New-York tribune., 1842-03-05
ASSOCIATIONS;
;IPLES OF a TR1E ORGANIZATIoN. OF
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SOCIETY.
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We stated il our last article ,hnt@lhe various
Eyils which different; parties striving re-
form. have their origin in the false Organization
f Society. We will examine Il fcvv OF these Egils
aud point out thei; cause.
Slavery, and the abuses Of oar system OF Hired
Labor or Labor for Wages, are results OF the Re-
ougnant Industry which, characterize. tho pro-
luc,ivc Element Of the false Societies now and
hitherto existing on the earth Slavery, OPP
preston and Injustice will continue until Iuluslry
is rendered Att,activc
So long as Industry orIabor * rcpugnant. dis
honorable and ill-rcquited, Man will a,od it as he
would a curse and a scourgc: be wiIlzendeayor to
escape lis burthcn by every means and device which
ingenuity invent and will resolt=to violence
ovcricacilins. tyranny, fraud, and often TO down
right robbery 10 obtain the Products OF Industry
which are 50 absolutely necessary lis and
comforts, and A,rom Me= 6urthen ofProduci0g
hem yp0@ others.
In the early Societies which were established on
the earth, Industry doub!y rcpnsnant and
odious, because there were ysr5 few implements Of
labor, and those only Of the rudcst and most de-
tcctive Kind ard because Man had not lost lis ma
i've. disrit. and love OF freedom and case which
belong TO a primitive condition. w ar in all earl,
Societies was the main, and in fact, the sole i'm
pcranl occupation of the Leaders Of the world.
Tic Power which was used TO resist the inculsons
Of enemies or to invade and pundcr, was found
equally clcacous in enSluvug the Multitude aud
Wrestling from them The product Of their toll. The
prisoners taken in war became the property Of the
victols and despoiled Of all rights, we're forced to
labor by the rudes. and most brutal means tha, &C
Cured to minds engaged in strife and punder,-
the lash and other corporcal punishments Thus
Slavery, or the ownership of Man by his fellow
Man. was established, and violence employed to
force the one to toll, in order relieve the other
from the burthcn Of Labor
Repugnant Industry is the sole cause of the In
s,u,on Of Slavery. The desire and necessity of
pos scssinc the Products OF Labor, and the disgust
ofundergoing it, have impelcd from the beginning
of history down 10 the present time the Strong and
Crafty to cnslave tie Weak and to cheat the lgne-
rant The Mass, whether they be Slaves on hired
I.abnrcrs will always bc victims. and will always
toll to cnIicha Mner,y until Industry is DlGSl-
FLED and rendered ATTRACTIVE by means OF Asso-
citation and u true Organization of Labor.
Slavery took it's rise in the barbarian Societies
In the Savage State, thore is no Slavery, because
there is no Industry. In this primitive Society,
Man lives upon the spontaneous products Of the
earth and by hunting and fishing; lie docs
prosecute Agriculture, Manufactures and Me-
chanics, and he consequently requires no slaves TO
perform the ubor.
When population increases so that hunting and
fishing are no longer sufficient support existence
Man must resort to Labor to live. industry is then
established. and when in the commencement of
Societies, as before remarked there are scarcely
anvtools. implements or facilities it must be the
highest degree rcpulsivc and loalhsomc. Slavery
grows out of such state of things natural con-
s,aucncc IL we wish to abolish il ctiectually and
under all It's forms. we must uproo the causc,-
Rcpugnant Industry.
Slavery in Antiquity was almost univcrsal 1t
he.s been continued more or less generally ever
since. and exists atprescnt upon large part Of
the globe With the aid of Christianity and other
influences. Slavery has been abolished i'll most civil
lied countries, and system of Hired=Labor has
grown up in It's place. When the Mass were freed
,hrv found the Soil Workshops ard other means
of Production monopolizcd and in the hands of
few 0nnrw countries where ,hcyare not they soon
become SO by minority possessed OF knowledge
Skill and Craft which the Mas. have not.) The
freed Multitude were consequently forced to beg
the privilege OF laboring from those who owned
the Property, and to accept the terms they chose
10 dictate Ii they did not. other alternative
was left them than to s,arve.
In countries where there is thick population,
and strong competition exists between the Labor
inc Glasses for the work which Capitalists and
Employers require, the sys,em OF Hired Labor re-
duccs the Mass to condition as=bud as that o;
Slav.s. In France and England, two of the most
civilized countries on the earth, the Working
Classes toll from fourteen TO sixteen hours per day
in flthv workshops for miserable plttance that
scarcely keeps body and soul together and when
,levz are old sick or out OF employment, they are
left withou, aid and often to starvc. In this
country the Working Glasses are better oit.-noI
because wc have a Republican form OF Govern
mcnt,-but because We have vast extent OF Soii
aud hn population. The Political Institutions
Of, country hare very little TO do with the great
question OF Labor and its Organization, and IN n
century %. two more. the Laboring Mass viii be
as moor. destitute and dependent in this country
il the present system of Society be conunucd-as
thcy are in Europe. Athens was Republic, and
here yt,,, in about four hundred thousand Slaves
aud twenty thousand Frccnlen. This shows that