The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-02-20
The Org anfzatfon of Labor.


My last number was not written with the inten.
ton of exhibiting Roengen's labor establishment as
a model for reformers, but astonishing practical
and real and therefore superior to the idle specu
ative Utoplas OF brain-cracked romancers or book
worm philosophers. And it is not one of the least
objections to all these that they require great deal
OF money to call them into life, and great deal
more TO save them from dying. There is, be-
sides, now fair chance Of increasing the amount
OF gold coin, without any provision to prevent its
vast accumulation in the safes of those who possess
the most of it already. And hence an immense
money power will be created which must absorb a
vast deal of labor in its own behalf, without being
Obliged to pay with personal performances the
value of labor received
But this is not all. These gentlemen reformers
have all the honied, Observation-Disclosures of dema
gogues in cabling public opinion by fattering the
people with its inherent democratic power to man.
age its own concerns through a head of its own
choosing for who would dare TO deprive the dear
people" OF the ne1pressible happiness to knock the
blunder, which it commits every few years, in the
head, by committing new one.
Another notion is prevalent with these social
dreamsrs, according to which, it requires an i'm
mense accumulation of booklearning to regulate
and direct the Organization of Labor or an enor-
nous audacty in the rage of destruction. A man
must have done great deal of mischief before they
believe him capable of doing some good Indeed a
reformer of any other kind is never acknowledged
by the people until he is crucifed or starved. But,
as observed before, all the schemes based on these
pre-cOnceived notions of unrestricted freedom have
failed, and always will fail and therefore the
Organization under the direction of the lordly
Roengen, appears to me, and doubt not to many
others, superior to all these
have to notice. too, one of the objections to this
establishment, which is, that the combining man
to one part of physical labor narrows the mental
faculties, and makes men stupid and one-sided
This assertion is not true, and here is the reason
why it is not There Is, among the laborers in Leeds
foundry, venerable and venerated man, we'll
known to many of my readers, whom you may see
day by day diligently bent over his black-san
moulds, with hardly any thing around him, to
withdraw the mind from his daily toll. YET defy
organized than his. 1t may be affirmed that
the best written messages of our Presidents are not
better than that mans compositions ON subjects of
Infinitely greater moment to reformers; and great
many Congressional documents are even worse
Ii the benefit which our fellow-men receive from
our labor is worth something, how would those
which mankind receive from Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster or John c. Calhoun, compare with those
he bestowed For about the utility Of the former,
unanimous. Or, if true eloquence is the standard
for admiration, what puny figure the Rev. Mr..
Clapp will make at the side of that man, The
voice of the pulpit may indeed have saved some
weak sinners from the fear of torment in an imag-
nary pit of fire and birthstone, in world of which
we know nothing; while this mans heartfelt con-
versation and labor has saved himself and thou
sands from a pool of public degradation, social
contempt, domestic misery, and individual VICE.
There is, besides, another great difference between
our friend and these gentlemen, some of whose
services are paid from twenty-five thousand per
year, or eight dollars per day; while his, rendered
to the cause of virtue and human progress, are not
only rendered gratis, but are accompanied with |
many dollar of his hard earnings besides. con-
dition Of things like this is we'll calculated to drive
restless ambition madly over whole continent, |
but will never concentrate itself under real head
and form peaceful Organization of Labor, in |
which every organ will unfold and beauify its |
sphere of operation from day to day
For reasons, which may be better understood |
hereafter, have hestatei to say, until now, more |
Of a truer Organization than has been done the
saying of hrowing pearls" ETC., is not altogether
inappropriate in some cases. Before we attempt |
the erection of a new building, it is necessary to
remove the fragments and rubbish of the DID,
CHRISTIAN BURGHALDER.