The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-02-01

CHICAGu, Jan. ~, 1877.
~ the ElitUr " thc woSAnoNAN's ADy0Jsn
III looking over the columns IF your last
issue notice an extract taken from ia.
Coopsr,' Journal, which says that, II Mr..
Ben T. Green saw but two men at Balti-
more or Chicago who impressed him with
the idea that their sole and only idea was
the amelioration # labor, etc.
1t is a pity that Mr.. Furan stopped with
repeating what Mr. 'ireen had said. Why
not give us the names Of those two very
exceptional and remarkable men, II We
knew their names as We are sure Dir
Foran must know them We would he
better able to Judge of the correctness Of
MIR. Green's statement.
Your correspondent happened to be IN
Baltimore at the time the first Congress
was held, (but not a. dclegate) tn
mixed and conversed with all the delegates
there assembled, and the impression mady
upon hs mind At the time was quite thr
opposite ~ that expressed IN Mr. Green.
There we're men whose faith ana fidelity
to the Labor movement has never been
questioned, much less doubted. and whose
names to-day are household words m
many Of our wUrkingmsn's homes. The
Baltimore delegation, with one exception.
was composed of men who were true rep
rcsentatives of the workingmen, and we're
& IL.
! and to the list which you named might be
added that of William Gather, than whom
a truer labor advocate never breathed the
breath OF life.
But was Mr. Green competent judge
Of what Was the interest Of workingmen
1t seems to yourcorrespondent that he was
not Mr. Green was, previous u the
breaking out Of the late civil war, deeply
| interested IN the slave interest IF the
| South. and at the time Of the Baltimore
I Congress had little pet scheme ~ his
own, which he was very anxious to ret
worked through the Natirnal Labor Union
"a kind IF Credit Mobilier III the shape
" ali Industrial Agency. But the National
| Labor Onion would not take the bite, ana
I hence MIR. Green opinion Of that body
Had they adopted Mr.. Green's views,
they no doubt would all have been very
wise men-perhaps authors, Statesmen
and scholors but they didRt and Mr.
Green's Inference was, they were, with two
exceptions, all fools and politicians.
Again, We are to receive Mr.. Green $
| opinion as Up 81 tGcto, against the judg-
ment If the Baltimore press, which was
unanimous in stating that IN respect 10
I
would compare favorably with any body Of
men that had ever assembled III that cor
any other city Of the UNION. What Mr.
Green's opinion Of the working people was,
and what they should do to amelorate
their condition, may be CLEANED from the
! columns of the Peoples Weekly, a journal
which he became editor and part proprie-
tor, IN company with Messrs. Applcly n
Talbot, Of Baltimore. and which as soon rs
he gOt the management of 1t into his own
hands, he converted into political pun
nal. though 2 promising journal under the
Peoples " sekty management, uf the org
nal proprietors, collapsed under his con
troll Perhaps, az Mr.. FoRan has fathered
the sentiments If MIR. Green, he would,
through his journal, tell us who were the
delegates that had axes to grind. IN
the new movement IN which Il, IS interested
would It not be well to know who arr
those ambitious political asplrants that
controlled the action Of the Baltimore con
gress, at least 1t would he the least Mr.. Fo
ran could do to let us know who the two
exceptions were, for truly they ought to be
knOtrn ~. the ReiC BrOpeae,st
Your correspondent Is well acquainted
with the movements of Mr.. Ben. +. Green,
while in Baltimore, as also with those of
his venerable father, General Duff Green.