Litchfield enquirer., 1844-02-15
LETTERS ON INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION : AND SOCIAL REFORM. e., BY SoLYMAN BROWN.
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Ma. ADAMS: promised your readers that my third letter should contrast the ten enumeretad GUARAN- TIES of Industrial Association with the actual condi ton of the of mankind in the present isolated, antag0nislic anti social condition of msnamed CiU. ssotion; such as is found in Europe and in the Uni ted States of America. Of the other general forms of human society," viz: the Barbarian and the Savage shall make TO allusion at the present time as my space in your columns is limited and the field of it. illustration inexhaustibe.
 The first universal guaranty which the social Pha. uanx proiers to all men, is INDIVIDUAL PROPERTY. in the separate family staie and yet in the midst of Soc ely. Not only does the social system repndiate the common property scheme of Owen, Rapp, the Shakers and the Mormons, but it places it within the power of all adult individuals of every age, and eompiexon, to have and to hold individual property In the United States alone there is population of nearly three millions of human beings having senses and souls as we'll as white men, who are so far from being able to hOd property, that they are hsmsetces yroperty. Shame undying shame. to the unblushing effrontery of Republican Civilization! Was it for this that ouy Pilgrim ancestors bufted the pillows of the Atlantic to find home for the free? And what is the fam;ly ssae the sacred sentiment cf home among this unfortunate populu,ion? have myself in com pany with portion of my family. sat at public table in Norfolk, Virginia while the wife & children of the servant then waiting at the table, was dragged through the principal streets to be shipped by their purchaser to NewOrleans. The husband and father heard the oucry and burst into agony of grie for he knew that these wretched victims of the domestic slave trade, were his own loved family. his true the cruel deed in this instance was not consummated, for the very boys in the streets cried shame shame! and the of the husband and father was induced to purchase the wife and children and retain them in the city, though not n the same Jamily. Is this the boosted faly state of one fifth of the population of the United States! Deny it ye friends of existing socie,y, five can; and it ye cannot deny it. and yet uphold the evil. ye deserve to he foated frosted and insensbe, from the pole the line an iceberg Of the sea
 But it is not to slaves only that the actual system of society denies the right independent possessions How can the mass of the twenty-five millions of hu'
 man beings born in each successive generation in the Kingdom of Great Britain exclusive of the victims oi its foreign conquess, where the magnificent estates of its higher and inferior nobility embrace the entire soil sub sol and earth beneath it to the globe cen ter with all the euperstructures and productions not only to the cathedral spires but to the altitude of the atmosphere itsef ever attain to any other posses sions than ignorance, drudgery des,ltion and deg. radiation? And yet, what is the toilsome and hope less industry of the producing clnsses of that empire called upon to pay for this dependent subjection? ? nothing less than the interes. of HUNDRED MIL LIONS of pounds sterling. together with the profsate expenditures of all the non producing loafers of the Kingdom. And how does this pecuniary dependence Aha nf ifa vic Nal the thirty thousand industrious daughters of Ireland who are, at this moment, delving in kitchens for scan,y subsistence, in the city of New-York alone. Where is their home? where is their country in which they could find 20 home Do ye answer, in heauen! Be it so-and thanks to their Eternal Father who constructed it's many mansions ]" But they owe no thanks to that social system which drove them frend- less and alone across the mighty deep But we must not multiply examples, and therefore advance ab- ruptly to
 The second guaranty of Association, which is constant and JaUorits occIPation.
 The laboring classes of Europe and America, be- ing generally bred to only one branch of business are frequently out of employment. The succession of seasons interrupts certain branches of industry Fluctuations in the market suspend others. Others still are in their very nature fucuatng and iniermt- tent. Thus portion of every year. if not ot every month, week and day, is wasted for want of employ Enent. But even in those cases where employment is more constant. how seldom IS the occupation of the laborer either fayorte or a chosen one! Some pursue certain vocation because they never had an opportunity to acquire knowledge of any other.- Some are restricted to disagreeable forms Of indus ,ry by the tyranny of their spperors Some in soa- ted situations have limited range o choice m tho selection of profession, that they follow pursuit which they regard with bathing. Not so in the reg plarly organized groups of an Industrial harmonic Phaanx. Here variety, change. and choice of occu- patton fses to al It is the duty of the whole body polite to lhas every member enjoys his passionaI function that is Co say. the function that he t0Ue' and there is sDch function in every truly construct cd system of society. While, in the animal body, she head cannot say to Ghe foot have no need oi thee; the foot neither covets. nos cond enjoy the position or functions of the head So long members are in their places. all are useful, all are happy.
 TIE FULL REWARD OF LABOR is the third guaranty oi the combined order of society proposed Ay Fonr CT. This is secured to all iA the teEms of thsiS com pact and the distribution of the joint products of the associates, is made by the united justice ef aH. be- cause by trustees and chiefs of groups appointed bg general suffrage. In this way the earnings of indus try are not expended to pamper idleness. as in the present civilization.
 Let us compare such . state of things With tho condition of labor as exists around us in the sest isOsm q the sss. Does its just reward