The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-06-18


of Congtess-snd this is done while
Red Clio I'D and bis contemporaries are
still in Washington, vainly praying
for justice. He says his Great Father
sends AGENTS who lie TO him in pretty
speeches. He does not want " SO
much thunder, and so little bread"
And, if The politicians who are at pres
ent running the Government in the
exclusive interest of host of land and
money grabbers, will be warned in
time, tfese sage words very appropri-
ately express the sentiments OF the
workingmen with reference to them
selves. Red Cloud and his people
have dyer had justice, nor will they
ever be- accorded it while the "Great
Fathers" deny even its elementary
principles to their poor white brethren.
If BUSH hess is dull in the State, and
the political psN-houses are all well
supplied with customers, and some
Government favorite or coterie of them,
with a bogus capital Of a million dol
lars, want to build a railroad, they 60
to Congress and borrow Sl4,O00,0OO
more, and then call upon the people
they have swindled, to fall down and
worship them as cOnservators of the
national prosperity.
If He'd Cloud and his people knew
these taings as well as we do, be would
have aaved himself the trouble of a
visit ~ Washington, and the Govern
ment The shame of openly donating
$50, OOb to choke his well-grounded
complaints, with little more powder
and lad whiskey, while the Great
Fathe's continue to prosecute their
nefaridus swindles. The Indian Bureau
has always been cesspool Of cor
ruptIot, and under t-e administration
even Cf an Indian aud the Quakers, il
continues to get no better very fast.
Yet, ID is no different in that respect
from any other bureau or department
where the laws are made, where they
are ex ecuted, or pretended to be exc
cutCd,! and whose controversies un-
II
der II EN- are adjudicated, corruption
holds, the secptre of an absolute mon.
archy.;;
The white man, as we'll as the red,
is everywhere swindled and despoiled,
and no attempts, as we have many
times previously iterated, have ever
been fnade to civilize the latter, that
success could be expected to attend.
If the agents to whom have been dele
gatedi have not shamefully neglected
this task, they must regard an accom-
lished; gambler, or an adroit and Gun.
ming bObber in other peoples posses
sions, the embodiment of each .indi
viduu;9 virtue that is supposed to come
of Civilization. In that event, they
have most faithfully reduced their ad
vanc9d notions to practice, and right
plentiful and frequent have been theiI
exhOrtations Of the workings Of what
is without doubt the most perfect sys
TEN Of rascality ever conceived.
Bus, the red man finding the process
of FIRST despoiiing, and then cxter-
minatdng his race in uninterrupted pro.
gressi is at last goaded to protest
and in that action, is contained what
the white oppressed should emulate.
We fave equal reason for protest,
and hn infinitely greater chance Of
making a protest good. Our treatment
of the Indians, ever since we first come
amoFg them, is an ugly blot on every
page, of our national history.
Lei US, as workingmen, while assert.
ing Sur own rights, and indicating
thOsd of our own privileges that have
BEEN SO long denied us, erase it. Our
system of Government is practically a
failure, and will be voted so by the
world, except we speedily prove our
selves Democracy in fact, as well as
in name. As it is, We, the professed
owners of an asylum for the op-
press ed of all nations" are fast drifting
towards a monarchy more onerous
than any in either hemisphere, and
nothing can alter the current of that
reverse progress, except we, the work.
ers, assume control Of the scuttling
ship. and administer the laws in &C
cord$nce with the spirit in which they
were. conceived.