The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-11-01


To the Edrof the MoKSlNSN,N's Ap,o,ArE
This innings pcrusal of the ADVOCATE,
for the Il time in two months, reminds
me that must again buckle on the armor
Of Labor;eform, and prepare for the bat
tie that Ne great army Of laborcrs are
waging.
Mr. Tlellcck, ia his letter from Mary
land. sa, Cheap Money Why not
say. FIRE MONEY at once. We will
have I'll, national currency to develop the
bountle that nature has provided, and
why shuld We pay interest for IT'S use
1t belol,s 10 as IL is issued 10y our au-
thority and but for our labor and our
presenc, Il would not be worth the paper
1t is written upon.
The tine for halfway measures ~ re
form is lone The laborer must now de-
mand tn full need Of his rights. and ac-
cept nothing loss than the entire profits Of
his labor without the Intervention Of toll
gatherer, be they moderate Insurers or
Shylock, who demand their victims flesh,
blood OF no blood
We have learned the lesson that we can
provide ourselves with currency Of our
own for domestic exchanges, and unless II
Is provided for us IN abundance, and with
out cost. We viii continue % pay tribute
to the money lords OF Europe. Give us
free money. and We will have it eventually.
for the farmers are beginning u com
preheud this money swiuile. and We shall
no longer need tariff, ~ protect home in
dustrIes, and our custom houses and mInts,
nov filled with high stlarLed Off lals, will
be closed, and their occupants compelled
to go TO work.
What Is the use Of talking about cheap
money when we can provide ourselves with
money almost without cost and the ex-
pense Of the national currency should be a
public chargs IN consideration Of the pub
nc benvi1Tt il confers upon the nation.
There is movement Oh foot here to get
. bill through the next Legislature, the
object 81 which is u provide a Scholarship
for DkPKAvED boys to Re educated for our
merchant service or the navy.
The national ami State governments
have both endowed University for good
boys Did IL ever occur to our sailors how
and Why tbs children II poor parents be
come depraved Let me tell them Il IS
because their fathers aud mothers have
no time to care Tor their progeny. They
are turned into the streets from the sJual-
lid places where they sleep, because 1t AT
fords them the only chance they can have
to breathe Gods fresh and wholesome air,
and there they q tH the bad and then
those who alone ptnht hy the Labor a th-
poor man and woman. set th-Ir hounds
upon their ehildrca, cage thcu Ike wild
beasts. and commit them, e. Us reform z,
to thc care NJ Aeep r t.ruugii whose VEINS
the milk of human kindness never flows.
and some, perhaps have been fortunate
in escaping the prison, thsy themselves
richly deserved
HoS much cheaper lj Nn'Ili Ice for sn-
clety to rear these children IA comfortable
homes. teach them good morals aud give
them gooj trades. ana then the cummuui-
ty could reap all the profits NJ their labor,
excepting only hare subsistence. which
they would provide ipr themselves.
professed working man. Cen A VI.
VIM. is the man mover M tins school
sh . scheme t. reStrIu, depravlty. Has he
any children that have grown up deprayed
because their parents have uot the means
or the time CD care for them
70 If the poor man child does wrong, he
is sent to herd with criminals in a mus
named reformat1ry. II the rich man
child commits the same crime he Is sent to
a boarding school
The late election IN this State was con
test between the spectators and iuonopo-
lists Their contentious may al Hast teach
the working man that he too. has a cause
Of his own to advocate.
Mr. W ID. Delaney, whom you know,
was the workingman's candidate on the
Independent ticket But the working
men did not vote for him, and he was not
elected This should be a lesson to Mr.
Delaney. and every other working man
that they are only used as tools, and to
keep aloof from parties as now organized,
and bend all their energies To organizing
the working classes, and teaching them
that they have nothing to hope for except
from political organizations of their own,
whose platform Of principles shall be HUI
man Rights.
We need not fear that the revolution we
Anticipate will not come III time. The only
care should be lest 1t come too soon, ere the
laboring classes understand the true prl--
ciples Of government. When they do, re
forms will come Of themselves People
who are anxious to precipitate revolution,
incur the suspicion If desiring most to
benefit themselves.
Humanity has waited for ages for the
millennium to dawn Surely we can wait
few years longer, and bend all our ener-
gies to teaching principles.
The enemies OF human freedom would
be only too glad to precipltate the contest,
while the working classes are prejudlced
and embittered toward each other 1t is
for that they encourage the promotion If
sectarian and national organizations tina
are fast making our people a heterogeneous
instead Of homogeneous people
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