Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy

and revolting crimes nrhicl~ hare talien place to keep manand his institutions stationary, effected the [or~ ~ l l they i c ~ were intended? Tur11 to liistory for anans!vcr-look hack from our days to the days of our forefathers,and ask if ally of the many powerful endeavours to])revent changes ever yet snccecrled.At no period since the creation of tlie world lras manbeen so well prepared, as IIC is at present, to effect achange in the very constitution of society; antl no othernation possesses so many facilities for comlnc~tcing sllch achange, antl carrying it fortvartl succcssfi~lly, as do thepeoplc of the Urlitetl ICingdom. A variety of circnmstances,~rrl~icll 11;lvc not !)at1 so much influence on othercountries, have tended to induce this ripeness in ourselves.We suffer greater burtl~cns t11;un arty othcr people on earth-blirthens wllich our unceasing industry only just enablesus to ])car 111) against, and live. We hare a greateramount of fixed capital, or accumulatctl labour, 111 thefor111 of roads, milnrays, canals, manuhctories, and macllirieryof every description, than is possessed by anyother nation. We are collected tog~tl~cr in large masses, andhave excellent means of commuo~cation. As a people, urehave as much po!itical Iino\rlctlgc. a11c1 as rnucl~ incipicr~tunion among ourselves, as any otllcr nation. The entiremass of the producers, with n great al or ti on of the clistril~utorsof we;tlth, are groaning under the accu~nulatedwrongs of centuries of misgovernment and mismanagement.Tllcy have tried allnost every conccivablc means to obtainrelief i~nd ~~cdress, I)ut they have cvci. been bctr:lyetl, anddisa1)poiuteci, and cheated wit11 a shadow. 3ler1 ]lave atlengtll, honlerer, begi~n to look from the tyrant to thetyrallny-from the effect to the cause. Thus our presentposition :LII~II~S \vrIl for a social change, and for tlle advancementof man's highest ilestiny.It is otlly 1r11en lncn suffer great wrongs, that they loolcabout for great remedies. So long as they are satisfiedwith their nrc~rldly condition, ml~ether it be good or bad,they will not think of changes : they will not give up Rcertain moderate good for an i~ncertain great benefit.While the people of the United I