The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-07-08
FROM MISSOURI.
ST. LOUIS, July 8, 1871.

ST. LOUIS, July D, 1911.
=, tn. Editor Of the WoAkIEoAA's ADVOCATE.
your thousands Of readers may b
interested to know that there is such :
rigsge as S.. Louis-a very dusty, dirty,
Anil, old, foggy city. A stand-still
oi,r-one Of peculiar architecture one
60 story house (Mansard roofl the one
! the east of it II story, the south
connection story, narrow streets,
6hby alleys, and you have a city IN
healthy 10 the extreme.
There is one difference between this
o;tv and Chicago, viz: the monied men
ofSt Louis meet and resolve to do so
and 40. as it would help to improve the
city, but take good care never to do so
,od SO +; while Chicago men resolve
and then 60 and execute the resolve
Rat enough Of St. Louis as an old
fogy city.
The Lsboring Interest is the question
that mos. interests your readers. Trade
!, very dull hundreds OF men are idle.
Painters, carpenters, and in short, all
codes are very slow, with no immediate
nrosuect OF relief Almost every train
leaving the city carries them away
.oekinc employment; and | know some
Iohorers who have not had five full
1svs work al one time for four months
Now, what will become Of these men
when winter overtakes them 1t 1t is
a. dull in summer, it will be far worse
then. The question Of labor will never
he settled in this country until We have
re Wall Streets, the State Streets and
the National Banks all abolished, and
tbe 10th aud l7Jh amendments added
10 The Constitution. First, one al olish-
ing gold and silver; second, making il
a Deual offence 10 take moie than "a per !
cent. interest. Then We will have no
more strikes, no more suffering, and
vast amount more producers ; a good |
time, plenty Of work, all the money We
can use, fewer suicides, less defalca
lion, less dissipation OF all kinds, less
temptation.
Mr.. Editor, what IRE you doing with
refer, nee to political struggle in I
1872! hear ~ 10 candidates, unless
it is some old laycd out hack, who |
knows no more about our principles |
than Heather Chluaman. Philips is \
rtpudlator Of our financial platform,
and We cannot support him. G airy i
owned, or at Least, controlled by rail-
road in;cresls-ior proof, look how las
squrm,d last winter, with reference 10
tie poor miners III Pennsylvania.
Now, name a ticket-ChIef Justice
Chase for president, and wherefore
lie decided that The great legal tender
act was cuuslitutional-a national repu.
ta,ion-a representative man, and from
ole Of the middle States and Robert
Lindsay, present Governor Of Alabama,
for vice resident-a splendid man and
sound Oh our financial plank. Now, if
any of your readers can name two better
meu for candidates FIR pre,iden; and vice
president, let them name them
Well, my communication is quite
long bat one or tgO other matters: two
new papers were started III this city
during The last week one a sporting
paper; the other, good family paper,
the Journal Of Commerce, and | would
say 10 Ill The readers of your valuable
paper, IN this city, after reading the
ADVOCATE get the Journal; it is good
paper. La TACT. the best III this city
lair, truthful, aud understands what is
to the interest Of laboring men.
Hoping that you may ever prosper
in your great enterprise, | subscribe
myself. SHOE Fly.