The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-10-05

snAOuAS AAuAoPOah haaon1, mOulned
according to the character of the customs
of the nation with which the Roman sys-.
TEN was Incorporated. In France the very
forms Of the Roman system were adopted,
but in England the old Sages stole the lAn-
guage but the phrAsiOlogy was Anglocised
or Ssxonised. But the despotism was fully
retained. Under that system of infeuda-
ton, eventually if not at the commence
ment, all the people were virtually owned
by the king, and the nobility who were
derivatiOns of the sovereign power, which
was, as In the old Roman world, of Divine
authority, that il born Of the Gods. And
the tenure Of this holding, and of the rights
Of the people was, that kings command, but
subjects must obey, or in other words the
king must do the governing, be clothed in
purple and fine linen, fare sumptuously
every day, the peopl~must do the work for
him, be clothed in rags, be butchered to
suit his and the mobiles royal pleasure and
be their most humble subjects -never cues
tioning or doubling the divinity of the
royal mandate. Now from and by this in
fernal source Of supreme selhshness, all
the rights Of the people were subordinated,
and all their business and labor ran in the
direction of the kings granary and Golfers
Out OF this concentrated desposism Of Ro-
man-English paganism and nfeudation
came the much boasted American system,
not changed one iota in substance. In
stead Of the king and nobility being hered-
ltory and sovereign, we have made close
corporation called the government, divided
it into general and State governments and
IN the place Of the labor eating and taxing
nobility we have erected All unlimited mum
Der Of corporations, practically almost with
unlimited governmental powers. Around
this central dagon Of Internal man -wor-
shipping power all the interests of society
are made to centre, and in which they
must centre, and at each turn the humble
worshipper must acknowledge that Allah
is great, and Mahomet is his prophet, in
other words: the people must acknowledge
the obligation TO obey the sacred behests
of this Legislative robbery all the time
declaring that there are 10 Stch institutions
as o'1S in the world, and bow down in
humble alteration to worship this monster
creation of their own hands. Having deli
heated the character Of the governmental
principle now to work among us as a cen
trial governing and SECRETARY power, we
will at once proceed to illustrate its opera
tive and controlling power. 1t has been
incidentally noticed that our parentage and
our institutions are of British origin, it
will therefore be necessary to allude to one
incident growing out Of the settlement of
this country.
The New England colonies were settled
by Puritans, men accustomed to severe
and unremitting labor. But Virginia was
the special favorite Of the crown and no
bility She imported the State relig'o"
and the governmental power was in
hands of this class. This colony, too, was
convenient place for sending the played
out, degenerate sons Of gentlemen, who
would, or could do nothing at home, and
could be provided for cheaper under the
State, in colonial life than in the British
metropolis or other commercial towns.
These scions Of aristocrscy would be very
likely to and did create pressing demand,
such as exists Among us-for more laborers.
Accordingly, but short time after the
settlement of the colony, the Dutch land
ed some slaves on the coast, and sold them
TO the planters This demand for labor
ers, backed by the aristocratic classes Of
England slAverized Virginia, and eventu-
ally all of the South. 1t is true that il
was introduced in New England, and in
the Middle States, then colonies, but it
never Hourished north of Mason and
Dixon's line. 1t was a sickly plant north
Of that line, had no sristocrscy or non
labor class sufficiently large to give it a
Judgement, in the customs and habits of
the people. Slavery, therefore, when cut
of from the support Of the English govern
ment, as it was by the revolution, soon ex-
pired in the North. 1t ever requires for
its support q non-labor governing-class,
and general customs making work at a
large discount among ,oeIt-to-io people.
We have now in this country reached a
turning point. By the enormous gains of
q wicked, financial system, and financial
commercial, manufacturing and other cor
porate systems in the shape of national,
state, town, railroad and other interest
bearing bonds, mortgages and labor-taxing
stocks, supported by astute fiscal contri-
vances to convert these wild cats into the
property Of the people, there is charge
upon them Of unnecessary interest, dis
counts, premiums and revenue gatherings,
pressing demand upon labor, which re-
quires for support Of this mOnstrous rob-
berry, the labor population of loo, 600,
600 Of people. Besides this, the destruc-
ton Of war turned four millions of slave
population loose, and thereby in a day,
destroyed the industrial regime OF two
hundred years growth in one half Of this
nations territorial limits. Thus the
demand for the products of labor, TO sup
ply legal requirements in the hands of
government and of the financial corpora
tions without compensatory return, il at
least four times as large As the combined
aristocratic element of old England, and
that of the whole of the southern colonies
ut the time Of the introduction Of African