Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy

Republicans. Their position, and their poverty in regar(1to men and money, have so far saved them. But it hasalready ken shewn, tlrat from the very nature of tllingsthere can llever be a true republic-there can never beequal rights and equal laws-under the present socialaystem. This system itself-whatever may be the form ofgovernment instituted at any pnrticular time-has aninvariable and inevitable tendcncy to generate inequalityof wealth, and therefore every other desrription ofinequality ; and must sooner or later merge all republicsinto monarchies, or rlespotisms of some kind ,as all historyy'roves to 11s. The same mighty principle of evil-inequalityof vrealth in conr~ection with the gradation of classes-haspervaded almost every nation ant1 every form of governmentwhich has existed ; and the same wrongs and miserieshave ultimately befallen the working class untler republicsas under mot~arcl~ies. The United States' government,whatever it may be called, is, like that of Britain, thcgovernment of a class-the government of the men ofmoney; arid there is no flagrant violation of justice-nowanton outrage upon the r~ghts of man-which thatgovernment does not permit to be openly practised, hy itshalf-hatched aristocracy, upon the two millions of enslavetlhuman beings in the republic ; nor does any Europeanwar of aggression-any efirt of a crowned despot to establishman's supremacy over man-offer onc feature ofinjustice or outrage which is not likewise to be beheld inthe United States' war of usurpation and extermitlationagainst the aboriginal inhabitants of that portion ofAmerica.In addition to the vast sums which have been wrungfrom the people of the United Kingdom, and wasted forsuch abominable purposes as the destruction of humanlife and the enslaveme~~t of body and mind, we must takeinto account the blood spilled, the tears shed, the heartsbroken, throughout the enacting of the long and dire tragedy.These form the blackest and the heaviest items inthe account of monarchical misrule. During the lastcentury or two, there have been twenty-four wars betweenEngland and France, twelve between England and Scotland,eight between England and Spain, and sevenbetween England and other natio~rs-in all, fifty-one !The ascertained amount of British money expended, duringtlte last six great wars, is as folloa~s :-LABOUR'S REMEDY. 731. ending 1697, cost ....2. War ending 1712, cost ....3. War ending 1737, cost ....4. War encling 1756, cost ....5. American War, 177.5, cost ..6. War from 3793 to 1815 costThese sums, doubtless, fit11 far short of the actualamount expendetl ; for the real cost of war is unkno~vnmd nnapprrciable. Besides the money tl~os sacrificed,tile number of lrurnan beings that perishe(1 c\urillg four ofthese wars have been thus csti~nated :-J 100,000 s1;rin.War cncling 1697 ..-... 7 80.000 died of famine...................I 'War ending 1756.250,000 slain.War of 1775.200,000 slain.War from 1793 to 1815,. 2,000,000 slain !But these wars l~avcost other nations mucl~, as \veil asthe people of tile United Iiinqdom. The very last longwar, from 1793 to 1815, bcsitles burtheni~~g Britain to the;unount of X850,000,000, cost :-..................................................................££ ..PranceG90,000,000Austria. 220,000,000The other Sates of Ellrope .1,012,000,000The United States of Americtt 27,000,000Forming a total of X2,GS9,000,000--all ~vasted-all worsethan wasted-by men calling tlremselres Cl~ristialls, for thel~~rposeofpl~~nderingaod destroyinpotllcr Cl~risti;ms! Thesevast numbers slain, ant1 this inlrner~se ;\nlount of money lost,includes only thc figllting men, and tile snrns spent by theseveral governments engaged. The more innocent victims ofthe demoniac spirit of inequality-the fathers, ant1 mothers,and cliildren, amongst the people of the several countries,who perished by violence, and the misery and want inst..parable from war-are not placed in the accol~nt. Theirruined homes, and plunilereil wealth, and bliglrted happiness,count as notl~ing in tile cost, wlletl despotism estimntesits losses !Althougl~ most of these wars and crimes and losses may