People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — Workingmen. [ARTICLE]

Workingmen.

Don’t go into polictics. You will only be skinned. Only demagogues and agitators want you to go into politics. This is the advice of the men who have been getting the benefits of your votes all your lives. They have grown fat and domineering on your votes. They have sold your votes to corporations at so much a head. All bad laws in favor of the property class attest this fact. You are in politics now. You are in politics at every election. You can’t keep out of politics. The men who want labor unions to avoid politics are in the pay or friendship of the people who now fatten off your votes. They want you to remain ignorant so they can the unions if they vote to discuss politics themselves and don’t want you to see how you are being used. They fear it tvill injure the unions! They are the men who will try to break up the unions if they vote to discuss politics. Members of unions who think more of party prejudice than unionism are the bane of organized labor. Labor unions can control politics in their own interest, but they must discuss politics to learn how to do it. Why ask laws of old party hacks? Why not elect men who want these laws without being asked? Every enemy ot the laboring men, every monopolist and employer, advises laboring men to remain ignorant and vote as they have in the past. Wake up, you sluggards.— Coming Nation.