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There is irSightful amount of poverty and sufs
fering in Society which calls urgently for great
and thorough reform. majority of the Rich and
Affluent have been ruined by the late revulsions IN
Commerce and Industry, and are reduced to want
and dependence: the Working Classes are out OF
employment, seeking vainly for work, without
being able to find it; they, with their families,
whose suerings add so intensely to their own, are
exposed to utter destitution,-to killing and
anxieties. Beside these Evils, which are much
aggravated at present than in general, there
are others which are constant and unceasing. Vice
and Crime exist every where around us; frightful
excesses are committed; gambling, drunkenness,
sc. &c. are prevalent characteristics of our So
cietics toll and care wear out the laboring Null
titude who are the prey of the scheming and
favored few, who have the Capital aad Credit of
Society in their hands; uncertainty and anxiety
FOR the future are never appcased, and no social
providence exists to sustala The weak redress the
injured and repair the disastrous effects or a"i
versal Sehshness and the Conflicts and Antago-
nism of Society.


Politicians believe that these Evils are inherent
in the nature of things, that they cannot be done
away with, and will therefore always exist; they
acknowledge that their political reforms cannot
remedy them; other Reformers acknowledge the
same thing, SO tha, tue belief that Poverty, Vice.
Crime and other frightful Evils which render the
Earth an abode of Misery, will always exist, has
gained firm hold upon the human mind.


We, the advocates of Association, deny this
fatal dogma we have the plan OF Reform, COM
plc,c in all its parts, which will lay the AK at the
root of the Misery which new exists. God has
surrounded US in the material world-in Nature
and all her magnificent creations-wlth the means
of our physical happiness, and he has implanted
in our hearts varied and beautiful sentiments and
attractions, the enjoyment OF which procures moral
and intellectual happiness


What is wanted is-&rst, Attractive Industry,
or such an organization of Labor or Industry as
will create so much wealth Cor the objects neces-
sary for the satisfaction of all our physical wants
and comforts) that abundance can be secured to
all; and second, Social Institutions so suited to
Human Nature that they will allow tree and
harmonious action to- and development of, all the
tue sentiments and feelings of the human soul.
The elements of happiness are in and around US !;
it is we who disregard them; leave i'll our
ignorance the spiritual and material world bar
rem and waste where we languish miserably IN
body and soul.


When people see the complicated evils which
surround them-when they hear their political and
scientific Leaders confess that their reforms can
no1 eradicate them, we ask, Why do they suffer
few ill-foundcd pre.udices to prevent them from
examining the Doctrine of Association-the only
one which promises a thorough reform and the
-heaHne-of social evils? Why do they permit a
few theoretical and improved objections; such as
that poopa annaor agrea, that
naturally discordant, &C., to lead them TO oppose
Association, and to declare ignorantiy that 1t IS
impracticable and visionary? What an, unfortu-
nate circumstance that, when people nae deeply
plunged in suffering and evil-when they require
most complete reform, they should deny the pos
sibity of such reform, asserting that EVIL IS
their law, their lot and destiny, and refuse to ex-
anime all means of eradicating it, all plans OF
thorough reform


We, the advocates of Association, assert that
man can be happy on this earth, and that we have
plas of 4 Social Organization which will sweep
poverty and misery from Society. People
should listen with imparliality TO us, and examine
oar plans without prejudice. IL Is natural that
politicians and others engaged in partial reforms
should condemn Association, because a social ana
thorough reform would supersede entirely thelr
plans and abors but that the Mass, particularly
the working classes, who suffer SO many hardS'Ps
and so much care and anxiety, should refuse u
listen to the only Doctrine that even pretends TO
offer the means of improving ehectuay their con-
dition. argues a want of common sense that Is
truly lamcntab,e.


II is perfectly certain that, by means OF Attrac-
tive Industry, or even if Industry cannst be rem
dered attractiye-by judicious application OF La
Dor and Skill, and superior methods OF Asrlcui-
turc, added 10 good ilocks machinery, implements,
&C.. Production or Wealth can be increased, at the
lowest calculation, from foar TO six fold, and that,
with the aid of the vast Economics OF ASSOCIATION,
this increased product will go six times as Tar as
il now does. We assert, and it cannot be denied,
that, under such state of things, an Abundance
could be secured to all, ard poverty banished from
society. The first grand condition of human hap
pness would consequently be fulfilled: man would
be supplied with the means of his material com
forts and would no longer suffer want, privaton
and ply sical misery.


With abundance would come Education and in
tel!ectual culture or developement-the expansion
of the social or higher feelings. and the caPabi!ty
of ENJOYING the higher orders of pleasures, and by
means ef abundance and intellectual develope-
ment, together with practical precautions, such Us
doing away with all causes of depravlty, vice,
crime and discord, would cease TO exist without
an effort.


Association will also guarantee to the working
classes constant employment. 4 great variety OF
occupations open TO the free choice OF all, VIII be
prosecuted IN each Association. Every person Will


take part in several pursuits, that if one fails
from want of sale of its products others will be
left and new ones cnn he established as old ones
are abandoned.


Association viii guarantee in the third place a
perfectly safe investment of Capital; it would be


invested in the lands, buildings, fiocks and machin-
cry of the establishment, which could not be stolen
or squaudered like the capital of bank, and 1t is
certain that with a ,judicious application OF the
Labor Of the members, and judicious methods OF
agriculture and manufactures good intcrestwould
he maid ON IL