Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1872-09-10

Until this question is fully understood there
is no hope for the advancement of the masses
OF mankind, materially, intellectually, or
spiritually.
When man was commanded by God to earn
his living by labor, or the sweat of his brow.
the command was the best thing that could be
done for him, after he had forfeited and lost
paradise: For, if he obeys that command. not
only will "his bread and his water be sure,
but as it is not "by bread alone we live" he
will have an overplus, OF capital, out of which
his mind and morals will be fed and supported,
and his spiritual nature built up into a temple
that even the Divinity will deign to inhabit
and dwell in. But contine man TO mere food
and raiment; take away from him all the
profit, or saccession Of good from, labor or
erertion," and you condemn him to mental
servility, and british grossness and ignorance,
and have in him a a.more profitable slave than
the negro ever was. who could be sold and
transferred from hand to hand as chattel.-
As proof OF this, witness the wealth of the
North who had and have white slaves, and
that of the South with its chattel negro i
For again, and again, that man, from whom
all the profit of his labor is taken. and who
cannot lay up and accumulate capital, although
he may be white, and not subject to sale and
transfer, is to all practical intents and pur.
poses slave to those who do accumulate
That the interest on money, or usury-and
especially where the profit on money is greater
than the net increase Of labor-does rob the
many. and concentrate their hard earnings
into the hands of the few, will he readily seen
by any Intelligent mind that will carefully
nonder the following article from the New
York Mercantile journal. In the accumula
tons OF labor, a man has only his a,et1tvi7xnl
muscle and brain to work with and as priyofe
man, but in the accumulaions of money and
by money, he is working with an instrument
that has In 1t the po,oer and virtue lin this
country of forty ,nifions of men for money
is a sovereign po,oer of all the people and em
anates from them and not from Individuals
Such man, then, the usurer- profits. not
by thing he has created, or can create, but
by thug created by all for the use-and
only the use, not nroperty-of all: The
1rottts if any, should go to the people who
created money and to the individual ouly the
use to exchange his labor: The man who
buys and sells this public insfrun,entni;tv and
makes profit on it. buys and sells what he
did not prod uce, and is not his oun beyond
the "se of it: In a word, he "reaps where
he has not s"wn, aud gathers where he has
not strewed"
i'et tue oay>ahnrer, the mechanic, the
farmer. the fair merchant--who does not con-
n've with the money power-aDd the mauu>
tacturer-who is not robbiug others by houn-
tles-cousider the following article ON interest.
aud he will begin to understand the hopeless
nature of his individual struggles to accuuu.
late, until this monster money power is strip.
OF all function of inD"s'n,e"t aud confined to
what it was designed for, e,rchamye and ex>
change solely What fool so obtuse as to he
l'eve, that the people created money, to mako
h'm y an Investment for his labor property
80 long as any do this, the many will be
ponpers. OBSERVER
Summit Point, Sept. ?. 1872.