The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-07

Ieeauresby HI. Eobert croue-ussl
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Attes few introductory remarks, Ne
spoks - fo1IoHs s-Ias. fundamental
+ axiom Of Political Eeoponis.s IN every
age and country. with lev modern
le1esPai0ossb shas bseu. TtzsF '..lzncsu
provide berter for himself, and more
adT4ufzzsously for the pubic, when
p0s-d 70 and IN competition EIth bis
isiloEE, than when sitsd BY Ecy sosslzl
arrz1Escasn:E, Vkjeh skoala lena %
unite his 1ntEfes-s fndiE1dn1Bys and
generally 70 society" In fEC ths
principle Of Individual inteC=tr
fhouzh antI-sOdzI. inpoiitie and
Irrzuoual il il results, i pEo
eIsfnned By The DosT Distinguished
politIcsI seoHOuiEIs, 10 b Jbs very eor-
nsr-stoos ofOur seal 81 stem, without
which soeSeEy oould not exist This
sysIem hzs IN the past prevailed with
no apparent opposition Empires have
fe-epC from thz womb o. barbaEzsm to
"a exalted eonditio1 81 elsiliEatiou-
bat only on the half oblitsEetsd pESssl
Z Of hisEoTy can BE- t-zczd the fsiutzs5 evil
dsnos Of their former existsDe=, and
O;hsr nations, nov no1rIshlng on The
ruins Of tb0se z4ImeEL ones, present.
soch an array Of national strength As 70
incline 6 70 bslisTs thai time viii De
/ PoSerlsss 70 Efsss them. ProDtnsu:
luaORg TIE nAlioRs Of oar time sands
EDglsnds and though / shall baFeoces-
son 70 advert TO other eoaurHes, yes TO
heI turn wiki greater confidence, b.
1 suSe a6OFdibg more ample scope for
investigation. In no olhsr country
have the consequences Of the eonPstl-
i've system oeEn 20 fezrfull Developed
I Tns natural consequence ofthis system
I Is 20 cznIrzIiZs power, Esalih and fame,
and As an ILLUSTRATION Of this let The
2 condition Of ibs o7RdJlL> Of France
the great uDWzsbe1 and EEInlsh
multitude Of England ana the mudsills
! Of our Northern State, bear witness
( Nor DOS the evil end here. Theln
! viduai system Is EmiKtUrs Of extremes
- to power, wealth and poverty, and
I those cODcomitAnts are inseparably
linked TO dsspOtism on the one hand
and slavery on the other. Privilege and
caste divided the world into classes
those classes are kept apart from each
other by the individual principle, and
this subdivision Of society by caste per-
Insstes The whole. from the highest 10
she lowest TINS Il Is that man, the
world over, regards his fellow man not
~ a cosqusI, bat riY6l, whom IT Is the
business o! bis hte 20 outstrip or sup
/ plant Excessive competition = The
( legitimate fruit OF the individual sys-
TEN. We ipculcsts il upon the child AZ
birth; in tbeis sports, a. il their sduc4-
Ton, they nnst get above their neigh
Dor. In the Infancy OF society the In
dividuai system was best adapted 10
the capacity Of man, because IL afforded
q necessary stimulus to his jnfantins
condition; but knOEiedge, formerly the
exclusive properly Of the few, by lis
very diHusiTeDess, demands ehSDge;
che rapid development Of machinery
Iesssning the labor Of men. bot G0rciog
them TO acquire additional know
/ ledge, imPeratiyeiy demands it.
Sos, SkiIs am willing TO
admit the Individual or COM
IN the origin Of human society, also
sse that many evils Of which we justly
complain owe their origin TO this
source. In the first place u has estab-
liEhed q universal sel6sbness obssrT-
able in all the relations oflife, and from
( this sslfshness hEs sprung the legisis-
ton ia all nations OF the world favor
| ing production, without correspond
I ing regard TO the distribution OF labor's
results. Thus we have created civil
| warfare between individuals engaged
in the same profession or business.
: Their interests are made 10 appear an
I sgonistic-Hnd SO envy, Jealousy, an
! ger, fraud, all OF which may be summed
( up in the modern word "BmaTt," are
| generated. Another evil resulting from
the present system is the temptation,
nay, The necessity TO creste artificial
wants, TO minister to the inordinate de-
maDds Of that selfshness, which i the
motive power Of the whole system, and
| as \ consequence, increase the intenE-
| ity of those passions and vices which
seem TO defy the regulating power Of
law. This reasoning may appear
strange; but 1t would be strangsr still
% produce n reason why 50 many
| ahould be exposed to poverty and went.
| That such "a the case is evident. and a
l eanEe for its existence may be found
L. 10 10 . aW -Ta.egT
an unnatural Limit to the GprodDc-
ton Of wealth. Presenting that the
| exhaustion of our productive powers
and the satisfaction Of our wants are
the only natural limits, what Ihen is the
| third Simply this-''competition, or
the Legitimate product Of the individual
/ system. To illustrate this, let me say
| that the quantity OF wealth which n
| working man receives is always the
least that his labor can be purchased
for, according 10 the political econo-
mIsts OF the old school, and the reason
why he does not obtain twice the guam
tity Is, because II he as an individual
demanded more, another individual
| would offer to do the same for less; in
other words, he finds in the necessities
of his feiloW.workman a competitor.
/ When this principle is clearly under
stood, men will see that the exhaustion
of our productive powers and the salts
faction OF our wants. are the only
natural limits 70 the production OF
l wealth; that SO long as capital shall be
employed in competition with capital,
instead OF in conjunction with it, we
shall never satisfy our wants or exhaust
our productive power. About the year
1877 II WAS estimated that in Great
1 Britain alone the application of Ecieu
tific power to production eQualled the
added manual labor Of four hundred
million adults; that is to say,
the working population of Great
lions, it would require population of
four hundred millions of workmen to
produce the amount produced by labor
saving machinery. Nineleen-tWen-
tieths Of the labor saving power was
| introduced within the last century.
| Bot while the power of production has
| thus increased, has the remuneration
I given to the laboreF Increased in Sim
/ liar proportionR Let the universal
/ poverty in Great Britain to-day answer
1 Ia land pronounced by competent au-
/ thorities to be the richest as well as the
| poorest nation on the earth-let the
| enormous rate of taxation upon her
| people, bear witness. But this taxa
ton, severe though It is, cannot be con-
sidered as the prime cause, inRsmuch
/ rs, according to The. English Registrar,
\ General Niles, who states that IN 1926
| the tax was sos per head, or one-for-
] tieth OF BEitaln's wealth. The true So
4 luton must be sought Tor in the false
4 system OF commerce or exchange. 1t
may be said that an unlimited inter
I change of products cannot possibly de-
/ priVe the workman OF the produces of
| mis- labor; but answer that commerce
u = III q