New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-07-07


privsion-is zeao1sy preached by morssls and sages
and what the richie, Of civilization with all It's stniing
and psr,u,ony Positive poverty for seven-eghhs, and
relative poverty for the remaining Eighth.
Isl, surprising tia, the Political Order has alone been
die Jet o. study. t, the ir.sfrsi orscr. rcsspars
bly, c,senti to the happiness Mankind, has been
s'nos, entirely neglected, T. Tamii'er.
If the Reader will observe attentiyey the insnite
waste and useless complication of the present So
/ cial Ordcr-cxamples of which he meets AT evory
step around hrn--hc cannot fail to be convinced
of the absence of every thing like order economy
and foresight in our present system Of Society.
II such characteristics marked the operations of
an individual it would be easy to iorcsce that. SO
far from attaining riches, he must inevitably sink
into poverty and want. The same law Is apPii-
cable to Society; the absence of Association ard
Economy in our whole system of Industry plunge,
the Social World into Indulgence and want,-the
source of endless Discord, Depraviiy and Dcsrada-
ton Thi. great fact escapes the attention. OF men
because each individual, anxious only ts escape
from the common evil, and to secure himself
sufiicency, so as to enjoy tranquility IN the state
of general privation and anxiety around him, secs
nor carcs not for the Mass In the confused efforts,
however. which made by each and all to attain
the great dcsiderstum, fortune, they only tramPlc
each other down, and after all, We find IN Society
that the greater the conflict and strife of individuals
the greater the collective poverty and depraylty.
England illustrate. th. fact fully; country mas
carried all branches of Industry to the extent she
has done and no where is there such hldeous
contrast of poverty and wealth The same efforts
combined, would have secured riches and happ-
ness to ALL but enc has time to stop TO consider
upon this fact; each individual ilatters himself with
the idea that, if seven-sighths of those, who were
making the same effort, before him, have failed, he
mayneverthclc.. with better management succeed.
He strives 10 secure his happiness solaedly and
separately from the race if his fellow men suffer
and no does not it is to him as if suffering did not
evi-t No collective action. essential To the well
fare of ALL takes place, and in the moan time TIE
aglomeration Of d,sssociated individuals, of which
Society is composed, are wrangling with each other
like wild animal, for the little wealth which ia
produced. making Of fraud and chcaery in
their efforts, and sacrificing their spiritual nature
to satisfy tho lowest order OF wants.
If We wish TO find the most perfect picture ct
waste and disorder, we must search for 1t in our
larpe cities. Ii il there that we will find out
isolated. individual, or cut-up system, in which
every thing is reduced to the measure and selfish
ness of the individual. producing an incohcrence
and complication which might properly be termed
n combination for the production Of evil for It
would seem as if things were so organized ne to
cause the greatest possible number OF evils, and
insure their most rapid propagation Each house,
for example ha. its sink of filth, the niasma' OF
which the whole population must breathe the
noycrtv or neglect or both combined, Of a single
family, produce contagious disease, which e1-
tend. to a thousand sthcrs, among which there Will
be- INDECENT onos enough to keep 1t in existence.
The neglect Of one person, of a child or servant
perhaps. in whom i, is stten necessary to conhce,
burn. down not only the house of one family, but
hundred other. with it,-cr tho misplaced economy
Of stoye-pips, causes loss OF the same KIND
which would be Sufficient TO construct all the APP
paratus necessary for warming the Edfce of an
Association. Whcr. every thing is lett to the
ignorance cupidity, carelessncsi or inability OF IN
dividuas. no guarantees of general nature car
exist or bo put in practice.
1t is from the poverty of the Mass in our large
cite, that the greatest abuses take place. 1t
Capitalist build. damp cellars, garrets without
ventilation. small and confined rooms, close court
wards without light and circulation, and with hardly
the con,cniencies necessary to the wants OF It's IN
mates he i. ,ure to hd droves of INDECENT familie.
who will STOW themselves away in these tenements,
making of them ho,-bed, Of disease and nurseries
of Decentralization. Moralists wonder that Human
Nature can be deprayeS as they find 1t in our So
cieties and they seek in the heart the source OF all
this depravity; it is only surprising that Human
Nature should bear so much and murmur so little,
and that with is load of social evil and misery,
much good will and gayety still remain and that it
i. not moro degraded than it is.
II we cite examples Of material waste we should
rank next that of fires, the loss occasioned by the
tearing down Of buildings from being badly con-
structed or frem speculation. This waste IN many
of our large cities must be enormous and Is due TO
want Of combination and foresight. What absence
of order in an architectural point Of view, on hs
par, of Society not TO be able plan its buildings
so a, to answer the wants of the community tor
twenty years in advance The widening, straig ht-
ening and engthenng Of streets form another
gigantic item OF waste. All these abuses arise
from tn. fact that in planning our cities and
towns, no system, method exists. There is no
adaptation Of architecture to wants and re-
aurcuent. our houses as little suited to our
physical welfare, as sur social laws TO our at
fractions and passions. 1t i, to be observed that
thi, enormous waste and expenditure are pad by
productive Industry, upon which an mmen.e in
direct tax is laid. which il not perceived. Tie
Earmers Manufacturers and Mechanics must prs.
duce tho means for paying in the end for every
thing-citie., ships. canals, railroads Sc.
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