The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-05-20
FROM OBtRlIE.


II - tAino W spoeA Out- we DoiIeVe
Oberlin has given Ohio to the devil and
his cause, and, through Ohio Pennsyl-
vaniA, and consequently all the disasters
70 liberty Of the fall elections, are due to
her. Moreover she controls the colored
vote throughout the Lstion. The rock on
which we are TO split and founder, il We
are to split, il usnry, and Oberlin goes for
it teeth and toe-nAil, soul and body. Her
corner stone is usury, m slavery was # the
South, and she has done and ia doing her
utmost for its institution all abroad. Thus
believe such il our faith, and in our be-
lief. it il it full time Oberlin's true inward
meas, should be known and read Of all.
We believe her to be as great traitor an
Judas was, and infinitely worse On the
case stands, for she is without confession,
whereas he did all and ths best he could
to refrain the evil he had committed by
confessing and hanging himself in despair
Oberlin is, a. we believe most solemnly,
doing her utmost for the destruction Of
liberty in our land, and throughout the
world, through her adhesion and devotion
to usury. We do not know what more
she could do to curse the race than she has
done and Is now dong in the name Of the
Lord and all that is good. Ispeak this to
greenback men. We could not specify
anything more. She says all that she can
say, for there is nothing to be said, ard
still she says and does, and Is as faithful
to her cause, which il usury, As the South
was to hers, which was slavery. II We
are mistaken, we are mistaken but such
Ii our faith, and unless these things are
80, we are Of 1nsound mind, aid we free
lY confess it. We cannot see otherwise.
BY possibility. We would give any thing,
and all We have, at this moment, and life
itself, for the conviction that Oberlin il in
the right, and doing right to the utmost
of her ability, a. she, Of course, claims !;
for then our work on earth would be done
for in mind we should confess to being .
perfect wreck, and there would be no more
work for us, and Why should We cumber
the earth longer Life is not worth the
living for its own sake. Unless we can
be Of use 70 others we had better be in
our graves.
The subject Of finance science ia the
matter Is not above the powers and capaci-
ty Of the child certainly, which can com
prehend the simple rules u arithmetic
and why this ignorance, | ask. except BY
designl Why this vacuum in our system
Of liberal education, if not by design
Educated men eXcuslng themselves BY
claiming ignorance ON the subject, and
legal men, members OF Congress, even,
when pursued and closer pushed to the
wall, and their friends for them, excusing
themselves in this way and exclaiming OF
suggesting ignorance Of that, which Is the
center and circumference Of all political
science, and Of which 1t 10 shame that q
single child Of ten years Of age does not
fully understand and comprehend This
plea Of ignorance does not q down with
us, for 1t would unit u man for preacher,
or even Methodist exhorter, or any one
of the professions For his country q
good he better be ignorant Of all the rules
of arithmetic, and unable even TO write
his name Ignorance on this subject is
popular, manifestly, under the circum-
stances; every teacher Uf a common school
should be required to understand it, and q
knowledge Of it is not one-hundredth part
a. difficult as what they are required to
understand, and mammon knows it. IL
all our common school and union school
teachers did understand it, Shylock's pro-
fesslon would be gone, and thls they know
also. One other subject before | close
this. 1t should be even borne in mind
that mammon holds the nations purse
strings, and that In point Of display at con-
ventIons, &c, our ability 10 not one-hun-
dredth part Of what theirs Ia, because
mammon has stolen our purse from us.
Msmmon Is dove in peacock's feathers.
She spreads herself at our expense, having
not one honest dollar among All the millions
contained In her Golfers. MAInmon IL q
liar and thief, and knows aothing Of
justice or right, or any OF the attributes
claimed BY the Almighty. On the other
hand, what one Of ali the attributes at
trlbutaLle to the devil are not hers We
would therefore recommend to ministers
OF the various sects to suspend the fruit
le"s study and chase Of the devil, and in
stead, prosecute the study Of mammon
and usury, until they fully understand the
subject, tor the contest Of the Greenback
Party Is with mAmmon and ON the side OF
God T; and the greenbAck cause il better
test, to-day, a. to Who are the Lord
people, than any and all church creedA Z
At any rate, We will cast our lot with the
defenders Of the perfected, interconverti-
ble greenback. l.