New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-04-23
Human Misery-Necessity Of New Plans OF
Reform.

Society would search con.ccntousy for the causes,
and. instead Of wasting their time and talent. in
fntless controversies. aud intrigue,, endeayor 10
remove them. 1t would seem that tue aspect OF
the Wretchedne,s which exist, in the world, should
arouse the pity and Indignation of minds tin, can
feel. bat still It docs not.
1t j, true that almost every individual i 50 a5-
sorbed by personal schemes, or troubles OF M own
t.at he cannot look out Of himself and feel for
others. The Rich have the means OF dong some
thing for the cause Of Mankind, but they are sup
piled with abundance, aud scarcely know that
Misery exists; or if they know the word, they
have no idea Of the reality. They seem to
think" d. the London Phalanx rightly observes,
" that God has favored them with wealth for their
own sole individual use. and that they owe no duty
to their fellow Men who have been made the slaves
of Industry, nor to that God who is the common
Father of u. all
Tn. Apathy. Indifference and Sclfshness OF the
World are disgusting and revolving. How can
those vile incrI.tation. which our false Societies
bove wrapped around the heart Of Man, be pierced
through? Can it be done by holding up descnp'
tons of existing Mseries We know not, but It
can be tried We will glance at the condition OF
some Of the most civilized nations OF the Farm
which will show that the boosted Political Wis
dom and the plans Of their great Statesmen can
do nothing for the real happiness and prac'lcai
amolioration Of the condition Of the vast Aaloriiy'
In France, out of population Of ihiry-i"o NIL
lions there are twenty-five millions OF persons a
We have before stated, who have but six cents
div zach ON an average to defray all expenses OF
food. lodging. clothing, education &c. In Ireland
nm, of n pepulation of eight millions, every third
ner.on experiences, during thirty weeks in the
wear. deficiency of even th'rd-raie potatoes
In Sicily. an island so highly favored by soil
climate and position, the condition OF the people
il frisht(ul. Count Gasparin, Peer OF france IN
,,eak;no Of the state of its Agriculture and tn"
poverty of the peasaniry, says; "Nhen the crops
are had or the prices of grain low, SO that the
landbolders require less labor then the misery of
the country becomes intense without means of sub
,i.tence for the winter, II IS not n rare ~'"g "f"d
PEASANTS .tqrccd TO dcah IN he .fclds rih grass
N their mouths, from w1ich hey hare rd"Iy en-
{earorcd 10 draw nourishmcnf.
Can Specie Currency or a Paper Currency Inc
tight to vote or any other Political Right,-or the
establishment even of the best Of Governments
9 that which governs least, do any thing Tor Inc
real and practical amchoration of the Wretched-
ness of the poor peasaniry OF those countries -
No, nothing. The things wanted arc-ist
great increase Of Production; IDLY. llc Na't
economies of Association and 3dly. An equitable
division of Profits. These practical measures can
only be eiieced by means of Association ana AZ
tractive Industry. When they are attained ihen
other measures, such universal Ldncau"n' Gun
be applied.-But TO return to the Mlserles WHICH
overwhem the Mass. According to tie journal
Of the Statistical Society, of January, 1910, there
are in Liverpool 1862 inhabited cellars, damp
dark dirty aud ill-vcnulated and in these lodge
80, 300 Of the Working Classes. At Bury, one
third OF the Laboring Glasses ara 50 badly Oh lii'
in 773 houses one bed serves ior four persons IN
2O7, one tor five; and in 10, one for SIN human
beings Ia Bristol, &c out of every hundred OF the
Working Glasses have but one room for family.
In Glasgow, thirty thousand Irish and llighlanderS
are said, according the description OF DR. Cowan'
" to walow in filth, crime and wretchedness, III
the cellars and wynds of this great commercial
city From ten to twenty persons of both sexes
lie huddcd together in their rags and ill'h on the
floors each night The cellars are beer and spirit
shops
The Register General states that he " has scen
in one small garrci, the husband, sick OF ryphus
a sick child laid across the sick mans bed; two
other, sleeping under the bed two window re-
ce..es let to two Irish dodgers at sixpcncc week
as resting-ploccs for the night; tho wife, young
healthy woman lying in the sumo bed with her
sick husband at night, and supporting the family
by taking in washing, which was hung across the
room to dry-,hc Parish Authorities having for
hidden the exposure of linen ont of the windows"
l. it not awful 10 think that human Beings who
have Sentiments that can be violated, Bodies that
ran suffer, Souls that are filled with high aspira-
iions. should be reduced 10 such miserable, suf-
iernc and degraded c.nditon
There are some selfish minds which will exclaim:
These Miscrics are nothing to Us, they exist in
Europe" But arc they net children Of one Race.
brothers Of one Family Yes. and they have a
right to our symPathes. According to ihis selfish
doc rnc, the North should not care for the South,
one State for another, one family for is neighbor.
one individual for another individual.
But acknowledging that the Misery existing in
Europe Is of no Consequence to Us, II l. important
a. least IN one respect: ii is warning. forctas,e
., the condition which awaits u; we are hurryins
INFO It az last rs time and the increase Of population
can do it,
We have no exact statistical details of the I.
Misery existing in tins Country. but the following
view Of thc condition of the Mas. j, no doubt far
below the truth of the fifteen millions of human
Beings composing the white Population Of the
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