The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-03-06

crease of the circulating medium would
effect the relative value of commodities ia
verItable delusion; for it 10 only with
p, latiee values that men have ~ deal. II
the Government, who owns the national
ealth, pays a claim for services, or sup
plies, adjudged to be equal IN value TO one
hundred unit values Of thu standard, ia .
paper token, or due blll Oh the national
wealth, aud guarantees u maintain II TO
tie standard, III whatsoever possession It
may chance To- be, IL needs ~ regulation
but the integrity Of the authority that
issued ii. Never. till the amount Of such
due bills exceed III amount, the nation
a. wealth, can they effect the value u
commodities. They will huctuate with the
standard That is at the risk of the hold
m Win the amount OF duebills issued
by a store keeper, more or less, affect the
value 81 the the goods pledg a to redeem
them They are only evidences II own
,rship. 50 gresnbacks only evidence " Ia
owns the national wealth and whoever
Gets the most ot them gets the most ~ealth
Government cannot rlghtfully ple,lgg in
payment Of ITS Obligations, any one COM
modify Il would obviously, give I, the
producers or holders II IT an unjust al
vantage over other zens that did not
produce a. suppose vernment pledged
| trh,tf for instance, w. I'd the farmers he
/ successful III sIlencIn. h, protests that
would everyN hete be raised agalns tAe
monopoly, b. those no az not raise the
grain - With any other commodity.
I There is no question, but the interchange
I ble scheme IS preferable to the present
system u paying double interest I" bank
~. but the producers uf wealth will never
be fully rmaEcipated from the rule Of a
money uhgarchy, till the principle Is UNI
yrrsAlly accepted, and established, that no
tree government viii ever impose an inter
est bearing debt upon the citizens ; and no
Tree people will ever pay interest IN pub.
lie debt
There - soon To be held another NaIi-
VENT 4 10 organize national cam IN
against stem thai ueprives the p~u-
juciug class of their equality in ne
4 Government Viii the delegates isc 70
Al adequate appreciation ii the situsrion.
ana like true statesmen, adopt platform
! oi prlnci pies IA cOnsonance with inherent
law one that would correct al the de-
engagements III the social mechanism
Viii they III tiugush he. ween cause
and their effects. This last was the mistake
Of the Labor Congress, that made then
efforts 81 barren VI results. Their main
energies were directed tnward reduction
of the hours of labor. However desirable,
it can only be accomplished indirectly. Ii
is an ,fstt, not a cause The healthy color
Of the face in a patient afflicted with
jaundIce, Is not restored by applying cos
metics, but by hepatic remedies.
The Illinois Farmers Association be
trayed the same want Of discrimination il
the adoption Of their tariff resolutinS
What are termed manufacturing N -.opo
lies are only the ,Fects Of a contraction
and monopoly Of the currency. With al
( ample circulating medium, bearing NJ in
terrst OF a rate j,lor the'European, tn,
tariff would be abolished altogether be
cause no manufactured articles would b,
5 imported they would tie manufacture
/ here Indeed. this country would mann
facture for Europe, ull the rate oi interes
was reduced there Money will be in
vested in usurous and speculative scheme,
when they pay best when they cease Il
+ pay, 1t will be invested III productive en-
+ terprlses multiplying wealth, and abol
lshIng poverty and ITS concomItants IL i
strange the farmers are SO slow To discove
I the cdus, of their troubles The fnancia
b. policy II the Government was dictated b,
I the shrewd. far seviu. merchants ant
bankers Of the sea board cities o. compe
the farmers products "a pass througl
their hands On It's way u "a, foreign mar
e ket and THAI they might handle the in
\ portations and deal in exchanges. Tn
plan is to grasp the wealth If thu continent
According 70 the New York H-orld, tina
city and county, own ols-eignth OF tn
e wealth OF the country. is not the state
= ment alarming Tn money power con
o. trols the press ia IL trr-st by the ais
Of its subsidies, the great metropolitan
weeklies are cheaply printed, and widely
{ circulated Tor the purpose u curruptin.
= the rural mind wIth financial sOphistries
They come a. the farmers over burtheueC
with pretended sOlicitude for their welfare
: and full Of moral lessons. and instruction.
nj matters relating "a their calling. The
farmer is battered, and pronounces mos
emPhatically IN favor u my paper Wo,
e the journal that rebels. The tinancia
articles in the New York Tribune thai
commended its editor to the favor Of the
Columbus Convention, doomed Horace
Greeley and his paper. There are aban
liant proofs o. sustain the theory, that his
nomination at Cincinnati, supplemented BY
the cartoons If Mast, and the concentrated
batteries IT ridicule directed against hin
was the programme Ut a conspiracy to over.
throw The Tribune and its great influence
with the masses Let it be remembered
that both political parties are manipulated
by the same great interest; their quarrels
are AL simulated for the purpose Of divid-
lug aud deceiying the people
The new party u independence, will IN
derstand the opposition it is to meet, be-
lore its triumph. The policy OF the subsi-
dlzed press, at first, Will probably be to
treat it with silence. When il Is likely t.
triumph an appeal will be made to the gov
eminent to suppress it by force Of arms.
Then the rule Of the money-power, like
the rule Of the slave-power will pass into
history. FARNERC.
FROM MICHIGAN.