Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-11-28

or family, instead of being represented BY
stock, preserved in a body and subjected to
unitary system of cultivation; what would
be the consequence? The different families
would, in the first place, be perfectly indif-
ferent as to the manner in which all the
other farms around them were cultivated,
because they would receive no part of the
product: their interests would be restricted
to their own little plots Of land. In the Sc
cond place, the contiguity of numerous Sc
parate farms would lead, as we know by ex-
perience,to misunderstanding, quarrels, and
notwithstanding out of trespasses, petty
thefts, boundary lines, breaking down of fem
ces, bad titles, competition in the sale Of pre-
ducts, and other causes, so that in time, ma
ny of them would become inim;cal and ene-
mics TO each other, and be glad to sec their
crops fail or other msfortunes befal them.
1t is still worse with those engaged in manu-
features; they are mutual enemies, opposed
in interest and striving TO break each other
down. Such are the results of the present
system ofisolated and disassociated property
it is the source of endless conflicts of inter-
ests, and of universal distrust and selfishness.
How beautiful in comparison is the system
of associated or sharehold property of associ-
alton, which, while it maintains individual
rights in property, produces unity of inter
esis and action, good will among men, and
concord and harmony in society!
"The spirit Of compound or associated
property" says Fourier, "will be one of the
most powerful means of conciliating the in
tercsts of the members, richer aud poorer,
of an association. If a person possesses but
a single share of stock, he becomes Joint
owner of the entire association; he can say,
'our lands, our edifices, our forests, our ma
nufactories, our fucks, EVERY thing is his
property; he is interested in the whole estate,
real and personal of the association.
eff forest at present is cut up or injured
by maurauders or storms, hundred peas
ants look on with Indifference The forest
is simple property; it belongs to the rich
landholder alone; they rejoice at what may
be ofinjury to him, and endeavor clandestine
~ to increase the damage If the floods
wash away the soil upon the banks ola stream
three quarters of the inhabitants own no land
upon it, and laugh at the injury; they are
glad often to see the patrimony of rich
neighbor injured, whose property is simple.
deprived of ties with the mass of the nhabi.
tants, in whom it inspires no intcles'."
"In Association where all interests will be
combined, and where every person will be q
co-interes:ed partner, be it only for the por.
ton of the profits assigned to labor, every
one will desire the permanent prosperity Of
the eutire Association. Thus, from perso
nal interest, goodwill will become general
among the members, and for the reason tia,
they do not work for wages Or salary, but
are co partners, knowing that any damage
done, were it to the value of but twelve
cents, will take seven-twelflhs from those
who, moi being stockholders, receive only the
part of the dividend allotted to labor. A. B