The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-12-09
ONWARD AND UPWARD.

A correspondent, under date Of Nov.
18th, writes
What is the programme for the future
Are we t. continue the fight or give 1t up. For
myself | never felt more determined, or
SO determined to help carry on the good work
as do at the present time. What says the
ADVOCATE"
The ADVOCATE says it hasn't the slight
est idea Of giving up the contest, and
Doesn't know an honest Independent who
has that there is better fighting material
10 the greenback party, since the policy
mongers and transfer scoundrels have been
wecdod ont Il 1t than there has been since
its declarations were first given to the
world. Men Who had the moral courage
to defy party leaders and party lash, and
vote for a principie-wh inevitable de-
feat stared them in the face who aimed
At something higher than temporary sue
cess, are not the men to desert their colors
III the hour % need +; and those who hug
the delusion that the country has heard
the last Of the greenback doctrine, or that
its advocates will now bow the knee TO
BaaI will lind that thly have counted
without their host.
The ADVOCATE finds every incentive
for renewed and re-doubled effort in re-
view of the situation. Nine years ago 1t
vas the only journal on the American con
tlnent which sustained the financial prin-
ciples Of the Independent Party to-day
We can count its organs by scores, scattered
broadcast over the country. Then its ad
hcrepts we're denounced rs visionary
schemers, as tnarplots who could not mus
ter a corporal's guard; to-day the election
II a United States Senator from the
great State 90 Illinois hangs upon their
decision, and even with the party machin
cry, the wealth, the corporate interests Of
The Rconntry arrayed against them, we
tud the adherents Of Peter Cooper polling
one hundred thousand votes, and running
an electoral ticket in one half the States Of
the union. Certainly there is no ground
for dlscouragement IN this exhibit and
who can doubt, that as either the Repub- |
lean OF Democratic parties have made
their last hght, az distinct party orgsniza-
tons, on the issues Of the past, that the
financial problem will become the over
shad owing question of the hour and that,
as the results Of the ruinous contraction
policy pursued, become more and more
apparent and they sssuredly willard |
the principles If the Independent Party !
more thoroughly UNDERSTOOD the |
people viii rally to their support eis masse
refusing to be longer blinded OF bambooz- /
led By political hucksters who advocate a
system which tnriches the few at the ex-
pense Of tie many With proper manage
ment and foresight, by consistent and per |
sistent effort, By the dissemination Of the
truth, the election Of greenback president
IN lsoO-uniess the country goes to the
devil IN tine meantime-ls assured beyond
all controversy The path Of duty is the
path If safety. Let US maintain our or
II iuLEtttOlS, tpuiiblt CAdtS anu N1liphai'
intact, remembering it is the constant
dripping that wears away the stone let
the National Committee prove itself equal
to the emergency, map out a programme
Tor the tuturs-comprehensive aud effect
i've in its character let the purse strings
Of those v To have the means to furnish
the sinews Of war, be drawn let speakers
and documents be sent to every Southern
State let the papers which have 50 far
done yoemsu service in the cause, contin-
ne 70 do their duty III short, let as use
every means which God and nature have
placed III our power to help destroy root
and branch the iniquitous, anti-republican,
labor rcbh;ng financial system which pre-
walls and ~ vii triumph over the machl |
uatl M ri the world, the flesh and the
devil
This 4 wha; the ADVOCATE saws.