History of American SocialismsNoyes, John Humphrey
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History of American Socialisms
Noyes, John Humphrey
Communism -- United States; Socialism -- United States
"Any person may become a stockholder by subscribing for not less
than one share ($25); but the council, having as yet its
head-quarters in New York, is necessarily entrusted with power
to determine at what time and in what order subscribers and
their families can be admitted to resident membership on the
domain. Those who are judged best calculated to facilitate the
progress of the enterprise must be preferred; those with large
families unable to labor must await the construction of
buildings for their proper accommodation; while such as shall,
on critical inquiry, be found of unfit moral character or
debasing habits, can not be admitted at all. This, however, will
nowise interfere with their ownership in the domain; they will
be promptly paid the dividends on their stock, whenever
declared, the same as resident members.
"The enterprise here undertaken, however humble in its origin,
commends itself to the respect of the skeptical and the generous
cooperation of the philanthropic. Its consequences, should
success (as we can not doubt it will) crown our exertions, must
be far-reaching, beneficent, unbounded. It aims at no
aggrandizement of individuals, no upbuilding or overthrow of
sect or party, but at the founding of a new, more trustful, more
benignant relationship between capital and labor, removing
discord, jealousy and hatred, and replacing them by concord,
confidence and mutual advantage. The end aimed at is the
emancipation of the mass; of the depressed toiling millions, the
slaves of necessity and wretchedness, of hunger and constrained
idleness, of ignorance, drunkenness and vice; and their
elevation to independence, moral and intellectual development;
in short, to a true and hopeful manhood. This enterprise now
appeals to the lovers of the human race for aid; not for
praises, votes or alms, but for cooperation in rendering its
triumph signal and speedy. It asks of the opulent and the
generous, subscriptions to its stock, in order that its lands
may be promptly cleared and improved, its buildings erected,
&c.; as they must be far more slowly, if the resident members
must devote their energies at once and henceforth to the
providing, under the most unfavorable circumstances, of the
entire means of their own subsistence. Subscriptions are
solicited, at the office of the Association, 25 Pine street,
third story.
"THOS. W. WHITLEY, President; J.D. PIERSON, Vice President;
HORACE GREELEY, Treasurer; J.T.S. SMITH, Secretary."
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