New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-06-10


lec, Of the terrestrial Destiny Of Man and III
tradition Of his Fall, will be delivered at NJ.
Lecture Hall of the FOURIER AssocI.1roy. al
Broadway. on Sunday evening at O'Clock. La
dies are invited to attend. The Lecture will b,
free
W" pointed out briefly in our last article the con.
trast between the system of Commerce in As.o
cIation and the present Social Order. An Asso.
cation ct two thousand persons would buy all
OBJECTS at wholesale, and would make but a few
purchases IN tho course of the year; whereas a,
present the same number Of persons. divided into
isolated families, make, if they are farrnin. fani-
iies twenty or thirty thousand and il they are CITY
families, over hundred thousand little purchases
per arnum.
The Association would save by its system of
Wholesale and direct trade the accumulated profit.
which are now paid to three, four, and sometimes
more intermediate dealers. 1t would furnish tie
members with all articles at cost price
As to the manner Of eficcting sales, it would be
SIMPLY this The Association would have a de.
pot IN one on two large commercial c1jes. and
would sell its products by samples A. il would
sell nothing except what was of the bes, quality
and free from adulteration, it would soon gain by
this means the confidence of BUYERS. and command
the market 1t would select from, amonr If NOM.
ber' those who had the mos, taste and capactv for
business to effect sales and purchases; they would
be the Commercial Agents or Commission Mcr-
chants of the Association. and would be rcoui,od
TO give security for the faithful performance of
their trust.
here IS feature connected with the system of
Commerce of Associations which will please rhosc
who are in favor of the Credit System We have
stated before that accounts would be settled once
a year. The individual would consequently be
with every thing he consumed and every
thing necessary to his wants at a credit of year
At present, people must have their hands con-
sten,y in their pockets, paying for the least triAc
which they buy; and frequently the poorer Glasses
suffer Intense privston because they cannot obtain
credit for week for some indispensable Object
food and clothing, at other times med-
cine, tools, &c.
Some shrewd persons will NO doubt remark that,
with such q system individuals would run in debt
to the Association and then leave it. In answer
we will state, that the Association would not grant
extended credits it would furnish the. members
with oil objects necessary to their wants and COM
forts, but Beyond that they would pay for what they
might purchase. IT. however, Association can
guarantee to people-lst. Attractive Occupations.
I'd. Constant employment; Sd. The entire fruit
or profits Of their Labor and Skill, there is no,
much danger that they would leave it to return 10
a Society ike the present, where they find-lst
Repugnant and degrading Industry; ID. Uncer
tainty of employment; Sd. Absorption of the
profits of their Labor and Skill by Capital aud
Commerce. Besides when Association becomes
general, a person who had left his Association
uader dishonorable circumstances, would proba-
bly, be poorly received in another.
Oar Societies are in every way calculated to pro-
dnce promote and shelter Dishonesty and Crime.
In the first place. the Mass plunged in poverty,
and left without Education. Besides being without
agreeable and respectable social relations, the de-
sire and pride Of retaining public esteem is slightly
excited in them.
If a poor creature, whose poverty and Ignorance
have already rendered him de.picablc robs, he can
take his plumber his isolated household. and there
eniov it unknown to the world. In Association,
nothing of the Kind could take place; if person
stole eatables he would not have kitchen in
which to cook them il he stole clothing, he could
not wear them in public without immediate de-
lection. 1t pains us to make such explanations,
for in Association Crime will be unknown 1t we
can give to people thorough Educaton,--ii we
can call out their higher sentiments and faculties,
satisfy their material wants, and give them the
ennoblins and elevating enloyments OF the Arts
aud Sciences we shall see that the Creator has
made no thieves ard rosucs Of men. If the sums
spent in lails, pententaries, sheriis, consiahIes
courts criminal legislation, &c, were spent IN nm
proving, morally and physically the condition OF
the destitute ignorant and abandoned por'isn OF
the population, i, is more than probable that there
would be les. crime than there j: at present. But
to return to subject.
The Association. after buying its goods at whole
sale would not then retail them out TO the inhabi-
,an,s The groceries, and other provisions OF a
durable nature. would, for example, be places IN
the store-rooms near the large kitchens, and served
at the public and private tables as required
member. on paying Cor his board at the end OF the
year. would then pay for the groceries he had CON
.umed he would not bay po.nd OF tea or few
pounds OF sugar at a time as families now do
The economy and simplicity OF the system o
Association, contras,ed with the enormous inter-
mediate profits and ex,ortions, with the adultera'
tons, frauds overrcaching and other tricks OF the
present system of trade, would form a striking
feature OF the mechanism Of Association, ard
would of itself attach people strongly TO it,
We viii poin, oct. before concluding our present
art,ce m irnnnrtani cLaract af As.oclaion.