Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-10-20

bblo llaI dSludVco uo dll-llbcllt
and wealth. From our powder
monkey to my first lieutenant we do
but struggle to add another honest
dollar to our pile, and in this hope
makes our heaven. Ye shall have
your liberty, and such weight of
means as shall suffice the remnant of
your lives. What, ho, boatswain,
are all preparations made for our
friends journey?
B0atswain-Aye, aye, sir. The
plank is ready, and it is as straight
and narrow as the road to Paradise,
and well weighted purses will speed
them to their journeys end.
Splash Splash. Splash
",Second corporation can't be
blamed we take it. 1t is doing business
on Gradgrind princip es, but this is a
| Gradgrind world at the present time.
You can't expect an employer to give
two dollars day if he can get satisfac-
tory work done for dollar and seventy
| five cents The surface car system of
Chicago is not a philanthropist institu-
ton; it is hard-headed hard hearted,
iron-tisted, money making institution,
with its eyes fixed on dividends, and not
| a bowel of compassion for anybody. 1t
has nothing to do with the poverty of
| its employees, never thinks of it, doesn't
care continental for it. You blame it
| for that? Well, praise or blame, as you
see fit, you can't alter the spirit of the
age just yet.
Well, there have been times when
prostitutes have had an all-import-
ant influence upon "the spirit of
their age," but they have never been
recorded as saying that no one else
could alter it. 1t has remained for
nineteenth century journalism to as
sumo that position.
"Thid-The labor market is .glutted
There you hit your head against "a very
solid, sharp-edged fact, and that fact
don't forget it's the key to the situa-
ton, and many another of like charac-
ter. 'We have, Powderly says, from a
million to a million and half of work
men who are idle Lazy? No; they
cant get anything to do. Your poor,
little, miserable shambling, wooden
legged republican policy, with its heavy
taxes, shuts us out from competitor with
the world in the worlds markets. and
fences us in to cut each others throats,
fosters monopolies, combines, trusts, and
other devil inventions, which increase
| h., ,f
Too true; Labor. the creator of all
wealth; Labor, 'noble and holy"
Labor, divine and necessary, is IN
tile market, is commodity.
Beef, so much pound; brains,
so much a pound. Muslin, so much
a yard, muscles, so much a yard.
"You can't expect an employer to
give two dollars day when he can
get satisfactory work done for one
dollar and seventy-fve cents" Why
not be consistent and make it even
money, say fifty cents per day?
And so the good old democratic
party" the persistent and tanat1cal
defenders and apologists of chattel
slavery, are going to lift Labor, not
out of the market, oh, no; but into
a larger market where it can have
full swing in the operation of cut
ting its own throat. Glorious posi-
billty, worthy Of the source from
whence it came, for the business of
selling other mems labor force is no
new one to those who find wage
slavery far more profitable and en-
ticing than chattel slavery ever was.
YOU barricades amount to nothing,
for they must come down. Your paw
ing stones and brickbats are all folly,
for the police are bound to stop all that,
and if they can't do it the military will
What you are doing is not progress, it is
chaos. Violence, no man believes in it
who has head on his shoulders 1t is
the last resort of those who substitute
passion for convictions.
1.-The only remedy. and it Is an eff
cient remedy, is to throw your votes for
the party which recognizes your condi-
tion and sympathizes with ii and against
the aristocratic party, which stands by
the monopoly every time and all the
time
And yet barbados have history,
and, if we have been correctly in
formed, the patriotic founders of
this republic and of the present
French republic considered them
perfectly legitimate. The bourgeOi-
sic have been known to use the po-
tential brickbat, etc., when occa-
sion warranted, as well as the poor