Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-07-28

patricians of old, and composed Of less
than one in ten, have and enjoy much
more than was ever dreamed Of by any
class Men, women, and even children
are in sharp competition with each
other for the opportunity OF working
for the least Of their product, and this
competition is purposely stimulated III
order that capital, in the name Of
"proiit, may make the most and give
labor the least. The old Shareholders,
like Gen. Gordon, have discovered what
northern capitalists learned years ago,
VIZ, that it Is more profitable to hlre
labor than to own it. The present sys-
TEN Of capitalistic control assumes and
actually dominates in both the old par
ties. The Democratic party that for
twenty years prior to 1860 upheld negro
slavery, and was ready to and actually
did kill and murder those who We're in
favor of its abolition, now piously holds
up its hand, red with the blood of its
victims, and pledges itself to stand by
the records Of the party, and with the
same breath lauds the memory of Lin
coin, whose life was given as the last
sacrifice to prO-slavery Democracy. The
northern and southern generals, repre-
sentlng the system of modern slavery,
which is not sectional but national, can
unctuolsly clasp hands at Gettysburg
and look mp solemnly and thank God for
| the abolition Of slavery These men are
| Republicans and Democrats, and to a
man are in favor of the so-Called com
petltive system, which enables capital to
! play against labor with stocked cards
and loaded dice. Think Of it, you men
who work and vote, Do you think the
men who stock the cards and load the
dice care which party wins 50 long as
they can keep their victims quiet? The
| only way they can carry on the game
successfully is to make you, the voters,
think it best for YOU to vote against
yourselves. This you eiectually do by
voting the tickets they fix for you. DO
you believe in policy that will newt
ably increase captalistic profit and con
stantly lessen the reward Of tOilE If So
you do right in leaving the Labor Party
and voting with the Old parties. The
economic tenets taught by labor organi
cations, particularly in the platform OF
the X, of h., are the only things that
can save the land from the vortex OF
destruction--and yet every member Of
the *. of H., and kindred organizations
who votes other than a labor tickle
votes squarely against the adoption O
the principles he advocates in the lodg,
room. If the unjust mOnOpOleS tina
wrong and Cypress the people are eve
removed 10y peaceahlc means, it mus
be done by voting against them and no
for them. The mauipulators Of TIN
cards and dice do not care how mucl
You talk, nor how much You organize
SO long as you keep away from the bal
lot box; but the moment you look il
that direction every filthy mOnopol
sheet and every political sucker in tn
land is ready to tel you to keep out o
politics, as it will endaugrr your sociC
ties. The only place where the thirve
I dread labor organizations is when the
:, see them at the poll, voting what the
teach One vote is often more poWerfC
! for good than is dreamed Of, and thong
O. they may call it "thrown away" it
sure to be heard from if cast against tn
wrong, The only votes thrown ava
by workingmcn this fall will be throw
5 for the old parties; and II it We're onI
} that. it would not be SO bad but 1t
+ worse, for every vote so cast by WORK
i ingmen is "A stab at the object, you al
e striving for