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of jarring interests. But through it all the arts of the 

 speculator and gambler are not remitted ; the monop- 

 olist and plutocrat gain in wealth and power, whilst 

 the producer and laborer just as surely are losing their 

 hold upon the means of life, and are becoming more 

 and more the slaves of capital. The social machine, 

 without a regulator can not run smoothly ; its irregu- 

 larities must increase ; the disasters must multiply as 

 the power develops, and become more and more sub- 

 ject to the evil influences which now control it, until, 

 like every social machine that has preceded it, and 

 every mechanical machine that ever was driven by an 

 inconstant power, without means to regulate it, it will 

 destroy itself. There is not a mechanic living who can 

 not understand these principles. Our popular politi- 

 cal economists and social gamblers, only, are opposed 

 to all apparatus or means for regulation. Any me- 

 chanic will say that the first requisite for the success- 

 ful working of a machine is a means by which the use 

 of the power which runs it may be regulated ; that 

 being found, all its workings may be made as smooth 

 and even as may be desired, with any power that may 

 be required. By the adoption of the six hour law as 

 the regulator, impartially applied and firmly admin- 

 istered, all the disorders and irregularities that attend 

 the working of our unregulated social machine, at this 

 time, will be removed, and order will take the place 

 now held by chaos. The speculator, the gambler, 

 and the monopolist will lose their hold of the great 

 social power, and it will cease to be their sport. 



Labor would be made attractive a pleasure 

 when every day should also bring with it the time 



