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 62 manipulations and manouverings, manages to appropriate mainly, the products of their toil—this man cannot be a member.

2. The man, who with an enormous appetite; sat down to dine with half a dozen others and by some adroit movement, or flattering device succeeded in transferring all the best things to his own plate—leaving the remaining five—who had produced all the materials of the dinner, to fare as best they could—such a man would not be accessible to membership.

3. If a hundred men became inhabitants of an island often thousand acres, and one of the number would join a dozen others, in certain schemes of diplomacy to obtain possession of the entire island, making the remainder subordinate, or in bondage to them, and appropriating the greater portion of all they produced—such a man could not be eligible to membership in this Anti-Monopoly Society.

Hence such "types of mankind" as those who would act on the principle of the individual at the dinner-table, the member of the family of five, or the twelve men on the island, who illustrate the politeness of the boor, the greediness of the cormorant, the selfishness of the barbarian, none such could be admitted to a Society having Equity, or Justice for its basis.

In short no individual who rejects the doctrine that the great family of Man arc one common Brotherhood and that God is the Universal Father, could be received into a society, which‘has for its objects, the establishment of Justice and the securing of Homes for all.

It is further understood that each member of this