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66 them withhold their votes, except for those of whom they are doubly assured, will faithfully represent their interests, and the interests of all the people.

When a politician will say that three hundred thousand dollars is not enough for one man ; when there is only enough money in the country to allow that sum to every ten millions out of the forty millions of the people—when such a man asks for your vote, be firm enough to respectfully decline.

Of the Independent or Workingmen's party now organized, the people will not be informed or kept posted, through the newspaper press of the country, as that is to a great extent subsidized and run in the interests of the rings and the money-power.

Our advice to workingmen is to avoid strikes and remember the ballot.

Capital and labor can be reconciled and an end put to strikes, and "the irrepressible conflict" which exists, and the innumerable woes resulting therefrom, if capital would but take a lesson from the French millionaire and philanthropist, Hon. Andrien Godin, a very instructive and interesting account of whose Workingmen's Palace may be found on page 16 of this little book, and to which I would call the special attention of the capitalists of the United States.

That there can he any permanent remedy for the stupendous evils growing out of the present competitive and antagonistic systems of society, short of co-operations, combinations and communal homes, I do not believe. Every thing else will be but expedients, palliatives, which can afford but temporary relief.