The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-02-19
FROM OHIO.
OsEkLIN, O., Feb. 13, 1876.

OBEKLIN, O., Feb. Is, 1876
To- the Editor o. The woRkISsxASs ADVOCATE.
We therefore consider that we have full
power and authority peculiar right from
both God and man-to oppose whatever,
IN Oberln, exalteth itself against God or
humanity; not only, but We are bound to
do it-most sacredly bound, ordained Of
Heaven; and Oberlin, High Priest to the
work. And have We not warned, and
rebuked, and wasted, these forty years and
more, IN this wilderness, having become
old and gray headed in the work We
claim 1t to have been peculiarly our duty
to do As We have, and We have been and
are trying t. perform it to the best of our
ability, regardless Of expense; for il has
been at great expense, every way that We
have done as we have. We believe, and
have done so all along. that ours might
have been among the richest and most
popular families in the place, had zee 80
elected, and renounced God and his work
in order thereto However, We have ALWAYS
had presentlment that in such case. Ii d
We chosen Mamm0n, We should long since
have been numbered with the dead.
Brotherln law too, if not the first. the sec
ond individual in popularity and import
ance in the place, and in some respects
first, We feel and have felt sure the family
would have rejoiced TO have had us with
them, in the so called and considered best
society. by harmonizing with them in doc
trine and practice-just falling in WIN The
current. without question, and then. by
participating n the National Bank svindle
illegal. ~ sure, Of ninety Thousand dollars.
to begin with, instead # fighting it from
the first. as sc have done. We were on
intimate terms AT the time with the prime
movers for a bank, and suppose we sug-
gested the lea of one here. through our
adherence " and opposition to the
schemers ana that this will appear At the
great day. We perceived At once, on read
ing the " National Currency act, that but
$33, 100 IL currency would be needed in
order a. establish bank 81 $3.50 900 cap
ltal, and 81 expressed ourselves at the time
christening 1t as the greatest inisuitg.
all Things g1nsldered the sun sr.r ork,d
donit "pUh, IN our belief The fraud upon
them Is So sstoundingly great, she common
people cannot believe il, or grasp it and
do not to this day. intelligent men and
women, ~ considered, are of this class
whose holy Indignation against those who
Perpetrated this inexpressible wrong
against this nation and against humanity
through t, would know no bounds. When
through with the job-by no means A diff
cult one mere children could have per
formed all the head work, and tie less
heart and conscience they had, the better.
Our rulers had made the way so plain that
a man, though fool, could not err taere-
IN Well, when the work was completed
we should have had 500. 900 on deposit
with the government, in bonds, drawing
gold interest from the people, and 5000 900
IN hand or in bank. in addition, to shave
them with We had both property and
credit sufficient at the time to have been
one of ten individuals combined for the
accomplishment Of this robbery OF the
people, III accordance with human law, had
we 80 elected. Our credit was good enough
for paying enterprise like this, surely,
and our parent would have loaned us his
credit, in addition, had this been neces-
sary; but God knows we abhorred the idea
from the first, and have to this day, and
no man eau accuse us Of ever limiting at a
participation in the inexpressible and in
comprehensive iniquity
BY borrowing, each Of us, SO, 800 for
short time, we would have found ourselves
in possession, as if by magic, of S19, 900
each, less IS, 800, the amount borrowed.
/. e., $15, 700 all clear, $40, 900 Of which
would have been i'll United States bonds,
on deposit with the government, and con
sequently insured beyond possibility Of loss,
aud free from tdres, and So, 700 in bank.
But the banks obtained these bonds at
discount Of per cent. for currency, at
one time, and how much greater discount
than this, we do not pretend to say.
Ninety thousand dollars in greenbacks or
currency, secured sIOO, 600 in United States
bonds. This would make the case better
for US by $500 each-money enough GER
talnly to pay all expenses
The masses cannot and do not believe
that our rulers perambulate our land in
this way, rcbbing the producing classes OF
their inalienable rights, and bestowinC it
upon our richest men those already
too rich, in most, if not every CASE, f"r
their country's good Here is the great
secret Of the unprecedented increase Of
our drunkards. tramps, paupers and pres
titutes in our land, of late. Eight million
willing hands stretched forth imploriDsly
for work, IN vain, towards class of men
or devils, born Of usury, am no more ben