The Labor enquirer., 1885-04-25
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do well, not one thing only, but many
things familiar with mechanical as well
as agricultural processes, and acquainted
with the use of steam and the direction
of machinery. Not till one has achieved
thefullest command, the most varied
use, Of all his faculties and powers, can
he be properly said to be educatec. !.
VI. Isolation is at war with efficiency
and progress. AS ''iron sharpeneth lron,"
80 are mans intellectual and Inventive
faculties stimulated by contact with his
fellow.men. A nation of herdsmen,
dwelling in movable tents, inyents little
or nothing, and makes no progress, or
next to none. Serfdom was the general
condition of the labdring class in Europe
until aggregation in cities and Inanufac-
torres, difusing intelligence, and nour-
ishing aspiration, wroughS its downfall.
VII. The poor work at perpetual dis
advantage in isolation, because of the in
adequacy of their means. Let us suppose
that 400 or 500 heads of families propose
to. embark in agriculture. Each buys his
little farm, his furniture, his imple-
ments, animals, seeds fertilizers etc., etc,
and-though he has purchased nothing
thathe does not urgently need.-he finds
his means utterly exhausted, and his
farm and future exertions heavily bur-
dened by, debt. He hopes and labors to
clear of the mortgage; but food and
drouth, frost and fire, work against him
his poverty compels him to do without
many implements, and to plow or team
with inadequate force; he runs up an ac-
count at the store, and pays 20 per cent
extra for his goods, because others, who
buy,on credit, fail to- pay at all; and 50
he struggles on, till his strength fails, and
he dies oppressed with debt. Such is the
common lot.
VIII. Association would have these
unite to purchase, inhatit, and cultivate
a common domain.say of 1000 acres :
whereby these advantages over the
isolated system would be realized: - {
l. One. fourth lat most of the, land
required under the old system would be
found, abundant. s-H F, rr,.5 ~
2. It could be far better allotted and
appropriated to grain, grass, fruits, forest,
garden, etc.
g. The dranght animals that were far
too few, when dispersed among 500
owners, on 50 many different farms,
would be amply sufficient for a common
domain. III 'E;FE 4'4&t5 ~ tlIi5
4. Steam or water power could now
be economically employed for hundred
purposes-cutting and saving timber,
threshing and grinding grain, ploWlng
the soil, and for many household uses :
where the small farmer could not think
of employing it. S'5.z
s. Industry would find new and pow
erful incentives in the observation and
praise or censure of tho entire commu-
nifty uniforms, banners and music, with
the rivalry of bands of competing
workers, would provoke emulation and
tighten labor; while such reereat1ons as
dramas, concerts, readings, etc.-now
utterly beyond the reach of rural
workers-would give new zest to life.
At present our youth escape from rural
industry when they cannot that they
really hate work, but that they find their
leisure hours even duller and less en-
durable than those they give to rugged
toll HORACE GREELEY.