The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1877-04-21
FROM CALIFORNIA.
SAY FRANCISCO. NIarrh o. Is;

these articles is (the above-named papers
are republican organs, the wonderful pro-
gress recently made by the Caucasian soci-
ETY. in the addition to it's ranks Of both re-
publicans and democrats. What makes
these subsidized papers Sc bitter is to see
the workingmen organizing in their own
defense. The Post, after quoting the fol
lowing resolutions, passed by the Caucas-
ian society, charge them with being incen-
diary. For the life of me | cannot see
where the incendiarism come in. Let them
speak for themselves
Resolved, That we regard the treaty as .
nuisance, and an infringement BY capital and
monopoly upon the rights of working men of
California and the Pacific Coast, and unless
there is an abatement of the emigration and
an abrogAtion Of the treaty, war Of races
will be inaugurated, for the Cinnamon. with
the better part OF the whites. will surely re-
tallate ere long for the many outrages that
are beinR heAped upon them Should such a
war commence, it would be one of extermin-
alton on the part of the whites.
Resolved, That it is our belief that the
Anti Coolie Clubs, etc, Of the coast have .
tendency to keep the spirit Of incendiarism
in check. ThaE all counsel pacific action
toward the Mongolian in all cases, as he is
Lot to blame, but to work upon the man who
employs him to the exclusion Of good white
labor.
Resolved, That the above are the sentiments
of this association, and tnat We do believe
that the murders, d4predations, robberieE,
etc, are committed by vicious and idle roughs
who have no connection with any organization
~ the Anti Chinese cause in this State
Only short time since the Board Of
supervisors passed a resolution favoring
rhe project of an elevated railway to the
suburbs. The owners Of down town prop
erty and tenelnents met to express their
views Of this attempt TO give the working
men and their families an opportunity to
get cheap houses and some Of Gods fresh
air in the suburbs 4hey said " This
elevated railway was not to be tolerated,
and if nothing else would suffice, they
would take their shot-guns and defend
their rights" The Supervisors we're in
timidAted, and rescinded their former act,
right in the face Of the recent decision Of
the Supreme Court of New York. But
the papers did not see any incendiarisn in
this threat.
THE GREESBAck PARTY
has organized, but although there are
many persons here in favor Of greenback
currency, they don't fall into line They
want stirring up. We have a greenback
paper published in Oakland, called the
Leg Tender. A. f. Redstone, Chairman
Of the Executive Committee Of the lnde-
pendents, is editor 1t is spunky little
sheet, and shows evidences Of earnestness
in its columns and marks Of genius in its
pictorial caricatures
OUR CURRENCY
is of three kinds-legsl tenders for the
national officials, gold for the State officers,
bankers and stock -jobbers, and silver at
to per cent discount for mechanics and
laborers. They cannot b. compelled, you
know, to take more than five dollars in
silver; but when it's take that CT get,
they don't hesitate which Of the two to
choose, slavery or death by starvation.
want to tell our earnest friend,
JOHN FELTEs,
your Chicago correspondent, that our
Congressmen don't legislate for the benefit
Of the people. or to secure the prosperity
of the nation. They go to Washington to
provide for. themselves. What else were
they doing all the Last session of Congress
What else have they been dong since
1862 but stealing What. colonize the
working men on the pablic lands, where
they can divide the lands among them
selves. No, no, my friend. They prefer
to keep the working men and their families
starving. Then they can pit them one
against the other, and get their work done
cheap-thus KILLIxG two birds with one
stone. Ii few die of starvation, there
is plenty left. The remedy proposed by
Brother John il not only too far of, but
altogether too uncertain of attainment.
Let the working men form themselves into
independent clubs, take possession of the
State Governments ct the next election,
and Of the National Government four
years hence, if this government lasts 50
long, and put an end to the infamous
monopolies that now overshadow the land
-monopolies Of the money and transpor-
tation, monopolies OF land, and last, but
not least, the monopoly Of education. 1t
il tie want Of education that makes the
masses the victims Of their wicked, selfish
and unscrupulous fellow beiLgs.
THE MONEY MONOPOLY
10 the key Of all the frauds perpstrated
upon the masses. 1t in the monopoly of
money that enables the idlers to plunder
tho producers Of au the profits If their
labor.
1t il time for the laboring masses to
know that no man has any more right to the
profits of their labor than the STAKEHOLDER
had to the labor of the slave. If we have
not established this principle by the aboli-
ton Of chattle slavery, we have gained
nothing but the bare name Of liberty for
the slave. Is it any worse for the chattel
slave to be scourgsd with the whip in the
hands Of the merciless overseer, than for
the wages slave to be scourged with the
thongs of destitution and want, with his
starving children dying before his eyes !
The physical anguish 10 but temporary,
while the mental suffering Of the father
and mother of famishing children never
csases its gnawings until the heart ceases
it, beatinss. Why should men and women
be the slaves Of their fellow being in any