The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-12
NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY. AUGUST II. 1871

transformation or the material world as our ideas
science are the signs OF our share in the transorma-
ton OF the moral world. He who labors and pro-
duces has right 70 the fruits 1t his own labor. Ia
this resides the right OF property. And II greater
less activity IN labor arises nom material Inequality
this Is token OF moral equality, the consequence
according TO lis work: "Apere Q,tantO egi ha
neritato" 1t Is necessary to attend to the placing
come monopoly, aud thai it may not descend to
the future II not from labor; In which as
gradually. their permanent concentration in q
lew hands, and adopt every just means OF
transmission and distribution But the abolition
OF Individual property and the Substituting Of col
lective property would suppress every impetus to
work; would suppress every slimuant TO give th9
suppress the liberty Of indiyidpal labor and, attr
buting authority to few individuals. representing
the state of the Commune. accessible to selashness,
seduction arbitrary tendencies anu the arbitrary adj
ministratioh OF all property would again reduce
every citizen to a system OF salary. under some
establish the ASSOCIATION, and reopen the ways 70
those evils Which hNa to-day pI2y9ke vSuE COMPLAINTS
ynsh namaSy Is nah5 6ad MT S Geparea
fiOm the patr archal system Of families. '~.'1-f
Today such Is not the case among tho Conn.,
munlsts OF Russia, where for many years the work.
tngmen, freed from servitude. hasten to avail them
selves OF individual property.
Will not proong this unpleasant examination,
The lew points taken ought TO be sufficient TO Judge
whether the lnlernattonae would VI would not
:. No. You Will not abandon for such proposals,
the way thus far tested successfully, and wi be
aDe, even 10 my last day, 10 move OH 1t with you.
When upon searching history you VIII hnd ideas
winch refer TO the first known periods or humanity,
forming themselves always, but always ana every.
where remaining In their essence, lnseparable from
society and stronger than every destroying revou
single people and particular age, and in CUES.
uonng in your better moments OF love, OF holy
suffering, OF devotion TO your general good your
conscience you VIII perceive to DO within an echo
OF those Ideas transmitted through thousands OF
ages; then those Ideas are substantially true ana
innate IN humanity, whose progress they must also
follow. You can and must modify lhem ameliOrate
their development and application, not abolish
them. God, the immortality OF LIE, your country
your duty the moral law which Is alone sovereign
your family property, liberty and association are
Do not devIate from that programme do not re-.
move yourselves from those among your brothers
the path leading to che institutions that recog.
nze ana preserve them. He who would cali you
elsewhere Is unable to help you.
Educate and instruct yourselves as much as pos.
slble Never separate yourselves from The fortunes
Sdo Gs enSey your s
free and great. Increase your associations; form
clubs. and connect through them mechanics end
farmers, uniting the cities with the villages and
country towns Labor 10 create operative sOcie-
ties IN every quarter. You may cOnfde in the
result
But unite yourselves c0mpactly: be locked UP IN
the one cause; be disciplined as an army. To-day
you not SUCH Your societies are morally lden.
tined with common tendencies; but no one has
right to speak If not in his own name; no one can
take 1t upOn himself to use the name of the whole
artisan class before the country to express wants
wishes; no one can speak authortalivey. This they
want; those the workmen OF Italy repulse. Have
unity or purpose-nOt OF action and method. With
out compact OF brotherhood, without direct cell
tire you cannot acquire or lnfuse into others
ceptlon OF the strength that Is you; you cannot
arrange aud publish statistics of the evils which
afhlct your classes; you cannot give the vgOr Of
uniformity and OF regularity to the indication or the
proper remedies.
These things told you few years past and you
accepted them convincingly. A treaty was ac-
cepted BY the majority OF the societies In one OF
your congressional conventions, but through an
error ed IN the formation OF the direct ail-
thOrity that treaty remained dead letter. useless
and forgotten. Why do you not strive TO revive 1t
and frame IL anew with more wise provisions and
amendments; vigorously aSttate that motion OF
cen:ration which is to-day more urgent than ever :
And why do YOU, new element that iS rising and
cannot stay itself without recedng. make yours the
FAULT too frequently committed IN Italy OF saying
and not doing
Rome, the maternal CITY, Is ours to-day: but ours
10 certain degree, ours materially only; and it de-
wolves upon us all to turn toward her the soul OF
the country, and from her receive the conservation
Of the way we must tread upon In order that your
dest1nies being fulfilled strong manifestation OF
Italian vitality will make the union holy and fruitful.
Why do you not hasten 10 gather in Rome ut con.
gress and give new baptism to your brOtherhood2
Perhaps, besides Its great advantages TO you, you
should remember for the sake Of example and as If
giving the initiative to Italy, that from Rome ought
TO Issue another and broad national treaty, defni.
tlon OF our future life, without which Rome and
Italy are empty names. GIUSEPPE MAZZINL.