New-York tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1841-1842, 1842-03-24
Practical Dctuil.----Governmen Of As-o-
ciation.

Practical Dciuil.----trovernmeni Of ss-o-
ciafion.
N.c stated in our last, article that no TYRANNY or
Oppression of any kind could exs, in ASSOCIATIONS
and that no ictation or Control BY any individual
could be exercised We haze in thi, Country
Republican Government. bu; our Democracy OK.
rcnds oay;o Politics: it is not Social, and doe,
not embrace all departments and institutions OF So.
cieiy. There is az nuci Social Tyranny among Il.
as there is under despotic Government Capital
st5 can tyrannize the Laboring Glasses Employ
RS the Employed the Father the Child; and Man
The Woman. For want of true Organization OF
Labor, Of Attractive Industry, and OF System
.v!1IcI will enable every Being gain the means
,fiivins and ODE pecuntoriiy indePendent, there
s 'riehiul amount Of petty, Of individual and OF
domestic 'yranny-of control OF the individual Icy
The individual, which harnesses the feelings hum
arcd times moro than political tyranny, All this
viii be done away in Association.
Wealso stated in our last article that the Govern
nento of an Association would be carried onby Coun-
c>. elected annually by lthe Members of,hc $50
calo:l. Each Council wouldhave the supervision
Of some Department. y Councilot Iad0st,y, com
posed of persons distinguished for tAcir skill and
anowledgc in Agriculture and other branches Of In
dus,ry, could have the supervision Of the Domain,
Manufactures, Sc. a large Domain Of six thou
sand acres would in Association he managed and
ovcrsecfl as if it were the farm OF a single indi-
ydual. |, i, easy 10 CONCEIVE hos. skilliuly and
beautifully such II Domain could he cultivated,
when under tie direction o a hundred or tw,1
! talented and experienced person. What CON
irast il would oier ".itA th.sn:e quantity ., iund
cut up illo little farms. Hero enc Family. a
Fourier remarks. makes t; meadow Of siopng
piece 81 laud which Nature destined to the Ylne;
there another SONS Wheat where Grass should
,row. IL third, to avoid buying Grain clears "a
dccliyity winch the rains will strip Of its soi h
following year; while a fourth and fifth mis-
apply the soil in some other way.ZOur isolated
Families lose their time and money in barricadne
themselves against each other and in lawsuits
about boundary lines and petty thcits they all
avoid works of general utility, which might be OF
advantage TO disagrecablc neighbors, and Indf-
vidual Interest is every whore brought into con-
ilict with Public Good
The civilized W orld talks of Economy and Sys-
tenn what system docs it see in this piccc-meal
and ncohcrcnt method of Asriculture,-tiis anti
social confusion7 How ha, it huppcncd that for
thirty centuries it has Tot been discovered thai
Association, and not cultivation carried on by $50
lated Households, i, the destiny of Man, and that.
so long as he is ignorant of the theory Of domestic
Associations lie has no, attained his Destiny.
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and governs the Industrial affairs Of the Association,
other Councils would govern aud regulate other De-
parlmcnts, and no where would individual Authority
be exercised.
Il Council Of Internal arrangements would
have the management OF the internal affairs ut the
Association, sueh as letting OF departments, &c.
A Council or TrtJunal ot Justice would Judge
upon any differences and quarcs which might
arise between individuals and any msdemcanors
aud crimes that might be committed.
4 Commercial Council would attend 10 the
sales and purchases Of the Association, keep the
Books or Accounts. and huvc the Treasury under
their supcrvision The Members of this Council
wond be required TO give security FOR the faithful
tuhlmcnt of their trusts and the proper manage
men, Of the funds contided to their
The Mcrnsers of all these Councils would be
elected annually, with the privilege of reelection,
bv the inhabitants of the Association, We will
not p.int out to the thinking Reader, as he will
perceive it withou, our doing. the great IN
tension which, the. Democratic Principle would by
this means receive and tic mpossibility OF any
dining like individual Dicution or Iyralny
prciudice~ Of the World against !t.socia-
prejudice which has at all times prevented
researches on Association. is the following =" 1t
is impossible TO associate two=or three tamllies
without discord breaking out at the end OF the
ENTHUSIASTICALLY among the Women: what