The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-02-11

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nee''is Ike "the noble DID Roman VIC
while sticking to ali'of his own- gods, sc
nitted those 6f every ether people, an
who, ,sifb be were iiHng to-day; m the plen
itude Of Ms power and 4iberslityg' woul'
deuItIess install, tinf sdditictf'to every sain
in his calendar, Mohammed, doe Smith
Old John TBrowHJ add Henry Ward Be-
cher, if the latter 'wsre uhfortu1aselyy de
ceased as gods in Ms paHtheon ~ that is
provided they did HOtainssrfere, ass the frs
apostles did, with his system 'Sf religion, SC
10 speak, and would lbllow tlsesri cxAtnpIe
in TSe sintssSefing' wash~ his 'p6Issieai su.
pretnscy. The latter, 4 fear, they could
not refrain ffcsn.l niili " Nni % v,
Already the Ij0dss-hbuses, with wooden
and other gods, q idols, occupy prominent
places On the Pacific coast, and are daily
crowded kth 'tbeS pagan Sptsties. 4 o~'
II n a Christian country il id ths nine.
teenth eentyyy Of the Ghristisd era, where
the, Christian religion has been fossereA
and cherished and respected, must the
ishrines before which our ancestors, our
fathers and mdtheps, bowed aud worshippcd
the truo God be, overturned to give place
to the Chinese psgodp and the Chinese
IDOLS p 4p the begipnipg of the period Of
the ctusades the voice of Peter the Hermit
called the brayestI and best Of Eprope's
Christian WARRIORS to arms to project from
the Sarscen tho revered places Of Ghrist's
tesehiDgs and the sacred spot where Jesus
bad lain. Now the VOICE Of qMammon
calls to our shores untold numbers Of CHI
nese to desecrate the temples Of the Great
Jehovah Mammon imports them, andd
none but the capitalists will be bepe-
itted, at the expense of the aboring
men q. America to the injury Of their
wives and children, and who, in many
'ases, require all the industry and econo-
ny they can command to make their in
'omes and earnings supply the actual
wants Of themselves and families. God
oity the poor man when he has to come in
with the cheap labor Of the
Jhinaman
What American laborer can support
lnself and family On twenty cents, or
ven fifty ceats per day! Our people are
ot rat-eating, snake-eating, cat-eating,
up eating. riee-eating laza-oni. The
ames american mechanic" American
rtizan," American labOrer," American
have been made honorable,
nd their possessors will be immortal IN
istOry by meritorious conduct, by indus
y and intelligence. They look through
ature up to natures God, and feel them
elves men. They draw their lessons
'om the divine precepts, and know that
GREATER as the richest man in the coun-
~. Feeling and knowing this, they act
ke men, and are fully up to the standard
{ manhood among the most intelligent.
V ben / use the word American" do
OF mean simply men born here, but the
Iorkingmen who have their homes here,
hose hopes of the present cluster around
hose homes, and whose industry makes
ur land great and prosperous | mean
uch men as these, in contradistinction to
be miserable coolies who are imported here
D take their places because these coolies
1ill work almost for nothing, and can live
n almost nothing those Chinese, who are
rougbt here by such men as Sampson, of
Massachusetts,, by such mammoth corpora
ions as the Central Pacific railroad, to
teal the bread out Of the mouths of poor
nen and their families Of this country.
Will Mr.. Sampson sell boots or shoes any
heaper than he did before be brought the
Chinese into bis workshops? Not a cent
Will the railroads charge less fare because
be work Of construction was done by
ooIies and at cheaper rate? Not any.
Win iron cost the consumer any less than !
before they 'urned off their old hands and
upplied their places with what they call
cheap labor p No, SIR Will WOODEN |
md cotton fabrics be cheaper when manu-
actured by Chinese labor than now? :?
None whatever. Who, then, IL beae6tted :
The capitalist alone. The whole object Of
,ur Legislation for the last ten years seems
o be to make the rich man richer and the
poor man poorer. We have an enormous
ariff for the beue6t of the rich man, but
where is the act of Congress protecting the
workingman?
Look at the following as a slight exam
pie in regard to the tariff alone. Behold
the comparison between the tariff on twelve
articles used almost exclusively by The rich
and the same numaer used mainly BY the
poor. The rich mln's tariff gold ard sill
yer chains, rs per cent. !; diamonds, 25,
mahogany wood, free iewciry, 20; laces,
81; pearls, free rubies, To- gold rings,
Is corals, free canoes. 10; oil paint
ings, 10; marble statuary, 10 per cent.
The poor mans tariff: salt. 155 per cent. !;
cutlery, so; Shoes SO; iron nails, 90 /;
coal. 80; spades and shovels, IS blankets,
so to IS sole leather, As; glassware, 40 /;
clothing, SO to 65; iron fabrics, 55 to So
per cent. Here are the rates Of tariff i'm
posed BY Congress on twenty four leading
articles, twelve Of each class. IT the rich
have not the best Of the tariff, then figures
lie. Here is an average rate on twelve
articles for the rich OF fourteen and three
quarters per cent, and on like number
for the poor sixty-one and over seven
tenths. But it is not in the tariff alone
it is in all kinds of Legislation. The Re
publican party is responsible for this differ