The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-08-30

WEST CAsco, August 70, 1873

WEST CAsCO, August 70, 1873.
The Chicago Standard, the organ Of
the Baptists, has q column Of platuds on
the farmers movement, - Acknowledges
the farmers power and their ability TO
carry any measure they propose, but don't
see how the wrongs they complain Of, and
the relief they seek, are to be managed by
legislation. Can't stop 20 per cent. interest
for money, or prevent gambling knaves
from backing it up, sh Can't stop the
monopoly Of lAndholding, and their schemes
for grabbing Can't prevent a railroad
from pauperizing whole community
Can't bring down the wages Of Congress
men and editors, and preachers to level
with the men who work twice M hard, and
double the number Of hours Can't pre-
vent judges from selling their decisions
and Legislators from selling their votes,
and making laws to suit mOnopolists
Well, perhaps We can't, but we will try.
But We talk unwiaely; it won't do to
discuss this matter in the spirit of FreneL
con muniSm, respectable people will be
frightened, and driven away from it We
hope so respectable people, who can't
live on S5, 600 year, and resort to selling
their votes, and their decisions, and their
influence, and their editorial support, and
their ability as preachers, TO bolster up
knaves and knavery, t. propose laws, and
10 support laws, that enable the few to live
in luxury on the toll Of the many these
very respectable people have been
the curse of the masses in all ages. We
don't want them in the movement, but
they will get in, and they will propose this
- compromiSe, and that a. an expsdiont,
and the other IN a palliative. They will
prevent all radical, real reform if they can,
and cheat the masses who trust them, to
tho extent of their power. The only way
to prevent this, il to have it clearly I'M
derstood in the beginning, that treachery
and cheating won't answer. That LeRisla-
tors who make laws, and judges who exsr-
else them, will be held responsible That
law does not reach them. and public
opinion il despised by them, q rope and
tree will be substituted. The hanging of
half dozen Congrsssmsn, who sell them
selves to monopolists, would purify our
legislation more than the drivelinR, snivel-
ing, half-hearted, half withered denuncia-
tons Of . thousand newspapers, any one
Of which, the Congressman knows, he
could buy up with fifty dollars. We are
not 10 be frightened BY calling in the
ghosts Of the commune, or the reign Of ter
TOR. Murat and Robeapiorre undoubtedly
shed innocent blood, but not one persisted
by them, for n thousand murdered in the
name of law and order. But the victims
Of Murat were " respectable people, Who
had lived In luxury on others, toll for their
life time, while the victims of Law and
order were poor devils who lived BY toll.
The reign Of terror did for the toilsrs Of
France, what no hero, or statesman, or
philAnthropist has done for any other
country in Europe.
1t would be well for those who think
communism 30 great . scare, to investi-
gate little, and see First. What it 10 that
enables France to pay q tax that no other
country in Europe could Sustainl Sec
ond. Why it il that the victorious
Germans are leaving their country by mil
lions, while the over-taxed commune
scared French, don't send . ship load.
Third: How many communists have been
murdered in cold blood by the French
respectables" for every life taken in hot
blood by the communism
We tell these Sapient editors, We intend
70 stop these briberies and robberies in the
courts Of justice and the halls of lsgisla-
ton, and to put down these gigantic mo
nopOlists that eat out our vitals under the
pretsntion Of Law. We will be free in fact
nm well an in name We will be slaves no
longer And We will use means adequate
to the end. We shall depend but little,
and be influenced but little, by whining.
milk and water editorials, whether re-
spectacle people" are frightened or not.
FARMKR