The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-05-29
FROM new York.
NEW YORK, May 8, 1875.


~ Tie Editor " the woRkxeAASs ADVOCATE
William NJ Evarts is quoted as saying
that we are near to a complete change
IN the form Of our government No
wonder this shrewd, greedy old lawyer,
who finds it SO easy for him to rake in his
$4,000 year, and sees himself sur
rounded by thousands Of others who are
rapidly making princes Of themselves
through the supineness Of this people,
who tamely offer their necks to the yoke,
sees United States Emperor looming up
in the near future. But the case is not
yet desperate. The means of regaining
their liberties are still in the hands Of the
common people, as they never were before
in the hands of any other people. They
need but the will to use them We Of the
East are pretty well cowed. And, alas
our literary men as well as our politicians,
are almost universally bound hand and
foot 10y the powers thai be. Euraged at
the fact that unlettered mechanics have
often as large incomes as they enjoy who
are ''the leaders and moulders Of peoples
opinions, they hope by TRADES against
them To crush back the common people to
lower grade OF income, and q meaner
life
To the West must We look mainly for
salvation in this crisis. Thlther have We
sent our brayest, and those who will have
liberty or death.
One Of the greatest obstacles we have
To encounter is the ease with which the
masses are imposed upon. In their awk
ward maneouvers to removet the wrongs
that Cypress them politically, they almost
invariably choose champions who are eth
er blind leaders Of the blind or cunning.
loud mouthcd knaves. In 1860 | spent
the winter at Harrisburg, as correspond
ent Of a Philadelphia daily paper. The
twop prominent Democratic champions
there were Hester Clymer, the most IN
mitigated aristocrat in the Senate, and
John Cessna, Of the House, the most en-
ergetic, loudest, roaring blatherskite i'll ell
Their branch. used 70 call him ''the
voice Of one crying in the wilderness.
He was what the knaves would call
" cor ct prGter0 Hhd voice, and
nothing more. have watched this
scamp since then. He has been TO Con
gress, aud is now L. 5. Assistant Attor-
ney. He is one of those ''vipers, who,
having wound their loathesome track, "
to the top Of this huge Wondering gov
eminent Of ours, ''Hang Kissing at the
nobler men below
The New York Express says Of this ri
val Of Ben. Butler
Cessna was late getting into the Repub-
hcan party, and, indeed, got in about the
time some better men got out He was
prominent for Governor b, fore the Demo
cratic Convention Of 1863, but wasn't nomin-
ated, and then be entered the Republican
party a year or so after, and became a most
candidate about the same time.
Having been elected to Congress once,
and continually repudiating since, he has
made such pig-headed fight for Grant,
that he has got his reward. He will reor-
game the Outrage Mill whenever the ne
cessity arises, and will furnish unfortunate
colored brethren drawn, quartered or
toasted to order, to fire the Northern
heart, and will 60 the whole Administra-
ton figure.
There vas wonderful exhibition Of
money monopoly spite to-day, when the
usually sleepy M attended the election
If the officers Of the Chamber Of Com
merce, which was scene Of eager excite
ment of thronging multitude who came
70 vote down ex mayor Opydyke, because,
As said Mr. b. b. Sherman, "Mr. Opydyke |
is not specie man, and it is not consist
ent FOR the Chamber to re-elect him as its
President after it has pronounced in favor
Df a speedy resumption Of specie payment.
We consider that Mr.. Opydyke has vision
arv ideas upon financial questions.
Oh how wise and prudent must this
great people become, if they would hope |
to prevail against the evils that press upon
hem. How difficult it will be, for in
stance, when we have again sufficient
to prevent those results from it
that have undoubtedly arisen from it, in a |
when VIC had this sufficiency.
1t is not without reason that the bullion
SITS are always hoping on ''the reckless
speculation, the gold-mining iascos, pc
troleum bubbles, railroad manias and ev-
Try form of bonanza that characterized
he flush t::...es after the war.
Our people must learn that if we would
Itave off the threatened Monarchy, there
must be general determination through
,ut the masses Of the people, to let the
'ich, shrewd and crafty know that there
must be a return to Republican simplicity, !