720 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



spirit not to be encouraged. From the natural tendency, 

 it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for 

 every salutary purpose, and there being constant danger of 

 excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, 

 to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it 

 demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into 

 flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume." 



The fears and predictions of Washington and Lincoln 

 are being realized. While nearly every act of Congress 

 has been in favor of capital, tending to the concentration of 

 wealth, the pretense has always been to benefit the laboring 

 man. When the Contraction Act was passed, it was claimed 

 it would give the laboring man a "good dollar." When 

 the Credit Strengthening Act was passed, it was claimed it 

 would give the laboring man an "honest dollar," and the 

 platforms of the two parties echoed back "honest money." 

 When the Resumption measure was passed, it was claimed 

 that it would give the laborer a "sound currency." When 

 the funding schemes were resorted to, it was claimed that 

 it was in the interest of the "public faith," and the grand 

 old parties echoed back "the public faith." 



Through party prejudice the people have been misled 

 and deceived. It becomes, then, the duty of every patriotic 

 citizen and member of labor organizations to discounten- 

 ance partisan spirit and prejudice. The following little 

 poem is so applicable to the position which prejudice will 

 lead men to assume, that we give it to our readers : 



Monkeys and Men. 



A tribe of monkeys met one day 



To settle some disputes 

 That they had among themselves 



Concerning men and brutes; 

 And as I chanced to pass that way, 



I felt an inclination 



