The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-01-24


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Four or five mil ors ~ mep and women
work bard all tie weet for which they l y
I've a Ger al smoUu. os currency as
wares Does this cp-ret 81 given 70 them,
arl-eseut the va de az heir labor! Ger
y rot, elEe the eTployi;g classes could
~ cJmJla,e. Tbas they a. accumulate
" low By he fac hat they add mill to
Ia g TO nine, bose 20 house, until
J possess everything.
he employing ard mercantile classes
need currency to pay wages and carry on
bOsi~ :. This c.. ency is fmI'shed by
he government T. the bankers. and by
the marufac -uring and trading community,
50 that he Eo-ke' lave not or'y 10 sup
POI the employee ut the bankers, for ~
profit ard interest N 3 out Of the pro-
duc.'ons OF lal Jr.
If the commuT Tere furnished with
currency by the COVE ITent dir lily, with
out interest, ar thou the int rvep ION
0. backs, al ne INFER, p-.ld 20 he bank
er would be saved 1nere ore he is a uGe
| expense aud i~cImbrarce. ard Il the
wa.es class we're orgln'zt and lcorporat-
gu III ELOuuA flR a "a "a NNAAcuN wv Cof
these would be TO nee 3sity for an employ
ing ca and the p fit and interest," paid
to them woIld ID saved also.
Ey ge,.iug rid Of .ho We two classes \
dis ncs social divisions, the wa ,es class
woull soon hold in thew own hands the
vast accumul4.ions which now 20 70 other
classcs through interest and profits. The
Absorption of the useless among the usefIl
c'a3scs, would immensely add 70 the gen
eral wealth and annual accumu'a.iOrs. AT
interC st and profit is Of the nature Of a
sinecure enti,ling certa'n clsssess to vast
sums for mere nominal offices, that can be
abolished as wen a. rot.
And here cones up he question, can the
wages c'ess sand alone Can he present
employees Of FL 6..des onnCc coed With fac
tories, mines, railroads. iron-works, etc,
carry on these stablishrents, and produce
commodities and exchange them with each
other, if furD' shed Wl,h abundant cur
re1cyl Is there rot labor and brains in
every establishment in the M ion to carry
il on. independent os JarLe-s and employ
est Would not he worke IRA her be their
own masters, and enjoy the own accumu-
latiops To be- re they we q. But they
nave HOI CODCtlNSu vi su lucdY duu
require to be educated up TO it, by their
AIDES Unions and leaders. I-ere is SON,
q better than strikes and petty con
o. with continual losses
We epdeavor to obtain eight-hour law
c ,er measures through a party or
"a lization of those Interested in the meas
~ !, for labor unions are Of this character.
Why -nnot fas -ners' oranges ard labor
org ' "a siors jon the forces for the over
throw Of system which robs them all
VII hout mercyl The ba'lot will be As eff
cacious in gaming all tina. can be Desired as
part only. Social orgAnizss'o1 is to be
the coming gu ion, whether We now
Tssr-e it or not. Every granger and
urioDist should discuss il with his fellow.
Shsn labor, in the future, control its own
Il res and keep it's own eaI J,ngs
Wendell Philip says, the boy y born
to-day who shsll wife the decline and fall
of the American republic" May he not,
instead Of tbs. write the decline and fall Of
the monied power nov engaged in subvert-
ing TIE republic +. BRAY.