Workmen's advocate., 1890-11-15


 for equal services. Were this accorded to woman, her sphere of usefulness would be enlarged, and she also become orc ducer. When labor is rlftrd of its tull and only becomes healtfuI exercise, when machinery constitutes the bone and muscle and man and woman the brain or dWectle power, woman may be equally useful in the field of industry IL becomes, therefore, the duty of Wu. man to emHnClpate the race from toll hy sharing the necessary labor, and the duty of man to make opportunities for her to do Sc. The Companl0nship of the opposite sexes would render labor more agreeable to both, and, by again d0ub- ling the productive power, COrrespOn- dingly eQualize and diminish toll. Con- sidering further the increased facilities for obtaining and using machinery that the government would have. and the economy of Systematized and combined labor, it will he evident that two hours work per day of all adult persons, male and female, would keep the productive industry and wealth of country at its present standard,
 SECOND - IT WOULD RENDER THE LAND WORTHLESS TO INDIVIDUALS, so THAT Is WOULD BECOME THE PROPERTY OF THE
 NATION.
 Earnest and phlanthropic men labored for years to obtain the "HOmesttad Bill" which, although good in itself, has been rendered almost imperative by land Spe, CulatOrs paving located their grants so far out upon the frontier, that the actual settler IS compelled to go teyond the bounds of civilization and away from the markets in order to take advantage of the law. The government has also complicated the difficulty by enormous grants to railroad c0rporat on and J c}y is going forth to restrain Congress from voting away the balance in a similar manner.
 Most of the land reformers would fa- vor d statute of land limitation, so that no individual could hold more than a certain number of acres. As reform measure this is not in advance of theAgra rian laws passed by the Romans twenty five hundred years ago.
 Palliatves are but compromises with system, whereas radical reforms are in augurations of improved systems.
 If all persons born upon the earth are equally entitled to land, wherever they choose to fix their abode, either temper arily or otherwise, then land must be common property for populations are continually shifting, and it would not be possible to make daily divisions, or to accord each person lands having equal advantages of soil and locations. Exact justice demands that lands be held in common.
 Were National farms established here and there throughout the country upon a large scale, having all the improved implements of labor and their products sold at cost, it would render private far ming so unprofitable that the surrOun- ding farmers would abandon their lands and seek employment upon those belong ing to the Nation, and as these extended and multiplied, land would become va luelesS to it's OWuers and so gravltate into the hands Of the Nation, thus pre- venting further traffic in the soil and de- strOying landed aristOcracies.
 Not only farms with their stock and agricultural implements, but all work shops, tools and machinery would, in the same manner, revert to the Nation and  all the accumulated labor of past genera. tionS equally available to the present one THIRD -- IT WOULD DIGNITY LABOR BY
 MAKING ALL WORKERS.
 At present a portion of society exercise their craft by becoming distributors and manipulating the market to suit their interests Through powerful combina- tions they garner up the necessaries of life and create a scarcity by which they profit. Though in their private relations they may be genial and benevolent yet really they are no less vampires, who feed upon the blood of humanity; self constituted and taCitly acknowledged administrators, who take to themselves toll of all that can feed, clOthe, or sustain life. It is considered an evidence or superior intelligence thus to appropriate that which others, less acute or more honest, have produced Therefore, dbOr IS q lest of mental inferiOrity and so long as such an opinion prevails it will be held in digraCe. This class of human parasites look upon fhe workman as only a machine but unable to live without his assistance, they profess to respect la DOT, as an inducement to the wage wor- ker to be resigned to his position.
 Another body of persons live by the direct employment of labor, Between them and the employed there seems to be growing antagonism. Among arti sans and laborers this has generated La. bor Unions" for mutual protection and resistance to the tyranny of employers Workingmen have thus far resorted to strikes" to redress their grievances, but they are entirely futile to accomplish the ends desired. Without National workshops to fly to, they must continue to be starved into submission. All their labors and devices as yet have been use full only in schooling them into truer knowledge of what constitutes just and !, ,at1lral rolnt 0ns hnt Alen man and man.