The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-05-20
LEPzIG, March 10, 1871.


10 the Editor Of the wOsEIssnASs ADvocAss.
In Saxony the Government has made
inquiries into the state of the weavers,
has provided little pecuniary help in
some extreme cases, has promoted
straw plating, to procure employment
for starving weavers-and that is all as
good as nothing, straw-plaiting has
proved q complete failure and is even
more hopeless than weaving. Small
palliatives. are Of no use here; what we
want is government action on the larg-
est scale. One million of human lives
are to be saved. When the class of
nobility were supplanted in France.
Disraeli, the English Tory, says in his
remarkable novel: "Sybll," they did
not amount in number to one third Of
the English handloom-wesvers, yet all
Europe went to war to svenge their
wrongs, every State subscribed to main
tain them in their adversely, and when
they were restored to their own coun-
try, their own land supplied them with
an immt nse indemnity. Who cares
for the handloom weavers? Yet they
have lost their estates. Who raises q
voice for themf Yet they are at least
rs innocent as the nobility of France.
They sink amongst no sight except
their own. And if they meet with sym
pathy-what thena Sympathy ID the
solace Of the poor-but for the rich
there 10 compensation. = This was writ
4 ls45. The English handloom weav-
ere have been happily disposed Of since.
without compensation or indemnity.
Shall the same wholesale murder be
committed or rather completed upon
our German handloem viewers?
A very characteristic change has,
since about fortnight, taken place in
the language Of our Official and oficious
organs, concerning the French Repub-
lie. After having covered it with OBJ
loquy for more than Eve months, and
having proved for the thousandth time,
that it cannot exist and deserves not to
exist. they have suddenly made the dis
oovery, that not only the Republic is
the fttest form Of government for
France. but that it in slso the one best
IN accordance with the interests of
Prussia. Yea Mr.. Bisuarck's body
paper, the North Gsrmaa Gasstte, talks
quite in an enthusiastic strain of the
Blessings which republicans institutions
bring 10 those nations, whose character
aad disposition they snit, (of c0urse
not the Germans "who owe their ma
tional greatness TO their princes," y and
calls it On exploded idea, 10 think the
establisAment Of . Repnblie in France
would sndanger the Monarchies Of Eu-
rope. Well, il this 10 an exploded idea.
h must have exploded bat . very short
time ago. When on the ffth Of Sep
tsmbsr last the news of the proclamation
Of the Republic reached the Prnssian
headquarters, the idea was not explod-
ed pet % the two hundred thousand
Trenchmen and Germans killed and
MANNED between that dsys and the cap- |
itulasion of Paxis win attest. And
when, as late a. 10 the middle Of Janu-
cry. Count Bismafk made q FINAL effort
to restore Bonaparts on the French
throne BY eonvoesfion Of the Cd Corps |
Legislstif. or by m Assembly Of Nota- |
blss, TO be depatsd By the Beaaparts |
general couneils-ths idea was net yet
sxploded sither. Nor is ltg 10 .day.
That which 10 ezplodsds n the Sedan
schsme, The plan Of Nspoleon's restore
ton. And 70 the Prussiaa stahesmsn |
- obliged 70 make , sirtus aQf nscsai
". or Doungane tbsre = hsrdly :
vod nia 0yrore n orr GoveEnmsat l
pspeFs-ths subject = TOO dsiinnas-sbsk
ard ~ y neseblss shey - xritinG |
mueh aGninGt tie prsasasions Qf -
Orleans family. The Orleane, 10 m