Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-05-12

we oppose social system resting on
the social requirements Of an un-
known future
As opposed to demagogues in the
body polite who would invest our
economy with an absolute or mon
archcal garb, and from whom we
would always wrest the mask Of by
pocrisy, we denominate ours the true
democracy, and we are strong to
recognize and proclaim the maxim
"labor is the true foundation of
all culture ~
TO WHOM DO THE FRUITS OF LABOR
BELONG?
If modern production rest upon
the facilities afforded by associated
forces, must, then, naturally and in
accordance with this principle of as
ISOLATED production, the idea of indi-
ydual labor be abandoned? And
must the great mass of laborers rest
satisfied with starvation wages?
No, we cXclaim, replying thus:
The natural result of associated labor
is to wrest the fruits Of production,
and by this means indirectly the
machinery Of labor and the ground
and soil and all private possession
from their owners.
A certain amount of private own
orship might be ;equisite for GER
tain period Of time; but private pos
session must be dependent upon and
co-ordinated by a system of co-opera-
tive labor; it is therefore a logical
result and its consequences fore
shadow a new era in the history of
mankind.
Only then will it come to pass that
in its university, private ownership,
during the period of accumulated
capital, shall become the object of
common possession and the domi-
nance of class distinction shall be
destroyed.
Capitalists and proletari:ns will
cease to exist, and then, Tor the hl2t
time in all, history, will the equal
rights of all and the social status of
every citizen be recognized before
the law.
Such Il social and dem ocratic State
it is the aim and endeavor of social
lists to assist in bringing about.
THE AIMS OF THE MODERN STATE
Hand in hand with the social de-
velopment of the State, which is pr.
marily exclusive, and which brings
to all it's inhabitants the right OF
citizenship and will realize for them
equality before the law, we should
take into consideration the States
extension.
From Capitalization into towns
and smaller States, the progress swas
upward and forward to larger States,
and then again to international con
federation; thus the State approached
more and more what it should be.
come in the comprehensive sense Of
the word, a union of many united
States-a social bond finally, ex.
pressing a civilized and united hu.
manlty.
The history of mankind is the
illustration of mans struggle with
nature and a hostile organization
the delineation of a contest be-
tween the material, intellectual and
moral constitutions of individual
men.
1t is the social or political organi
zatlon Of States, which has rendered
possible the progress in culture thus
far attained; it has multiplied i'm
measurabIy mans power of resistance
and has rescued him from the miser,
and helplessness in which he founC
himself plunged in the beginning o.
written history, and has emancipateC
the race to condition to which i,
would never have been possible fol
individual men to attain,
This result must now be reached
, since at given periods the means fol
union concentrate at certain point
whether 1t be to open new avenues t.
progress or to surmount obstacle,
still in the way,
The introductions of new inven
tons and Of all new methods of pro
= ductlon, either emanated directl
. from the State. Or gain and com