The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-02-12
FROM CALIFORNIA.


| To the Editor Of the WoRKISsAAS's ADVOCATE.
Your January 8 number is at hand, and
it ID paper that editors, readers and con-
tributors may well be proud Of, if not un-
becoming in me to say so. Samuel Lesv-
lit, whom | think | knew many years ago,
wields a trenchant pen in the cause of la
Dor reform 1t is becnuSe | think | re-
member him, and not to draw invidious
comparisons that have named han; all
are deserving Of praise for devoting their
time and talents to enlighten the enslaved
masses on the important subject Of
"RAG BABY
Thank the Dullionist for giving us
name for our pet. We expect they will
be able ere long to quit Rag Baby; borne
at the head of professions Of laborers and
when rUbed in greenbacks, he will indeed
be the scarecrow Of specie resumptionists,
and haunt our Shylocks in their dreams.
They will find that like BaHquo's ghost,
''he will not down" Neither will the
doctrine Of free taAde 60 down with the
American people, except upon condition
they give us free money, and then you
may abolish your tariffs, for with free
money We shall be able to manufacture
cheaper than all other nations, we having
the raw material in abundance That Ia
the cry the bulllonists are raising here In
California How nice for the farmers Of
our State to ship their wool to Europe,
and BUY it back in fabrics at three times
the cost they sold the wool And why
are they compelled to do that Why can
we not have wooden manufactures in our
State. Our mountain sire ans afford
abundance of water power. We have boys
and girls growing up in idleness because
they cannot get work, while our newspa-
pers, all Of them the stipendaries Of capi-
tai that prefers Chinese laborers because
they can work cheaper, hOisting at the
head Of their columns in large capitals,
THESE HOODLUMS MUST BE
SOUELCHED. Hoodlums that they
helped to create by their pusillanimous
bending Of the pregnant hinges Of the
knee to foreigners whose money rules
California. Mr. Leavitt sounds
AoTA - WARNING
when he calls attention to the great num-
Der Of foreign names on the signs OF the
New York merchants. Before the influx
Of these foreigners, who had learned to
smuggle in Europe before they came here,
there was no smuggling among
our own merchants. They have
been compelled to smuggle IN self
defence. In California the evil is
doubtless greater than in any other States
in our union, and if the American people
do not rouse themselves from their leth-
argy and adopt greenback currency with
q low rate of interest, We shall soon be-
come the hewers Of wood and drawers of
! ! water in our own country. 1t was the in
/ 3uence Of these foreigners, who are lured
here by our gold currency, that prevented
] the a0OpLlOu VI INC StCchOoSA ~OAA0N~y ~"
| California. Was not the refusal Of the
] State to rec live the nations obligations in
the hour of peril. open rebellion. Did
We not thereby give aid and comfort to
the enemy, and it has been charged that
40 great was the monied power Of the for
eieners in this State. that they even threat
ened to take the State out OF the Union,
unless California was allowed to ignore its
obligations 10 the country. Few people
even in this State have any idea Of the ex-
tent to which
! ABsENTKRIsM
prevails in California. The rents Of land
lords living in Europe are collected by
agents. They own largely in mines and
lands; they mOnopolise all the best paying
stocks, which our system Of stock COM
panies enables them to do; and why may
they not own the stock of our roads that
We have subsidized with our lands and
money! 1t Is even said that they are
largely interested in the stock OF the
China line of mail steamships, which &C.
counts for the presence Of Confederate