The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-29
IDe Organization Of gabpr.
NUMBER Y,

Returning from my customary duties in the city,
| find my sanctuary taken possession of by one
who bears the transgression of disorganized So
cety descending from several generations in every
feature of his body, and in every of his mind.
Reader, if you pay some attention to names,
| which make large figure in the present European
struggle, you may have observed one who stands
emineny the champion for constitutional rights,
for the liberty of the press, and human progress you
may have noticed him as the peacemaker between
two great poWers and the intercessor for popular
claims; you may have him engaged in restrain
ing the arbitrary sway of royalty and the lawess ruff
fianisn of mobocracy. To check the wanton profit
gacy of blosted arstocracy, and fix the limits of
an overbearing democracy; man who strove to
make labor honorable, and to secure lis fruits in
the hands of the laborer. That man is RaM Weller
in the grand duchy of Baden; and the other, first
spoken Of that occupies this seat before me, who is
he ?-Adolph Wetker, his near relative, begging
for labor to earn his daily bread, and-begging IN
Uain.
Whatever fruits the revolutionary struggle of
politicians may produce, it is certain that The
ganiZation of labor-the only thing which is able
TO give peace and happiness to The worlds not
among them. If you wish TO know why, the cee-
brated lcarian socialist and organizer of labor,
Louis Hotel in this city, can inform you.
Who then, shall be entrusted with the organiZa-
ton of labor! That question may be answered in
future numbers In the present can but point to
characters that should not be and the reasons why
they should not.
1t should not be entrusted to clubs or debating
societies for associations of this kind well cal
cuated to expose the evils of disorganlZation, but
not to remove them. 1t should not be entrusted to
the voice of the people, through the ballot box; for
the pages of history, as we'll as the latest events,
prove that the people rather will cling to character
whose vices are destructive, than TO one whose vir-
tues preservative That they rather chose the d
TectOn of the shadow of him who hunted them like
wild animals from their last recesses; than him who
labored for their welfare with the hottest zeal and
the most affectionae selfdevotion
Selfgovernment may be claimed as right and
be exercised as duty by few ; but it will rarely
be considered and more rarely exercised, as such
by the many. Even the votes for politicians or
their measures seldom given by quiet, sober re-
Election. If they were, why those stirring excite
ments of battles those torchlight professions
those paraphernaia and other trumperies, to plead
to the senses, to the passions if be
sufficient for action
Much as | am inclined to revere the judgement of
every man il the sphere in which he is accustomed
to move, have very little confidence in that which
he exhibits beyond it. Robert Owen demonstrates,
with great reason, that mems minds are formed by
surrounding circumstances. He might have said
with equal truth that surrounding circumstances
are formed by mems minds. In this country, where
full liberty is enjoyed by people, perhaps the most
intelligent on the globe notwithstanding the most
beautiful theories afoat, comprehensive system
for the organization of labor has never been devised
though its need is felt and its realization is advo
Gated by thousands. In great emergencies extraor-
binary steps are to be taken. If the problem was
to be solved how form an organization to oppose
or break down counter-organZation, the people
wOuld find the m IN do hut a m
ton for the harmonizing of all the faculties of man
for the benefit of all, is task which the congre-
gated wisdom of the people is unable to realize
CHRISTIAN BURGHALDER.