Workmen's advocate., 1888-12-22
HUMANITY.
BY T. II. GARSIDE.
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II.
 This, then, creates a distinction be- tween one class of men and another, the one the servant, the other the master, the dependent, the other the indepen- dent. The pOssessor of power is not in any sense the dependent upon those de- pendent upon him; he possesses the right to force them into condition of service utterly regardless of the possible viola ton of all natural laws. The object of all life is happiness, in whatever phase, of action men may labor to secure it, and however much it may be hidden beneath other more apparent objects, still it is the ultimate goal of ambition. Life is far from being that abstract in reality understood and expressed by cer- tain economists.
 Life is real life is earnest" and to the consideration of life kindred and necessary adjuncts must be at tached.
 Human procreation gives to its fruits sacred inalenahe rights; these are strict
 
 continued propagation of the race.
 By the exercise of these natural rights the full physical demands of human species would be met and there could be DO possibility of any lack of supply. Natural resources are adequate for natural demands, the suggestions of Malthus are cruel, wrong. because un- natural; all increase of population must be beneficial, providing that the condi- tions of natural supply are in harmony with natural requirements.
 Given q population of any number; presupr0sins d natural capacity of all re- quirements as the rtsult of labor. To limit or restrict the supply means death to the existing race, and lesSened vital ity to succeeding generations.
 The possibility of obtaining any con- trolling power over any portion of the necessary adiuncts to life can only be fol- lowed by want and misery in another, non-possessing class.
 To wiIfully and directly destroy the life of any human being is classed as murder; but if food, warmth, clothing, shelter and any of the requirements of life are by any means kept from human being, and if life ceases as the result, it Is simply murder.
 Possession of anything implies the full liberty to use that possession as may best suit the pOsSessor. Each individual possesses the same right. Naturally the interference of one by the other, means the extension of the active power of one, and the lesSenlng of the other. The continued use of this process results in concentrated power, power of class, governmental privileges, etc. Power as possessed by any man is dangerous and wrong, but especially is its effect | the most disastrous when 1t touches the possibility of existence. Action or the right to action cannot be denied, nor should the right to active operation upon natural supplies for natural requirements be denied, since one is as true as the | other.
 The right to life is plain, since the des- tructiou of life is punishable with death; | the right or claim to live however is only | acknowledged in an abstract sense. Right or claim is intensely legal, while adjuncts, possibilities, opportunities of supplies are really physical Humanity possesses with life a claim upon all the ad lunCts necessary to living. mere nelnB harmony III nature, there must also be harmony or equality in the possessions of natures products: capacity requires satisfaction, demand necessltates supply, and the extent of demand the standard of supply. A nat ural or normal demand will be met by a normal supply obtanable hy normal means, and any condition in which an abnormal demand is made is unreal. and for some untrue and unreal cause, and requires abnormal means to produce it. Theft does not only consist in taking from another his actual possessions but also in hinderlng hIm from obtaining his due proportion of natures product. On one side we have power which not only obtains the supplies requisite from nature but which forces the supplies needed by others 10 such positions as are beyond their reach. This Is the prime cause of the struggle for life; 1t destroys the bonds of humanity, and refuses to rec ognize even the natural claims to exist ence. There Is as result a divis on of men into classes, the one holding from th- c'h her the means of existence, placing