The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-04-01
INTEREST CANNOT BE JUSTIFIED,

InTEhEST CANNOT bk JUsTlFlED,
unless q valuable commodity is used fol
money; and il our government was run in
the interest Of industries, instead OF being
run, as it is, in the interest of Shylocks,
gold and silver would be demonetized, and
. legal tender paper currency, receivable
for all dues, and not, as it is now, deprc-
ciated, by discriminating in favor Of gold
in payment of duties, done under the base
and false Pretense Of providing gold to pay
our debts, when every fnAncier knows that
this clause in the Legal Tender bill has
cost this nation a Thousand millions of
dollars, and was not needed to provide
gold, which would have been cheaper with
out it. The gold amendments were added
to the Legal Tender bill in the interest Of
foreign money-lenders, who were conspir-
ing to destroy this nation, and these Of our
own country, who aided them in
their mschinations to put an end to repub-
licanism on this continent. 1t was q raid
against liberty, in whose overthrow capital
everywhere makes common cause.
THE MONOPOLY OF LAND
IL another violation Of the inaliensble
rights Of the people. Our land laws are
framed for the especial purpose Of enabling
our lands to be monopoliEed. II we are
told that the people, through their repre-
sentatives, xe these laws and consent to
them, the question is not who made the
laws, but are they just and equitables rhe
people are deceived; they are told that it
in necessary to squsnder their birthrights
that railroads may be built, when the roads
might be built with the lands and the
people own them. By what right
can government deed away the in
hsritance of human beings yet to be born :
Every child has an inherent and inalienable
right to the soil which nature has provided
for his subsistence.
TEE WORKING CLASSES ARE BORN SLAVES.
and the cause is the monopoly OF money
and natures free gifts TO mankind. But
for their ignorance they would revolt
against this injustice. They are already
turbulent, and it becomes those who are
in the enjoyment Of special privileges to
consider the insecure tenor Of vested
rights that invade the domain Of inalien-
able rights. 1t would be an easy matter
to remedy these wrongs, If those who rule
IN, while deluding US with the idea that
we are ruling ourselves, would consent to
reform our money system; but on the con-
trary, they are madly urging in Congress
suicidal measures that must inevitably lead
to their own destruction. There are evil
dences too plain to be mistaken that the
present money agitation will not down
until more equitable money system pre-
walls. The bankers now enjoy the free use
Of four hundred millions of the nations
money. The industrious masses are denied
the Asme privileges.
If FREE MONEY
was furnished to the industrious classes,
NJ it ia now furnished to the bankers, what
would be The effect Those opposed to
this measure will point out the danger
that would ensue. They will say, if the
working classes can get money like the
bankers, they will become lazy, and, like
the bankers, they won't work. Even if
this should be true, which it is not, it
would be just but on the contrary, the
effect would be not only to encourage the
working classes to toll, by insuring to them
the profits of their industry, but it would
also compel those now privileged classes to
90 TO work after they had consumed the
property which they or others have ac-
auired for them by the aid Of unjust and
a Of
plan by which these principles are
TO be carried out are not pertinent here.
It would only give those who oppose
them an opportunity to quibble. When
the question under discussion is, have all
the people, especially the industrial classes,
equal rights to the nations money, who
dare gainsay 90 fair a proposition But
will the bankers accept it 7 They have too
long fattened upon the toll of the masses
10 dream of surrendering to them their
just rights nov.
TKR EMPLOYERS OF LABOR
even begrudQe to the working men and
women the scAnty pittance that now falls
TO their share out Of that which they alone
earn for their masters. With this pittance
they can hardly subsiSt, while their en-
ployer grows opulent. All the money
chat he amaAsss Of right belongs to those
Who have earned IL. Men in civilized ser
Witty have no more right to make another
man work for them than in state Of ma
ture one savage has the right to make
another Indian hunt for him. 1t is no
justification 20 say the civilized worker is
better OF than the savage.
Why should the farmer, who produces
the crop that the merchant only exchanges,
work early and late, and submit to many
privations, while the niddle man goes to
hin counting room ct 10 o'clock, and re-
turns 10 hin dinner and clippers at ~
II thsrs ever was . time when these
conditions were necessary for the good Of
ths community, surely they are past now
The science of evolution teaches that the
march Of humanity is onward end upward;
and experience teaches that those who
would oppose the car Of progress must and
vii Be ruthlsssly ground into duss beneath