Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-10-20
CAST IRON CHEEK.
LABOR'S ENEMY CONSIDERS
THE WELFARE OF LABOR.
The Pirates Shritt-The Influence of
= Prostitute Press-Defenders
Of Chattel Slavery Advising
Organized LabOr-A
Revolution.

For monumental impudence, cold
blooded cynicism and unmitigated
hypocrisy, the following from the
New York Xera2d of last Sunday,
deserves to be recorded as an evi-
dence of the prostitution of our So
called public instructors, when it
pays:
THE CHICAGO STRIKE AND THE LESSON 1T
TEACHES.
That is rather disturbing news which
we have been printing lately from Chi
cago. What with street barricades paw
ing stones, pistol bullets and policemen's
clubs, the people seem to be in state of
volcanic eruption. Broken heads and
ambulances are in the foreground of the
picture, while the background is filled
with corporation that saws it Twill
not and an angry, excited and decid
edly turbulent mob which says it
shall
Now, this quarrel, considered by itself,
is hardly worth second thought 1t is
simply an incident in the great sweep of
events, and will come to an end in a
few days. The citizens of Chicago, hay
ing no surface cars, will have to foot
it for a while, which is inconvenent,
but a sure cure for dyspepsia. These
little discomforts go to make up the spice
of life, and if degree of profanity and
hot temper are thrown in, why, we
simply shrug our shoulders and declare
hat 1 bn 10, oil, l,,,t
once in while strike an ugly hole and
manage to get into it up to our hips
Yes, Mr.. James Gorden Bennett,
Jr.-for it is your personality that
moves your literary puppets-'it is
simply an incident in the great
sweep of events" but it is one of
those little incidents that 90 far to
make up the grand total of progress,
and which no wise and honest man
can dismiss with a self-satsfied
sneer or an advice that he knows to
be false.
1t was series of incidents, "con-
sidered by themselves hardly worth
a second thought which directed
the course of Columbus to this con-
tinent; that turned the footsteps of
Puritan and Catholic "wiIl nots" to
these shores; that wrote the Boston
massacre and tea party in our his
tory in the last century; that gave
us John Brown at Harper's Ferry;
that elected Abraham Lincoln, a
man who would have compromised
with slavery, though hating it., yet
destined to be one OF the lnstru-
ments of it's overthrow; and, to be
somewhat personal, that suddenly
changed the policy of the New York
Herald one fine day in the sixties,
when it presumed too much upon
the underhanded work of secession
emissaries IN the city of New York.
Yes, it is well for such as you to
"shrug your shoulders" so did Fou-
lon, when he advised a grass diet for
the people, and he was then nearer
"the road to glory" than he knew
but people who shrug too much
sometimes lose their heads.
'But there are certain facts, and be-
hind the facts certain principles which
are worth considering.
"FGrst-The car drivers want higher
wages. All right. That is an entirely
legitimate object to strive for. A bright,
enterprising man will never work for
twelve dollars when he can get fifteen.
Only the idiot does that. The driver is
just like the rest of us-we all want
more than we have. From the banana
vender of Post Office Square up to the
wizard of Wall street, we are all strug-
Cling to put another dollar in our pock-
cts. The hope to succeed makes our
heaven
A FARCE.
Scene, Deck Of Pirate ship. Place Md-oceau
Pirate Caytain-So, worthy sirs,
you would have audience as to the
terms of ransom
Spokesman for Prjs0ners-Y es,
your excellency; we do but crave our
freedom, and such small dole as
may keep our poor souls and bodies
until more favored times.
Pirate Captain-Well said, my
good fellow, and but just. To grant
less would be unworthy of a rover