The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-12
DECLARATION

DECLARATION
Of the Fights Of Man Worthy Of
Every Prdlstarian's Careful
Perusai.
GoFFIcIAL-
| HEADQUARTERS Division ExEcUTIvE
Rocky MOUNTAIN DIVISION, INTER
NATIONAL WoRKMEN's ASSOCIATION,
Denver, Colorado 5
The following Declaration of the
Rights Of Man. is ordered published TO
the people:
/ 3lse PREAMBLE.
We hold these truths to be self lf-evident
| to all people who have the welfare OF
humanity at heart That all men and
women are born free and with equal
rights. That they were endowed, by
such birth. by their Creator, and as nee
essary incidents of their existence, with
certain inalienabie rights, rights ofwhich
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themselves; and that among these rights
| are the right to life and the means OF
living, liberty and the conditions 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-
lisiiment of these truths and the princi-
! ples necessary for their perpetuity, we
| dopublish and declare: i,
That the just end Of all. political asso-
ciation and the only permissible reason
| fortheir existence at all. is the mainte-
nance of the natural and impfescriptible
rights of man and the development OF
all his faculties
9i' IL.
Whatever rights belong to one man
belong to all men equally, whatever diff
| ference there may be in their physical,
mental, or moral force Equality OF
rights is established hv nature. Society
10 far from invading thought Justly to
| constitute security against the abuse OF
force which would render 1t illnsory.
rfNst1 Il III. gf r5 2aEssft tj,.s-
If it should be found; after careful
I 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,
I .'. ". ,.3''l d.
Liberty is the power which belongs to
a man of exercising all his faculties at
pleasure. 1t has justice for its rule; the
rights of others for its boundaries, nature
for its origin, and the law for its safe
guard. " E'-' K
The right of life, which belongs equally
| to all men, carries with it the right to
| the means Of living. Chief among these
subsidiary rights is the rightof each in
! dividual to receive the full product OF
his own labor, without 1.-THE, tax or dim
mutton, upon any pretext. ~
! 49,. vi. .t.. -. e..
Every individual is entitled to an equal
| proportional share of all the natural ad-
vantages of earth. The whole people
should hold theland, light, air and water,
together with other of natures re-
sources, as the natural heritage IN COM
mon of all mankind, and of his proper
,ion thereof no man should ever be de-
prived. sHas.aE ui ~ j..
! rT.'7 VII.
Every individual is entitled to an
equal proportionate share OF all the accu-.
/ nulated wealth created by past genera
,ions, 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 any
| share of the benefits produced by the
/ cooperation of those who do consent.
| It is but Just that those who will not CO.
operate should receive none of the BEN
efits of cooperation. ~.
! TX. g -.
| Debt, profit, interest, rent and the COM
! petitive system of industry are hereby
i formally declared proved instruments OF
degradation and tyaranny. and cancers
! upon the social body. So also are the
present methods of Furnishing crime
rather than preventing it; the present
/ monetary system; the present method OF
suffrage the present method of educa-
lion: and the present systems OF Jurls-
prudence, church and military. 49,
The right of peacably assembling; Of
manifesting opinion, whether through
the press or by any other means; ofFthe
free exercise of religion of bearing
arms ;-of security of person against IN
reasonable search or seizure, and of com
plete liberty of thought and speech, to.
-ether with the right of association, are
such necessary consequences of the prin-
ciples of mans liberty, that the necessity
of declaring them presupposes either the
presence Of or the resent remembrance
of despotIsm. H. g.. .s.,5...l..
The right Of private property can
Justly be based upon no principle except
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
consent of all members of society.
e. XII. r.,
So long as members of society shall
fulfill their portion of the social contract
they have a right to demand of society
that it provide to them the means neces-
sary to provide for their subsistence. So
ciety is bound also to insure the means
of existence to those who are incaaable
of labor. -.,l4sI 7..fs 10
-.-.i-l... ..g.. ~. XIII. .,,.. ~ ID a...
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 reason, and place instruction