The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-07-08
KALIDA VENTURE.
FRIDAY, JULY A, IS45.
INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATIONS.

As might have been expected there is great deal of
prejudice exhibiting against FOurers plan to make indus
try attactive, and the labor proper reward
There is always prejudice where there Ignorance and
there is much msconception prevailing upon the subject
of Associated Industry it not at all strange that the plan
should be opposed and that those who wish well should
doubt its The Editor of the Kada Venture is
of those. He wants faith and without it, he do moth
ing: with it, he can "rcmove mountains" We must
caution him. and all Others against expecting much
from Fouriers System We do not, ourselves believe,
that will cure all the ills which flesh is heir to- but this
do firmly believe: that il will secure TO labor proper
reward and enable those who associate under it, to live
cheaper and better than they doree them rom that
gnawng anxiety for the future which et by many;
because subsistence under it, will be guaranteed to them
and free them too, from the payment of double set of
profits Ito the producer and the retalers is paid
by every who buys provisions or merchandivc The
Assocatonists propose raise their provisions and to
have Store of their own, by which then will get
their goods at wholesale prices Is there any thing
chimerical absurd in all this? And if they accomplish
those obects-if they labor proper reward
have subsistence guaranteed them; and live cheaper
and better then they do-wl they not have accom-.
pshed great obects Answer that question: Mr. Venture
-NeDark .AdUocate.
We have perused with some attention Mr.. Brs-
bane's work on Association, which was presented
to us by the author some years since, and
contains the outlines of Fourier's system, which
as nearly as we recollect it as follows:
Four hundred families are to be collected in one
vast household, and by means of alowinga choice
of labor, grouping of laborers, exciting emulation,
taking from industry present monotonus charac-
ter through means of healthy workshops and invt-
,po ipdu oftr he
Association to be commenced by means of a cap
ital stock of $500 900, and the united produce of
the labor at the end of the year to be divided.
One fourth, after deducting for expenses, to be
appropriated to pay the interest on the stock in
vested; the remainder to be apportoned to the
payment of each individual the full amount of his
earnings Officers to be as numerous as possible
to divide the honor and satisfy proper ambition
and proper emulation. Children to be educated
on somewhat novel plan, designed to develope
the differences implanted by nature, and draw
forth the talent of each The social condition of
women to be raised and improved, religion to be
repected and cultivated, and the passions of sell
fshness' &c., moderated to their natural harmony
of design. The property of each individual to b e
arbitration There are many other matters which
we do not at this moment recollect, but these are
the leading features. If we have made any i'm
portant omission, the Advocate will correct us.
Fourier, French philosopher, was the promul-
gator of the system Since his death in 1887 his
views have found many admirers; papers for the
dissemination of the plan have been established
in France, Germany, Italy and Great Britain as
well as in this country, and among several instu-
tons of like character in different parts of the
Union is the Integral Phaanx of Ohio, which we
noticed, and by so doing called forth the repr oof
Of our respected contemporary FOR our aithlessness
The declaration upon which the disciples of
Fourier, here found the necessity of association,
is, that in changing from the government of Eng
land to a Republic of our own, we have gained
nothing more that an improved administrative
system; and that our social condition, after the
lapse of two generations shows that the situation
of the industrious many is gradually approx
imating to the degradation of the working classes
in Europe,-not felt in that way now, but that as
population presses upon production, our physical
and intellectual condition will in no great degree
differ from theirs. 1t certainly is true that more
and more is labor becoming in the same contempt
with us as in Monarchical Europe, and wealth
receiving the same worship, and that equal an
xiety is manifested to escape from toll.
Such novel scheme it would be very easy
to condemn--that requires no great stretch of
intellect. Nor does it require much to offer an
unlimited approval. Evils undoubtedly exist in
our social organization which philosophy is better
calculated to do away than party or political legis-
laton, but we doubtful the philosophy is yet to
be devised. 1t does seem to us strange why the |