Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-06-08
MEN WHO WORK.

/ Men who do all the work of the nation
and yet. with it all, are always poor
Women who work-women who labor fol
the comfort and luxnries Of the rich-and
| yet are always poor! Listen to free and
oul-spoken word, from one who, born with
the masses, can never forget his dniy to his
sisters and his brothers, who compose the
great family, whose father is God.
Why are you always poor? Why does
work-work without end or rest,-always
leave you in the ditch of life, exposed to
the pang and Insult of want, TO the hard
necessity Of a life Of misery and death OF
trlendless despair? Why does not your
work furnish you with a home? Why
always working, are you always buta step
IN advance of starvation? Why do you,
who produce everything that society needs
Tor lis comfort, or Graves for its luxury, all
ways find yourself-not destitute of luxury
or comiort-but of the commonest articles
of food and of clothing? OF roof shelter,
of home?
Because there is gliding between you
who produce and tho consumer of that
which you produce, an Idle Man, whe
working never himself, lives by levying a
tax upon both producer and consumer
Not only lives but riots in wealth, builds
his fine mansions, drinks his havorous
wine. and wears his elegant apparel The
Idle Man is often called Capitali very of
len Employer; not unfrequently does he
appear in the shape of the Money Broker
and Note Shaver.
The Idle Man, doing nothing himself,
lives sumptuously, while you, who do all
the work, are starving. He lives, he riots
IN wealth, on the false pretence of distribu-
ting your produce 10 the consumer. For
the mere agency he is paid with the fruits
OF fifty, yes, seyenty-fye per cent of all
your work.
Does ltappear as an iron fact to you that,
while this Idle Man this mere agent, con-
tinues in his present position, that you must
continue in your present degradation!
How should you get rid of him? Form
at once, IN every city, town and hamlet OF
the United States, associations for your
own preservation. Establish stores goy>
erned by these associations, where you may
buy the necessaries of life; in other words,
interchange all the fruits of your labor, at
a price which, being only small advance
upon actual cost, will enable both produ-
Ger and consumer TO live, and TO live well.
Combine with brethren of your own
trade. Work together, appoint your own
agent, and share the profits of your united
labor. Deal only with similar combina-
tons. composed of your brethren of all
other trades, of all other pursuits of labor.
Have nothing TO do with any political par
~, only so far as it will bow to Your ends
that is, to the ends of honest ork,-work
blessed by God, in the example of Jesus,
who for your sake became a worker at the
carpenters bench.
And let no time be lost in the accom-
plishment of this great thing. For you,
brothers and sisters, all revolutions are in
vain. For you, political parties are as bar
rem of good as the ashes of Tartarus are Of
fruits and flowers. You must work for
yourselves, and work Decentralization.
CoMBINATIoN ASSOCIATION These are
the words Of the last Gospel which God
has uttered to man. The Combination Of
Labor, until labor produces capital. The
Association of workers for their own good,
until every worker is capitalist.
In France, brothers and sisters, the work
crs have setup glorious example. There
they have found the Revolution of Febru>
airy and the murder of June alike fruitless
in good. There, leaving parties TO capital
ists-and party is always but the hired
lawyer of Capital-they have organized
associations oil all the workers of labor
SaddIers. taors, carpenters, masons, have
already joined themselves into companies
in Paris; all other branches Of work are
Fastening 10 follow their example. Soon
the workmen Of Paris will have common
warehouses, or temples for the fair ex>
change of the necessaries of life, and soon
the Idler, the Agent, the Employer, will be
cassed with the highwayman of previ-
Gus century. Shall You hesitate to begin
the great work ?-Quaker City.