The Labor enquirer., 1884-10-25

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From the natural inequality of faculties,
that of classes or conditions is inferred.
On the other hand, shortcomings are ex-
cused by the impossibility Of unifying
divergent interests and sentiments. This
antagonism states the problem to be
solved, 1T does not excuse tyrar ny. Clubs
and bayonets are not reasons. Saint
Simon was right in synonomizing the
words governmental and military. Gov
eminent making order in society. is
Alexander cutting with his sword the
Gordian knot.
Do the actual -oppositions of interst
and inequalities of faculties really con-
stitute an insoluble problem? Is the dis
tlnetion of classes logical corrollary
from such differences? Is force indicated
for maintaining such distinctions 2
UtopiaLs, at least, hold to the contrary.
Some think that community is the soIu-
ton, others, association with particular
methods / hold that it lies in the or
ganlzation of economic forces under the
supreme law of CONTRACT.
To your governmental theory founded
( in ignorance. sophistical in principle and
operating by force, IN exploiting your
subjects the progress of ideas and inter-
est OF labor opposes this theorem. To
find a form of transaction, which, in
reconciling divergent interests, shall
identify the particular with the general
good, complementing natural inequalities
by specific education, rendering everyone
alike, producer and consumer, citizen
and sovereign, administrator and admin
istered to, in which his liberty shall be
enlarged with his energies, never alien
ating any part of it, in which his pros
perity may increase without check or
prejudice to or from his fellow citizens,
whether in his relations of interest, of
opinion or of affection. 4. NJ
Well, these conditions seem to you i'm
practicable The social contract, by rea-
son of the multiform relations to be reg
.ulated, looks something like squaring a
circle, or the perpetual motion. There
fore, despairing, you surrender to abso-
lutism, l. e., to force.
Yet if the social contract can be re-
solved between two producers, it may be
so between any number of twos.
Translation note: This must not be
taken too literally. At least, it will be
only by gradual progression and as the
consequence of a social discipline of ed
ucation in the methods Of mutual con-
tract. exclusive of laws and authority
that local autonomies of similar structure
can extend to the monstrous and hetero-
geneous nationallties now extant. 1t
suffices at first to establish exemplars
and tendencies. For the rest, with re-
gard to general principles of action as
distinguished from particular business
operations, public meetings, at which
assents and dissents may be registered,
will abridge the formalities of mutuaIism.
Text resumed = Listen to the work
ingman. He says: II ask for nobody
else's property or service, and 1 don't
want anybody else to prey on mine.
also want 3order more than those who
disturb it by their pretence of govern
ment, but want it as an effect of my
will condition of my labor, and law
of my reason. will not snffer it coming
from foreign will and imposing on me
servitude and sacrifice as its condition.
DR.. NJ. E. LAZARUS.
! 'GUNTERsv1LLE, Alabama.