The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1877-10-13

facts, and while tilling your farms, vu'
} may tind the proper relation of these fact
and build better machinery for the socia
use of mankind. The people Of the Mis
siss,ppi Valley are, in number twenty-on
of the forty-six millions Of our population
In this great central basin of the continent
have one third Of the acreage Of the Unite.
States. A steamer leaving the Gulf ma,
pursue her uninterrupted course to tn
head waters of the MissOuri-mOre thai
-four thousand five hundred miles. w,
have within this grand region an abund
anoe OF iron, coal, lesd, copper, zinc, silve
and gold and wood and timber. ota
hard and soft, in great abundance ana
variety soil of unsurpassed richness Il
people in whose veins are mingled tn.
blood Of the Puritans, Cavaliers ami Hu
guenots, the Dutch, the Celts, the Ger
4 mans and Scandinsvians, Who sought thil
! ss..tlcent during the Jast century, and ~
those Of later immigration. n the ming
ling OF the blood Of the most enerSetiI
snecimeHs of thHa best nati0da can PRO ~
7 q Superior race, we have it here. WIN {
territory extending through twenty degreel
of latitude, we have the best varieties O
I climate.
Emigration, which for four thousand
years has been flowing westwa ard, 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 skilled people, the ma lOrity are
poor, and nearly all are deforming body OF
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, to make all those things
needed. to the extent Of the reasonable
desires Of our whole population yet D'en
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 proper
system of exchanging products and com
modltles. The machinery Of production
and Of interchange stands idle for want Of
OF to lubricate it. The Rothschilds of the
world have a monopoly Of the financial oil
distinguished Englishman recently
remarked that when on the Atlantic coast
he felt quite as much at home AS though he
was IN British colony, but when he
crossed the Allegheny Mountains, he felt
that he was IN America, and among 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
50. Let the people Of the Vest think and
act as Americans.
In this great centralplain our steamboats,
and our railroad trains move Ike shuttles.
weaving the fabric Of new society Here
We have both the woOf aud the warp T; our
lines run north and south. as well as east
and west We are moving people we
come into contact from every direction /;
We modify each others habits, both in
thought asd -actiaaaas. NJ We nay be
contributes to the ply steal aud intel
l"ctual well being Of man we have the
raw material. and the men and machinery
u change its form. We have D sition aud
power. Let US realize our responsibility.
aud fully and properly use our power. first
to improve our own social condiuon, aud
by our influence and exa.9ple aud moral
force, I" improve the condition Of man
kind. Let our government he made to
protect our people from bein. impover-
lshed by foreign, itgisiat,OH AM let us
solve the transportation ques lou by
bringing the factories 10 our tarl :.
Let MS change our raw material into
houses, clothing, food, means of instruc-
tion, SO that all shall be supplied Let us
secure a system Of interchanging what Is
produced. SO that all who produce may be
supplied III exchange for what they need
or desire. Let those " no cannot work or
will not work be placed in intirmaries.
We have received much from those who
have hved IN past centuries let us add
our quota to the fund To- be added to fu-
ture generations.
Young men yeomanry of the Mississ-
lpp, Valley Hold the fortress the cita-
del OF the civilization of the nineteenth
century. Hold the best stronghold If re
preventative government, and let not our
civilization be ploughed under like those
which have pr, ceded 1t.
Organize Make every school house a
rallying point for enlistment and drill.
Organize a company IN every school dis
trict, battalion IN every township, a brl-
gade in every county, a division IN every
congressional district, corps in every
State. With your right resting on the
Rio Grande, and your left on the Pemblna,
forward to victories, not to be gained with
shot and shell, but with well-aimed bal
lots.
Six hundred years ago Friar Bacon ven
tured to predict the advent of the steam
boat and the railroad. May We not ven
ture to predict that the time will come
when civilized men viii be as well II as
the savage, Who, with days hunting and
fishing, which is but recreation for him,
may supply himself and family not only
with the necessaries of life. nut also with
all they have learned a. desire.
Hand Workers of the MissIssiI., Valley
you have power 70 greatly improve your
own social condition, and thereby t. ad-
vance the condition of ali peoples.
lOu arc individually responsible for the
full and proper USE II Your superior ad-
vantages MAY YuU REALIZE y, pow
Err AND RESPONSIBILITY
The DEADLY Coal MINES The re