The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-25 00:00:00

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" Religion should be freP; as spiritual, it ought not to
be subject to temporal control.

"Theiefcre the. Covcntion recommend—

" 1. Complete separation between Church and State.
" 2. All Church temporalities to be declared national
property, except such individual endowments as have
been voluntarily and legally made.
" All ecclesiastical buildings, of which it can be
clearly show❑ that their cost was defrayed from national
funds, to belong to the State. The persuasion now using
these edifices to continue in the enjoyment of them on
equitable conditions.
" 3. Tithes and church rates to be abolished.

"4. The State not to interfere with the internal polity
of any church. All ecclesiastics to be appointed in any
way their respective congregations think fir, and to be
paid voluntarily by the congregations that employ their
services.

"5. Ecclesiastical licences for purposes of education
,o be unnecessary.

" 111.,---EDITCATION.

" As every man has a right to the means of physical
life, so has he to the means of mental activity. It is as
unjust to withhold aliment from the mind as it is to deny
food to the body. Education should, therefore, be na-
tional, universal, gratuitous, and, to a certain extent,
compulsory.
" It iq, therefore, recommended—
"l. That schools, colleges, and universities, sup-
ported by the State, be gratuitously open to every
citizen, and that it Le compulsory with all parents to
have their children educated in the common branches of
learning.
2. That education in its higher branches be equally
gratuitous, but optional.
"3. That industrial schools be established, in which
the young may be taught the various trades and pro
fessions, thus gradually superseding the system of ap
prenticeship.

" IV.—LABOUR LAW.
" Labour is the creator of a nation's wealth—as such
,he most important element of its prosperity. Notwith-
standing this, the relation of master and man has been
repugnant to the well being of society; the creator has
hitherto been the servant of the creature; labour has
been the slave of capital, and groaned under a system of
wages slavery, contrary to every principle of freedom.
" To elevate labour from its present depressed condi-
tion the following measures are proposed, with a view to
the more rapid abrogation of wages slavery, and the de-
velopment of the co-operative principle:—
" 1. That all co-operative associations for industrial
purposes have a right to rkgistratiun and enrolment with-
out payment of fees, and to possess an unrestricted num•
ber of affiliated branches.

"2. That the law of partnership be so altered as to
remove existing difficulties in the way of association.
" 3. That since the co-operative principle is essential
for the well-being of the people, since the centralisation
of wealth ought to be counteracted by a distributive
tendency, and since its accumulation in the hands of
isolated clubs is an evil secondary only to that of its
monopoly by individuals, all future co-operative attempts,
until the complete rc-adjustment of the labour question,
be mods-lied ca a national basis, and connected in a na-
tional union, of which the different trades and societies
be localities or branches; and that the profits, beyond a
certain amount, of each local society, should be paid into
a general fund, for the purpose of forming additional
associations of working men, and thus accelerating the
development of associated and independent labour.
"4. That a credit-fund be opened by the State, for
the purpose of advancing money, on certain conditions,
to bodies of working men, desirous of associating to-
gether for industrial purposes.
" V.—Moon LAW.
"As it is the duty of every man to work, so every
man has the right to the means of work; and those un-
able to work through infirmity or age have a right to
support at the hands of the State.
Therefore,
" 1. All ableboclied persons who cannot support them-
selies should be supplied with remunerative work, and,
where possible, located on the land.
" 2. Where the State cannot find work for the unem-
ployed, it is bound to support them until labour is pro-
vided.
"3. The unemployed should be supported by the
State, not by the parish—and the cost be defrayed out
of the national revenues.
" 4. The aged and infirm should be supported in their
own homes, in the houses of their relatives, or in special
buildings erected by Government, at the option of the
recipients.
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