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

Has it ever occurred to you that while
capital was the oNnsf of AaoG0o0 ID chat.
ties in these U. s. this country was 20
wonderfully sensitive, o. the subiect of
Chinese Coolies tfat our khips we're forbid
to carry them; but now capital haA nO lAher
to care for. And 20 the Stan and Stripes
float over the Coolie, and the steamers that
carry the flag, and the Coolies are snbsi-
dized at the expense Of the laborer whose
occupation they came here to destroy, and
turn the poor man out to starve and his
family to perish with want capital has us
more need Of them, Chinese Coolies can he
substituted in their place, in unlimited
abundance, and make = profit in bringing
them here and taking them back, with the
wealth they drain from the country.
What matters il The employers 60 10
Europe and enjoy their gains; the employ
ed to China and enjoy theirs. And the
working men and women-what Of them
Let them go to the pine barriers and 1--we
with the crockees
The working mems Greeley and Brown
mass meeting the other night was failure.
Rixley opened with q short and sweet anti
Coolie speech. Barstow followed on the
labor problem, and after an eloquent ex-
ordium that elected thunders # applause,
slid of on the tariff question, which was
too deep for the working men, and before
he had finished half Of his audience had
left.
The statistics Of your article on our for
eign Indebtedness is not alarmingly clear
enough to reach the imagination Of the
working men. That is a subject that
ought more often to engage the attention
of our earnest reforTAers. Our debt to
Europe goes on increasing from year to
year, and the vast amount of specie and
produce, the Government, State, City and
even County bonds that are sent across the
Atlantic only serve to pay the interest,
while the principal is constantly increasing
Can any patriotic statesman be aware Of
this fact and not shudder for the conse-
/ HuChCCS W hAo GUILTY. dzAu yet all Vi IIicill
are aware Of it and their only care is to
keep 1t from the masses, that they may
continue to participate in the plumber of
this country. But what do these shylocks
care for the country They know it is the
poor laboring man who pays-and 81 the
more he has to paw, and the greater his
embarrs.ssments for the more debts that
are paid by labor the more can he who is
gloating over his pound Of flesh exact from
his bleeding country, for what he advances
upon the credit of the working man 5
labor.
When will the working men learn that it
Is they who pay all the taxes, and that the
so-called tax payers only advance the
money, as the importer only advances the
duties on imported goods, which the con-
sumer has to pay with interest As il is
with duties, 50 it is with taxes.
When will working men learn that not
only do they have to pay the taxes and
the interest on the money advanced, which
enables the capitalist to riot in luxury and
debauchery, but they have to maintain
hordes Of middle-men, drones, and par
asites to those who feed them
When will the working men learn that
nothing but a national currency and the
abolition Of the specie basis, will relieve
them from part of this enormous burden,
and that cooperation will relieve them
from another
Since my last, | see in one Of your la
pers discussion Of the subject, who are
the proper persons to represent the work
ing men r which will be my excuse for
referring to this subject again.
| Haa ,,-..,-.l .L-A
men are the most reliable II NAV Be sig
niicant that in England the more conserV-
alive party are the advocates of working
men, representing their class, and those
conversant with English politics are famil-
lar with the result. In nine cases out Of
ten it has been disappointment A man
not himself reared in the ranks or labor,
who can face the denunciation and misrep-
reservations Of the minions Of capital, and
has done it by expressing the cause Of
labor is always the safest for the working
man to trust his interest To, and to the
interest of humanity be it said they are to
be found in all ranks and professions, but
it seems that by some singular perversity
they are the last men that working1nen
select for their candidates As far as nv
experience goes here in California, of all
those that aspire to lead the working men,
! would not trust one If them.
1t is time for the working men to learn
to trust their interest only n men who
have made a life long work advocating the
rights Of labor, and the higher the position
such men occupy in the social scale. the
less danger of their proving recreant to
their professions.
| We are going to elect Member of Con
gress, and not one word is said on the
Chinese question and eight hours all our
blantant labor strikers are quiet as lambs
The General is out for Grant. Hitherto
with him the Democratic party has been
the working mans party, but now the Re
publican party is the working mans party,
because Grant issued the eight hour proc
lamation, at my suggestion Was Grant
after the General them II he was he
got him, and one vote, but not another.
The General threatens to stump the
State. God help the State and the "Gen-
eral too, for the General" can't Gpeak,
and he has the misfortune Of not knowing
it.
The Goat Island Grab is not the only
trouble our land specializing editors have
TO contend with. Now comes the diamond
excitement and the papers are bowling for
fear tenement or two is likely to be va
Gated by the exodus Of q few explorers
going to develop some new country. IL
these selfish idiots had their way Nevada,
Idaho and Montana would remain desert
wilds. To this day they are shouting Fra
yer River" to warn the venturesome.