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

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thizes with violence and plots for tn
overthrow of the stabler Institutions o
EngAnd the mob Of oil Continsnts
cities, where treason is Matched, II III
product Of law-the law which divide
men. not into the GLASSES into which IN
dustry, economy and moral worti
would range them, but into classes o
poverty and wealth the poverty which
is forced by schemes Of exsction EN-
bodied in legislation, and the wealth
which is created by corporate priv
leges. And the ''mob" Of the cities
will be swelled by the ''mob" OF the
country,in our own more favored land,
if those conditions, principally OF legs
lative origin, shall continue, which BY
their mere force, give all the earnings
Of in 1ustry to the few whose chief work
is to devise means by which labor can
be cheated of its rewards The law
which creates the "mob" can abolish
il; not by providing standing armies to
suppress its Instructions not by the
temporary expedients of emPloyments
and amusements adopted in some coun-
tries, but by giving to every man his
rights, based upon his capacity and his
usefulness.
The people of most civilized coun-
tries, however destitute of common
school privileges, however ignorant
they may have been kept by poterndl
governments, have been swept forward
by progressive movement, until they
have quite generally ceased to appre-
ciate the privilege of making soldiers
to be shot down for the pleasure. profit
or aggrandizement OF kings, princes or
even presidents; and it is very apparent
that the farmers and workmen of our
own country are getting quite tired OF
their enslavement to a tax-eating sris-
tocracy without the poor merit which,
in other countries, this favored class
possess.
The man who raises wheat ought not
to want for bread, except for personal
vices; and the miner ought not to shiv.
er with cold, nor the mechanic dwell in
squalid houses, except for causes perso'
nal to themselves; and the system
which causes general distress, which a
palliation can only offer the refuge
of a poOrhouse to the man able and
willing to work, must 60 down, will g
down with a crash, that will bury the
men who have protited unjustly from
the labors of others,if they obstinately
refuse to lift the burdens which now
Cypress everywhere industry, and make
those rich who are without merit, anC
those those poor who are industrious
and honest.
The Labor Reform Party only, or it
policy adopted by other parues, car
save our institutions; can abolish th'
mob, in whose near violence civiliza
ton may be extinguished. There arr
sagacious men who foresee this-meI
who hate injustice, subtlety, hid away
in fiscal and other legal contrivances
who are exposing the wrongs Of CAPT
tai, as they are willing 10 defend III
rights, earnest minded and large heart
ed men, who follow with watehful eyes
the Labor Reform. The ultimate tri
umph of this Reform is near; many Of
its policies, which the Labor Party an
nounced at its convention in Chicago,
three or four years ago, and which were
universally secuted as absurd and dan
gerous,ar being separately incorporat-
ed into the professed creeds of the
politicians, and the day is dawning Of
the triumph of justice, and therefore
of the removal Of dangers to civiliza-
ton, religion and free institutions.