The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-11-23

thntalremdyt conservative clawss--thDusI
who have property, are beginning 10 cry
aloud, Whiie thoss who are gObbling mp the
wealth Of tho country, take no heed of
their compEnlntn. The merchant, man
q foFtnne aud pEoancen, are beginning to
unite In the qnention. are not all our profits
abS0rbed by AesD monoPolists, TO whom
much has alrsady been given
They have taken our inheritance by fair
means or foul; they have taken our money
TO build railroads for our convenience, and
nov they rob us of all our profits, not to
maintain them, mot to pay them for their
trouble and fair interest upon the ANAL
amounts that they have invested, but to
build mp colossal fortunes for themselves,
and besides they use the means which we
have gwen them. 70 corrupt our legisla-
lures and defeat all our Efforts,
to secure for ourselves the laws,
which the interest Of the people demanded
With this hasty glance at the condition u
things past and present, Let nm look at the
future. What would Mr.. Greeley have
become il made President ! Another Andy
johnson, precisely. What will he be now
with the New York TribNne Mt his back 7
And he cannot fail TO become more out
spoken in the cause Of Labor Reform than
ever before, and the RELENTLESS opponent of
that capital whose combinations have de-
feAted his election 10 the presidency. His
ambition may be Pardoned, but who cannot
foresee that its successful issue would have
been to perpetuate the political partisan
ship that now and has ever arrayed the
working men against each other, and per
petuated that devotion t. party that pre-
vents their combining To protect the inter
est Of labor.
The Democratic Party's last hope Of res
direction is past. Issues upon which NJ
many battles have been Waged are dead,
and the leaders Of that party have been
buried with them.
With this condition Of things what are
we to look for in the future Are all the
opposing elements Of Republican rule t.
become buried ! that rule which cOncen-
trates and combines all the privileges Of
capital as opposed 10 the rights Of labor
II this liz 50, then there il nothing left fol
US but to bend the knee to despotism, for
with another four years lease Of power
the privileged classes Of this country viii
not stop short Of an effort AS many d
hem have openly declared perpetual,
it.
Will they attempt it Yes Will they
succeed No!
Now is the timefor the working men Il
organize. Let them make no delay, o
they may rue it when too late Let tn,
next issue he between labor and capital
The party in power will soon let the work
ing men know what they may have to ex
pect.
The attempt to engrAft religion upon tn
Constitution will be persisted in. Tn
Simpsons. who will import their Chimes
operatives, and turn their neighbOrs out i
starve, whose labOrs have made them rich
will be numbered by thousands. Tn
planters, whose ancestors were made nc
and proud by the labor If the poor negr
bondsman, willimport his Coolies by thoul
Ands, and he poor negro let him 70 :
the pine barrens and live like the poo
white trash.
Sturdy farmers Of the North, will W
be fools enough to believe you can kee
your farms and cultivate them, and supper
your families, and live like white men, whe
your neighbor, the owner o. thousands I
acres is cultivating his land with China
men, who have No families to maintain
and who live upon rice and little salt tis
to season it with, the fashion Of who's
clothes never change, and cost them les
than ten dollars year Already in Cal
fornia the small farmers are compelled /
sell out to these giant cultivators, after haN
ing tolled year after year in the vain hop
to build up for themselves and their chi
dren home, living ia shznties, CROWN
every year poorer and poorer, as their Ian
becomes impoverished. The speculator la
gobbled up all the profits Of their labor, al
til at last they have to succumb to the col
morants who have been watching foI then
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