The workingman's advocate., 1874-03-28
FROM CALIFORNIA.
SAS FRANcr,co. March u, 1874.


W the Editor of tbe WokN>oxA>.s Ap,oy,rE
One Of the questions of most Importance
u TIE working classes is, what creates the
distinctions of rich aud poor, aud how to
remedy his admitted evil without revulu-
tionl for revolutions too often tail To secure
the ends aimed at. notwithstanding BUR
maxim that revolutions never - back
wards
These unequal conditions are secured
primarily by the monopoly Of land and af
money. one Is a natural element of crea-
tiou and for any person to monopolize
land while some other person needs it to
provide sustenance for himself and family,
violates the ordinance Of God, who pro
viied these elements for All his creatures
alike; and the nation that violates God 5
and natures laws. cannot escape the de-
structian that overlook Sodom. Nuyvah,
and Babylon
Money Is als7 an element ot sustenancr,
because il facilitates production. Money
is made by the State or nation, and any
nation that gives to a class uf it, citizens
the monopoly II the money It creates, Cas
this nation has always done. violates the
principles of equity and justice, and de-
serves, aud wlll surely De overtaken with
retrbution, unless our rulers repent and
change their policy.
Nua, what Is the remedy for the evils ot
poverty, of which the working classes com
plain To abolish these monopohes of
course How are We to do that Gan the
working men ever expect to do it by elect
Ing non-producers to the national and State
legislatures viii n,n-producers ever vote
for laws that will destroy their occupations
and compel them 70 ~ to worl,
The workingmen view with astOuIshment,
year after year, the increase III the salaries
Of judges, Legislators, Office holders. naval
and military heroes; the augmep ed profits
u professionals and traders of all classes.
that enables them 70 acquire wealth -
much more rapidly and with more certainty
than formerly and wonder how 1t is that
at the same time, destitutlon Is 50 rapidly
increasing among the working classes. Do
they never dream that these uon-producers
are playing into each others hands, and
that the only way for them ~ put an end
to this is To elect producers instead Of non
producers to represent them in the coun-
ellis Of the State and nation As ! SAID
III a former letter, let them lay aside their
partizan chickering's and unite with deter
mination never to vote for man for any
office within the gift Of the people who is
not boitd tds a laboring man not a brain
worker
The producers Of this nation are IN ma
jority and entitled 70 "a majority represen-
tatlon, while they have been content here
tofore. with one workingnan, and he,
oftener than not, a political hummer, or he
would not have been admitted to that po-
sition- tackled on to the end Of the legisla-
tive ticket.
If We get a majority representation in
Congress, we can soon put an end To this
monopoly Of money. While II is the most
baneful of all the evils that attiict US, it
is the one that may be the easiest remedled,
and without doing injustice To any one.
Ii is included in the simple proposition,
MAKE MONEY FREE To any citizen, as it is
now issued gratutously to the national
bankers only and this demand is 50 pal
pably Just that no one dare gainsay 1t 4,
though our national legislators seem to be
very far from grasping it, and even the peo2
pie tremble at the very thought of possess
ing SO great boon as free money, and
mlngle their own feelings Of astonishmt mt
at such presumption, with those of their
rulers. They cannot realize, so long have
they been kept III subJection To this money
power, that they have only to will it and
the thing is done.
The Grangers have only to say t. Con
gress, loan us enough Of these national
issues 70 move our crops TO market. Con
gress dare not say nay and if these notes
were loaned without any interest. as they
now are to the national bankers, the profits
of farming would 20 to the producers, and
not to the spectators and bankers. And
if this money can be loaned to the farmers,
through their organizations, why not to
the mechanics 1t should be loaned to all
classes of producers, in preference to being
loaned to non-producers, and this deslra-
bic and just conSumnatlon Is only ques-
tlon of time.
Money, to fulfil the benifcent purposes
for which it is intended, must be equiva-
lent to production. Money must take the
place of credit, which compels the honest
man to pay the debts of the rogue Pan
les are owing to the credit system. When
replaced by the national currency in sufi-
cient abundance to enable the people to do
a cash business, there viii be no more pan
les and the only objection to an abundant
currency is that it will interfere with the
rate Of interest All the talk about infa-
ton. over production, speculation, etc,
which an Irredeemable currency is supposed
to entail, Is all moon5hine Speculation
is the result OF limited currency. Interest
and speculation are like the Siamese twins.
when one dies the other perishes, and an
abundant currency will be the death Of
both. Over-production is a meaningless
term as if bountiful harvest should be
the ruin of the nation. And those who call
legal tender currency irredeemable, must
be either knaves or fools, for it is the only
secure currency we ever had that did not
rob the people.
Some people dream Of specie currency,
As if such thing were possible; and if it
were. it would not be advisable for the
cost of a specie currency would ruin any
State or nation, and has been the ruin of
California, which, but for her gold curren-
cv. would have contained treble the num-
her Of inhabitants that it does to-day, and
all of them better of, except the bankers