The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-03-10
The Organizations Labor.

There Is no Doubt, that the Organization of Labor
Will introduce very happy Change in all the AZ
fairs of Men, by making Labor not only Duty,
but Pleasure for All it is only about the Means
for its Introduction, and the Motives which shall
lnduce all Men, not only to labor, but to labor with
Pleasure and Delight, that Reformers disagree
ldealsts, Rationalists and Materiasts, have al
most exhausted their Store of Imagination, to fur
nlSh Motives for Industry; yet in Spite of all these
We see great many Men and Women, and even
they, the Motivers themselves, among the Rest, 90
idle. With all the Stretch of Fancy, and deep Re-
Election, have myself not been able to discover an
Eypedient that could induce p. e. John C. Calhoun
to brush his own Coat or that could make the
Honorable Henry Clay blachen his own Boots; or
that even their, otherwise so we'll founded, Claim
to the Presidency of the United States, could make
them Change their Mind in this Respect. Nor
could discern any Inducement strong enough to
make Fanny Essler mend her own Shifts; Lola
Montez darn her own Stockings; or Abby Kelly
turn to Housekeeping and Kitchenwork. Indeed,
with all the Charms and Attractions, which the
groupal and serial Arrangements of Charles Fourier
and excited Passions were able to throw round La
bor the fashionable World avoids it like Leprosy,
and Dandes and Flirts will rather starve or sponge
than eat their own well-earned Bread. Tell them
Of all the Glories of the combined Order and all
the Allurements of the passonal Harmones which
will not be disturbed by the most perfect Freedom
OF sexual Intercourse tell them of the unbounded
Sway over unnumbered Treasures, and uncalcu-
lated Wealth to be enjoyed, if they only will fall
in with the phalansterian Labor Organization. NV
Word for it, they will not do it,
To form Associations, or to organize Men into
Bodies for any Purpose whatever, by the Power of
abstract Reasoning is either daring, or foolish
Attempt and may lead to the most disastrous Con-
sequences. The State of the World is a perverted
one Truth can make its Appearance only yelled,
or under Symbols.
Some expect to see Mankind restored to their
pristine Innocence and paradsical Nudity. They
do not know, that that was not Paradise, which
had been, but that which WW be. That Adam
was wiser and better Man after he had been
driven from Paradise, than when he idled about
under the Shadow of Trees, which he had not
planted and Eve more of Lady when she Wore
a Petticoat of her own, than when she strolIed
about naked without Shame and Shift. 1t is true
We read in Swedenborg that the Angels of the
third Heaven go to Church naked, but we like to
see Ours better when worshipping with their Clothes
on. Our Model-Artists, their Models and Specta-
tors, indeed think otherwise in that Matter; but it
would seem that our City Fathers and their Police
do not; and am glad, that in this View at least,
we do not disagree
The Organization of Labor, therefore, is not the
Result of any of these Arrangements represented
anterior and superior 10 both. have mentioned in
my Last Notion, quite likely very silly one,
which had formed and held together for many Years
Rapp's Labor Organization. How effective and
operative this Notion was, may be judged from the
Following: A Gentleman Physician, | think his
Name Mueller, conceiving an Idea of his SUI
periority, refused common Labor: Father Rapp,
informed of this Refusal ordered to pay him $1,000
and separate him Immediately from the Flock of
Believers The Doctor was thunderstruck in re-
ceiving this Sentence and offered to submit to any
Punishment rather than Separation. Yet if Low
living, Hardworking and despotic Rule can make
a People miserable, the Rappites such Peo-
pie. What then, you will ask, could induce them
to stay to work like Slaves, and bear Insults and
Reproaches without Murmuring! Do you not see
that there is Something in Man which no Money
can bribe; no Pleasure can tempt; no Suffering de-
stroy. You call that Thing Superstition, the Off |
spring of Ignorance and Credulity; and it is ;
but its Effects you perceive and its Fruits
good. Can you say the same of your Labor Es-
adjustments Or have you to show one that pro-
duces better Fruits. You have not. Well, then,
let us have Superstition, the Shadow of the True,
till you give us something Truer and Better for
the So Organization of Labor.
CHRISTIAN BURGHALDER