The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-02-28


IT, the EatL,r a the woKsSsx,Ss ADyocSrS.
What is it but the monopoly q land and
the monopoly Of money that makes SO
large a portion Of mankind submit to q
few. Whence did these monopolles arise 4
Are they founded IN equity No one
preteDds that they are. The title to every
foot Of land in England, at least, can be
traced back to bare-faced robbery But
to 60 behind the acts Of William the Con
querer. There is higher Law, and we
have heard Of il before in this country;
and those who advocated this law as more
binding upon them than the laws of man,
are now among the magnates Of our land /;
and those who contended that the law of
God should prevail, what we're they strug-
ginning for to free four millions Of blacks
from the thraldom Of chattle slavery. Yet
these same men when we ask them to free
millions upon millions of white men, wo-
men and children from slavery ten times
more merciless than chattle slavery ever
was, turn their backs upon us. But the abO-
htion Of negro slavery was only the prelude
to the abolition Of wages slavery, aud the
end will soon come, for the struggle has al
ready begun, and it will be much shorter,
for the people who are to put All end to it
are themselves interested. While most Of
those who contended for the abolition OF
chattle slavery were actuated by an alb
stract principle Of right, and it required
the abolition Of negro slavery to let in the
light upon this horrible condition Of God.
creatures that are made slaves to those
who, by bribed legislation, have mOnOpo,
/ Used all the blessings he provided for his
creatures. What shall we say Of the pa.
ternal care of government that, like ours
permits her coal fields to be monopolised
and their products doled out to the poor al
famine prices These storehouseso Of wealth
remember, we're provided by nature for the
benefit Of this nation The wages slaves
who work them, we presume, were alsc
provided for the benefit Of this nation, FOL
If the natio.4 means those who are benefit
ted by the vast stores of wealth tina
lie buried III the bowels Of the earth, thes,
would have been Of no use 10 them unles
God had also provided numerous wage
slaves to dig these riches out Of the earth
and afterwards to pay out all the com
pensatIOn they received for this labor t
those for whom these riches we're especial
~ provided, and :or the bare privilege o
a miserable existence.
1t Is time to put an end to this m0nopo
IL Of Gods bounties. There is a highe
Law than that of man. and the abOlitionls
Of negro slavery successfully advocated II
The hand Of God was seen in the dis
ruptlon Of the Charleston cow ention. Tn
handwriting was seen upon the wall when
at the last Presidential election, both Dem
ocratic and Republican parties were dis
rupted. In Congress already there a;
signs of the coming strife Let the watch
word be the
ABOLITION OF HUMAN SLAVERY,
and the battle will soon be ended, if ii
deed there will be BATH. at all ! pre-
diet there will De none, for when the pc,
pie realIse the condition Of bondage i
which they are held by the monopoly Z
money. ~ land and of mines. and rise a
IN their might, these monopOlIsts an
their IhlnIuns, Who ride over and brai
honest workers for insisting upon a RICH
guaranteed to them BY the constituuo
II the nation and IL 1vcrv State in III
Union, will scatter like frightened jackal
when the slumbering lion rises, shakes hi
name and ruars.
A writer IN the Washington .lapit,
comes pretty near the mark when he says
As our railroads are built on bOrrowe
capital, the interest paid is enormous
Sufficient, If JudicIously expended, to bull
the roads. To pay this interest and SUI
port an extravagant management, Of cours
the patrons Of the roads are taxed beyon
endurance.
There Is not the slightest necessity
paying one cent of interest for buildIn
any road in the country. Let the Coz
eminent issue legal tenders for the purpos,
Every laboring man will take them, an
every manufacturer.
The idea Of these becoming depreciate
Is bugaboo. Mr. Gardner, of Georgi,
sald in the Senate that his State was MOI
prosperous with Confederate money l
sixty for one than it is now and every
body knows the effect in the North whe
greenbacks were two for gold dollar, b.
plenty Of them.
Mr. Gilmore, in our Assembly, has il
troduced bill to regulate the price
quick silver, and everybody is hooting. tn
Alta says. Might as well nix the price {
wheat How about fixing the value ,
gold by Law n These people who see the
interest in the fixed price Of gold, tn;
makes any other commodity subservient
IT, don't see anything ridiculous in tina
Respectfully, Q. b. SMITH.