The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-01-15
and Indian Rings will be too strong (that
Is too rich) for them.
The stretched condition of this country

is too rich) for them.
The ~retehed condition Of this country
Is attracting Just now much atten-
ton abroad. The London Eco1omist, the
great financial authority, says: sit was
said by one of the writer's of the seven
teenth century, IN discussing the evils en-
tailed on Ireland BY bad and stupid laws.
that IL such laws has been adopted by the
devil in the government OF his dominions,
the kingdom Of Satan could not have
lasted year. We should hesitate to ap-
ply 50 strong a description 10 the Ameri-
can polity since the war, but we have TO
hesitation in saying that that policy, in
it's violence, ignorance and greed, has, in
its economical results, left little 10 choose
between the United States of 1876 and
ireland of two hundred years ago"
ENGGIsH DISHONESTY.
England cannot brag any over US, with
all our fraud and triokery. In order to
keep ahead of us in cheapness Of cotton
goods she has increased the quantity OF
size in drills snd sheetings, until one-third
of their weight was chalk or starch. The
Chinese and Hindoos finding our goods
25 per cent. better than the English, and,
thanks to our pauper labor, equally cheap,
have called for them. Last year We
shipped 3S 900 bales of such goods to
thirty six foreign ports. We are virtuous
=. ,~Io trs
SHALL THESE DRY BONES LIvRl
If there was not so sad q side to it, the
delusion that possessed so many people
that the mere passage from 1873 to 1876
would bring prosperity would be laugha-
BILE As we'll expect death to make an
angel of a bad man. The old hsr times growl
wakes louder than ever as one firm after
another topples. People who cannot get
any such money out of their trade or bust
ness as they could, begin TO think how
wonderful it is that, from all accounts,
mother earth still yields the same old re-
ward to the husbandman. Then they in
incline to sing
=" / ~Ant TO be Granger.
And with the Grangers stand.
1t seems strange to see everywhere
"this store, this office, this banking
house" to let The latter is a good sign.
But | am sorry to say the lawyers are
tiourishing 1t Is q good year for buz-
Yards They are working up q deal Of
mercantile carrion-corpses Of the slain.
" How pure the air will be" say the able
editors, when all these dead bodies shall
be removed" But there are some who
doubt the necessity Of So many moist,
unpleasant corpses.
CURRENT IDEAS ABOUT CURRENCY.
Gently. now. gently" cry the owl
like quacks who are doctoring American
money "A few more turns Of the screw,
and We will have our finances squeezed
into the shape required by our European
masters. Then Rothschild s Go can make
another billion out Of US"
SoaPy Tllden, In his message, which Ii
bid for the Presidency, tells Of the won
derful reforms he would produce, and
Congress is talking about saving at the
spigot. But about the great bung hole
leak, interest on the foreign leak, which
shoold be reduced by paying of the 2Os
ia greenLacks they don't say much.
Stand from under Col. VIM. II. Gros-
venor Is TO edit the FtndnessT Of this city,
aided by Carl Schurz, David A. Wells, G.
F. Adams, Jr., and other gold spectacle
" "allopsthic" doctors Let Robson send
a frigate for McCulloch and the staff will
be complete.
We hnd streak of daylight in the fact
that Mint-drop Lindermsn and United
States Treasurer New said that both the
House and the Senate will vote for squelch-
ing resumption.
The best thing lately is the sarcasm
against national banks by Senator Booth.
He shows plainly that the notes of the
banks get their safety from those Of the
government, and adds :" If it be neces-
sary, by all means let US put fifth wheels
on our coaches, devise engines to run en-
glnes, invent a crate to warm the fire,
and grease water that it may run down
hill. SAMUEL LEAvIrT