CONSTITUTION 
 
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 Pennsylvania Confederated Protective Union, 
 
 PRINCIPLES AND PROPOSED MEASURES. 
 
 “ Liberty-Equality—Fraternity I” 
 
 PHILADELPHIA: 
 
 UNITED STATES BOOE AND TOB FEINTING OFFICE, LKD9BR BUH.D1NS. 
 
 1850. 
 
OFFICERS —1 850. 
 
 Practical Department, 
 
 GEO. BAYNE, Chief. 
 
 JOHN SHEDDON, Vice-Chief. 
 
 Social Department, 
 WILLIAM J. MULLEN, Chief. 
 PASCHAL COGGINS, Vice Chief. 
 
 Indoclrinal Department, 
 
 ISAAC REHN, Chief. 
 
 PETER OSBORN, Vice-Chief. 
 
 GEO. D. HENCK, Senior, P. D. 
 ROBERT WALLIN, Assist. S. D. 
 SAML. A. SLEEPER, Assist. I. D, 
 
 Financial Scriies, 
 
 WILLIAM J. MULLEN, Senior, P. D. 
 DAVID B. CROWELL, Assist. S. D. 
 WILLIAM B. ELLIOTT, Assist. I. D. 
 
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PENNSYLVANIA 
 
 CONFEDERATED PROTECTIVE UNION. 
 
 This Union is founded upon enlightened Socialist principles, - 
 looking to the pe rmane nt elevation of labor in the scale of 
 physical and intellectual being. 
 
 It assumes, and seeks to make practical the fact, that the 
 . Human Race is one Great Brotherhood, pervaded by one life, 
 
 • and having hut one interest and destiny. 
 
 A system of society recognizing this fact, would be frater¬ 
 nally united in co-operative associations, which would mutually 
 - in terchan ge products, and so distribute Labor as that each 
 would have his proper kind and amount, and the full reward of . 
 his own industry. *" - 
 
 The State Governments of the United States, while ostensi¬ 
 bly based upon the declaration that all men are created equal, 
 and endowed with the right of life, liberty and happiness, 
 make no provision, except by civil police, for the security of 
 / those rights. They leave society at large to itself, which, 
 except for municipal and local ends, is wholly disorganized, and 
 a prey to its own anarchy. 
 
 Security for person and property is taken to be the sole end 
 of Government, overlooking the fact that this function is 
 needed least where industry has ample opportunity, and most 
 , where it is subject to individual or corpqrate_rapacity^.. 
 
 The American Revolution asserted broad principles, without 
 /seeking to apply them in detail. The great question of pro- 
 , perty—the most vital of all questions to human progress—was 
 
 ^ 1 abrogating, for the time, the more oppressive features of the 
 British system, and leaving the citizen more completely to 
 
 structive plan of co-operative township organization was re- 
 
isolated household. Or, as the opposite extreme, large masses 
 of human beings become huddled together in cities, many of 
 them in a condition hut little above the brute, who become the 
 enemies of social order, and the creatures of political dema¬ 
 gogues, ready at any time to sell their birthright for a mess of 
 
 Lastly, a complicated system of law becomes necessary to 
 provide for the contingencies of a complicated and discordant 
 ,/ society. The vicissitudes incident to life; engender poverty, 
 vice and crime—the very evils Government is framed to pre- 
 
he family relation; and 
 1, and in the end abolish 
 
share of the product accruing fro 
 
 with Labor, and cedes a s 
 the use of both. 
 
 The plan of movement contemplates— 
 
 X. The organization of families in Divisions, federatively 
 united, for consumption, looking to the command of its own 
 market. 
 
 II. The organization of operatives in confederated coopera¬ 
 tive Associations, looking to thejibolition of the wages system. 
 
 III. The organization of mechanico-agricultural Associations, 
 looking to improved township arrangement. 
 
 IV. The organization of a Democratic^ Socialist party, to 
 secure favorable political action, (1.) in limiting tlie future ac¬ 
 quisition of landed estate, and confining the same to actual 
 residents; (2.) In changing the system of banking, so as to 
 substitute real property for the present specie basis; (3.) In 
 
 nently colonize on the waste lands, as well those who become 
 amenable to the criminal law, as all vagrants and profligates, 
 without visible means of support; (4.) To secure corporate 
 privileges for operative and agricultural Associations; (5.) To 
 give females equal rights with males. 
 
 These various movements, having a necessary connection, 
 will be accomplished in easy and natural steps, by virtue of 
 the law of mutual effort, governing the whole. At each step, 
 an individual benefit is derived, which prompts the next, and 
 so successively. The Protective Store saves the profits now 
 made by numerous intermediaries, buying at wholesale, and 
 selling at or near cost. The Co mbined Dwelling saves in 
 rent, fuel, furniture, female labor and family expense generally. 
 The Co-operative Association saves employers’ profits, and 
 affords to each member a guarantee against actual want; and 
 the crowning measure secures ultimately a home for all on 
 the soil, with the means of the highest physical, intellectual 
 
 The objects proposed possess such importance, that all mere 
 adventitious issues will be absorbed in the general interest, 
 and each member will come pledged to be true to bis obliga¬ 
 tions in sustaining his organization against all attacks. But 
 
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 to effect greater unity, the Protective Union founds a new 
 Order, private only in its business management, having its 
 peculiar symbols and indoctrinal exercises. For this end, it 
 divides its functions into three parts, the Practical, the Social, 
 and Indoctrinal, each holding alternate sessions, and having 
 

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