The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-11-04
YOUNG MEN.

YOUNG MEN.
Have you ever seriously considered that
you must meet and bear the burdens that
the radical party are imposing upon the
country-that to you will fall the work of
paying for the folly of the radical party /?
You know that it is the party of strife, tur.
MOL and conflict. 1t is the enemy of the
public peace. 1t fomented discord and en-
coursged riots in the south for the purpose
of delaying reconstruction, and as an excuse
to use the military in the elections. 1t
keeps one section of the country in an I'm
settled and uncertain condition, injuring
commerce, business and industry, for the
sake of party success. 1t sends military to
one state, ard declares martial law to
brighten people from voting against its
candidate. 1t sends military into another
state to force q railroad and carpet bag ring
on the people. 1t has relied for success in
the past on the cry of q bloody shirt. The
industries its protective tariff is killing out,
and the enterprises its gigantic m~onopolies
are crushing, must be bull: up by you.
Then why not step forward and help check
all these partisan measures of the radicals
now 1t is to you that the country looks ;
in you is the hope of the country of republi-
can liberty and republican principles ; on
your strong arms and willing brains must
fall the work of preservation and restoration,
and will you now meet the living issues of
the day These are questions that must
effect you through all your life, and why not
begin now Grapple with them firmly !;
consider them well. Men and parties are
nothing; principles are everything. You
and all of Us have been educated to love the
return of the Fourth of July and it's glorious
associations, but during the past few years
we have heard Of the republican scheme OF
the gradual GENERALIZATION of the govern
ment, but regarded il is a mere newspaper
talk. Perhaps il never came home TO you
as a dangerous fact. But we ask you TO go
among and miDgle with the advocates Of i;
If you do not quickly realize your danger.
and take a determined stand against it, in
ten years from the present time your rail
roads, newspapers, telegraph lines and other
great controlling powers will be managed at
W~ashingtonf as they now are, in a great
measure. A government censor will revise
your newspapers before they are allowed to
reach you ; and your kilograms will pass
through his hands before you are permitted
TO read them. This seems strange, but it is
nevertheless true. We are rapidly passing
to a great centralized government.
Young men, will you prevent this =? To
you, young men, who have only
your hands and brains to commence
the battle of life, we would ask if
you have not perceived an aristocratic class
rising higher and higher above you every
day. Do not these classes draw the line more
definitely prescribing your limits in society
more according to the size of your pockets.
Does it not seem that they would CROWD
you lower and lower down, shift the burden
of taxation from their sons and daughters to
your shoulders. We ask you young men to
consider these matters well; do not allow
prejudice or personal feeling to control you
IN this election you are not voting for
yourself alone for your vote affects every
man in the country. Your votes make the
law and the avs operate on us alive had
almost said upon us oil alike but, alas
such is not the case. They did formerly,
but do not now. We ask you again if
you have not observed this class ? If they
are not casting their eyes over the world in
search of means to effect their objects? If
they are not now introducing . clasa of
laborers into this country who will reduce
you still lower and raise Them still higher.
The division grows wider and wider every
day. We see men brought in here who will
be taught to be skilled mechanics, and who
will perform their labor at a much cheaper
price than you would possibly do it. They
are brought here under a slave contract to
work for nothing until they become skilled
10 their business, and then they will be paid
8 mere moiety OF what you receive for your
labor. Let us take this great truth home to
ourselves. Young men we do not want class
legislation. We had q great war, and spent.
millions of money TO abolish slave labor in
this country, and now these same men who
brought it on are endeavoring to introduce
slaves ten times worse than the
negroes ever we're, men who are
little better than animals, for the
purpose of aggrandizing and raising
Themselves still higher above the level of the
iaboring classes. l ask you, do you want
these Chinese introduced into this country
TO the utter destruction of your laboring
classes Another point, the happiness and
welfare OF the people of this country, has
arisen from a nearly equal distribution of
property, but that lis all rapidly changing.
A radical congress is giving away millions
of acres of lands to railroads and other cor.
porations, and is being gathered together by
wealthy capitalists, slave labor is being
introduced to cultivate this land and build
the railroads for the benefit of these cor
porations and capitalists, and where is any
chance for you =? Will your present salary
allow you to gain a competency? Is there
any prospects of lettering your circumstan
ces while such things exist +? Do not float