The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-06-10
THE sINEws OF WAR.

TA6 SlNEW6 VI WAX.
The action C. the Indianapolis Convention
in selecting gentlemen Of National reputation,
unquested integrity and acknowledged ao'lI-
~, a. members of the National Executive
Committee, is worthy Of the highest commen-
dalton. The selection Of the gentlemen APP
pointed to act as a Committee On Finance re-
fleets equal credit on those who made the APP
pointments. Ii was eninently proper that
men of means who can spare the time
and expense necessary 70 make the cam
pairn a success-who can secure the sinews
II war-should have been selected for the re-
sponsible positions to which they have been
called. there Is every reason to believe
that time will prove them to be emphatically
1.-THE right men in the right place In the
contest upon which We are now entering 1t
is self evident that the monied power of the
country will be used with a lavish hand to
crush US. and defeat our nominees. To Sc
cure this object the Republican and Demo-
cratic leaders of the Blaine and TildeD stamp
will work with q ceaseless devotion II need
be the powerful party machinery Of both fac
tions will be called into requisition; bribery
and corruption will be resorted to; the Ma
tionAl banks and their tools will furnish a
thousand dollars where the Independent par
ty can furnish one,-so that, and We thank
God for tive must depend upon the patri-
otsm, the honesty, the unpurchased con
viction, the manhood, the intelligence Of the
American people, for success. And the soon
er the schemer who thinks he sees bonanza
in his advocacy of the Independent move
ment is undeceived, the better for all con-
cerned.
Yet notwithstanding these facts, and they
are self-evident facts--ways and means to
carry on the necessary expenses Of the cam
paigu must Re torthconiay Let every safe
guard which prudence. experience, economy
and honesty, can conceive, he provided. Let
every blackmaller I've sent a. the rear "a eN-
posed in his true character Let the idea be
lnculcated, elaborated and demonstrated
that principle not policy or selfish self inter
est invokes cooperation still the sinews of
war are required A thousand dollars judi
ciously distributed-in awakening and arous-
ing the masses-will do more good than ten
Thousand distributed in the Old party ruts
Faith is we'll enough IN its place, but faith
without works is dead. Those to whom much
has been given Of the same much will be re-
CURED. Advice, wisdom, brains, are good
enough in their places, hut brains, supple
mented by check for $4,000 or 500 900,
forces brains TO the foreground, and enables
them 70 cover field Of usefulness which with
out its aid, they would be powerless to do.
These are facts which must not be ignored
The faith or vote of a millionaire, Is worth
no more than the vote Of pauper-unless he
uses the means which God Las blessed him to
help disseminate the truth Money in and OF
itself does not make a man mouse or a
mouse a man, but it enables those who are
honest In their advocacy Of the cause, and
who have the means, to use the agency to
disseminate them-to take the front work in
this important movement. We care no more
for the opinion or endorsement Of a hundred
public men in favor OF a cheap, elastic, mex
portable, self.adjusting currency, than We do
for the support Of hundred miners in Penn
sylvania or hundred mechanics in Chicago
only, SO far as the wealth and position and
influence Of the latter enable them to prove
their faith by their works, and control and
mould public opinion.
We feel satisfied however. that the gentle
men to whom we have referred-intend to do
all that in their power lies to merit success
and invoke confidence. In their hands all
funds contributed to aid the prosecution " the
campaign will be carefully guarded, and Ju-
diciously expended, and while our readers
may not be able to contribute their thousands
or hundreds-their mites will be equally sc-
ceptable remembering that many hands
make light work Sympathy Is well enough
in its place, but sympathy Of itself never yet
made the pot boil or furnished bushel Of
potatoes. Practical sympathy, illustrated
by check which will enable the Commit
tee to place a score of earnest, able speakers
in the field, and pay then, for their sercices, is
worth all the barren sympathy which can be
expressed-from Maine to louisiana