Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-02-11
LABORS' ECONOMY.
MORE LABOR, lENTlLS AND
EVERLASTING LIFE.
Modern Discovery of an Ancient Relic.
Lymphatic Labor Leaders-Thc
Learned Judicinry-Elec.
tric, Vegetable and
Spirit Sayiors.

Some eighteen months or TWO years
ago there was general commotlon
among the workers the manual
workers we mean which portended
great results.
Yes, for once the workers arose
en- nasse and seemed determined to
achieve a recognition of their value
as the most potent factors in the So
cial fabric. What means did they
employ to rend the shackles which
bound them to a poyerty-breedlng
system?
First, organization; then they in
voked the aid of strikes, boycotts
and politics.
Strikes against merciless robbery
bovC otis of the Infamous oppressors
and politics against the general rot
tenness. Truly commendable pro-
SIhlnllc
Did it succeed:
Well, no.
Some measure of success was OBJ
tanned. Indeed, while the aforesaid
programme was vigorously pushed
as regards strikes and boycotts, poll
tics being out of season just then,
things looked significantly hopeful
for the workmen.
The murky skies Of the industrial
horizon again assumed a cerulean
hue, the birds, fgurativeIy speaking,
twittered anew their tuneful glee;
the very frogs foresook their grue-
some croak and attuned their throats
to happier notes, and everything
seemed inclined to be ''just too nice
for anything"
But somehow it was discovered by
some of the labor leaders and the
b0urqeoisie, that strikes were "relic
of barb rism." The same labor
leaders began to entertain grave
doubts as to the correctness of the
boycott. And so they issued circu-
lars to the workingmen enjolnlng
them to desist from using these de-
testable means, warning them if
they didn't SO desst and henceforth
hold their peace, things would look
blue for them. But if, on the other
hand, they would but listen to reason
as exemplifed IN the said leaders,
and keep quiet for five years. every
thing would be fixed up to suit the
most fastidious of "kickers.
1t would seem that these leaders
were specially designed by provi-
dence, or something of that sort, to
issue these doleful lamentations just
in the nick of time; for hardly had
their warnings been sent forth, when
the judiciary pronounced its anathe-
ma on the goddess boycott.
Think of 1.-THE judiciary pro-
nounced against it +.
In the language of the street, the
judiciary is ''no slouch."
The judiciary is composed, theo-
retically speaking, of the most learn
ed of jurists, the most honest of
men and at the same time most
charitable of human beings. When
such men supplement the vocifera-
tions of such leaders by their learned,
Just and humane judgments, is it
not time that the workingmen should
take heed and forego this wickedness
Certainly.
True, some unregenerate sons OF
Belial have cast reflections on the
Judiciary. These wretches, In the
fullness of their iniquity. have insin-
uated that the elevation of these men
to the bench was the result of the
Vaccinations of corrupt political
cabals. Yes, that these judges were
far from learned, in fact they knew
but little and that little was of as
much consequence as "last years
robbins nests" But be this as ii
may, it has been already established
that the salvation of the worklngmen
is not to be accomplished by strikes
and boycotts. What then will bring