The Advocate and news., 1898-09-21
and to look at the platform to know what
he Is pledged to do in the future.


Now, let us quote little from some Of
your fellow workingmen. Here is an
editorial from the pen of w. s. Carter,
the able editor of the Locomotive Fire
mems Magazine, a publication fully
equal in its own field to all that Nc
Clure's or any other magazine is in the
domain of literature:
Shall the American standard" OF the
wOrkngman be preserved, or shall "Our
commercial interests" hold sway? The one
Is death to the other; and which shall pre-
vail will, perhaps be decided in coming
political or military campaigns.
II Is not hard to imagine that the near
future will bring about a division in pOlit.
ical matters along class lines, and, as in the
past, that element whose only thought is
money making will expect to win their
political battles by the lavish expenditure
Of money and by the coerclve power tha'
money seems TO possess.
The commercial party, whatever he II
tlonal honor" of progress" of prosper
ity,' and deal with prodigal hand prefer
mcnt to its loyal supporters. On those who
dare oppose It's will political persecution
and the industrial blacklist will fall.
The party Of the people whatever be it's
name Will preach discomfort, will denOunce
the avarlce of the commercial class, will
demand Justice for the Door, and it's lead
as "demagOgues" and anarchists"
The party of the commercial class will
seek to build great army, will prepare to
enforce its dictum by military power. The
party of the people will preach a crusade
that must result in victory at the pOlls In
spite Of bribery and bayOnets.
What then! VIII the commercial class
"bow to the will of the majority" or will
tho votes Of States be thrown out by q
Congressional returning board?
When such time comes God pity the ma
tiOn A Patrick Henry will shout defiance
from every State. General Miles and his
troops will be concentrated In breathleSS
haste and a military government Will be
installed. The constitution Will be ignored,
tho regulars" will patrol the larger cities.
regardless Of the protests from State Gov
ernCrs.
And who will these hired soldiers con-
front" The same class that responded 80
teers in the war with Spain. But they are
not trained fighters, and cannot nope 10
preserve the liberties of the American peo-
pie" some may say. Be 1t remembered that
they are of the same class, the same stock
that camped with Washington at valley
Forge, the same breed that fought at New
Orleans with Jackson, the same fighters
that followed Taylor over painless wastes
to Mexico, the same inVincible volunteers
who fought with Grant and Lee, the same
heroes who charged through the jungle ana
up the hill at San Juan. God forbid that
this day shall ever come, but 1t may as well
be known now as then that the govern
ment of the people, by the people and for
the people shall not perish from the eareh
And while we are speaking of the com
mercial class" in contradistinctiOn with the
me sses of the people let us not forget that
all nations of the past have owned ieI thelr
ism The ruins of Rome are monuments 10
the greed of her patricians; the decadence
of Spain Is due to its commercial class tnat
grinds every penny of profits that the COLO"
mics will Weld; the capital invested In
Southern plantations in days or yOre ue-
pended for it's profits, Its power, upon slave
labor; capital invested to-day IN NOTluII NOTluVi"
mills, mines and factories demands conOl-
tions as profitable as that OF chattel slaV-
cry. ..
arches; that government "of the people
has always been distasteful to those whose
Only idea of government Is that when
Guilds up trade" and protects vested
rights is known the world over IN Hs
greed for gold the commercial class OF
America may kill the, goose that lays Ihe
golden egg? Quien sabe?
The editor of the Trainmen's Journal
also knows what he is talking about
when he speaks for the wOrkingman.
He says:
But what makes the American soldier SO
superior to the soldiers of other nations
II is the simple fact that this government
Is made to conform to the needs OF IT'S
people and not that the people are MADE 10
conform 10 the needs of the government;
This is a nation wherein the needs OF tne
peOplc are considered first and the govern
ment policy made to conform to such leed5.
The plans of other governments are largely
of the reverse order, and the result is tnat
the American stands above the others Ill
every respect ,--. ,. ~.
The conditions which have become so up;
parenr should lead the American to denono
thar they so remain. The soldier OF Ine
nvnSant has been and will be the arusan.
fie must be protected from the grasplng
tendencies of capital that seek to rush
him down to the living level of those whom whom
TGo american workman has thus far made
n living wage ne has been educated and
he has educated and taken care OK ms
family; ne has demanded fair treatment,
and when It has been denied him he mas
fought TO secure it. Often misunderstood
by the people who should have studied ms
demands. his actions in the past, that were