, 1874-01-25

wtrkllGm2l lave, Ill lue 1a@L ACNt H&~AA9s AA41J
domo1s;r.te1, by the articles they have Tr!tten'
of taat saex @fG but they e have been so
pres--d BY the monoypower that they had
come to tie concl sion thmt they had no chance
for themselves; f., movo in wilitoye: direction
tLey p!ca,cd l,u: lie sentiment ,goulu DO asalnst
klein. and trovn d,wu all their eu,'rts.- Since
tue intention vi readers has been called t Inc
fact that t.,.1e we're real grievances Which ought
to 30 rcdrossaI public Sentiment
IS IN THEIR FAvaR.
It is a fact which they should never forget,
that au e:lightcucl- public sentiments ia always
with tic oppressed; and tue indignation oI the
people aroused against any great public wrong.
we may safely calculate that tho wrong WILL oe
Strikes will never be succesatul that has beeh
proved asain and again. The strikers may gain
a little temporary advantage, but 1t WILL be az
the expense Of great deal or suffering ana,
at tie risk Of being charged with tautology,
would again urge upon the attention Of working
men the
PLAN OF COOPERATION.
The carpentors aud joiners have made the first
beginning they will Immediately apply, to the
Legislature for charter, aud expect to be ready
to dominance operations at the opening OF the
building season.
How many other trades will follow their e1-
ample. and be the arbite1s OF their own fate, ln-
stead of leaving their future at the mercy Of
their unscrupulous taskmasters?
N44'AA ' AIns. II. D. WzsKoop.
E,ducatin. tho Alasses--Foref@n Rail-
ing Against American Institutions
To the Editor u The Chicago Tribune:
S1n: I despise au anonymous letter. and con-
cider the person who communicates opinions IN
that manner as 4 rule, beneath notice; but
should like to answer one received this week.
ior others may have thought as he does. copy
it verbatim ct litcratinl:
CHICAGO, jan. 10.
DEAR SIN: After reading your Hard Times .,1 j." ~
TRIBUNE Of yesterday, thing ia clear to nE mind
down the poor or capitalists nirchng who is paid to-
his pen In the tnsorest Of his employer IN eues
case advise you to withdraw from tue co!anhs a'
that belong to those who work for not d1dinsf the
poor.
So. am "a moneyed aristocrat or capital
iet's hireling." Since when, wonder, have l
bean citnar2 "You advise ME to withdraw"
never accept ndrice chat I don't ask. That
part Of TIE TRIBUNE ''belongs" to you9
DoS'r BELIEVE IT.
I think both sides Of tue question may have
hearing, and that thus nc shall best reach the
cause Of the present difficulty, and know ho" to
apply q remedy, il there is one; but I am NOT
nlono in the belief that there is none, aud that
this is one form of the inculable evil that must
be endured. Common sense shows.-l would
not say 1t unless obliged to,-that there ls q
clsss of people who will always want,-always
bo behind everyone else. Education would do
something for them, but it will be limited re-
lief, because everybody won't be educatedi and
there are some natures that won't educate, as
there are some metals that won't harden. be-
Ieye q '' Compulsory Education Bill has been
passed in the House at Springfield, tho strongest
argument in favor OF which Was, that the plat
form Of the "workingmen Of Chicago demand
ed it," don't indulge in slang to any great ox-
tent, but beg to be allowed to say Bully:'
for the workingmcn of the Garden City. It
speaks well for 'us," don't it?
But you know. as we'll as I do, that few
minds work and think for the many. and that
they who devised that were men who would edu-
cate themselves ii they denied themselves food
| to buy books, and went without sleep to get
time to study them. They nro men who would
educate themselves from observation alone, if
thev had no better aids ana tho idea that you
could bring all up to thcir strength ia as absurd
Us to say that you could polish cheose-crulnbs
into diamonds. You
CAN'T MAKE EBONY OF nAsswoou.
One in five hundred would study Euclid and
dive into Greek by tho light Of pine-torch; !;
but it requires clear brain. strong will, and a
consuming thirst for knowledge; that can only
be slakel By long draashts from the foantain-
head.
a blacksmith may stndy the dead languages
when his days work is done; but, where ono
does it, q hundred go to somo place OF amuse-
mept. OF to biIliard-hall, or saloon.
4 carpenter may lay down his plane, fold his
apron, md go home to store his mind with the
PHILOSOPHERS OF Copernicus or Plato; but.
where one dces it. q score eat their supper, giTo
4 touch to their toilet, remark that they have to
s. step lust round the corner" or " down town" ?"
worry indefinite places, both, the whereabouts
Of which no wife knoweth,-and do not return
until midnight.
4 bricklayer may spend his evenings with the
poets but much more likely be spends them
with somebody else.
# our free-schoo privileges we're improved as
they might be, not child need lack the
foundation Of {. good education. and CUT artisans
would be tho pride and wonder Of the world,
since to strength Of developed 1nuscle would be
added strength OF developed and cultivated in
teilect but you
CAN'T FORCE IT UPON MAN
any moro than you can force him to be .
depend upon his inclination.
Educating the masses By means Of lectures is
another fallacy. tired, cross, fretted man
don't care half 80 much for belles-lettres as be
does for pork and beans. Sensible, too; for one
gives him strength for the morrow's work; the
other doesn't.
Announce course for the special benefit Of
tho poor, and they would stay at home in excu-
sable disdain. It would have just the effect that
Henry Ward Bcecher's announcement did that
he would deliver q discourse, on certain morn
ing. to Fallen Women" Plymouth Church WAS
iteraiIy jammod With the elite Of New York and
Brooklyn, tho well-known leaders of the best
society; but never repentent Magda1en showed
her tear-washed face. B:echer privately re-
marked with grim sarcaam that WAS not COM
plimentary to his audience, that he was never
sure, after all, that he preached to an empty
house.
II the object has been accomplished in En-
gland in this way, as some intimate, it must
have been since the last emigraut-ship came
oyer; and, if workingmen are so much better
paid, so much better educated, and can live 30
much chearcr there, why, in the name OF rea-
son, don't they
LET WE'LL ENOUGH ALONE,
or, when one finds he has jumped from the fry
ing-pan into the fire, why don't be jump back.
instead of staying there and grumbling about
the heat?
gentleman On the lettings editorial staff
used often to visit me, for other purpose. that
could ever see, but to rail against our institu-
tions, social, religious, and political, and espe-
cially to harp on this ooe string over and over: