The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-10-09

The New Gospel.
From thu Daily Star, New York.
WIN society in q state Of corruption
scarcely surpassed in the days Of imperia
Rome marriage manifestly On the decrease
and too often mere legal farce when en-
tered intoi adultery, Abortisn andshandOn.
ment Of those Ofspring so common, tina
hardly sensation Of surprise or exprea.
sion OF abhorence meets the terrible *
poses which appear daily in the press. h
becomes matter Of grave inporta ance 4
consider means Of overcoming the CROWNS
evil which threatens soon to undermine N,
very foundations Of society. That q com.
plete reorganization Of the social structur,
10 requisite 10 this end, no one who compre.
nendss. s.the present state, nf the eommunit,
will doubt. The question 10, what mean,
can be used TO insure 90 great result : lie.
gislation 10 powerlees to affect the pripciple,
which move humanity, for custom lies deepe,
and 10 more powerful in the social poiitv
than Law. Neither can the Church avail
much. Long preaching from the pulpit and
the religious press have proved or little
avail The men who have been reasoned
with, like the young man TO whom Jesus
talked, listened respectfully until tbey are
told TO "sell oil they have and give unto
t6e poor"-then they 70 away sorrowinp.
Nor do the laws or the:: Church, in their great.
est endeavors, really approach the Riss Of
the matter. Some practical movement il
needed which shall Ake hold Of the very
elements OF society and adjust them into
such harmonious relations that the present
abnormal conditions shall be impossible.
Social scientists, relig ionists, legislatures
have advocated scheme after scheme for this
result, bat none have come 20 near putting
the axe at the root Of the evil 40 the indus
trial reorganization proposed BY the friends
OF emancipation Of labor. Ia our day. A 10
the time Gf Tiberus and Domitan, the con-
fusion and rotenness Of society arise from
the extremes Of wealth and poverty, and
these extremes again arise from q false ad-
Justment Of Capital and Labor.
When the laboring community awoke 70
the fact that the wealth of the world-the
capital OF the men who were, In the hardest
sense OF the term, their mGsters-was ths
production of their labor, and therefore hv
right their property, out Of which they were
detrsuded BY some chicanery OF power, the
first impulse was given to the movement
which is to result in such a normal social
state as the world. has never yet seen.
Branded together to seek better and more
equitable state for themselves, they have biI
upon the instrument which they believe will
redeeem the rich as well az the Door the
means which will make healthy the currents
which are the life-blood OF all society The
leaders In the labor movement have come "a
understand that something more is needed
for their manHmition that a mere combiua.
tlon OF force against capital that needful
a. short hours are, the eight hour law is not
fundamental to the ultimatum thev seek for /:
that important as it is for the interests Of
intelligent labor that foreign barbarian la
should not be imported, the Coolie matter
does not vitality effect the great principle !;
that Important as CO. operation il, IL must
affect the question more as n result than a
% Sssss rssE &c " 1eRe y .s 4 \ o.. 7. ssa~ly-
and shecting society 10 every grade and con-
dstion, 10 Q false money system that there 10
something which constantly drains The
pockets Of the poor and Industrious to add
TO the hoard Of the rich and indOIent; some
thing which keePs the gold and silver OF
the people lying idle IN bank vaults, and
an inflated paper currency afioat. which
raises The price of every necessity of life
something which causes the existence OF;
Wall street and send the hard earned
money of wOrkingmen aud Workingwome
into its gambling pOOls-Apd this something
they have decided to be an over rate of in.
terest To abolish this they advocate a new
monetary system which shall secure the dis
tribution Of property according to the earn
ings of labor, and yet equitably preserve the
rights Of property. This plask in the plat
form Of the Labor Congress tignally Sc
parates them from both OF the present poll
teal parties, and serves as grOusd work on
which We may confidently look for the build
ing, not only Of new and powerful politi-
cal party, which shall affect society in ali
its interests and destroy the condition of
which our present wretched financial and
moral state are the result.