The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-12-21
THE COOLrE AGAIN.

years to impress upon the minds Of our
readers, the fact thar the action and the
inevitable effect Of the legislation of the
reigning dynasty at Washington, vas the
using up Of the public lands and the inau-
guration Of a system of slave labor that
would eventually level the working men
down to a degradation As low, if not lower
than that Of the African, under the old
slave regime-and that system is the Coolie
importation. We again call the attention
Of workingmen to n few facts which it will
be well for them to heed. The working men
have been well piled with arguments TO
cover Legislative robbery under the specious
pretense of protecting them against the
pauper labor Of Europe, while the great
object has been and is to make mAnufac-
tured goods SO high and products 50 low in
the country, and 50 high in the city that
employers, Ivy the comparatively high price
If labor would, among the farmers in the
country. and the manufacturers IN the
towns he compelled 70 employ the ''Cooiis. "
That time has now been fully inaugu
rated; the circulation Of the money is going
down to point when for all purposes, ex-
cent commercial business, and produce
dealers ON a large scale, money IS made 70
b, rorth, o. 10 bring from to D per cent.
Der month. Thus comes the lowering OF
wages and Tia, discharge of men. The gen
eral government commenced the work, by
u discharge of some thousands OF men
from the ship yards, Immediately after the
President election was over. At Beaver
Falls Pa, in the vicinity Of Pittsburgh,
over 300 men engaged in manufacturing
cutlery. earning $50 per month, were dis
charged to give place to the same number
Of '-Cooiiss" at $50 per month. Working
men. ia these facts look at the deplurablo
condition of these BOO families thus de-
priyed u the means Of support at this in
clement season If the year, and see IN 1t
the fate that surely awaits every one OF
YOU, either to starve or 10 lower your wages
to the .'Cuolle' standard. And while con-
sidering this subject, remember that the
''Coolie" is being imported in vessels sup
ported by subsidies paid by government,
taxed out Of you, to protect your labor.
And that this Government subsidy Pacific
line not only imports the ''Coolie t. eat
you out. but last week hundred dead
Coolies were exported to China at your ex-
pense also. And thus you are protected AS
the wolf protects the lambs of his flock.
Besides this, government officials are pre-
pairing to drive off the settlers from the
railroad lands at the point of the bayonet
lands, too, which honestly belong to the
actual settlers the said good claim being
in fact derived by gross usurpation, like
that If the Cherokee Joy purchase in Kan
sas, OF like the other State claim in the
counties adjoining, where ;. cretary Cox
decided against it and caused the patents
to be made out to the eltiers and now
the Supreme Court reverses the decision
on a fimsy pretext, and the settlers
are to be driven off While Secretary De-
lano, after having manipulated the election
campaign in the South, goes this winter to
Cuba, ON a filibustering scheme, and the
tools Of General Grant propose to double
his salary while the British stock jobbing
papers, who are to divide with our home
robbers, in the spoils, as they did in legis-
lating the greenback bond into gold, now
intimate that President Grant must have
another four years term after the present
next four years have expired.
Another item to he considered in con
nection with the above, is the fact that
President Grant in his Message shows that
over 81, 900, go Of public lands have been
sold during the past year, and only about
81, OOO, 900 received. Where is tbs balance
gone into the hands II soulless corpora
tions. He now proposes to build some
81, 900. 90 of water inland navigation,
and this taken in connection with the his
terry Of the i.~st, very probably includes
another Pacific steamship subsidy. and a
place for some thirty Thousand piaeemen to
aid IN Frustrating labor and keeping it
under.
Workinglnen, arouse yourselves Go
into your organizations and discuss these
questions before 1t Is too late, and get
every man to join you Remember that
the object now is u ALLEVIATE from You the
farmers, on account 4 the high wages, and
they lay all the difficulties at your door
And we say, workingmen. throughout the
lard, organize and come let us reason to-
gcther there is no antagonism between
labor and capital-but it is bctwe dsspO-
tisn and freedom-betwecn ill-gotten gains |
robbed out Of labor by cunningly devised
financial schemes, which you must under