The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-01-08

people who had good deal to learn befor :
they did much good.
"IHE STAR OF EMPIRE.
Among the signs Of that growing aris-
tocracy of our people which will help to
bring ia an imperial government are such
as these: Rich men who have estates on
the Hudson have chartered special palace
car to pick them up at their stations. Last
year they had special trains put on for their
advantage, but they were soon crowded by
the riff raft
Again strong efforts are making to build
up a landed aristocracy of families owning
thousands Of acres. One nice thing to do
now is to buy an old Spanish claim i'll Cal
ifornia, say 100, 600 acres. You buy cheap
if you get IN the ring. Then you can rent
it as a stock range, and by little trickery
you can manage To pay taxes on 1t at
valuation Of SOC. an acre, while the small
improved farms around you pay on valu-
alton Of 800 an acre. Then you can live
in Europe, and at the same time can feel
that you have gone to California, and are
growing up with the country" The Junk
head small farmers will pay taxes, support
schools and churches, build roads and
towns even, or at least employ and feed
the town people. When the empire comes,
you will ind your dukedom all ready for
you, thanks to our Democratic-R Republican
lawyers.
CURRENCY LIGHTS AND SHADOWS.
see that there are hopeful signs IN Con
gress from all quarters crying out
against resumption. 1t does one good
to hear a Congressman from California
protesting against the golden calf The
= American sy stem Of finance will conquer
yet, though many there be that rise up
against it. ''One Of the supremest private
lniseries to an earnest man in these as in
All DAYS, is the complacent stupidity Of
those tools who talk talk that they have
obtained some advantage over the cause Of
progress over the truth and the right.
Yet II also amusing, now that the battle
against imitation is over, and the vic
tory won, to observe some OF the cackllng
of the editors over their pullet egg Of fall
election triumph.
Senator and Chevalier Bayard having
dared at last to kick the rag baby after It
Was down, the Springfield Republican
says he is good boy, but Is rather late, as
'Tilden done it. The flowing stirring
paragraph should be enough to make every
Greenback man swear such vengeance
against this I" Soapy Sam" Of New York
as Hannibal swore against Rome upon the
the altar of Hamilcar. The Republican
says L" The break water against which the
rag money inundation broke and fell back
was the platform Of the New York Dem
ocracy- adopted last year, reathrmel / and
strengthened this year. This platform, as
the country knows Was the work Of ). j.
Tllden Every sentence bore his stamp
and signature. The political courage and
sagacity Of one man saved the party, hu-
manly speaking, from the greatest peril
that has threatened it since the war Of Sc
cessIon.
TALMAGE AND THE PoPISH PLOT.
But oh, the Third Term . and No
Popery and the American Mechanics and
j. Y. Foster, and Mr. Speaker Blaine "a
chill blain man), and Try-to- ID" 1t Tall
mage as Josephus said when he heard
that Granger Piolette was up for Treasurer
of Pennsy lvania, =" This is more of 1t.
Babcock and Crooked Whisky, and South
ern Pacific, and Jay Gould's paralysis of
the brain, are nothing alongside OF Tai
mage, and Gil Haven, and the T:Iplex
Savior Of his Country
SAMUEL LEAvITT.