The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-01-14

composed of one from each State and TerSsory,
and the District Of ColumbiA, do hereby re-
quest each member Of said Committee oil Ma
tiOsal Political Organization to CONVENE to-
-ether at the city Of Washington on the nth
day of January, 1871, to trsnaact any business
that may come before the committee ana to
oomPle'" the organization Of a National LAbor
Party. R. F. TREvELLIcK, Prss.
RoBERr HoDGKN, See. for Pres. N. l. U. A
GOVERNMENT AND FINANCIERS
We have had it in mind sometimes to
pen few thoughts touching the hsan-
nsr in which laborers are robbedlby
the combined action of Government
and fnanciers. If our readers gill
carefully weigh the matter, what is
here said will furnish ample grounds
for serious stHdy, first to understand
the subject, second, 80 remedy the evils
of this combined action of Government
and 6nanciers. Il
During early spring and sumr;;er
the farmers are engaged in ploughiag,
sowing and tending their Gro ps-;sin
the latter portion of summer and essly
fall, in garnering, and in the winter lin
marketing the same The business.sef
the farmer brings him his returns mGst-
ly in the winter, consequently he'll
more or less compelled to contrisct
debts in the spring and summer shd
pay in the fall and winter. HiS hired
help and his mechanic bills heretofore
generally 60 unpaid until he sells Sis
grin. If he has to borrow money,
trust deeds and big interest is befire
him. His other bills are simply sr4g-.
E. Wasn lsH cores re has - Nil
sell few bushels . gain or some 1T
-'s and hogs ray of his hired heaP.
Soon comes winter, and with it light
money market, low prices and the IN
exOrabie tax -gatherers-State and Ma
t!onal. The farmer parts with his pro
ducts-the trust deeds and taxes mast
be first met. If any body is DELAYED
payment it is his brother laboreF, not
because the man is unjust, bat besaksss
humanity does not deal in trust deads
and other securities. Thus it viii he
seen that products from the farmer get
into the city at low prices. Why then
does not the mechanic and labOrer LAY
in their store of provisions for the ysaI
at cheap rates ? First, because they
have been r" summer paying up Che
bills Of the previous winter, and tisey
have not the money. Second the EteT
that bought the products borrowed
their money at high prices and canAot
afford to sell at the market rates.
Thus, too, between Government snG
hnanciers the farmer and laborer arr
kept digging all summer, and pislct
themselves to gain the fruition of THEN
labor in the fall, to be pinched har'ael
when the fall is past. When the aal
comes, the portion of three hundFieC
and and 6fty millions of dollars o
State and national taxes must be .or
hand to absorb the money that motey
operators may gather the harvest, Th.
farmer and laborer have but a scatst,
subsistence left to carry them through
the winter and in numberless instan.jeI
have to make charge upon the ns1x
years labor to meet the deficiency. ,Ir
proportion as the nation increases liz
age, these difficulties increase until; al
last the nation is divided into tNc
classes. The pauper laborer and liz
millionaire capitalists. The Govern
ment stands between the two. the hlu
tual agent of bOth-that is, it skins sht
lgnoble many and gives the hilIe.
ready tanned and fitted for use to Ii,
noble few. Yet workingrnen and fir
mers, too, fold their hands and too ibf
ten, we fear, have been looking af1el
each other, when they should have
been devising means TO avoid this g;Sv
ernmental SHINING process. If Till
must be gone through with then tC
meet this drain compel the Govetn.
ment to increase the circulation of The
money some three hundred millions oi
dollars few months previous to aid
during the tax-gathering times. TAe
despotlc nations Of England aid
France do this. Why should not Rs-
publican America be as just to her CT
lzens, or make a similar provision IA
inc oespouc countries named. We sh-
s"er because we are producing coua.
try-a new country not exhausted. VIE
have products to spare and the mastA3s
Of labor here and there want our "a =
ducts for little or nothing. This sy,.
tenn gets them without other labor eh
cept law-making brain work. .
Let workiHgm' profit by the ek-
ample then. Lei there be less tax IN
brain and hand to keep soul and BODY