Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-01-19

are so enacted that the privileged few
get the greater portion of the products
of the labor of the overwOrked many !
But who make the laws
The men whom you and your fellow
workingmen elect TO office!
If you and your companions would
combine and consolidate, you would
elect men, men from among your own
ranks, who would legislate in your in
terests, instead Of in the interest of
the oligarchs of wealth.
If you are such an Internal idiot as
to vote year after year to put men into
Office who would legislate in the inter.
est of the rich against the poor-men
having no more sympathy for you or
your children than they have for the
cattle that are shut up in the Chicago
Stock Yards-it serves you just right
If you are such dolt as to cast
your vote for lawyers and bankers
men who have not single thought or
interest in common with you, to repre-.
sent you in congress, and there to vote
away millions and millions of acres of
land, (Which belongs to the people, to
railroad corporations, there to vote
bonds to syndiCates to draw interest
year after year; there to create and
keep in existence two thousand nation
al bank corporations, sucking every
year the life.Dlood out of the nation
then we say that it serves you exactly
right that you should work ten hours a
day, three hundred days in the year; in
order to live 10 better than slaves and
drudgesl
But you ask, what can you dop
We will tell you what you can do.
And, after we have told you we
want you to tell your neighbor what it
is.
Break loose from the two old politi-
cal hulks called the Democratic and Re.
publican parties.
Never cast another vote for either of
them.
If you cannot vote anything but a
Democratic or Republican ticket, don't
vote at all
When you have accomplished this
much you have won half the victory.
Give political prostitutes, profession.
al oflice-seekers, pap sucking official
leeches, to understand that you are no
longer their servant, ready to do their
bidding and cast your votes as they
dictate.
But you ask, who can you vote for ?
What party can you support
We answer, select some one of your
own number-sOme man whose life
has been such rs to bring him into
sympathy with you and your wants,
and vote for him!
Not only vote for him, but, ii you
elect him, give him distinctly to undei-
stand that he is your servant; that
while in office he is there to attend to
your wants; and that, if he has been
found guilty of betraying the trust re.
posed in him you will hang him to a
lamp-post when he returns--and keep
your word.
If it is illegal TO hang man for be-
traying his official trust then pass a
law making it legal, SO that it can he
done legally.
You are expected to obey the laws
and an army Of constabes, police Off
GERS, magistrates, juries and judges,
are supported to compel you to do it,
yet ninety-nine times out of hundred |
you yourself have nothing to say about
the laws.
You are forced to obey laws that are
created by men who pass them in or
der to tie you hand and foot.
You are compelled to pay taxes to
support judges, juries, constables, and,
in some instances, whole regiments of
soldiers to force you into obedience of
laws that a lot of scOundrels, cut.
throats and knaves have passed, in or.
der to rob you directly or indirectly of
your rights and liberties.
How long, then, are you going to do
itP
The next time you hear a Republi-
can drum or Democratic fife, are you
going to rush ont, fall into the ranks
and throw up your hat for some old
political thief, who cares no more for
you than he does for the blocks in the
that he drives over every
day?
Are you, like the blOckhead that you
have been for years, going to vote the
democratic ticket or the "Republi-
can" ticket?
Or are you going to have the man.
hood to think for yourself, act for
yourself and vote according to your
best judgment and convictionsS
AS you answer these questions 80
it be with you hereafter.
Though what we have said may
have been in some respects severe, we
had no other thought or purpose than
that of doing you good.
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