New-York tribune., 1841-07-22
WHAT SHALL BE DONE FOR THE LABoRER'

The Want of Employment is problem OF the most din
cult often painful character Very rarely if ever IS the en-
tire Industry and Productive Power OF this any country
bous into effective oper.en never it al eel employ
ed Thousands thousands constantly roaming from
and from town ssxiousy seeking
something do, and for OF ii Pinns in want and &c
spair 3iany good artisan lives miseraby poor drudge
because he can find no employment, Ae vocation for winch
ne has fitted himself and which alone nc excels lake
our own busiaess-Printns-for example We have
usually the City hundred persons educated 10 II
who are good sorken it, and but poorly qualified
get living any thing else There have been years In
which nearly all of them had full work. and lived carefree
and comfortable But the wirlwnd came the business
was broken down. until onehalf the number Of printers su
feed do all that be done But still the increase OF
work.nen went on for most employers consulted only thoir
individual interests and continued take apprentices their
labor being esteemed cheaper than mems while many boys
and their parents glad find any employ Fnen'
which should ward the present necessity trouble them
selves about remote consequences and ali said lines are
so bad they mus, mend But four years have elapsed
since thy became bad, and they are little better yet
Daily are we accested printers who get nothing do
who have no means of living and who desire work on any
terms What is to be done Undoubtedly, if we had II
sound uniform Currency and cheap equabe Exchanges with
all parts of the Union the fluctuations IN business and en-
poynen would be much less than they for years have osen
The alterations of bonted alcoholic prosperity and DESC
ating depression would be less frequent and striking than
they have recently been But does any man seriously be-
leye that any contemplated National Bank on
one hand or the destruction of Paper Money the other
can wholly cure the evils complained o-can dry up that
foun,as of human miseres. the of suitable Employ
mcnt and of adequate recompensc Whoever does i,
manifesv preparing himself bitter disappointment.
The condition of Clerks City probably as
whole than that of Mechanics and their alternatives
fewer Most Clerks, if they find employment in
trade are fit for little beside and with difficulty
bare subsistence But the vocation attractive, and in times
of prosperity and business thousands rush into it, But
reyuson and lays them PROSTATE and helpless
They know how sell goods and very little else that brings
ucrc bread They cannot dig to beg they arc ashamed
What shall they do hope for Even should the causes OF
general disaster be removed will be required TO estorr
that state of things in which they all found employment and
satisfactory wages Meantime aspirants thick leaves
and with all the eagernes of youth have arisen TO oe with
them for places-And what mockery it is TO tell the man
who understands branch of business and nothing else
and who perhaps has starving family around him, that he
ought go Iowa and dig potatoes instead OF vany beg
cling chance sell tape in Pcar-seel Very likely th:
may be the best advice which be gwen but how little
can avail him 1t only better then tell him that he
ought originally have chosen other vocation for
livelihood.
Ths subject of the Want of Employment ought to attract
the earnes, regard of phanthropsts thinkers and
men, 1t of moro importance than any ruling POitica
topic-or rather Political topics mainly important
81; nd If all
ready employment and Just for the whole People
If every child had good practical Education and every
and woman satisfactory Employment, it is possible thai
one in million would chsse life of idleness vice ano
crime These moral Diseases of which of proper
trimming ia the root but which grow and expand mainly
the absence of proper inducements to industry
The of Property in luxury dissipation and extrava
CANT living is fearful evil but the waste OF Tlme through
the of proper employment for and direction to Labor
infinitely greatcr-greater economically considered and
hardly less in its tendencies immortality Suppose only
one hundred thousand and twice as many women
throughout the whole land idle average for the
want of employment and that the labor of each worth
fifty cents and each twenty-five day-there is
dead loss to the country from this Of Thirty
Millions per more than enough to deray all the
expenses of Government But this very low estimate IN
every respect We believe annual loss from unemployed
grossly misdlectcd Labor exceeds Ons Hundred Millions
of Dollars-enough in five years extngush all our For
cign Debt Railroads aud Canals wherever they
are needed and the country with the BEST of Schools
Lyceums and other of Intellectual Culture Is
here an evil of sufficient magnitude public
ton Will any say that its removal is impossible! We
shall endcavor 10 demonstrate that in future
number.
ASorHER DREADFUL OUTRAGE Is kEsTrcKY-We learn
from the Kentucky Rifle of late date, that bloody and
fatal difficulty occurred house OF i'll fame Lancaster
on the night of the 9Th The individuals engaged it
were S Blackaby and VIM Coey the former of whom dis
charged pistol the latter the ball OF which passed through
his body causing death Blackaby then pursued BY one
or two men, who overlook and literally cut him pieces
with large Bowie knife, and he died Immediately man
BY the name Taium has been arrested and committed for
having been concerned in the murder Of Blackaby.