Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-02-07
THE NEW NATION, )"

The first number of the Ser Station
appeared last Saturday, Jan. 81. 1t list
carefully and conscicntiously edited
newspaper evidently not intended to
create sensation, but full of facts and
quotations showing the economic tenden-
cics Of the present system and the con.
scquent movement Of thought among
men Of the middle class and the learned
professions; also, among public men
who have been more or less influenced
by the new currents Of opinion. Later,
probably, more attention will be paid
to the actual movement-the movement
Of the working class-from which alone
we may expect the social changes that
the distinguished editor of The Ncw
Nation, Edward BelIamy, predicts in
ilo ''hitth''iy lOiloNn'
"In The New Nation. work will not be
warfare, bat traternaI cooperation to-
ward a store in which all will share.
Human effort, no longer wanted by
battle and CrOSs.purpOscs, will create
an abundance previously impossible.
More important far, the conditions
Of labor under the plan Of fratcrna co
I,At II rltr t.,
mulate fraternal sentiments and affec-
tionate relations among the workers as
the present conditions tend to repress
them, The kindly side Of men will no
longer he known only to their wives and
children.
"ln The New Nation, there will be
neither rich nor poor; all will be equal
partners in the product of the national
industrial organization.
"ln The New Nation, the dependence
Of one sex upon another for livelihood,
which now poisons love and gives lust
its opportunity, will be forever at an
end. AS equal and independent part
nerS in the product of the nation, women
will hipve attained an economical en-
franchstmcut, without which no politi-
cal device could help them Prostitution
will be "A forgotten horror.
"ln The New Nation, there will be no
unemployed All will be enabled and
required to do their part according to
their gifts. save only those whom age.
sickness or intirmity has exempted and
these, 10 longer rs now trOdden under
foot, will be served and guarded az ten.
derry ~ are the wounded in battle by
| their comrades.
." In The New Nation. the children will
be cherished az precious jewels, mestim
able pledges Of the divine love to men.
! Though mother and father fOrsake them,
the nation will take them up.
" In The New Nation. education will
| he equal and universal, aud vii cove r
the entire period of life during which it
Is now enjoyed 10y the most favored
! classes.
." In The New Nation, the wasting of
| the peoples heritage will cease, the for
ests will be rc-planted, the rivers and
seas re-popuIated, and fertility restored
to exhausted lands. The natural re-
sources of the country will be cared for
and preserved rs a common estate, and
one to which the living have title only
rs trustees for the unborn.
In The New Nation, the dehauchlng
influence Of wealth being banished, and
the people raised to a real equality by
equal education and resources. true
democratic and popular government
will become possible as 1t never was be-
fore. For the first time III history the
world will behold true republic.
rounded, full-orbed, complete,-a re
public, social, industrial, POLITICAL
These will be some of the character.
istics of The New Nation, to the advance
ment of which, till it shall have utterly
replaced and supplanted the old nation.
this paper Is pledged"