The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1877-07-28


facts, and while filling your farmRsyp
may End the pro per relation Of theae iact
an@build better H1behinery for the aocia
y NE Of mankind. fhe people Of she Mia
: kzlssippi Valley are, in numbsA. tWbnty-on
In this great central basin OF the continent
hsxfone- third Of the ACREAGE of the Unite,
States. A steamer leaving the Gulf ma,
pursue her uninterrupted course to TIL
head waters Of the Missouri thai
four thousand i've hundred miles. w,
have within this grand region an abund
ance Of iron, coal, lead, copper. zinc, silvel
and gold and wood and timber, 9th
hard and soft, in great abundance and
variety q soil OF unsurpassed richness q
people in whose veins are mingled the
blood of the Puritans, Cavaliers and Hu-
guenots, the Dutch, the Celts, the Ger
mans and Scandinsvians, who sought this
continent during the last century, and Of
those of later immigration. II the ming.
ling Of the blood Of the most energetic
specimens of the best nations can produce
a superior race, we have it here. With q
territory extending through twenty degrees
Of latitude, we have the best varieties Of
climate.
Emigration, which for four thousand
years has been flowing westward, here
meets the current coming eastward. We
have here area enough to contain the prin-
cipal countries of Europe and we have,
in forest, mine and soil, resources sufficient
to shelter, feed and clothe all the inhabit-
ants Of those countries, in addition to our
own.
With all these resources, with an intel
gent and skiIled people, the majority are
poor, and nearly all are deforming body or
mind, or both, in efforts to provide food,
shelter, clothing, and other necessaries of
civilized live, for themselves and their
families.
We have sufficient raw material, and
men with skill, 70 make all those things
needed, to the extent of the reasonable
desires OF our whole population yet men
and women able and willing to do this
work are idle and suffering machinery
stands unused or works sluggishly, and
tins is largely owing to the want Of a prOT or
system OF exchanging products and com
modltles. The machinery of production
and Of interchange stands idle for want of
oil to Intricate it. The Rothschilds of the
Tie
A distinguished Englishman recently
remarked that when ON the Atlantic coast
he felt quite as much at home as though he
was IN a British colony, but when he
crossed the Allegheny Mountains, he felt
that he was in America, and among a diff
ferent people.
The Eastern people are accustomed to
look eastward across the Atlantic for pre-
cedents, and to follow them closely and
look for foreign applause for having done
so. Let the people of the Wes think and
act as Americans.
ia this great central plain our steamboats,
and our railroad trains move like shuttles.
weaving the fabric Of a new society. Here
we have both the wOof and the warp ; our
lines run north and south, as we'll as east
and west we are a moving people we
come into contact from every direction /;
we modify each Others habits. both in
IS rich as we desire in all that
contributes to the ply steal and intel
lectual well being of man we have the
raw material, and the men and machinery
to change its form. We have position and,
power. Let US realize our responsibility,
and fully and properly use our power, first
to improve our own social condition, and
by our influence and example and moral
force, to improve the condition of man
KIND. Let our government be made TO
protect our people from being impover-
Ished by foreign legislation. and let US
solve the transportation question by
bringing the factories to our farms.
Let us change our raw material into
houses, clothing, food, means of instruc-
tion, so that all shall be supplied. Let US
secure system of interchanQing what il
produced, SO that all who produce NAV be
supplied in exchange for what they need
OF desire. Let those who cannot work or
will not work be placed in infirmaries.
NJ We have received much from those who
have lived IN past centuries let us add
our quota to the fund to be added to fu-
ture generations.N
&RRpg men yepmanry Of the Mississ-
~ Hold the fortress, the cita-
der nfk fhssRiRetsentA'
preventative government, WGfet not our
civilization be ploughed under like those
which have preceded it.
Organize Make every school house q
rallying point for enlistment and drill.
Organize company in every school dis
trict, battalion in every township, bri-
gade N every county, division in every
congressional district, corps in every
State. With your right resting on the
Rio GrsEde, and your left on the Pembina,
forward to victories, not to be gained with
shot and shell, but with well-aimed bal.
lote.
si1 hundred years ago Friar Bacon ven
turec t. predict the advent Of the steam
boat and the railroad. May We not ven
tnre " predict that the time will come
vines civilized men will be a. well on Al
the wage, who, with day's hunting and
hshusg. which il but recreation for him.
mss supply himself and family not only
Nsh tie necessaries of life, but also with
ilthey have learned to desire.
4 Hand Workers of the Mississippi Valley
Jon have power to greatly, imprnvs ys..r
own social condition, and thereby to ad-
vaaos the condition of all peoples.
bu are individually responsible for the
fuliand proper use Of your superior ad-
! MANAGES MAY YOU REALIZE YOUR row.
ER IND RRsPoNeIBILITY
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TIE DEADLY Coal MINEs.-The re-
bous of the inspectors OF Mines in Eng
and, for 1876, show that the fatal accidents
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