New-York daily tribune., 1843-01-06


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Difference Ecayyees, Political md INDUS.
1riIi Liberty.
Auv System OF Society which does guarantee 10 Man
the Right OF Labor or constant Employment anu Gope
,ency, and which Industry is uot rendered honorable
and attractive, is false aud requires reform
Upon the mode of exercising Industry depend
the welfare and happiness of the Laboring Classes,
How can those Classes enjoy real Liberty, hen
they are compelled TO toll and drudge their days
and lives through at a monotonous and repusnsnt
round of Labor, in filthy workshops or lonesome
fields for bare support
To show how superficial is the view which is
taken of the great question of Human Liberty, let
us examine the Servitude, Bondage and Degrada-
ton connected with our false, repugnant and i'll
resulted system of Labor, aud point out briefly the
difference between Political and, what we will
term, IpdusLrial Liberty, or Liberty in Labor
the first of which has caused so much controversy
strife and boodshed, while tue existence of the lat
ter. far more importaat, has not been suspected
Labor. as it is exercised at present, from poverty
and want, reduces Man to miserable state of In
dustrial Slavery. What LIBERTY can the being
notonous and rePulsive toll, because the alter.
natiye-Stervation or Wants more terrible in
his eyes than the bondage he resigns himself to
There can be none and if it be asserted that La
bor cannot be exercised otherwise than by al the
compulsory means resortcd to-that it cannot
be RENDERED ATTRACTIVE, SO that it will be ex,
erciscd voluntarily, it must be acknowledged as
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one half the Liberty which we are capable of en-,
joying, and that he has neglected placing within
our reach the means of satisfying those strong
aspirations which he has implanted in natures.
All endeavor to avoid Laber, and render them
selves independent of it, To force Man to it, six
more or less coercivc measures--a list of which we
add-are resorted to:
Coercive Measures which are rnado use of to En-
force Man TO Labor In our Civilized Societies.
1st. SLAvERY-A violent ard tyrann;cnl measure,
which makes use of corporcal punishmcnts as the
means Of enforcing Labor. This institution, which
had its origin in the barbarian period. when The ex-.
ercse of Industry for want of implements and other
facilities, was extremely difficult, exists only to
partial extent among civilized natiens; but it must
nevertheless, be mentioned as part and feature Of
cur false and repugnant system of Industry.
ID LABOR FOR WAGES, OR HIRED LAsoR-A
system of indirect Servitude or Bondage, of Inius.
tice, Oppression and degrading Dependence for the
Working Classes. With dense population, and
competition among the Laboring Multitude for La
bor, this system reduces them to q condition worse
than that of Slaves.
Sd. CORPORATE MoYoroLlas, or leagues of privi-
legged monopolizers, controlling the distribution Of
Labor, and excluding those often who possess the
most skill and talent.
4th. INDUSTRIAL PRISONS, or large closed manu-
factories ia which the workmen are subjected to
strict discipline, the children i'll treated, and the
health of both often ruined from excess Of Labor
without variety. To this semi slavery is to be
added fear Of want aud starvation by being thrown
out of employment.
5. Poor House AND PEEITESThRY LABOR
Comprising every variety of druagery, which is the
effect of compulsion or condemnation, from that OF
Aims and Poor-Houses down to that Of State
Prisons and Galleys.
9Th. FALSE COMPETITION among the Laboring
Glasses, who, from want and necessity, lower theis
wages, and reduce themselves often to semi
starvation. False Competition, together with ma
chinery in the hands of a few, which werks against
instead of for the Mass, are rapidly inpovershing
and degrading the condition OF the Labring Classes
This system of Industrial Servitude is the lot OF
the Working Glasses in all Countries; bat the in
Justice does not end here: to it is added the VIC
lation of the fundamental Right of Man-the Right
of Labor. Man was placed upon the Earth to live,
and TO live by Labor: and It's Right be not gua-
rantced to him. his Rtghtto existence e0en, is not
If we looS at the cities of civilized Europe, anc
sometimes at our own, we the Laboring Classes
wandering from mandatory to manuiactely and
from shop to shop, inquirng for work and refases
il. Without any means of subsistence while out Of
employment, pressed by want, often by starvation,
they reduce the price Of their days labor, selling
twelve or more hours of monotonous drudgery out
of each rwenty-four for miserable pittance. II
they manage TO ayeid actual famise,-slow starva-
ton. unhealthy and excessive laber and anxiety
sow the seeds of disease, undermine the consiitu-
ton, and kill them by slow degrees.
To creatures thus situated, what mockery TO
offer them the right to vote, the guaranty OF not
being thrown into prison without writ OF Aa9eas
corpus. Are they free because they possess these
ilIp.orv guarantees, when they et the same Tune
the slaves of Labor the serfs of Capitalists IL is
-s the whip does not force them 10 labor like the
Slave: but does not the alternative of Want
Famine do it as efiectrallyl II their bodies cannot
be .oId they have 10 bargain their liberty and their
lime without being able to dispose scarcely of an
..a.- No: Political Liberty is perfectly ilIusory