Mechanics', operatives', and laborers' advocate., 1837-02-13
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Dr. Chaalmes reports, that Tn our great towns, |in Eng dnd,) whole nGsscs of factory operatives, arc living In proonll Ignorance and practical lcatlien- ism. Tine system tends constantly to increase the evils of which 1t Is the source. Young. pcrsons, when they arrive atinnlool find themselves scarce ly able to subsi5t by their individual exortions, whereas if they cpn udi the sconty income oftliee or four children to tieir own their condition is in some degree improved. House rent and the ex- penses of furniture and fuel, are not increased by the wants, in proportion to the contributions of tie young. Adults are thus tenpted- almost driv- en by necess!ty-to contract curly marriages, to rear numerous otSDlnm devoted to the same en- ploynents with themselves and in this way to add eto the supply Of labor already in The chil- drcn grow up, and i'll their turns follow the same course and thns, however widely the manufactures of Britain may have cNen}eI, a still farther and indeed indefinite eXteslon of them seems to be de- mandel; for the system produces a constantly in- crcasmgyet ignorant starving, and miserable pop ulation more than adequate to supply all the labor that can be protitabIy extended The consequence is, that markets are overstocked with produce pri- ces first fall rlinous|y low the operatives are then thrown idIe and left in destltution till the surplus produce of their formerly excessive labor, and per- haps something more are consumed, after thls pri- ces rise too nigh n consequence of the supply fall ing rather below the demand the lahoreTs thus re- sune their toll, on their former systems Of exces- sve eXertons they analn overstock the market, and are again thrown idle and suffer dreadful misery.
 tIn I025-G-7, this operation ot inc natural laws was strkingly exhibited; large bodies Of starving and unemployed llbOIers were supported on chari- ty. How many hours did they not stand idle, and how much of excessive toll would not these hours have relieved, if distributed over tie periods when they were overwor'el The results of that excess sive excrton were seen in the form of untenanted houses-n short, in every form Tn which misapplied industry could % to ruin.
 Elu1Jurg is not a manufacturing city, and if so much misery existcl m it in proportion to its popu- latiun, what must have been the condition of Gas- pow, Manchester, and other manufacturing towns ?
 sIIere then the Creators laws show themselves para.nount even when men set themselves systen- atically to infringe them. He intended the human race under the moral law not to pursue acqusitlve- ness excessively, but to labor only certain and moderate portion of their lives; and although they do their utmost to defeat this intention, they cannot succeed they are constraine to remain idle, while their surplus produce Is consuming, as many days and hours as would have served for the due exer- else Of their moral and intellectual faculties and the preservation of their health if they had dcdica- ted them regularly to these ends rom day to day. as time passed over their heads. But their punishment proceeds the extreme exhaustion and nervous and muscular energy, with the absence of all moral end intellectual excitement, create the irresistible craving for the s.nuus of ardent spirits %hich dis. tinrushes the lAborng population of the present age; this calls into L"onlnent activity the organs of the animal propenstes; these descend tn the children by he law already explained increased crime, and a deteriorating iucapscty for arresing the evils becomes greater with the lapse of every geasratoa;
 According to tle principles of the present trea- tse, what are called by commercial men. times of prosperity, afesess0ns of the greatest infringement of the natural laws a1d precursors of great calan- ihcS YtnuS nrc not geckoned ptospes0us, unless