British Monitor (Newspaper) - July 14, 1822, London, Middlesex LATE THE MONITOR V Cl 1 T i PRO dRIS ET OWENS It may be though We have shewn that HUMAN LABOUR is true source of HUMAN it is vantage The original difficulty may still recur to the minds of those who are not thoroughly conver sant with the subject and they will How are we to pay more to our labourers than we pay when every one not only feels great in present rate of wages for but is convinced that the wages of la bour must be still further reduced How are to employ the present unemployed in for when there is not a suf ficient market for the productions even of those who now have work There are none who want increased productions at least there are none who have the of pay ing for them and is it reasonable to expect that we should pay wages to the poor for producing commodi ties which we cannot dispose of after they are created Even if we were inclined to submit to a for the sake of giving them em the so much from us in taxes and that we positively can not afford the requisite sums and supposing us to commence the Quixotic undertaking which is how can we possibly to bear loss which is certain be incurred Do you wish us to raise more agricultural pro when there is already more than can be profitably when the distresses of the farmers are asserted to be owing to an already existing superabundance Do you wish us to an increased quantity of mercantile our manufacturers and mer collections in the markets of the world It is that we might expend vast sums and em ploy a prodigious power in the making of and in other great public under how and by whom is the ex pense to be borne and when is so great and unnatural an effort to cease How are the landowners to when they can not obtain their rents How are the manufac and to bear a por tion of this new when the majority of them can scarcely pay their own necessary ser and meet the demand of their creditors How are even the to make the re flourishing as their concern may it is considered that a very great part of the national securities is the property of persons of very limited who have to struggle in confining their own expenditure within their receipts supposing us to have the how sufficient numbers of us to be induced to come forward in this desperate and losing speculation Each of us will readily admit that we ought to make every sacrifice for tlie relief and regeneration of the that it is our duty to make the greatest efforts for the amelioration of their hard condition but each of us is also very well assured that there is no prospect of a great and general effort be The sums paid to the paupers in England alone amount to seven or eight mil lions To employ the whole pauper population of and and to pay them such wages as would enable them to enjoy a moderate share of com would probably require forty or fifty mil lions per Who are to pay this vast a sum equal to the net revenue of the Slate a sum in addition to the intolerable public burthens which we are already called upon to pay a sum which we cannot were willing and by the glut of all kinds productions under which the country already would involve us all in one conmon and overwhelm beyond the prospect of relief or the of redemption Say that we were even to associate the poor under arrangements and it will be evident that the as a general is im The execution of his hb tells requires one hundred thousand pounds for each association thousand individu In seven in need of asks neither nor less than that an undertaking should be the completion of which would require SEVEN HUNDRED MILLIONS OF POUNDS STERLING to be expended It is that the land is estimated at onethird or onefourth of the amount even after that the project requires a capital ot FIVE OR six HUN DRED MILLIONS 1 My good fellow bare statement of the proposition carries with it so romantic an that it is scarce possible to treat it with Five hundred mil lions larger than the imagination can grasp sum than the ag gregate of real pecuniary wealth possessed by the civilized world it is still in our power to be some what serious on the do condescend to inform us where these hundreds o millions are expected to come is to pay Who is to set the example of raising wages What is to become of our foreign trade if wages be raised Who are to employ the millions of popr that are now destitute of em ployment How are your new villages to be supposing the vast capital which is to be actually the villages to be the new to be set to in the name be you these jt he worth while to hear what further you have to offer on the subject of the We that we have set you a task as cult of accomplishment as the formation of the required capital itself and that we shall have nothing in reply but idle and unmeaning decla mation respecting the errors of the existing and the superiority of your own of hundreds of millions a time when the utmost exertions of this beneficent nation have witty difficulty produced a hundred thousand pounds for the famishing a time when it is acknowledged on all hands that the last shilling is wrung from the people by a time when the Government of the country can with difficulty retain a small surplus revenue for the payment of a trifling proportion of our overwhelming a time when money has been rendered so scarce by PEELS ruinous and impolitic that the currency is absolutely insufficient for carry ing on in a the present con cerns of the a time Softly in addition to your plain overwhelm us with a torrent of declamation on the beneficence of and on the Go the the and the legisla of the State is very evident that you labour under a sufficient confusion of ideas respecting the simple subject which is really before without having the disorder of your thoughts and thrown into un intelligible perplexity and inextricable by the useless mixture of so many foreign con business is to shew you in what manner the real wealth of the and even its pecuniary may be im You may dismiss the National the PEELS and the State of the from your consideration if we succeed in convincing you that the national wealth and capital will be greatly it must follow that the pressure of the debt arid taxes will bo proportionally and that the increase money will correct live presumed mischiefs of PEELS It will not be expected that we to the string of objections which we in terms as brief as those in which objections themselves are We be heve it will be admitted that the principal dif in the way of the New System are fairly explicitly boldly We undertake as fairly and as We must be to do so in our own time and in our own The intricacy is not in the subject itself but in the perplexities in which the minds of the objectors are The mind must have a distinct and view of the whole before it can fully comprehend either the true nature of the or the force and sufficiency of the Those understand the whole subject will perceive what we and will at once agree with us when we that not one of the objec tions could have proceeded from any person by whom the true nature of our and the powers of which we are are under To them it is sufficient for us to that the whole of the objections are founded and If they have a distinct percep tion of the whole of Political any further remark is absolutely The by the mere terms of their refute If a person who had uniformly seen iron sink to the on its V immersion in but who was entirely ig of the laws of were told that a hollow ball of however Would ride buoyant on the he would pertinaciously oppose to the assertion of the the erroneous opinion which he had de be tain to assure him that fixed and though to him the reality a phenome non might seem inexplicable and if the means of making a practical demonstration were not at it would be necessary to instruct him in the principles of before he could com prehend credence to a phenomenon which which is known by the scientific to be the result of established To a person conversant with those it is sufficient to slate the in order to obtain his though the phe nomenon itself had never come within his own To an individual unacquainted with the principles out of which the fact it is necessary to enter on a tedious course of before we can enable him to com prehend and acknowledge its In undertaking to demonstrate the practicability of the stupendous change which Mr OWENS System would effect in the condition of the bulk of and the facility with which it may be carried into anci the in calculable advantages which will spring from every step of the process to all classes and we with relation to the majority of the placed under circumstances some what similar to those of the expounder of hy with his uninstructed There is no real intricacy in the subject of which we The difficulty lies more in and elucidating the erroneous conceptions of the disciples of the old than in plainly staling the unerring principles and ble conclusions of the We have im posed upon us not only the task of instructing those who are entirely ignorant of the mag system which is in our We a re encumbered with the double necessity of not only demonstrating the truths of our own sys tem on the one but of also ing the errors of preceding theories and prac tices on the It is not enough that we state that the metallic globe is ia not even sufficient that we illustrate the laws which determine it to the surface must also explain the which render it im possible that it should sink with many we resort to actual ex
