The Labor enquirer., 1886-07-10
Thomas Young Outlines Some
of the Advantages of
Socialism.
No More Drudgery in LabOr-Rest
and Recreation
For All.
The Present System Allows Its Citi.
zens to Lie on Dungheap and
Roam the Streets.

For the ENQUIRER.
What are some of the advantages that
will accrue to the workers by the adop-
ton of Soclalistic form of government2
First in the long list of advantages
will be that every man will be secure of
work every working day in the year at
remunerative wages, and this will re-
move all fear of want from the work
mans family and the gaunt wolf will
take his departure from the cottage door.
It will also secure to the worker few er
hours of labor 1t is idle mockerY to
say that the worlds work cannot be
done, and we'll done, in. at most, SIX
hours per day when all do their fair
share. This would be a great improve
ment upon the ritual of one society,
which engages in specul 4tlve work only,
and would read something like this:
Six hours for labor, six hours for sleep,
and six for refreshment and family en-
ioyments. T:lis will remove all drudgery
from labor and make it pleasure and
not a toll as now, and would also re-
move that longing for stimulants which
is often felt now by the man that Is
overworked and NOR poorly fed.
Another advantage would be that 1t
would secure rest and comfort in old age,
for integral co operation would insure
the life and health Of all its members
against sickness, accident and old age;
so that no man would have to work from
necessity after fifty years of age unless
be felt it pleasure to himself 80 10 do.
Again, the laborer would not be, as
now, housed in howell or forced into
back street or tenement house, where
his family would be slowly but mono the
less surely poisoned with foul air nd
noxious gasses and never see the blessed
sunlight, rec, grass or flower; but would
live in a social palace, a beautiful home
surrounded by all that goes to make
home place of rest and enjoyment to
both himself and family, so that 1t Will
be no misnomer to sing, there's no place
like home"
And again, such words as master and
slave, employer and emploYe, will have
passed away and only remain In lexl-
cons and old books, to show the pro-
gress humanity has maIe toward the
new heaven and new earth wherein
dweIleth righteousness" sAnd the
father and mother can depart this life
after having embraced their loved ones,
and, like the ancient Simeon as he held
the infant Savior of men in his arms and
said Now Lord ettest Thou Thy SER
want depart in peace for mine eyes have
seen Thy salvation > knowing that
their loved one would be safe and ten
derly cared for as the wards of the state,
who would provide for these orphans !;
educate. teach them trade, and give
them fair start in life. And in the
true spirit of Christ this Socallstic state
would say Suffer the little children
to come unto me and forbid them not
for of such is the kingdom of heaven"
How different is the present Anarchl-
cal government, which permits its fu'
ture citizens to lie On the dungheap and
oct their education on the streets and
around beer saloons, thus training them
up in the way thev should 60, so that
when they are old they may not depart
from it," THOMAS YOUNG.
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