The Irish standard., 1895-02-02
HOURS OF WORK AND WAGES.

4.Ae NTDtef fElnc1pleS VTuS&00 CWt ny
Grinding Monopoaistie System.
Under the title Eight Hours Work
and Fair Wages" t'Monasini," who hae
gisen much study to tho question Of L.
Dor, has this to ssy:
''If truth makes You tree, ycu shall DE
lfree indeed said the Master; for free
dom or independence IS the natural In
SEPARATION Of the human soul, and any man
/ or set of men who interfere with it's
proper development, are'enemies Of the
human race, and should BE- expelled from
the .body polite az poison from the phys
ical body.
Government, whose functions OYER hui
Imam society is as b' ain to the individual
or the physical body, car have no other
object than to protect ell the members
of it's social compact in their inalienable
rights to life, liberty and the .parsuit OF
happiness, and,demand also the perform
ance of their corresponding duties which
there can ba neither law nor liberty. Z
No sensible man will object to doing
his share of the work necessary to feed,
clothe, shelter and,edacate mankind; but
! he certainly ought to object when all the
work is left to nearly one halt and the
rest left to werk schemes by whi;h tn
live on the toll of the other half, which
is contrary to law, both divine and nat
ural. .-
All men are consumers, therefore all
men should be producers; If they are
not, they are nothing more nor less than
burdens to society, end the greater the
consumer the more of q burden, and
since from land mast come all our wealth
by means Of labor, the fact that the Ia
borer is poor can only come by robbing
him of his land or the fruits of his labor.
Hence to keep up their monopoly and
usurpation of power and wealth, they ne.
cessitate standing armies of police and
military, with ell their auxiliary forces,
all nom producers, who must be fed,
clothed, sheltered and educated by the
producers, who besides being robbed OF
their land and money, must be made to
work for q mere existence that the sur
plus of their labor may 20 to support a
monstrous and legalixed system of rob-
berry.
Thus, with land and money put out OF
reach, we are compelled by capitalists to
work long and late, that more may be-
out of work ready to take our places for
less, or whatever wages capital sees tit to
give us; and SO we build for the least
possible pay, guns and gun boats, rail-
roads, shops and factories, parks and
palaces and summer residences for the
rich, who think themselves kind and
charitable to give us work, Ito enrich
themselves} while workingmen live in
miserable huts and novels, not half fed,'
clothed, sheltered nor educated, wonder
ing why so many are out OF work, and
the majority Of them at their wits end
to make an honest, respectable living.
But this is not all: weak and helpless
children who ought to be at school or
tending to their household, because the
father by his work alone cannot support
them, are forced into foul and filthy
shops and factories of the rich, to wear
out their lives and morals from ten to
fifteen hours per day, because they can
be hired to do the work for half the
money in order that bummers, boomers,
bankers, brokers, boodlers, "bulls" and
.'bears,' and the whole alphabet of un-
productive bipeds may live to enjoy
themselves on the sweat and labor OF de-
fenceless women and children, and to
work men from ten to fifty hours without
sleep, as is repeatedly. done on railroads,
with threats Of discharge il they do not.
show that capitalism @the man Of SIM
cares not damn" for human life.
health and happiness, whether carried or
employed, 80 long as his 'watered stock
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