The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-07-04
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rooms or such an apartment, as he wished. He
could also live as he desIred-hat is publicly or pr-
vately there would be living at three different pr-
10 suit all and desires OF economy by the
side of the large dining halls there would be small
dining rooms, where groups OF friends could dine by
themselves. Families could, II they wished, dine
| IN their own apartments by paying something addi-
uohal. By this arrangement person would enjoy
ne most perfect liberty regards living he could
dine one day with set of friends, another day
WIN anohcrset; he could invite or be invited and
ear IN puonc or In private, as he might wish. Asso-
elaiion VIII give people all that they now hsve-ths
privacy OF domestic life and in addition what thew
nave not-the pleasures OF varied and extended so
cial relations.
The Association would buy all objects necessary
to the wants OF It's lnhabis AT Wholesale and would
obtain them by this means AT half and often omar
ter the price that isolated families now paw who buv
at retail or by driblets. This would do away win
| the excessive monopoles, authorizations, and other
| frauds OF commerce, which has now absolute sway
over productive lndustry-that Is, agriculture manu-
| fact ares, and mechanics.
The Association would have the best of schools.
which would be open 10 all children without excsp.
ton. Its system OF education would be one for all
| and tins uniform education would give TO all pc
likeness OF manners and language, and unity of tone
habits, and refinement most important result of
| tins system will be to do away with antipathies
which now exist between classes, arising from
coarseness of manners, language, habits, and in
compatible tastes and customs The mass in asso-
| Citations will not be vulgar, while the few are re-
| fined, but all will be polite and well educated.
This will do away with lnnumerable of dis
gust and hatred, which the present system of society
| engenders between the rich and poor.
In order TO show at glance the superior advan-
tages and immense economies of association let us
contrast the manner in which three hundred fami-
lies now live, with the manner in which they would
live IN ASSOCIATION. Three hundred familiesrequre
at present three hundred separate houses three
hundred kitchens, three hundred kitchen fires three
| hundred women to do the cooking-and they are
farming families, three hundred little FARMS three
hundred team IN,
two thousand fences and everything else equally as
complicated All the details of cooking, washing,
with separately by the three hundred families, until
the time and labor wasted, and the trouble and
vexatlon encountered, are incalculable.
Instead of three hundred little farms and three
| ISOLATION would have large and elegant domain in
| the centre of which, it would erect connections
and handsome edfce Instead Of three hundred little
kitchens three hundred fires, and as many sets Of
| cooking utensils il would have one large and airy
kitchen, divided of into four five Compartments
with few fires, for the different kinds OF cooking
| Instead OF three hundred women who must slave at
present al day in dirty little Kitchens it would have
forty or fifty experienced cooks, who would be we'll
paid, and take turns every other day. Instead OF
three hundred teams, which are SO expensive, it
would have fifty or sixty instead Of three hundred
| barns exposed to dampness, weevil, and fire. il
| would have few large granaries instead of
thousand or two fences, a few hedges; instead Of
making from twenty TO thirty thousand little sales
now do, 1t would make few wholesale purchases
and sales.
The vast economies, the unity of action and in
terests the udlclous application of labor, capital
| and skill, which could be effected in Association,
would increase production or wealth so greatly and
| economize what was produced SO immensely, that
abundance yes, superabundance could be secured to
allWith abundance would come relief from the har-
rasslng cares and other evils Of poverty, which 80
absorb or deaden the higher faculties Of the soul,
and degrade the human race. With wealth or
olzls-
all the higher pleasures Of life-and education or
intellectual deveopement, which is necessary to en-
| Joy them.
| A question: which is often asked, is, who will do
the repugnant and drty,work in an Association, if
every body is well off! This is an intricate ques-
ton, and cannot be answered in half dozen words
like an enquiry concerning the weather. 1t would
require article at least the length of the present one
to treat 1t at all clearly. will, however, make a
few remarks upon it.
Association in the first place will do away with
nne.tehths OF the work which is at present repug-
nant and filthy. will explain this by one example
washing. There is probably no branch of house
hold work which is so repugnant and disagreeable
as washing: In three hundred separate and isolated
families, three hundred poor servants or drudges
must spend at present every week or two day at
the wash tub In an association of two thousand
persons on the contrary the clothes would be col
ected once month, assorted, and taken to a large
wash room constructed for the purpose and with
| every convenience, and thrown into different watts,
where, with the aid of cleansing process used in
switzerland, or some better which could be IN
vented, they could be washed perfectly and without
hand-worS. The ironing would be the principal
part of the work but good deal of it might be done
by machinery or mangles out of seven or eight
hundred women and girls it would be easy to find
forty or fifty, having taste for the occupation, who
would devote three or four mornings, once month
to IT. The more repugnant the work is, the higher
viii be paid in association, and the larger will be
the number of persons engaged.
Dignity all branches of industry; let occupations
be short-not continued more than two or three
hours; apply large force to those which, like
ploughng, are laborious and unattractve, and all
labor in Association can be done freely and volun-
tarily There other and still more important and
efficient means, which will be employed in the per-
iormances of repngnant work in Association, but
which,, as said, would require the space have
given this article to explain.
In terminating this brief description, | will observe
that the most perfect tolerance and liberty of con.
science IN religious matters will exist in A.eoca.
tons, and that the family union and marriage bond
| will be maintained as they now are "A Il.