The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-09-12

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and sensual nature Of the man. He
has gone over bag and baggage to the
bondhoider and monopolist He has sue
cumbcd to the corruption of Wall street
and now he breaches tor his oats. To
him the Lords prayer now reads: Give
US this day our daily turtle soup and
claret and Burgundy. and let the mud
sills Of creation have their regular
SHANK BONES AND NECK STEAKS,
lfthey can get them If be ever was
devoted TO popular rights. if he ever
did have the soul and sublime faith in
the rule of the people that gives con
fidence in our free institutions, lie has
lost them utterly. Mark how this
toadeater to wealth blasphemes AS
loag - 0ed il God, the man without
bruins viii be at the bottom. and the
man Of brains will be at tue top The
scrii,es and Pharisees and tine chief
priests were at the top. and Christ and
his apostles were at the bottom. Then
Christ and his apostles were without
brains, or God is not God Truth, hon.
esty and virtue count for nothing
Brains are everything and the accu
mul~tion of great wealth is to this
Mammon worshiper the evidence Of
brains in the accumulator, for they are
at the top. Hear to this further non.
sense: The law of value in any COM
munity is the law of brains All his
tory, all experience. give the lie to this
false witness. Brains have been in all
ha CT Ina I,t
things there. The great philosophers,
inventors and poets of the world have
been the poorest accumulatOrs. 1t
takes no great brain power to heap UP
great piles of glittering gold any more
than it takes intellect for
ONE HOG TO ROOT AWAY THE OTHER
Aud get the swill My experience is
that it is harder to keep than to get.
Almost every man has at some time in
his life had starter. These dirt heaps
are magnets to draw to them other dirt.
But the grea. mass Of men let 60 Of
their starter. In such 4 case svarice is
better than brains. And the man of
greed. with hardly brains enough to
lie straight in bed, will beat the man
of brains simply by keeping the purse
strings tied. Look over in your mem
ory the men who have made the
greatest accumulations and tell me if
they are the intellectual superiors of
their neighbors !: Have they not been
generally misers or nnscrupnlors
hogs
Here i, another sophistry it cost this
community 81 600 to hear. He tells
US we lie en- we say that labor pro-
duccs wealth. Then John Stuart Mill
lies; then old Adam Smith and every
writer on political economy since his
day has lied. He gives the credit to
the thinking and directing mind. What
claptrap! He breaches
THE MILLENNIUM OF TIE BOSSES.
pray for the emancipation Of muscle.
His thinking and directing minds are
tue few manipulators who make corn
ers in grain. and the few railroad mag
mates who plunder the million Of intel
/ ligent farmers who cultivate their own
land and do their own planning. 80
of the mines. Those who make the
great fortune are not the practical men
and engineering geniuses WHO triumph
over the forces of nature to open and
develope them. And SO of nearly oil
industry; the bloodsuckers use no brain
power further than in scheming how to
appropriate the fruit thereof.
He says the horny handed son Of toll
is the most buyable of men. Ho can
corrupt fifty men taken from the indus
tries where he can one lawyer. What
q villsinous lie In bis zeal to serve
his master and keep workmen ont ot
power. he has insulted nineteen.
twentieths of the people Of the United
States. He has in his eye such work
men - Boss Tweed. who was once a
chairmaker. or Billy Carr. who was
once brickmaker. and such workmen
"a they would select. or such work.
men AS machine politicians have thrown
To the surface. Of course they would
select only snch tools as they could use.
But the workmen proper. proceeding
according to their true idea of civil
service reform, with fixed and definite
principles to 90 by. will
PRESENT AN IMPREGNABLE FRONT TO
CORRUPTION,
Such as no lawyers and university men
! ever have. When the solid array il
| made the intended dcserter will be
hewn down before he cen ever reach
I the enemy's camp.
He wants to see the working man
yet up by way of the schoolhouss. A
great many political bummers IN this
country would like to send them
around that way. The schoolhonsc is
ell right. We will look out for that.
! We have found another good road.
We have found the copquering sign.
Now, a wicked and adulterous gener-
alton seeketh after . sign. Therefors
! let the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
aud his cor gregation keep their weath-
er eye skinned. and they will see tae
sign. 1t is only paltry little bit OF
paper which We call ballot But it
10 greater than thrones. dukedoms and
powers. With it we will weave d;a.
dem for the only true sovereign, and
Labor shall be King.