The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-19
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Denver, Colorado.
Tho following "D1clsration Of the
Rights Of Mansis ordered publtshed 70
the people:
We hold these truths to BE- self.evidont
TO all people who have the welfare OF
humanity ct heart: That aI men ana
women are born free and with equal
rights. That they were endowed, Dy
such birth, by their Creator, and as nee
essary Incidents of their existence, With
certain inalienable rights, RIGHTS ofwhich
even they themselves cannot dWest
themselves; and that among thes0fights
are the right to life and the means Of
living, liberty and the condit itions essen
tial to liberty. and the right to the pur-
suit Of happiness. That especially emu
merating the subordinate rights flowing
naturally and reasonably from the estab-
lishment of these truths and the princi-
pies necessary for their perpetuity, we
do publish and deslare:
L.
That the Just end Of all political asso-
ciation and the only permissible reason
for their existence at all, is the mainte-
nance of the natural and imprescriptible
rights of man and the development OF
ali his faculties
Whatever rights belong to one man
helang to all men equally, whatever diff
ference there may be in their physical,
mental, or moral force. Equality OF
rights is established bv nature. Society,
go far from invading it ought justly to
constitute a security against the abuse OF
force which would render 1T illusory.
a III.
If it should be found, after careful
trial thereof, that any form or system OF
government or society fails to maintain
the rights of man, then it is not only the
| right but the most sacred duty OF the
| whole people to alter or abolish the said
system by any and all possible means,
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Liberty is the power which belongs to
i man of exercising all his faculties at
|, pleasure. 1t has Justice for its rule the
rights of others forits boundaries, nature
for its origin, and the law for its safe
guard.
The right of life, which belongs equally
| to all men. carries with it the right to
i.the means of living. Chief among these
subsidiary rights is the right of each in
| dividual to receive the full product OF
his own labor, without 1.-THE, tax or dim
mutton, upon any pretext.
VI.
Every individual is entitled TO an equal
proportional share of all the natural ad-
vantages of earth. The whole people
| should hold the land, light, air and water,
together with other of natures re-
sources, as the natural heritage In COM
mon of all mankind, and of his propor-
ton thereof no man should ever be de-
prived.
VII.
Every individual is entitled to an
| equal preportionate share of all the accu-
mulated wealth created by past genera
tions. and that wealth should be held by
society as the natural heritage in COM
mon of all mankind.
VIII ~
Society can deny to those who do not
consent to- this system of society amy
share of the benefits prodnced by the
co. operation Of those who do consent.
| 1t is but Just that those who will not CO.
operate should receive none of the BEN
etits of cooperation. ,a #
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Debt, profit, interest, rent and the COM
petitiye system of industry are hereby
formally declared proved instruments OF
degradation and tyaranny, and cancers
4 upon the social body. So also are the
present methods Of Furnishing crime
4 rather than preventing it; the present
monetary system; the present method OF
suffrage the present method, of eduea-
| fion; and the present systems of jurls-
prudence, church and military.
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i The right of peaCaby assembling OF
manifesting opinion, whether through
the press or by any other means OF the
free exercise of religion of bearing
arms; Of security of person against unt,
| reasonable search or seizure, and OF com.
plete liberty of thought and speech, to.
4 gether with the right of association, are
such necessary consequences OF the pr1n-
ciples of mans liberty, that the necessity
of declaring them presupposes either the
I. presence of, or the resent remembrance
4 of despotlsm. n
4 ,XI. :sE~ 4s2js @f
The. right of private property can
\ Justly be based upon no principle except
4 that having been produced by the per
son in possession of it, or upon the pos
SCISSOR having rendered for it the full
. equivalent to the one who did produce
| it. This rule can have no exceptions
save those created by the unanimous
i consent of all members of society. Is
+ XII. u p
4 So long as members of society shall
/ fulfill their portion of the social contract
they have right to demand of society
that it provide to them the means rieces-
sary to provide for their subsistence. So
ciety is bound also to insure the means
of existence to those who are incaRable
of labor. z.
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Absolute justice is the right of every
being. The law is the free and SOL
emn expression OF the public will, and
it must be equal for all. Society ought
to favor with all its power the progress
of public reasou,' and place instruction
/ and recreation within the reach of every
1 citizen Tho .neorala 10 the snuarainn