The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-04-29
As If to form . clinching argumen,
for the sceptic, it further adds:

Ot o1Iniuks CAmo rum AOCSt dhAnCs
Is further comment necessary
Il Don't want q Workingmans Paper"
Such is very often the answer re-
ceived by any one who is endeavoring
to obtain subscribers for the Advocate,
or any other paper devoted to the IN
terests Of working men. u am taking
two or three papers nov, and don't see
what I want with Workingman's
paper, or what good it will do me to
take it,"
There is not a profession or calling
outside of workingmea but has its or
gan, devoted to its interests and sdvo-
eating its rights and privileges. Law
ysrs have their Legal Journals, Doctors
their Medical Journals, Ministers their
religious papers; every denomination
has its organ advocating its own shade
of belief Musicians have their papers,
Merchants, Insurance men, Leather
men, Tobacco men have them; all
classes of manufacturers have their
special papers, devoted to all that is Of
interest in their different branches, and
almost countless papers are published
in behalf and for the benefit amuse-
ment and instruction of the farmer.
But workingmen don't need any paper!
fthere is a class of men in all the
world who do need . paper it is the
workingmen. If there is class of men
in all the world who need education,
instruction as to their rights, and the
most desirable way Of obtaining them,
it is workingmen. Yet they viii pa.
tronize papers which have never word
Of sympathy or encouragement for
them; on the contrary lose no opportu-
nifty Of reviling, abusing and ridiculiua
them, and give the go-by to their osoa
paper, winch does advocate their rights;
which keeps . vigilant look out fol
their interests, and which would il
supported as it should be, WELD an in
fiuence second to that of no paper in
the country, an influence which could
not be over-estimated.
Thousands Of men in this country
Sled with the most intense and bigoted
hatred Of workingmen, and losing nc
opportunity of giving vent to their ma
lightly, have actually grown ricf
through the support Of workingmsn
have fed their hatred with hard-earned
dollars from the pockets Of those they
have all the while scandalously abused
while the modest sheet started by some
poor workmgmep, depending on work
ingmen, and through its advocacy Of
| their interests deprived of all other
means Of support but workingmen, has
been allowed to languish and die, be
cause workingmen did not want q pa
per. Many Of them too, with unpar-
alleled effrontery, will tell you that
workingmen's papers always break up,
that they can't live, when they them.
selves and such 10 them have been the
direct cause of the break up. because
they did not support their own paper.
Is it any wonder that workingmen
occupy the position they do +; that they
are thought so little of by all other
classes Of society !; that every whipper-
snapper who has the use of q pen feels
that his best hold ct any time 10 black
guarding workingmen IL it any won
der that the working man has no power,
morally. politically or any other way
Is it any wonder that he 10 universally
ignored, and treated with contempt, BY
men who are in no way Ct to unite his
shoesr
Let workingmen think Of these mat
terA They complain Of holding an in
fsrior position in the social scale they
deserve 70 hold il And they viii al
ways hold il until they begin to realize
that education in their first necessity,
and that when they have . proper ap-
probation Of their position, and Of the
steps required TO better their condition.
they win only then be beginning 10
tread the path that leads TO final VIC
tory.