The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-08-22

lators have put forth to introduce it into
this country. In New Guiana, South
America, it is almost the only kind of la
Dor. The wage system in those countries,
ut least on tch we have q thorough
knowledge ia ,I6ly about FIVE hundred years
old, and although the youngest Of all sys-
TENS already gives signs on the formation
OF tentative cooperative associations of
breaking up. The employing class wi o
profit by it, strenuously advocate the con
tinuance of it, and with something like the
perversity Of our ancestors from five and
slx centuries ago when dealing with the
feudal question, resist all encroachment
upon their privileges. Laws are passed in
thair interest, and then they make us fight
3AaA ss1rSri "A sEz-zEsina thsS. A shan Am 4 po
htical economy has been invented to show
the necessity and desirableness of it
Eternal natural laws have some how
been discovered, like that Of supply and
demand, which are forever to regulate the
remuneration of labor, and against which
it is idiocy to contend. The beauties Of
the system are made clear t. the dullest
intellect. How by just provision Of the
plan the highest rewards are awarded to
the most industrious and saving, and that
all have the opportunity of reaping them.
Forgetting that if all could become en-
ployes there could be no employed, and
consequently that the system that they
wishes to preserve would then cease to
exist.
The brain workers are appealed to, to
lend their aid to save a falling house.
Brain labor, We are told is necessary to the
prosecution Of manual toll Granted.
But men with hands have brains Of their
own. The mistake consists in the assum-
ed necessity Of separating the Two kinds Of
labor from each other If you do 80, and
put the brain workers BY themselves in
some corner of the world, they could only
live by becoming manual labors All the
intellect, mind and brain in the universe
concentrated in this single spot could not
raise this leaf Of paper from the desk
This paper, the desk, this house, our
clothes, our food, everything that minis
ters to our desires, is the product of our
hands.
To those who own the hands then belong
the wealthy, for they created it, 1t is
their natural right to own it, and a sys-
TEN which prevents them from enjoying it
is false, and must fail. The more they
get, the better brains they have You say
that yourselves. They are going to take
all and prove to you that their minds are
as capable of cultivation as their hands.
The world is lop-sided Some men claim
that it is destiny for them to think what
others shall do. The doers must be the
thinkers. Michael Angelo IN his minds
eye saw st. Peters dome swinging aloft in
air, but he did not conjure it into place
He conceived the magnih. @nt statute of
Moses, and the wonderful !, ~ DY OF the
Judgment Day, but his own. ~ ~ ~nds
executed these marvels of =. &sl 70 red
him forever as the type ~ a1g
workingman. 1m'
-. a44si1zI1 and t.l their
tsAsstA<se- LII we 5tiEs frfiivT1-
uals, and the cooperation Of the mind and
muscles be perfect in us all. When that
day shall come, We shall find the active
sympathies of every member of society
exerted in behalf Of all his fellows.
Confidence and generosity will mark our
intercourse instead Of distrust and stin-
giness A new world will see in the union
Of the hands, the intellect and the affec-
tlons the highest point Of cooperation,
and wonder that We kept killing each 9th
er 50 long when it was 50 natural to help
each other and to live together in harmony