Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy

system of unequal exchanges. Tl~e whole transaction,therefore, between the producer and the capitalist, is apalpable deception, a mere fdrce: it is, in factJ inthousands of iostances, no other than a barefaced tIlouglllegalised robbery, 6y means of which the capitalists andproprietors contrive to fasten themselves upon the productiveclasses, and sucli from them tlreir whole substance.Those who assist not in production can never justly beexchangers, for tlrey have nothing on wl~ich to dralv, andtherefore nothing which tlrey can exchange. No man 'possesses any ~ratural and inherent ~'c;~lt!r within lrimself-he has merely a capabilily oj'laboriring ; therefore, if sman possess any created wealth-any capital-and lravcnever made use of this capal)ility, :irrtl 11;rvc never Ii~bo~~rcd,the wealtl~ whic11 Ilc holtls in ~~osseusion cannot rightly belongto him. It n111st I~clong to some persons who havecreated it by labour; for capital is not self-existent. Tlrevast accumulations now in Great Britain, tlrcreforc-asthey are neither the production of tlrc labollr of thepresent race of capitalists nor tlreir predecessors, and werenever given to them in exchange for any such labour-donot belong to tlre capitalists either on the principle ofcreation or the principle of exchange. Nor arc thrytheirs by right of heirship ; for having been producednationally, they can only justly be inherited by the nationas a whole. 'ffrus, view the matter as we will, there is tobe seen no towering pile of wealth that has not been,scraped togetlrer by rapacity-no transaction between tlreman of labour and the man of money, tlrat is not clraracterised by fraud and injustice.Here, then, is demonstration, flowing naturally fromfacts, that tlrc three great conditions which the ecor~omistsacknowledge to be rCrrecessarp to the support, comfort, andpleasure of human life," arc almost unheeded, and two ofthem totally unacted upon, by the capitalists themselves.The law which says