The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-07
Thursday. February 7. 1873
LOGICAL.
"Plato, thou rsasOrest well"

Our morning contemporary occasionally
INDUCES in abstruse and cryptic reasoning
which requires long study and great re-
search to understand. The following ex-
tracts verify the foregoing remarks. In
It's leader of the 5th inst, it says:
Anything which damages the general
business of the country is injurious to the
interests of the workingmen."
"Tinkering the currency always dis
''turbs business and alarms capital"
Therefore, tinkering the currency is
injurious to the interests of the working
men.
Congress is tinkering at the currency,
therefore, Congress is doing at this mo.
'meut all il can to increase the sufferings
''of the laboring people"
Congress in tinkering at the currency is
alarming and agitating business and cap
ital, therefore, Congress is diminishing
employment by increasing the uncer-
"tainties of trade and business"
what he (the workingman) wants is
employment at good wages; business
linen and capitalists have to employ
him" therefore, Congress in tinkering
at the currency disturbs business and
alarms capital, this disturbance and alarm
damages the general business of the coun-
try, which in turn is injurious to the inter-
ests of the workingmen; because when
business is disturbed and capital is
alarmed they don't have to employ the
workingmen, and then the workingmen
don't get what he wants, namely. employ
ment at good wages.
ut (Congress) is reducing the laborer' s
pay by making cheap dollars to pay him
''in; these dollars are now worth ninety
cents, and may soon be worth only
seventy.6ve cents. Therefore, let con-
gress legislate to promote the interests OF
capital, and capital will furnish employ
ment to the poor-or more tersely ex-
pressed, let the government take care Of
the rich, and the rich will take care of the
poor.
That is the paternalistic theory of old
England-and it is the craving of every
would-be aristocrat in New England
Land and titles make the aristocrats of the
old country, gold aud avarice the 1oOuyd-b'
of this country.
Poor workingmanl don't disturb tht
greed and interest OF capital, if you wan
employment at good wages,-that is oul
cotemporary's logic.
Such goody-goody pretence and fustiaI
as our contemporary nov and then display
don't deceive even the humblest and mos
unlestered of laboring men. I'VE canno
serve Tod and mammon" says the scrip
ture, and it Is equally impossible to be the
devoted servant aud obsequious defender
OF monied power and at the same time bt
the advocate and friend of the iaborini
class. No one objects, or has any right 4
object, to our contemporary taking whicl
ever side of the question it may choose
but devotion to the interests of capita
and bonds is incompatible with any gus
and pretence In behalf Of the workingmaI
The hypocritical caut about silver at 9
cents which will pay dollars indebted
ness at the grocers don't alarm the debtC
to any great extent; and most of thel
have lively recollection of being prett
prosperous in their circumstances, as con
pared with the present, when the on
money they possessed was greenback
which estimated by the same rule tn
would count a silver dollar at 90 cen
would have made the greenback conside
ably less than nothing at all And y
among the common people even gree
backs paid debts and bought provisions
the same. 1t is only those who cut
coupons and live on interest who are
fastidious about having their pay e.
clusivey in gold,
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