The Labor enquirer., 1884-01-05
DECLARATION

Of tho Rishts 4 Nam Worthy !
1vey Psolssarian's Careful
Perusal
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HfApQuARrRRs DIVISION EXECUTIVE
Rocky MOUNTAIN DIVISION. INTER
NATIONAL WoRKNKN's AssoCIArIoN.J
Denver, Colorado.
The following Declaration of tn
Rights Of Mannis ordered puDlished t
the people:
PREAMBLE.
We hold these truths to be self-eviden
to all people who have the welfare 9
humanity at heart That all men an
women are born free and with equs
rights. That they were endowed, b
such birth, by their Creator, and as mex
essary incidents of their existencs, wit
certain inalienable rights, rights ofwhicl
even they themselves cannot dives
themselves; and that among these right
are the right to life and the means
living, liberty and the conditions essen
tial to liberty, and the right to the pul
suit of happiness. That especially emu
merating the subordinate rights fowin
naturally and reasonably from the estat
lishment of these truths and the princi
Piles necessary for their perpetuity, W
do publish and declare:
L.
That the just end O, all political asso
citation and the only permissible reasol
for their existence at all, is the mainte
nance of the natural and imprescriptibl
rights of man and the development G
all his faculties
IL.
Whatever rights belong to one mai
belong to all men equally, whatever dii
ference there may be in their physical
mental, or moral force. Equality q
rights is established by nature. Society
30 far from invading it, ought justly t
constitute security against the abuse Q
force which would renderlt 1t illusory.
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III.
If it should be found, after careful
trial thereof, that any form or system Q
government or society fails to maintain
the rights of man, then it is not only tn
right but the most sacred duty of th
whole people to alter or.abolish the sail
system by any and all possible means,
".
Liberty is the power which belongs t
a man of exercising all his faculties a
pleasure. 1t has justice for its rule; tn
rights of others forits boundaries, natur
for its origin, and the law for its safe
guard.
".
The right of life, which belongs equal.
to all men, carries with it the right, t
the means of living. Chief among thes'
subsidiary rights is the right of each in
diyidual to receive the full product Q
bis own labor, without tithe, tax or dim
mutton, upon any preteIt.
VI. H.. s.
Every individual is entitled to an equa
proportional share of all the natural ad
vantages of earth. The whole peopl
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. - :, 49,
VII.
Every individual is entitled to al
equal proportionate share of all the accu
mulated wealth created by past genera
tions, and that wealth should be held b,
society as the natural heritage in com
mon of all mankind.
= VIII.
Society can deny to those who do no
consent to this system of society an
share of the benefits produced by tn
cooperation of those who do consent
1t is but just that those who will not CO
operate should receive none of the ben
efts of cooperation.
TX.
Debt, profit, interest, rent and the CON
petitive system of Industry are hereb
formally declared proved instruments {
degradation and tyaranny. and cancer
upon the social body. So also are tn
present methods of Furnishing Grim
rather than preventing it; the presen
monetary system the present method {
suffrage the present method of educs
ton; and the present systems of jurit
prudence, church and military.
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The right of peacably assembling; {
manifesting opinion, whether throug
the press or by any other means of tn
free exercise of religion I; of bearin
arms; of security OF person against M
reasonable search or seizure, and of CON
plete liberty of thought and speech, tt
gether with the right of association, ar
such necessary consequences of the prlr
ciples ofman's liberty, that the necessit
of declaring them presupposes either tn
presence of, or the resent remembrance
of despotlsm
XI.
The right of private property ca
Justly be based upon no principle excel
that having been produced by the pc
son in possession of it, or upon the po'
SCISSOR having rendered for it the flu
equivalent to the one who did produc
it. This rule can have no exception
save those created by the unanimou
consent Of all members of society.
XII. -[,
So long as members of society sha