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."' MR. r OWEN.
AIIIDRESS TO THE AGRICULTURISTS AND MIAMI-
FACTURZIBI OF GREAT BRITAIN. .
PELLoW Coutrrnuttnzial•have been for Kim. tithe
**Ming to see if the slit:whit cleated by your downward
pewees la society, through. your own competition; or
't kiwi, which by dent program, you are obliged to
'1640 ppm the Monte* and operatives whom rut ern-
pia, would maid...you to discover the hopeless.prospect
Nke yen, while the "Memo which renders that sow
petit*. necessary, shall continue to govern yob Vow-
actidfili. But, it seethe, the distress which you hive eX-
petleziewl, or your desire to accumulate individual gain,
by an Isere:wed competition with those, who bring far-
med similar productions with your own, has • hitherto
presented you from detecting the ufeleilolltiii of your &m-
-ite; or from perceiving the degrading and injurious cha-
racter of the system, in which you are involved.
You invest large capitals in yest businese r you em-
ploy all the producers of wealth in Great Britain and
Ireland ; you use much milli, and apply great personal
industry in your operations, and yet, very generally, your
espies/ is depreciated ; you are obliged to reduce the
wages of labour; and then after your ,ntmost toil, and
being subject to the moot corroding anxieties, yin fre-
quently experience an entire loss of your property, and
are reduced to poverty, withonr any hopes for the future.
The is your present situation ' • while you, and those
whom you employ, are the producers of all the
wealth which is annually emanated in the kingdom.
Ton can create a superfluity of wealth for the non-pro-
ducers in society ; you can overstock all the markets in
the world open to you, no(only with useful, but with the
most useless productions ; and yet, you cannot prevent
yeinnelves and those whom you employ, from sinking in
the Stale of society, or from often experiencing an actual
want of the common necessaries of life. Surely these
results are sufficient to call your attention to the system
itself, in which you exist; to those perpetually
recurring circumstances, which proceed from it, and
which disappoint all your skill, exertion, and perseverance.
Does the thought never occur to any of you, why it is
that we can and do bring forward an overwhelming
amount of wealth, which we annually increase, and yet
that we are compelled, by an irresistible necessity, to use
lee. and less of it ourselves ?

Why, my friends, if you could be enabled to look out
of the confused and perplexing system in which you are
involved, and calmly examine the cause of such absurd
anomaly, you will discover that you an troubling your-
selves in vain ; and that there is no real necessity for any
risk of capital, for so much toil, or for any anxiety
whatever.

You have it now in your power, without any of these
evils, to produce, first abundantly for yourselves and fami-
lies, and then abundantly also for all those for whom, be-
yond your own supply, there is any necessity you should
produce.
You, and the labourers and operatives whom you
employ, now create all the wealth which the whole po-
pulation annually consumes ; while a very large part of
your capital, skill, and industry, is most iajudiciosiely,
or injuriously employed. Produce for yourselves; and
exchange your respective commodities and services, for
equal labour in other commodities, or for equal services,
and you will perpetually superabound, in all things that
the human heart can desire. And such proceedings,
were you once trained in the practice of them, would be
simplicity itself, compared with the involved, and per
plexed transactions in which, under the existing system,
you are hourly engaged.
Those whom you employ are now the slaves of the
non-producing dames in society ; and you are no better,
under this system, than mere slave-drivers ; with this
difference upon the part of your slaves, compared with
those I have seen in the West ladies, and in the South-
ern States of North America, that your slaves have no
legal claim upon you, when you do not require their ser-
vices, for houses, food, clothes, medicine, and medical
advice, when necessary ; all of which coloured slaves
have, and are, therefore, free from the excess of anxiety
and corroding care with which your white slaves are
overwhelmed.

But there is in this cue, u in every other, a suffi-
cient cause for the irrational state in which, apparently
without hope of relief, you are now entangled.
You exist in the midst of circumstances, the most irra-
tional ; and, therefore, the most opposed to your well-
being, and to the happiness of the whole community, in
which are a few individuls for whom you toil so unre-
mittingly, without adequate remuneration for your
skill, industry, and capital.
Your expectations of happiness are continually blasted
by a system, the foundation of which is an error, the
most lamentable that can afflict the human race.
It is in consequence of this error, that you are unable
to relieve yourselves from the difficulties which surround
you on every side ; that you are compelled to continue the
wretched practice, of an overstrained attempt to bay
cheap, and to sen dear; while, the sole effect of such
efforts, is to compel you to sell every thing at the cheapest
rate potable, to the non-producers; and to buy every
thing from them, in return, at the dearest possible rats;
whereby, you do not, in reality, obtain one per cent. is
return for your capital, skill, and industry..
Through this error, you are made too irrational to per-
ceive, or to pursue your real interest. You are made to I
imagine that it lies in ens emus; shot it is to be found
may in an opposite direction. And until this error shall
be removed, yea condition out remain en hopeless, se ,
caret errortan ands it.
No parties, therefore, have a greater interest in
'detecting and removing that error than you and thou
whom you employ-
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For, while this terse *hall be *offered to remain,
Op canape!, as it does, nil men to feel, to think, tall to
tit, trnstionally, you atalsot unite in feelings, thoughts,
sr micas, with sairacient sincerity and hoosety, to atteie
dee vollef you require, et tilt prosperity. wbiek
ample seems would otheratise votary to you.
an union of purpose end of sedan, rur case is heroism ;
Ind there can be nohmaatt union of purpose or of emit%
among any portion of dolma= race, while they shall
live under a system, &traded en an error so directly
opposed to the wallebeing and the happiness of the
'batman rads, as that, on which the whole system. or
Nasty, in all conetries, and at all times, has been "Sabo
liaised. '
You will noway Inquire, what Is this error, the can-
sequeoces of which, an ea calamitous to ourselves, ant
wade lemma race It is the eappositioe, " Malin*
beset jbtreed Sy figaww,•to fief es de likes. Wilt 010
diistA as ihe *apes:" ea which supposition 0044
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