Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-26
THE PEN--THE NEWSPAPER--THE
BALLOT.
BY A. GAYLORD sPALDING.
The Ballot a Key--woman,s Rebellion.


How important that workingmen and wo-
men learn the value and power of the pen
1t would give potency to the newspaper be-
You'd all churches, priests, legislatures, and
congresses, and thereby enable them (the
people, to throw of the extra burden of tax.
es,-state and national,-of politics, church
es, and war. They would no longer. through
Ignorance, consent to be continually crushed
by capital, fashion, and aristocracy. Each
one would produce his own honest bread,
and become his own individual SOVEREIGN.
president, governor, and minister What
worker needs to be governed, protected. and
saved so much mt such fearful costP Uniyer-
sal nonsense and imposition! We are taxed
for our very breath, which goes into the
hands of men that never lift finger in tho
way OF productive labor. And it simply
keeps up, fat and handsome, nation full of
political and social moths, or professional
leaders, who live on the peoples drudgery.
But such leaders will never stop until the
workers dismiss them. Let us do that, then.
quickly MS possible. 1t will be happy day.
Dear workers, discuss this matter, and writo
Tor all brave newspapers. The pen is Nigh
ty.
The question of right must be understood.
The first right is, to be q man or woman,
which consists of body and mind, life and
liberty, and the means of happiness, rs stated
IN our great Declaration of Rights. And the
ballot is tile key, which unlocks to all and to
each, impartially, the riches and blessings of
the earth IL hn cyn,hcI Of IA. a
the power OF the people, which, If wisely ex-
ercised, makes every man king and every
woman queen. 1t is the backbone of all true
democracy. Any other quality is an unmiti-
gated shame, and an outrage on mankind.
But this is already so well understood that
argument is superlluous.
Tho means of happiness arc labor md
property, or production. What need of lack
TO anybodyP But behold your Astors, Stew
arts, and Vandcrbilts They are social car
buncles and monstrosites. Yet such men
lead tho world, and every city and town
have their petty Stewards and Vanderbilts,
whose motives, aims, and principles are the
same as those of the bigger bugs of large
cities. They are your monarchs of trade,
money, and monopoly. Tho true object of
lille is perverted, and property, to some, is
rendered more a curse than blessing; for
the rulo seems to be, that the higher the
wealth is heaped up, the moro ffightful and
hideous is the amount of poverty, ignorance,
and vice all around, especially in cities.
ITO have and to hold"--more than the no.
BILE use-is the controlling idea of most men
oil property. Tho few naturally gain an op-
pressivo asccndency over the many, and no
relief is attainable except through II terrible
struggle and crisis, rs in the late rebellion
against negro slavery, and now in our rebel
lion against monopoly. A partial and tenn
poraTy victory will amount TO very little
We must pillow deep into the principles of
things. Aristocracy and non production are
the same under any name whether secular
or ecclesiastical ThVo is no sect in truth
and principle, and but small degree of
truth or principle in our sects; which is
proved by their endless divisions and dis
putes. They must therefore be set aside.
and better ideas substituted, which will
throw of IN awful burden from the should.
ers OF the laboring class. Truth is always
harmonious unity, and works exceedingly
cheap.
But the oranges and industrial lodges arc
10 correct and regulate matters hereafter,
and viii cover the entire ground OF business,
politics. and religion, thereby economizing
extensively, by dispensing with hundreds of
Old costly professional, arisiocratIc ways.
For instance in legislation; As no legisla-
ture projected or invented these noble orders
OF equity, justice, or brotherhood, they will
work independently, and do very much their
own legislation, right out doors, on the farm,
and in the shop.