The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-12
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this WICK keQne hciotAAoss aasu kuoii'
teachers there were who pointed out thu
| ills, butt was useless. Capitalism mus
onward 60, even if it tramples tht
! morals Of the community in the dust
! Two hundred years ago William Petty
| pointed that 'Their crsA vas begotten o
the unequal application of hands Z
labor Themeaning l,f such sentence
! is perfectly clear, and ret our Ascientlnt
political economists hive not yet recog
nized its truth.
h John Bellers. q Quaker and a Socialist
advocated organization. of unemployed
4 labor, an item in the Socialist programme
to-day. He also says The rich have nc
other way Of living b1t by the labor o.
/ others; as the landlords by the labor o.
! the tenants, and the merchant by the
labor of the mechanics Traders may
/ grow rich" he says @shlle the natior
grows poor" And again, sThere canno
! be too many iaborers in a country if the
1 employments are in due proportion
although there may be too many traders
for the number of laborers." He Ger
tainly struck truth which the ma
iority of thinkers do rot recognise to
day when he said, Iand and labor are
the foundation of all riches and the
fewer idle hands we have the faster We
increase in value That labor is the
source of wealth is a truism. but it Ii
one of these truisms which many accept
and few understand. John Bellers had
rare insight into economics and We
should feel grateful to laim to-day wher
we recolIect that he pointed out these
things at the beginnins, of the iron rule
of capitalism. ~ e,44 ~ :
/ But it will be said that all this over
work and brutal usage has passed away
women and children are not allowed t
work from fourteen tJ eighteen hour
! per day, and care IS taken that children
shall receive some education, and indus
trial brigades for homeless orphans. .ane
!, homes for fallen women are established
| This is all true so far as it goes, and an
not at all unwilling to acknowledge tina
biwell-meaning philanthropists have ex
erted themselves with the admirable
! intentions of doing good. But do no
think that these evils, especially of lonl
hours and small pay in factories hal
passed away. These long hours gay'
rise to various diseases, such as consump
ton, scrofula, bone diseases, and indeed
result generally in mental and physica
deterioration. E u
Ii Man Is the creature of his conditions
put him in circumstances congenial t.
his development and he will develop
Put him in circumstances hurtful to hi
being and he will deteriorate. But lie
this fact be borne in mind, the evolution
of the human as of other organisms il
never stationary, it is either progressing
or retrogressing, either going towards
higher form or lower Now if yol
compare some of the countenances which
are to be seen in our city hells, with tha
of a savage and again look at the face o
q comfortable, healthy and refined
citizen, you will see that the latter 4
much better than either savage or wage
slave, and you will also notice that ther
is similarity between the two former
Prof. Huxley said that some of tn
savages were very much better off thai
the poor of London. And when yyo,
compare them, even in imagination, yo'
cannot gainsay the statement. There i
a noble grandness in the stalwart, hal
brutal savage, and yo1 cannot but ad
mire his independent air, and healthy
vigorous look. But what of the poo
crushed dwellers of the mighty city
Can you find anything to admire in. hi
abieet cringing air. hin feeble limbs AMI
round shoulders, his starved scared mlel
as he sinks through the streets, looking
as if he had wronged society. when il
reality society has wrenged him. Ant
can you wonder that such man o
woman never thinks Of freedom, of hap
piness, of throwing off social tyranny
They know not what life is, or means, o
if afew of them do fird out, life become
unbearable.
If you want to fad a monument c
the rule of the bourgeoisie, find it in ba
room and brothel, i'll poor-house an
prison, find it in the deformed limbs an
stunted minds of your feliowmen an
women
Everything is prostituted to the servic
of capital SCIENCE, church, literature
> everything that man invented or i'm
proves, capital claims.
T The creed of to-day is well written b
Mr.. Riley: H.
81 believe in Capital, Father Almighty
maker Of veal and woe, and of all thing
visible and invisible. And in one powe
-usnrY and increase, the only begotte
Son of Capital. Begctten Of the Fathe
before all dues. Money of money, wealt
of wealth, very cash of very cash
begotten not made being of one sui
stance with Capital, and whereby a
! things are done; which for us men an
for our perditien, calae forth from tn
bottomless; and was invented by an
sacra flames. and inc,rHate of the yirgi
money, and was made gold, stamped
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