Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy

very spirit of ineqllality ~ L Ii~ljlrsticeI ~ exists ill every institutioll~ l governs d every tl*.~rrs;~t:tion. Un(ler preserltarr;tngclncnts, every thing goes from the creator of ~ ~ ~ a l t ] ~--tile \vorlcing mall--step bv step, a ~ paying ~ d tri])llte toevery otilcr chiss, until it ariives ill tllc sllape of &m,000a year at some capitalist or ~)ro~)rictor-who taltes tllisInoney, not ill c~cl~:trlgc for his laborlr-not ill e.~chnngefir a~rytlrin~-b~~t it ib given to lrim beearise tlle i~sags ofsociety, \\ithoot tl~c least slradow of reason or justice, Ilarreort1;iinetl that it sl~allje SO !SO otl~cr tlliii~ tlie liresent sociill system coultl by any1wssil)ility crcatc and ~)er~~etu;ttc tlrc gross ir~justicc 1v11icl1is now i~~liictccl upon tlre great botly of csclrarrgers-tl~cworl~iirg c1,iss. 'I'ircy arc pl~i~~tlcretl on ;111 sitlcs, i~rrtl preye(1II~)O!I 11y 211 other classes. T11cy form, lilic tlreir 1);trcnte;irtl~, a conlnlorl pasture-gro~ulrl, or, ~rl~iclr all crnu lingil~ltl crecltil~g tlrings may feet1 ;tntl fatten.Nothirlg I~ut a total cllangc of systcl~l-:HI cc111:1lising oflul~ollr ar~(l escl~arrgcs-car1 :titer this st:tte of things forthe better, and ~IISII~C IIIC~I a true eqrlality of rigl~ts. 'i'liescesam])lcs of the \vorl,ing of the ],resent system maylilelrrisc serve to explain the nlallncr in 11 l~iclr tl~c systcr~lcjught to \vork. For i~rstancc-tl~c f20,000 received byally proprietor or c;ipitalist, for rent or interest, is a ],artof the s111.plus of protluction over consumptio~~-it is asso muclr clear profit, to be enjoyed by man as a rcrvard forhis toil. 111 the case of the landed proprietor, the partiesIllore in>ntet!iately concerned in the prodrrction of the;E20,000 rent-;tlthouglr the working nicn of all de~romi,atio ions intlirectly contril~ute to it- re, first of :ill, thelabourers of tire Prlrmer, wlro receive an annual £20 or 230for their labour of ten or twelve lio~rrs ;~-tli~y; the11 cometlre farmers, eacl~ of ~rl~o~n, pcrlr;ll)s, clears f200 a-yearfor 11is I;~bour of six llours 21 tl;ty ; :rnd the landholder receivesthe &20,000 a-year for IIO labour ivhatever. Itmatters not how many ~vorbing men Inay assist in cre:~tingthis SII~I-it stands Xpitrt from them, and is not enjoyetlby them ; but were the two great I:ta,s of universal labourand equal eschnngcs in force, this f20,OUO of rent or profitwould be, as it ought to be, equally divitleil amongst andenjoyetl by the partics assistir~g in its production. Thet\velve hours of tl~c one portion, and the six hours of theuther, and the perfect itlleness of the last, w-oultl, if thusequdized, inflict Liot very ninr1cr:itc labour upon all concerlletl;\rrlli\p tllc v;rrious rrlliis of230, 8200, autl 8%),oOC),if liltc\\risc c,lll:~]]y dii,itlet\-;is tllcy u.urrlt1 be by a system ofcqli:Ll escll:~l~~s--~vould at once place the worlii~~g man intllat iind afford l~im all tliose ialv;i~~trgcs, to wL~icliIle is so justly entitled by his 1abo11r ant1 his useful~~css.TIlc same injustice wbicli is inliictetl IIIIOII the ngricultllral];tbourcrs by the present system, is sutyeretl, like\vise,by tlic ~vorliing nren of :dl tr;sles. The 1ubol1r in all is tl~rrsu~~e(~ml, ant1 tl~c rcnu~neration is tli~rs ur~ccl~~;ll. The gainof tllc c1;lss of c;cpit;llists ;und c1l11)loycrs is always the lossof tlrc \vorl