival here of Attorney
General Alderman On Saturday morning, and
the release Of the Hornet on the afternoon
of the same day.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-21
VACCINATION.


OFFICE BOARD OF HBALfH,
l39 Canal ST rect, State Of Louisiana
New Orleans, October H. 1870.
Vaccination will be performed gratuitousy every
SATC RDAY. from IL M, to p. NJ at the offices OF
the Sanitary Inspec tors Of the several districts
First District-Dr. J. A. Matthew, corner Delord
and Tvol Circle.
Second Dstrict-Dr. r. B. Albars, No. IS ST. Peter
street.
Third District-Dr Janice r. jackson, No. 81 Bly,
elan Fields street
Fourth Dstrict-Dr. A. ". Perry, No 5ei Camp
street, in rear Of Magazine Market,
Fifth Dstrict-Dr. G. P. AIMEE No - Patterson
street. Algers.
Also at Police Station, Gretna from Il Il. to P.
n. every TUESDAY.
sixth District-Dr. 6. &. Herriok, over jefferson
City Market house.
The Board of Health guarantee the purity OF the
vaccine virus used by the Sanitary Inspectors and
furnished to the medical profession
Physicians can be supplied with q limited guam
tity Of vaccine virus gratis.
s. {. RUSSELL, M. D..
Secretary Bo0rd OF Health
I'm
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-21

The Brooklyn police commissioners refuse
the request Of the United States revenue
collector and assessor, for a force of police
to protect the officers and prevent riot on
the proposed seizures Of illicit distilleries in
that city. They say, in substance, that the
State and local officers can not legally be
used to execute federal laws, though they
viii be promptly used to suppress riot,
from whatever cause.