The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-11-29
FROM ILLINOIS.
BELLEvILLE, Nov. 22, '73.

BELLEVILLE, NOV. ~, %.
To the Editor Of the woRKSsNAS's ADVOCATE.
Hard times" do you sayl | should
say they are. but not so hard as they will
be before the winter is past. We have had
our season Of worshiping the golden calf,
which at last is consumed in the fires of
bitter experience ground to powder, and
strewed upon the waters we are drin king
And now, as in the days Of the children Of
Israel, many thousands Of the people must
suffer, even unto the death, the conse-
quence Of their folly and sin. For years
we have protested against that folly and
sin, and when we attempted to show the
utter baselessness and fallacy If the gold
standard theory, the money changers and
their high priests III Washington would
drown our protests in clamorous obloquy.
Ours were only the random declarations Of
ignorant theorists labor reformers. Their
rietrs on financial questions were to be re-
garded' as par excellence With
the advent of the panic, however, they are
changing front, and our financial doctors
in Washington will, it is said, recommend
an increase to the extent Of the $40, 600,
900 reserve, in the volume Of our curren-
CIV and the nter-convertibility of said cur
rency with national bonds bearing low
rate Of interest Now let them, in addi
ton to that, issue new treasury notes suffi-
cient to call in and redeem all the curren-
cy redeemable bonds, and abolish the ma
tional banking system, for sooner or later
that must be done. If the party now in
power neglects or ignores the signs Of the
times, let them prepare for a struggle,
which is inevitable struggle with par
ty of more progres sive ideaS-not the old
Democratic party, but party depending
not'orly on the traditions Of the past, but
upon the everything present. with it's hope
full future. The period Of CESSATION for
that party is past. and even now i. is
springing from the loirs of the people,
! like Minerva from the brain Of .Iove. This
par " will not be wet-nm Jed by moneyed
! cotporat ons and Credit Mobiiiers, salary
1 grabbers and railroad subsidizers, and syn
dicates and Other tax-devourers viii be its
especial aversion. With it furd-ko'del-
viii meet with less favor than they do now,
perhaps, buS plow holders and producers
generally will meet with more. The
changes that must be wrought by this new
party may not be agreeable to chrome
place-holders and corruptiODists generally
but
| The gods ere JUS, and our pleasant vices
| Make whips 10 >cOr-Ve rs"
| When the leaders of the American rev.
olution declared tho'- independence o.
monarchy, with its Anticipated poli,cal ir-
stitutions, they did a g-eat v orl by lay ng
The foundations Of purely American svs-
TEN of political sc ence. it is now let FOR
their sons to finish the work by the n 50
well begun, by establishing upon these
| foundations purely American system Of
| france, b..sed upon The faith and TIE en-
tire resources os the nation, ard no. upon
the narrow basis of gold alore. And as
is an opportupe time. The mage wand in
The hands Of such men as Jay Cooke *
Co has lost its talismanic power. 1t IS no
more true that a naGoual ID IS q ma
tianal blessing than tha.a an indi vidual debt
is an individual blessing. THAI declaration
is reboundng upon our own popular gov
eminent agents--and for that matter upon
our whole people-with terribly damaging
force. Colossal fortunes and colossal
frauds are the legitimate fruits Of fuau-
cial system managed in the exclusive inter
ests Of non-producing gold-brokers and
bankers, regardless OF the interests Of the
masses. Terrible destruction is following
swift upon the heels Of magnificent ex-
travagance, aud the end is not yet.
Eye fi,ends to truth, We statesmen who survey
The rich mans JOYS increase, the Poors dec-y;
lis yours To juise how vide the limits stand
Between splendid and happy land"
The fancied security enjoyed by the
producing classes for some years last
past, made their division easy Of
accomplishment by desisning po-
litical knaves; but their present | err
lis and suffer'ngs are re-unit'lg them, and
regardless Of past political differences,
massing them in solid phalanx for the COM
ing struggle. They know that 1t has been
w.itten: Thou sialt not muzzle the OK
when he treadeth OFT the coIl.
Hopefully yours,
Tal.~- HIM HCIIFFF