The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-04-08

} Democrats or Republicans Look at tn,
corruption that exists. Is there any diff
ference between Republican or Demo
crat Not whit They are as neal
as may be in this respect. Whence comes
this rotteness Perhaps we have been
trying to rear Republic on moDarchial
customs. 1t looks so to me. 1t makes
a great difference where everybody is free
to steal instead of few only.
We say "in our country any person may
attain to the highest position in the land.
Has that proved to be blessing or a
curse, when men without education, re-
finement, virtue or honesty. by the acqui-
sltion Of wealth, become the aristocrats of
our country We cannot much longer
go on from bad to worse in this manner.
We see the wrecks of nations strewn all
over the world, and we know very well
that it was corruption that wrecked them.
These are facts that cannot be gainsayed,
and the question before us is what is
best to be lone-sl.all we go back to mon
archy There are many in our country
that do not hesitate to assert that there is
no other help for Us Many hope for and
not few expect it. | believe they have
mistaken the signs Of the times. When
things come to the worst they must n end,
and believe we have come to that pass
now.
THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST OF 1860
was fought upon the issue Of freedom for
the slave. Is is not about time to raise
the issue OF freedom for the white man
The white slaves Of the Moth are many
of them worse of than the negroes OF the
South ever were starving They are
not, it is true, subjected to the lash. Are
the thongs of destitution and want, less
to be dreaded than the overseer's whip
Gaunt famine is staring honest working
men in the face, and the robbers who
have plundered them say you have pro
duced too much" These are hard words,
but the facts are harder for the plundered
workingmen to bear. They are not ask
ing for their rights, they are begging for
bread, and Congress turns deaf ear.
scorning their entreaties and regardless of
their SUITE rings. The members Of our
state and national legislatures are engaged
in their nefarious schemes Of plunder
So happened it when the French people
rose in their might and deluged France
with the blood Of her aristocrats.
THE SUFFERING MEN AND WOMEN
Of our country are the producers, the
creators of wealth, those who provide US
with our luxuries and necessaries They
are those in fact from whom all our bless
ings fiow-our benefactors; and we treat
them as if they were enemies. Worse
than is the custom with civilized nations
to tr eat their prisoners OF war. These
wrongs must soon eliminate, and if JUS
tice prevails it is not difficult to .foresee
VIII ,re retribution will fall.
IN CALIFORNIA
to stave off the money question-wh which
alone can give relief to our paralyzed in
dustries-and to secure the states Of the
Pacific slope to the Democratic party,
that our money monopolists conclude will
be the safest to trust with power in the
near future. The Chinese question has
been raised, aud now the originators of the
movement are trembling lest they may
not be able t. control it, Il has been
proposed that mass meetings be held in
this city on next wednesday--A week
from tonight and simultaneously M
every town and ha.nle, IN the state. One
OF our papers to-day proposed that the
National Guard should be kept III readI-
ness to qnell any riot that might occur on
the night Of tie meeting.
TWO SERIOUS QUESTIONS
here present themselves. The military,
nearly all Of whom are worklngmen, are
have arms placed i'll their hands on the
night Il the meeting and are likely to be
called upon to shoot their fellow citizens
Il, giving vent to feeling in which they too
participate
HOW TERRIBLE THE PRovoCATIoN
when there is 50 much danger Of riot,
and What u mockery of our constitutions
when the people cannot peaceably as
| sembt "a disCuss their grievances, with
out being arrested by the military. Are
thrs. uen madmen or fools. They Ger
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verb, "WhnIh the Gods mean to destroy,
&c One year ago proposition 10 hold
mass meetings to remonstrate against this
evil would have met with no encourage
ment, but now the Chinese are encroach-
ing upon the domain Of the middle men,
and You know it makes a great difference
whose OK Is gored To-day our legisla-
ture uassed las that the United States
coNrts, if not our state courts, will dc
clare unconstitutio. al, to prevent the
Chinese taking away the dead bodies Oi
their countrylnen. Has it come to this
that to free our state from this Chinese
pestilence, we must legislate against the
p,g- tails of the living and the corpses a
dead Cinnamon.
FITS UNCoNsTITUTIONAL,
, as the supreme court mas ueci"eu, =" 81
3 clude these pests from our state, theu il i
3 high times to alter our constitutions, 81
8 that we may be able to protect ourselve
: and our children nom a contamination
g infinitely worse than that Of African slav
!, ery. Our papers you'd have US believ
D that because the papers at the east, tina
f espouse the money interest against that 9
labor, are in favor Of the Chinese bein
i allowed to overrun our country, that tn
/ mass Of the people are Of the same opir
a ion.
It BUT FOR THIS CHINESE INVASION
aud our specie currency, California to-da
Ie would have been the most prosperous stat
,e in the Union. Mr. Kelly t"ld the trut
i and blaine fals;tied the facts. II ia mourn