Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-04-30

w AothooS anu oStioiuilZiuS parasites. VINO
live upon the means Of others, by fraud or
force, and who are veritable bleodsuckers
on the body-politic. In this class are in
cluded gamblers, snarpers, prostitutes,
rumselers, and host Of other pernicious
agents.
Sd. II shuts up an incalculable source of
Social wealth, by means of the general
separation which obtains between produc-
tive agriculture and manufactures, and
science, art and popular education, SO that
complication and incoherence is carried TO
an extreme degree in all branches Of in
dustry, and so that there is no systematic
and thorough development and employ
ment of all the productive faculties OF men.
The amount of useful talent that is unused.
in default of means and opportunities for
its manifestation, and the amount of capital
completely wasted, by unskilful hands or
worthless enterprise, it is beyond the pow
er Of the mind to estimate.
4th. 1t establishes in all industrial rela-
tons, under the name Of free competition,
and in all Social relations, under differ
emf names, such fearful emergency of
interests, as to lead to fragrant and incessant
war between all the individual members of
Society respectively, and between the in
dividTal interest and the general interest.
Workmen are al war with werkmen, CAPT
talists with capitalists, labor is against
wealth, and wealth is against labor, and
men against money, and machinery against
men, until, in the end, Social existence
becomes a mere selfish scramble for gain,
over which neither law, nor morality, nor
religion can exert any extensive or per-
manent control
5th. 1t renders labor itself, which is the
source of all wealth, repugnans, monoteneus,
dishonorabe, and degrading, so that it be-
comes desirable for all men who are able,
to escape from work, by which means the
power of production is vastly diminished,
and poverty, distress, aed public embarrass
ment proportionably increased.
AS to It's methods Of Distribution, Secie-
ty which under its present form, makes
use ot lncoherent Commerce
1st. Converts the Merchant from what
he should be, as the mere intermediate
agent between the produce and consumer
into the despotic master of both. The
hidS VI OOliiueECG u 10 uISLrlOute
the products of industry, and should be
therefore subordinate TO Industry; and as il
is unproductve in itself, adding nothing to
the quantity or quality Of the materials
which pass through its hands, should be
executed by the fevest possible agents.
But under the existing incoherent aragc-
ment, oil Society, it is the controller Of IN
dustry, employing an inuumerable band Of
factors and agents, and giving laws to
mankind. Thus
I'd. lncoherent Commerce robs the com
munity at tCgr, 10y The supendous tax
which il lays upon both consumers and
producers-a tax which is extravagaatly
disp roportioncd TO the services il renders
VIII CHI services might be performed by a
twentieth part of the agents now engaged
in their execution.
3d. Ii robs the community by the adul
teraiion OF commod ties which is a vice
carried 10 an enormous excess in all civil
IL d nations. and springs Immediately from
the avaricious and hot competition to
which all trad RS AMI shop-keepers are com
PEELED to resort. Instances, md ed, are
not wanting in this cry, in which the IN
bribIed c.rpidity Of draIers has led them to
e,pnse for sale products which they knew
10 be poisonous.
9Th. II robs the community by gluts and
s'agnations, which accumulate vast quanti-
ties of goods 10 one place while the people
are starving for them in another and which
offer such provocatives to fraud and specu-
lation; as TO corrupt the morals and under
mine the prosperity Of entire nations.
5lh. It robs the community by unlimited
exactions in the form of usury; for the
merchant operates, upon a small basis OF
capital with fictitious capital in the form
of credits and bills, fifty or an hundred
times greater in amount than all his real
property. He receives the highest rate of
interest on the whole, and thus renders the
entire class Of consumers and producers
tributary to his ggrandzement
9th. II robs the community bv period
cal bankruptcies, which spread poverty and
devastation throughout the ramifcations of
trade, and even involve the strongest gov
ernments on earth in the emblrrasslne Mt
and guilt Of their fatal results. la all these
di,ruptlons and financial explosions, the
loss mus; ultimately fall upon the body Of
producers or consumers, because commerce,
employing little property of It's own, de-
rives its materials from other sources.
7ih. 1t robs the community by the la
ciliiies it possesses for buying when the
producer is forced to sell, and selling when
the consumer is forced to buy; so that it
can regulate prices, and pluuder at once
both the producer and consumer.
Sth. 1t .obs the community by giving
occasion for hordes of s,ock-jobbers and
spectators, who withdraw capital from
producing industry, TO employ it in prac-
tices which create a feverlsh and dishones,
iogs Of exorbitant gain and gambling en-
terprisss.
9th. Il robs the community by instiiuting
monoplies, which are among the most
monstrous and gigantic evils OF the whole
brood of commercial vices, aggravating
every defec: and extending every baneful
influence of indifference and antago-
nisnl.
Let it be understood, however, that We
are here speaking. not of individuals, but
OF system.
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