New-York tribune., 1842-03-01
T He T RIB u NE.
ASSOCIATION
oR PRINCIPLES OF a TRUE ORGANIZATION OF
SOCIETY.
General View. No. L

The advocates Of the Social Principles discovered
by CHARLES FOURIER have made arrangements to
,urchase from the Propnetors column.of the Daily
Tribune the matter Of which will be transferred to
the Weekly Tribune. Through this medium thev
intend to lay before the Public the practical means
which. that great Mind has proposed for acyia,ing
The vast amount of misery which exists in Socie,y,
and for ecva;ing the Social Condition Of Man. and
occurring ultimately his happiness.
Political and administrative Reforms. md other
measures which Political Parties propose, car!
do nothing towards rcmcdying the Poverty and
= Wrctchcdne.s which now exist and to such
melancholy extent. This Is proved praeFtcafly
by the history of this Country; we have had over
half IA century of political controversy; different
parties have had alternately the asccndcncy; va
ron, policies have Lecn carried oui, and still So
=ci;l Evils have gradually grown greater and more
vidcl, spread. 1t is true that popuationsilaS in
creased. Commerce and Industry have been greatly
extended important Internal improvements have
been executed, and we have become a nation great
among the nations of the earth but, c, W. ask.
The People happier! i. there individually more
Ease and Comfort have SclfishnesS, Vice and
Crime diminished? Confidence and Integrity in
creased are the means of obtaining "A Liycli-
mood and Competence or age grcatcr2 has the
Country, politically and socially. encouraging pros
ccts before ii which excite in the mind of the in
,clligent Patriot Hope and Enthusiasm No, fur
from it, Dark clouds hang over the Future; the
,'iolence and Vcnality of Parties: the subcction of
homes, Intelligence to Party discipline the increase
of ,rabbe orimpoveri.hed Mass in our large cities
The di.orgunizing questions such as Abolition which
are taking a deep hold excite gloomy forcbodngs in
the souls of the true lovers of their Country. As to
Individual Prosperity and Happiness have not the
uncertainty Of Employment and ANXIETY for,hc future
increased Has not the fierce and relentless Com
petition, whichis going between all classes and
Individuals, become SO intense, and So cut down
profits and the price of Laaor that Trade is game
of chance, and Livelihood IN uncertainty? Have
not revulsions in Commerce and Industry, which
bring with them Ruin to the Rich, Starvation
10 the Working Glasses. and Commercial and
Financial frauds, become more deep aud violent
In short. are not Poverty and Crime increasing!
and is there not in our large cities degree OF
misery which, if it be not quite equal to that OF
Europe, is most frigh,iu! 10 contemplate? Yes,
all this is So
What can the wisdom of Politicians and the
schemes and measures of Political Parties do to
remedy these evils? Nothing They admit ii
themselves AID to excuse the impotency of their
Reforms and Measures, they declare that human
Misery cannot be done away with ,ha, the huruss-
ing Cares and Social Evils which opprcss the great
majority of our fellow arc inherent III the
nature of Man and things, and that they will for
ever be the lot of Mankind.
Against this melancholy conclusion we protest;
we bclieve-yes 10; knoar that remedy Tor human
Misery is discovered and that the Suilerings, mora
and phvscal, under which the majority now gloan
csn be appcus.d AL that we ask is a candid I'M
partial examination of the doctrines which we shall
sc, forth. and we pledge ourselves 10 prove what
have promised
Human Misery is great and melancholy rcaIi-
~ and it Politicians, who have the direction ot
social matters in their hands, and who have as
suncd and monopoli2ed the function Of reforming
Evils can do nothing to alleviate that misery, Shall
for that reason aba,don all hope and effort
and be sileut No, far from it; we must pcrse-
remedy, until we have far better proofs than have
vet been given that Poverty and Indebtedness
cannot be cradcatcd, and that they arc the una
yodable Destiny Of the Human Race,
As Politicians have proposed nothing but gov
eminent and administrative reforms, which pro-
duce effect only on the surface ol Society, wo
must go deeper. and Try Socia! Rctorln he
causes at the evils which ntsict society he in the
social Organization itself, not in the Government
or Administrations; and true wisdom as we'll as
common sense point out that We shous cndeavor
10 reform that Organizations instead ct the Ad-
mlnStration.
Political reforms casno! reach those drcpy-
rooted Evils from which the great Majority desire
ardcn,ls to be relieved they cannot give TODD
10 the Hungry shelter to the Houselcss, employ
Rlent TO the Destitute; they cannot correct the
abuses Of our false. rcpugnant and degrading sys-
TEN .f Labor or Industry, which subjects man to
the control and caprice of his fellow man, and
gives the profits of the toil OF the Producer to
those who command the credit and capital OF So
sle'yis they cannot dry np one tear, assnasc one
>lsh, OF moral woe and suffering.
Xii Politics. can do is to favor shghty,-byact
ing on the Currency or Tarl,-thc interests OF
one two classes TO the dctrmcn, of others, ai'd
measures III this rcsp1c,arc 50 badly directed
a,l9 public opinion and parties are 50 vascillating
and unccr,ain, that it derangeS and disorganizcs
most generally the course Of Trade ant; Industry
and does more harm than good.
For he happiaess and sociai-oieretioa Of he
rest ,aajority. aotdsag-adsolatcla nothing. is
10 he Baoes from polifc0i partieS and their