Workmen's advocate., 1890-11-29
NATURALIZATION OF LABOR.
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 The present multiplicity of owners and claimnatS of property fuses an endless sea of litigation. The leading feature of tribunals, police, and prisons, profes- sedly to administer justice between man and man, and to protect them from each other.
 Were the nation the proprietor and employer, the bone of contention would be removed, and but few occasions for law suits could possibly arise. The mul- titudinous laws which are now on the statutes would be swept away. The occasion of coercion in the affairs of men being passed, there would be no government such as now exists, but in its place a Nation, deriving its powers from all it's people, and whose legitimate functions would be to develop the wealth and resources of the country by experimenting labor and distributing it's products.
 At present we have complicated system of banking and exchange, de- pending for it's support upon usury, the evils of which are almost incalculabe. It is base fraud upon labor, absorbing and controlling it without rendering an equivalent. It is through usury that enormous fortunes are accumulated in the hands of the few. It opens the door to every species of legal extortion, and tempts adventurous minds to seek for sudden wealth by devious path. Under its influence there is no security in busi- ness relations. Defalcations, frauds, and reckless speculatiOns caus an ever recur- ring rise and fall in the money market. perpetuating itself by adding fuel to the fevered minds of infatuated gamblers.
 Under national proprietorship there could be no transactions in real estate, and little or no borrowing of money. As | there would be no occasion for hoardlng, the material of currency would be of little consequence. National labor notes. representing an equivalent of a certain amount of labor, and bearing no interest, would answer all the purposes of me dlum of exchange.
 We have referred 10 some of the most prominent evils that would find their remedy under the National System" Further examination will find it to be equally conducive to the regeneration of society in every form, and the banish- ment of nearly every species of crime, injustice, and conflict, that the world is now afflicted with.
 Let us suppose that, by absorption, one department of business after another has fallen under national supervision, until it has at last become the entire owner and controller of every branch of commerce and industry. As individuals will depend upon the nation for every thing they have, 1t clearly becomes the duty of the nation to supply all their needs.
 Let us, then, inquire into some of these needs. First of all is guarantee against any possibility of want for every man, woman, and child. As society is now constituted, it is the rule that those who toll the hardest are the least paid, and, also, that this body produce chl. dren in greater abundance than those who live in the enjoyment of wealth and ease.
 The main burden of the support of the rising generation, therefore, has always rested upon the shoulders of the poorer classes al the community. How unjust It Is that children should be born into the world to endure privations from their birth up, when society has the power of preventing it
 A national guarantee must cover every possible contingency of life before man. kind can rest free from care. IL must begin, then, at birth, and end only with death. In equity, the rising generation IS equally entitled to the fruits of the accumulations of the labor of past gen erations; and as these are held by the nation, for the good of its citizens. children should come into their inherit ance at birth; iu other words, be wards of the nation, and cared for, supported. and educated by it. The charge upon the nation would not be ended until the 1 youth had acquired some useful occupa- ton. Thus far society would perform Its duty Tn fostering and preparing them | Tor usefulness, and would now be repaid