The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-05-08
SHARPS And FLATS

Here Is sl8u OF the tunes. ne next
sharpcrt people in this country TO the Wall
sire br kers are the New England man
ut4 HI ;. Business must certainly be
rrviviug f1r the brokers have snutfed 1t
from affair ana put stocks up thereby ds
counting the good time coming aud taking
the cream from n.
And now New England mills have gone
Ia work tn manufacture enough IN SIN
months tn last the United States year
The down East 'shafps are learning the
real English style # working the 'fars"
y HON they employ !. e., "a run them
-iuil tilt eleven hours a day at starvation
wages FIR part Vt the year, ana turn them
into the poor house for the rest.
81 cheap 50 universal
TAX about eight hours II mauufacto-
ries were properly distributed throughout
the world by running at an easy jig. 1870
hours day would do the hard work of
the human family and even then if the
workers should get their fair share they
would have better wages than nov.
GuRGED BOA CONSTRUCTORS.
A singular sign of the gorged condition
ri the English capitalists, Is. that after
having crammed themselves With plumber
from all the world for 500 years, they are
as stupid as boa constructors after they
have stuffed themselves.
London has made Il known W every mon
" market in the world that there Is nothing
80 rotten, 50 faithless .r ~ worthless IN the
way Of a financial negotiation that 1t cannot
be marketed there.
Ii Was London that. by ITS bankers and
high endorsements made all our worthless
bonds negotiable throughout Europe
And yet one person IN every nineteen in
England Is pauper.
CONPULS Dry CLOTHING.
Our wise New York potentates are IN a
quandary. They find they have got an ell
tphant on their hands in compulsory ed
ucation' The staid old Journal of Conn
D,ercs shrieks thusiy
"Comml1,ism or Pateradiisas When uL-
willing taxpayers are forced BY Law to pay
for teaching music, drawing, French and
German in the public schools, there is nothing
absurd III the question, why not also teach
dancing, carving. the art Of dining ont. and
similar accomplishments at the public ex-
Pense? Compulsory ed
ucation, being part Of the sames4 ystem,
serves to develop its requirements in another
direction There is found to be call on the
state to clOthe the bodies as well a. to cultivate
and adorn the minds Of the destitute children
Many Of them are too ragged and dirty to
come into school in cOmpanlOGship with the
more decent and respectable, ana there will
be an cutlery ii such associations are forced.
State slOp-shOps thus become AN essential adj
Junct Of the common schools, and what Will
follow next who knows
IL is pleasant to see the cussed conceit
taken out Of the wiseacres, who think
modern civilization nearly perfect. 4"
They make wonderful plans for putting
the finishing touches on their regulation Of
the working classes. and all Of a sudden
the absurdIty Of their whole system of
sham jusrice to the poor and needy APP
pears and they scratch their stupid heads
IN dire perplexity. The only way out Of
the above muddle, according to the Jour-
nal, IS to give up common schools.
YOUR GODS, o ISRAEL
feel as if | could never say enough
about the wretched creatures who are the
present prominent lords of Wall street.
ANuSstil t7dPo, oiiC VI the lillllOndlft spec
ulators, has been a httle too smart for
once, and has been fined 81, 900 for false
pretense, after several brokers testified,
under compaision, to his bad character.
But mark what the great Rufus Hatch
said
MIR. Hatch having been asked whether be
told reporter that he would rather trust q
yalier dog than trust Russell Sage, replied
alphabetically No sir the yaller dog story is
as false as from hell to breakfast Mr. Hatch
added that MIR. Sage is gentleman, whose
word is to be believed under all circum-
stances"
. Sovereign American people, how longl
how long
VANITY FAIR. :
The New York Daily Bulletin, speaking
OF the fact that the East India trade which
used to be done by New England, is now
coming here, says
1T may selace our friends south and east
of US to reflect that if New York is drawing
everything into its net and becoming more
commercial than ever, 1t is sometimes said to