The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-03-28
ANOTHER CHAMPION GONE.

The San Francisco Shop and Senate,
edited by Gen. A. NJ. VIM, after an ex
istence of nine months, has been com
PEELED to suspend publication, for lack of
pecuniary support. 1t is the old, old story.
Workingmen Will not support those papers
which advocate their best interests. In
the day of adversely they believe in union
ism and labor organs, and will shout them
selves hoarse in cheering for those who
advoc tie their rights or denounce their
wrongs but no sooner does the cloud of
adversely pass away, no sooner is the object
rule) their promises and support vanish
into thin air. No matter how deep the Oh
legations incurred, no matter how lavish
the promises made, it it is all the same.
The advent Of prosperity blinds them +; the
present is all they are mindful of-.he
future can take care Of itself We have
received hundred upon hundreds Of com
munications from almost every section Of
the country, detailing this or that outrage,
asking helr p lblication in the ADVOCATE,
because the writers knew it would publish
them, invariably accompanied with the
promise that when the difficulty was settled
a large club Of subscribers would be for
warded, and in nine cases out Of ten these
promises have been violated. We simply
refer to this matter to show that we have
no faith in death-bed repentances, or
promises whose fulfillment are induced by
fear and what is our experience is no
doubt the experience Of every labor editor
in the country.
In his valedictory the General says
We have undertaken to publish newspa-
per in the interest of men and women who
work for a living. There was pleasure in the
hone that we might stimulate young men to
honorable pursults-that We might help to
make it honorable to work instead of idling
away the precious time OF early life.
As the editor, we did all the writing for
the paper, besides answering numerous letters
written us for information in relation to So
ciety organization and management. 1t was
our pleasure to help the active young men
engaged in the labor cause in every portion
Of the United States. We never tire in the
cool work of helping others IN their labors Of
reform. In addition to this we have been our
own solicitor, collector, paymaster and book
keeper IN fact, everything necessary to run
the paper, except setting the type and print
ing. Often we have labored hard during the
day, and then wrote our editorials at night,
not unfrequently closing between twelve and
one O'Clock.
We determined TO make the paper pay its
way, and, thanks to personal friends, we have
kept it out of debt but we have not made
enough to pay our board
Friends, our effort is one battle lost but
we enlisted for the war, and intend to serve
out our time, unless the combat lasts longer
than we do Our motto is, Education, La
Dor and Equaity" You can not pay us for
fighting but, like other soldiers, we will
fight for the love Of it,
His advice to young mechanics is es-
pecially interesting. He says
Your fathers are fast passing away. They
have had their day, and many of them have
faced the storms of opposition. and left their
mark in favor Of labor reform. Now, your
time has come. The compass and square
must be welded by you; your thoughts of
whot is right and just must be circumscribed
with one and measured by the other As
You are an improvement on the old stock, let
your children be an improvement upon, and
superior, to their parents. We have fought
Your battles for more than forty years, and
still see room for doing good among you. We
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without turning to the right OF left, and will
still be found side by side with young men in
the discharge of duty. And finally, broth
ers, we implore yol to shun dissipation as
you would viper be honest with your en-
ployers seek to excel in every good work !;
attend the meetings of your associations
regularly pay your dues avoid tattling and
backbiting. and help each other.
A magnificent remuneration for forty
years labor deny him enough to pay his
board. 1t is easy to know that he fought
for no monopoly corporation Or railroad
ring. Their servants receive a different
reward, and yet the man who cannot
afford to take workingman's journal,
think nothing of spending half their weeks
earnings in the dram shop, running both
soul and body. Another class think their
obligation ceases-when their names are
placed on the subscription books. They
forget "a that labor editors have rents and
werkmen to pay; paper, press and gas bills
to meet. They can pay in advance for the
Days Doings, or other hell-begotten jour
nails, but they think it is time enough to