Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-11-16
From he Boston Chronotype.
4 GOOD TIME COMING

! Labor is beginning to understand itself and in
telligently te take its destiny intoits own hands
The illusorv excitements of revolutions the emp
ty shadow of mere political liberty have been
fully tried. Such is the power Of the financial
system of society," that the laboreE never gains by
any political changes; he is equally ground
down under every sort Of government; the cap
itallsts and money changers always use his sin
eWs to build up their fortunes Not till the
words - Organization of Industry" " Mutual
ISM "Association of Laborers to become their
own employers" were uttered, was the hope that
all the cultivation and increase of their fair farm,
the globe, entrusted to mans stewardship, could
turn out any thing better than a curse to the
great mass of its most Industrious population.
Men and women, and even children were work
ing harder and harder, and capital concentrating
in fewer and fewer hands, was taking almost the
entire production to itself
And 50 il goes on still; except where the divine
instinct of Association has prompted men to small
beginnings ola system of cO-operatiye labor COM
petmg with the capitalist in their wholesale pur-
chases, abolishng destructive competition with
each other, distributing the proceeds Of their in
dustry with Just regard to all, and embodying
Fraternity and Chr stain Unity in the very bust
ness and battle with necessity which heretofore
has set each man against his neighbor.
Who can read the latest report of the progress
OF the WOrkingmen's Association in Paris which
we extract from Mr.. Dohertys letter, without
profound emotion? What are all the triumphs of
the missionaries all the wonderful conversions
and REVEALS all the outward gains of christianity
so called to the JOY which such signs of the prac-
teal embodiment of christianity in life. must
create in really earnest, humane and deyout
SOUL
Look at them-two hundred associations of
the poorest laborers in almost every trade, to be
their own employers, and guarantee each other
against the great impOyerishing screw, which
worked mysterously and silently as fate against
them,-the screw of speculation, fnanciering,
money law Look at them-here are men initia
ting themselves into a law of brotherhood, by
the very act of getting living! Sixty associa-
tons OF the cooks and restaurateurs alone Why
they will soon do the feeding of the worlds great
capital and around this pivot of the most neces-
sary industry, the other industries will group
themselves tratcrnally, till Paris will be ono
great system or harmonious orchestra of mutu-
ally supporting industrial ass )cajons. Here in
Boston, the same harmonzins chrystali.inr pro-
cess sets ont from another nucleus, Of an equally
indispensable branch of labor, that which makes
our garments. VIII not the example be follow
ed here too, by other trades? viii not laborcrs
bring custom to the shop where labor is fratama
encourage it in its day of small things as the Pa
rsian mechanics did the rude primitive refect0-
! res OF the associated cooks? Win thew not catch
the spirit of them aud embody it in any humble
way that heaven points out practicable in their
own trades? and will not associations of work.
ingmen and working women, at length play into
each others hands, control the labor market cs-
abliSh their own currency ensure its Just reward
to labor, ensure to every pair of hands and every
brain a chance to labor, and OCCUPY the whole
| social fabric with such solid, honest enterprise,
that there shall be no hole nor crooked way left
through which the rats and mice, now so respec-
table and sleek, of speculation, usury and fraud,
can no longer crawl?
Verify The world will soon see that these things
begin to pay and that is the only argument that
ayaiIs much, after ALL with this mincing. morali-
ling, -pcrlectionacrng" generation Of
mankind. Coblcn, with his strong pound and
shilling rhetoric, every sentence Of which falls
like sledge hammer on the hard head of this
commercial nineteenth century, has proved be
yond 4 doubt how poorly the old governments
can pay. VIII not the people who have here
tofore through stockholders and brokers', loaned
their slender savings to the worst of purposes, L
help kings 90 to war, fancying themselves socu
red by the imposing fiction of Nations credit
will they not see the folly Of investing thc
. whole stock unsateIy thus against humanity, anC
be convinced that it is safer well as better t,
invest the same in these, the peoples enterprises
for humanity? The time has come now to say
thus far and no farther TO the time honorcd a5sur
dity which has been turning the worlds wealth
into the curse of those who have produced it
The very logic of things required that finally
the law of love should pay better than the law @
y se6shness and competition; that heaven shou,
= hoc0rnn unite as practicable as hell has been nm
on this neutral earth. o, We spectators in tn
: rise and fall OF stocks, in the alterations of tn
y worlds markets, here is news which you shout
: be in greater haste to forestal, than any thin,
: that telegraph or steamer brings to you in man