The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-12-04

| melancholy crazed clown. q. L.. Fox, or the
wonderful billiard tournament of Maurice
DAILY and Cyrille Dion.
''After all these things do the Gen,iles
seek, and | don't blame them as such
affairs are very interesting to one who is
not occupied with graver concerns.
KEEP SOUL AND BODY TOGETHER.
Bat will have a wnrd about Moody and
Sankey. | am getting out u patience with
| all benevolent efforts that AIMS at helping
the soul apart from the body. Much as
1 delight in religious exercises, ! made up my
mind many years ago never again 70 per
manently countenance any Church the
members whereof meet at the meeting
I house occasionally to build each other up
IN the most holy faith, and spend the
rest of their time cutting each others
| throats financially, through competitive
trade and wages slavery Give us complete
cooperation
1t is all very fine for Sankey to call
prodigals. But how shall they be kept re-
called He sang thus one day lately
Come home, come home.
You weary at heart
For the way has been dark.
And 80 lonely and Wild.
oh, prodg a child
G me home Oh, come home "
lie had sung only one or two lines be
fore he melted the hearts that the preacher
had warmed. There arose a woman wild,
hysterictl shrek many times repeated, and
hundreds Ut men and women wept and
sobbed
No~ perhaps that hysterical woman. af-
ter fighting desperately against sin had
been led into 1t 10y the poverty which our
stupid civilization makes inevitable for so
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great thing t. set her screaming. Ii would
be a greater thing to provide honest work
and clcvatng surroundings Tor all snch
GGLDED FOLLY
The story OF TINS woman reminds me of
that Of another" Mingee Rpane who
shot herself IA her magnificent rooms ou
Fifth Avenue, because she began to have
doubts about the love of tile man she Was
living with. Oh, the weight If misery III
this Sodou, where the gided youth more
and more cJnsort, Paris fashion, without
marriage, with women their equals who
would gladly be their honorable wives
The elegant flats along Sixth Avenue are
largely occupied by such couples, who thus
ape Fifth Avenue as nearly as p, ssiDle
The rich young man IN this case tried To
cover hls folly 10y furnishing "a rosewood
coffin, the haudsomest the uudertakers
said, that they hal ever made An im-
nense crow collected, but no women were
admitted. The floral display OF crosses,
notices, crowns, &c, was immense. Many
friends came, but 40 relatives. They did |
not recognize the kinship. But the man
Will soon have a fashionable marriage
doubtless. 50 we g. 1t is an easy road
down hill
HOW AMERICAN LABOR Is PROTECTED.
fhe interest IN the Fail River white I
slavery continues The y Y SIN calls |
the mall owners ugly names, such as Bar /
ons OF the Loom Things are working 4
badly enough among the ~eavers and SPIN /
ners. American consumption Is So small |
because Of the mIsdeeds OF molnpollsts) /
and mill tyranny Sc great that, to our !
shame be It sad, are sending print ]
c.uJhs and sheetin5s to England At d profit. I
The mill owners Of FalIR Iver met Nov. l6, |
voted t. send a committee to England to /
negotiate sales there and again reduced the |
starvation wages ten per cent. There is |
much hurrahing over the fact that New
England Is making calico cheaper than Old /
England. u Is a shocking proof of the 1
slavery Of our operatives when we ship any
such manufactures to England unless our
people working by improved processes can /
afford to put goods lower than the English
and still pay talr wages.
Rhode Island is a good specimen Of the
political slavery to which monopoly will
bring State. Doyle, who has been Mayor |
Of Providence for nearly twelve years, has /
Just been reelected by the city employees
and contractors, who are dependent upon |
his patronage and that Of the water ring,
aided by the Government officials who are |
dependent upon Senator Anthony.
Meanwhile the people perish, and mo |
man layeth It to heart, at least no one who |
is strong to save On one side are work
men who stay in the street rather than re-
main IN their desolate homes to hear their
children cry for bread. On the other are
manufacturers who talk in this way II
am worth million OF dollars, and pretty
much all of 1t is invested III the mills here;
but | would rather loose ninsseen-twen
tieths and retire on the balance than recede
from the position we have taken"
SAMUEL LEAvITT