The workingman's advocate., 1872-10-19
CALIFORNIA.
San FRANCISCO, Oct 0, 1872.

San Francisco, Oct Q, 1872.
To the Editor Of the woRkTNsxAS's ADVOCATE.
The news from Pennsylvania and Ohio,
has nearly parslyzed the Democrats and
Liberals of California, | must confess. |
begin to think that the mission of the Re
publican party is not yet fulfilled, and will
not be until the laboring element Of the
country is fully aroused to the danger Of
being absorbed by capital.
Neither have the leaders Of the Demo
cratic party learned to lay their partizan
organization upon the altar Of their coun-
try. They are playing false with the Lib
eral Republicans and only using them in
the hope to recover power, and while this
is 50, there is in truth but little to choose
between the two, but to break up rings
already formed, and what the Republicans
plead may indeed be true: That the
new democratic rings may be even more
eager for public plunder."
The time has come in our country, when
the issue lies between capital and labor /;
either there must comet struggle for victory
between the two and that soon, or labor
will quietly succumb. Chinese and Coolies
will swarm over our land like the locusts
of Egypt, and what is to become Of the
poor Uhite trash, we must leave for the
future to determine, for nothing is palmer
than that When the time does come that
there is free and unrestricted importa-
tion Of Chinese operatives, without fear Of
the laboring element Of this country,
white men and women will find but few OPP
portunities for remunerative employment.
Like the Georgia crackers, under the slave
obligahy Of the South, who were com
PEELED to retire to the pine barrens, where
the land was too poor even for slaves to
cultivate, the poor white men and women
Of this country will be compelled to locate
themselves in barren wilds to exc out
miserable existence.
What else can be the inevitable result
towards which we are now fast progressingi
Capital utterly ignores the rights of our
own laborers to the first chance for employ
ment. Capital claims the right, as did
Sampson the shoemaker Of Massachusetts,
10 go abroad for laborers and leave his own
countrymen at home to starve.
Capital claims that there must be no
limit set to the profits Of those who own
it while to labor they are willing to con-
c-de only bare subsistence, and boasting-
ly proclaim their determination to employ
these laborers who can subsist upon the
scantiest pittance and therefore afford to
work the cheapest
General A. M. Winn has written letter
ofWm. }. .Jessup, President fthe Working
mems Assembly, of New York, extracts
from which have been published in the
San Francisco ChrO"icIe, Of Oct. |. |
wonder if Jessup is another Of the same
stripe as Winn I
regret to he compelled to cater to this
mans Palpable cravings for notoriety.
Where did he get his title o. General. Ger
tainly not on the battle field. The Me
chanics' State Council, Of which he pro
fesses TO be the elected President. is com
posed Of self-elected members, though
before VIM got into it, il was a represen-
tative body.
The Deliberative Council, Of which he
signs himself President, and the Ecumeni-
cal Council whatever that may be, u which
he prOfeases TO be Supreme Architect, are
purely mythical.
The General Processes to have spent his
life for the benefit of the woFkingmen. 1t
is pretty certain that the wOrkingmsn Of
San Francisco do not see it 20, and 30 far
from his being leader among them, he
could not influence q corporals guard, but
by his adrolt management, he has made
his name conspicuous abroad To do this,
he is always ready to turn for anybody
who has an axe 10 grind.
IL he ever had the confidence Of the
workingmen, he must have lost it long ago,
for they all admit that he has been the
mill stone hanging about their necks, that
has swamped every effort Of theirs to effect
political organization here in California.
One year ago he was denouncing the
corruption at Washington, under the
present administration. He had been
looker-on, and knew all about it from per
sonal experience now he has desert d his
lifelong comrades the Demnpyats, and gone
over to Grant, and there are many who
openly say he has done it for coin.
He says Grant is our friend, meaning the
workingmen, Of whom he claims to be one,
though it is said he never done an honest
days work in his life, and those who have
persistently said it are the new found
friends In whose bosoms he has laid his
repentant head.
II this contest effects no other uood, il
it purgss the workingmen's ranks Of such
professed friends it will have done a great
deal
Who General Winn Ii, and hoS he
obtained his notoriety, 10 too long u story
for your columns. The salient points are
that he is from the State OF Mississippi
put out his shingle in 1S49, in Sacramento,
as q carpenter as did many other men in
that time, who could hardly drive q nail
or saw a board. Some years ago he
married the pensioned widow Of James,
King, of William, hpd himself became Q
pensioneF, sleek and oily as any member
Of the firm Of Quirk, Cannon & Snop.
Twas then he set about writing for the
press, but without pecuninagy profit, and
apparently for the sole purpose of getting
his name before tho public, In California
he il known as "dead-beat,"
If this State is lost for Greeley. and the
indications are daily getting stronger, that
it may be one of the causes to which IL
may be traced, is the apathy displayed by
tbs leaders in the early part Of the cam
paign. When qreeleys name was first
announced, . majority at voters were for
him.
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