The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-09-08

] cond. intellectual Wsalth, comprising works
Il Of art, literature and science. Inventions ~
Y machinery, ETC., which minister 70 bis intel
sctual needs, and which aid him = his ma'
terial Iabors. This second kind of wealth h
] produced by intellectual labor.
; Wealth tnGnnis Of two kinds, Material and
I The IA ~ By agricul.urs. manu-
! Aciures, mluI lhe ishsriss and tEanspor
tation, ,-or mora sbstractly, BY the physics
; activity of man, applied % productive In
} dustry. u 10 evident chat Il - this activity
called Labor, which grows our foods; weave'
/; our clothing; builds our dwellings; con-
, structs our vessels and railways and works
them, mines the metals, and furnishes U,
with ell material things nssdful to us
Money is generally considered - wealth
\ and the most real Of all wealth. This Is M
j error. Money b mere Sign or representa-
l tive of wealth. Place . nan ON . desert is
land, where labor 10 not prosecuted; give
him tons OF eagles and sovereigns, or bushels
Of bank notes, and be viii starve amid thest
l representatives OF wealth. Gold and silver a
!. buliioa ara vulunbis, - are iron
and lead, but coined int money, they be
come mere sagn, and ldss their value Is
metals, ct least until melted down again
This latter point Ia proved BY the fact that
paper, which has scarcely sny intrinsic value,
can take their place as mo0ey and answer
its purposes.
The second kind Of Wealth is created by
the arts and sciences, and by invention or
more abstrsctly, by the intellectual activity
Of man, directed to these departments. IL Is
this acavity, the power Of the mind (which
creates our works Of art, in painting, music,
and sculpture, and our literature; which
discovers the sciences, and invents machin-
cry and scientific processes
\. To sum up: Wealth, thsn, consists IN
those things which satisfy the physical and
Intellectual wants Of Humanity.
i Wealth is created BY the physical and in
tellectual labor Of man, md w no other
meAns. Legitimsteiy, It can oaly be ob-
tanned by LABOR He who possesses it with
out labor-material or intellectual obtains
Il by trick, subterfuge or robbwy-legal or
illegal. He wae Possesses Wealth created
by others without having given them legi-
innate equivalent for it, is . robbsr-lsgal
or illegal (By legal, understand. sane
toned by Law and custom.) We can estab
lish series Of robbers, bsgiuDing with the
lowest in the scale say, the Pirate, and
after passing through the intsrmsdiate de-
gress or links in the chain, terminate ut the
summit with the great Bankers Of The world,
who, by their plots and tricks, their mono
poly Of credit, their bold combinations,
their diplomacy and corruptions, swindle
Nations oul Of millions in their loans.
\ II may be asked, whether Government
bonds are not wealth. As they secure every
thing needful 10 the owners. They are, like
money, . sign OF wealth, or . pledge. The
Government takes the products or wealth,
paid in the shape Of money-cfested by the
1 people 70 pay interest and principle. 1t
takes them by force, if nesdbe. The Bonds,
then, are q means Of obtaining Wealth, mot
wealth A highwayman may place pistol
on your breast, and demand your purse
| You give it to him. he my call his pistol
Q mSans of obtaining wealth. but he cannot
leeli il wealth. G6vssuznenk Bo6ds are
promises TO pay the amount Of wealth they
represent in the future. II they are given
for useful and good purpose, they are le-
gitimate. When given for useless or per
nicious purposes, like 20 many of those Of
the European governments, they are rob
berry, and equivalent TO the highwayman's
pistol. A. BRisBASk.
The Press On abe Labor CongTess,
The Nasional Labor Congress at present
in session in this city, 10 gathering Of men
such q Baltimore should feel especially
proud Of receiving within is bounds. The
Representatives, essentially, cf that material
advansemsnt shown in tke growth Of cities,
the construction Of ships, railroads, tele-
graphs, and ell else that illustrates the en-
lig6tsnsd activity of the sgs, the time has
come when men Of this stamp, the pride
and dependence Of society and OF the State,
are taking the plaee-forevr TO bold it-Of
those eHete aristocracies which, despising
labor, must cease 70 WELD that influence ac-
corded sf old - the pcssessivR Of trsditional
rank and wealth. af n fit Hre-
When the world has at last coha. te. fght
battles with mschioerS, making the skill Of
the mechanic and TIE quality and weight Of
iron the arbiterS of lnations, what govern
msnt can afford 10 ignore the claims to DO
sition of srch msn; Mhe dOes NOT nee that
the power Of States has become the incident
or oHsoot Of the foundry and the work k-shOp !;
and that it is strong On weak, % Il can COM
mand the resources Of suchf
Viewed N this light, then, Ii 10 for men
themselves OF this stamp 70 assert their 0 IN
dignity, their own position and what bet
ter way to do tnis than - come together, %
they have done here, TO understand one an0-
ther, and their relative bearings - citiEens
in the structure Of society and Of the State.
CORDIALLY united and throughly understandings
each other, who II strong enough to repel
any Of their ju ims 10 recognition who
cannot see th landing upon their re-
/ served rights, tlsy nssd ask espeoisl favors