The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-04-08
c. B. SMITH.
COLCHESTER, April 2, 1876.

/ Experience is a pretty hard school ; but
it is good one, alsough it seems as if the
"hewers of wood and drawers Of water
are long time getting their lesson.
think they will appreciate it all the more
when 1t is learned. Tyranny, like hell,
is not easily conquered +; but the harder
, the struggle the more glorious the victory.
Those grand words are just as applicable
now to those who are toiling for the free
dom of the industrial classes, as they were
in the dark days of the early colonists'
struggle for the political liberty Of the
new world, when they we're uttered Some
poor idiots were to be found in those days
shouting ''God Save the KING 4" and
some are to be found in the ranks Of labor
to-day, who by their actions, are shouting
God Save the Capitalists l am not
writing this article against capital in the
broad meaning Of the term. think one
of your correspondents stated the gist of
the whole efforts of ali intelligent friends
of labor reform. Make capitalists re-
spect us by becoming capitalists ourselves" 5"
| wish those words could be written indel-
IDLY upon the minds of every toiler in
this Republic. | am satisfied the cause of
non-success Thus far is due to- the fact that
ali Of us have been trying to cure the eft
fects instead If the cause. Suppose a
child was taken i'll and red spots were to
break out upon its skin, and suppose far
ther that a physician was called to look at
tie case, and after examining the child
and seeing the rcd spots upon its face and
BODY, was to proceed Ia give medicine Ia
remove them. What would be the result !
Why in all probability tlre chlld would
die Why because the Esculapian ass
tried TO cure the effects, and as the cause
still remained it killed the child II the
doctor" had removed the impurities of
tho child's blood (for that as the cause of
the sickness) nature would have restored
the system 10 a healthy state hers. Ill This
is Just the condition that ~"rkingmen
stand III to-day IN America We can see
see the effects ou ali sides Bat IL is oi
no use to try ana cure Hsm first. because
according +, the immu.able law Il nature.
''lke cause will produce like effect, every
time; and second, because Il Is highly dan
gerous as in the case of the child fine
and time again, according u history, have
thc governments Of nations been torn az
by the roots and society resolved in ITS
elements, and all reason and mercy thrown
to the four winds of heaven. through
mems striking at effects" Would u not
J be better for the toilers Of this country a
7 read-study dy-a and after tindIng the cais,
= Of all our wrOng-,Atter having gained a
I kao,riedge Of the nHtNe d tn eviI-t,
= quietly go to work in unity aud harmony
and remove the cause of the disease. Ist
ting nature restore the syst IN to a healthy
state OF acton than - struggle On t,.l-
= ing and groaning under their heavy Load
Of oppression until they can bear it nc
longer. and then turning IN their madness
> and repeat the blood-stained history oI
{ the " Reign Of Terror" in France. | as
in the name Of all that is good and true
which is the best way Of remedying ON
wrongs Surely as | am sitting at TIM
table writing just 50 surely one of those
things must come to pass All such thing
As strikes, arbitration, etc, arm well sat
: tisied are simply blows at the effects
7 At the bottom Of the wound lies thu
> cause, and that Is the Wages System AnC
a that hanging rock can never be removed
r. from the neck of labor until the industria
> classes are educated to that grand pur
pose There are three great factors t. b,
employed in the accomplishment "i tina
= great object, viz The Press. The Ros
trum, aud last but not least by any means
: The Ballot Box And the hrst tn be nae,
: III my opinion is the p.rtss With TIN
great instrument the working people mus
= be taught the causapf their slavery Witt
= il they must he told what the remedy i
aud how it must be applied. With il the
y must be learned 10 regard unity an,
~ knowledge as the means VI emancipation
= freedom aud happiness a. the end.
From il We must learn how to get con
iidence in one another. And Il will SOD
r come when all workmcn read papers de-
voted t. their interests. For by readIn
they viii see the eff 'rts that are being nad
K IL free them, and ii will canse them 90 eN
IS change ideas upon the subject, and the
So viii sonn see their eunIs. ~ action; and
es common action IN gwen direction vi
,n soon give them the necessary confidence
W Too long have the industrial classes
We the bed rock Of all society, lAs and govern
at n.ent, been content with eating the husk
OF Too long have they in their ignorance pc
NJ United loud-mouthed demagogu-s an
he soft-toned chaIlatans attend T. the bus
in ness OF this world. Too long have q
rights of mankind been trampled IN Il
earth Too long have men been IgnOra
ay Of the meaning of the sweet word lbert
ate Too long has the iron heel of tyranl
lth been aIio~ed to rest upon the snow viii
rn- neck Of Justice. Too long has truth rob
by in the dark mantle Of desp sir been fuic
or TO sit upon the side Of the grave silent
at weeping for the ignorance Of man. L
no long has righteousness and honesty be
of clothed IN tatters aud rags, wanderi
ing homeless through the world, laughed
an by wealth, sneered at by fashion and wi
" the finger Of scorn pointed at it by
spectability. while falsehood and vice Ia
and been bedecked with jewels, silks and satil
'os- Too long has the world made sovereigl