New-York daily tribune., 1842-07-29
InipYacfiCabie {.


How often is this remark made to Us by persons who
have no iaith that sny thing that Is good can be-
realized upon this earth
But let u. examine this question ot IvYrac-
acabiity IN 4 very plain light, 50 a. TO show that
!, j. only ia the ima-nafion- OF Men that It exists
We Will .uppo.. that four or five hundred per-
son. or a hundred families, remove 70 thc Tar
West and establish themselves: wc will hrst cx-
anime how they would proceed according to The
present system, and hsv they would proceed II
they followed the system of Association, which
we advocate.
According to the present system, they would
purchase hundred separate farms they would
fence them in, which would require at least h'e
or SIX hundred fences they would build hun
drsd .epara,s houses, which would require hun
d,ed kitchen. and a hundred kitchen hres and
the wives OF the hundred men would have to
spend most of their time in preparing the meals
separa,ely for the hundred families hundred
team. and a hundred barns would also be wanted;
the families would do all their business separately
they would 90 tor example, each to mill Separately
buy their goods separately and at retail, paying at
l,ast twice q. much for them if bought At whole
SAFE IN tho city.
Letu, suppose that, instead of pursuing this sy'-
TEN. the hundred families were to adopt the " im-
practicable plan which We propose let ~ see
/ hcw tney would proceed. They would purchase a
fine tract ot land, which ould form then DOMAIN
/ they would not cut it up 10y hye or siN hundred
/ fences. which are 80 diihcuir 10 make and 80 eN-
/ pen.iyc to keep in repair, bat would enclose only
the external boundary; few small spaces enclosed
/ for cattle would be IN addition sufficient.
The hundred families would erect IN the centre
of their Domain a large and comfortable EdIiice
/ il would be no more labor than to erect a hundred
separate ones The families, de-irou, of econo-
/ mizlng and saving the time and labor OF the
w.nen would not construct a hundred separate
! kitchens in their EdIhce; they would mud that
Two would answer all purposes; instead ot nun
drcd kitcnsn fires, two only would be required
five or ten women could do lhe cooking, and the
other ninety would be occupied in various useful
and productive ways. 1t we were to descend INTO
MINUTES. it would be surprising to see the econo-
ME. which would result from tins system oi
union; instead, t9r example, OF = hundred shoVe's
and pairs OF tong. in the hundred kitchens, tour
or five would lie sufficient and 50 with ever!
thing else
The associated Families would build three or
four large granarcs and stables instead OF a nun
dTeu
branches of mechanics to occupy their time during
rainy DAYS and winter months the dairy, frult
/ orchards, gardens, poultry, &c, WOULD oc NJ
tended to by the Women and Children, aud there
would Nv in every way judicious application OF
time, labor and capital,-ot crops to .oii and oi
cultivation to the locality. The Association would
buy It's goods at wholesale, which would be iui-
ni,hed at cost price 20 the members 1t would not
pay a prof, of a Hundred per cent. to the county
merchants. and run in debt to them, ~ families
now do-,o many 81 whom see, IN the course oi
few years. their farms sold out from under them.
/ The Association would also sell It's produce N Ia
yorabic times taking advantage oi The market
Besides these economies, the Association would
have good Schools 10 which the children cOud 90;
it would have il. Library, and the charms CT sociai
life would be connected with the pursuits oi IN
dustry.
/ We nsk:-W ould not = hundred families act
much more in accordance with common scn,e,-
much more like rational and thinking beings II, IN
going to a new country they were to unite and
associate instead Of purchasing separate farms aud
living and laboring solatedlyi |, there any thing
very impractcabo and visionary IN the idoa! II
trkcs us not Men unite to build railroads,
steamboats, and manufactures why could they
not unite to carry on agricultural operations and
household labor
But II will be answered the families would
quarrel about the cooking and other domestic
matters.
There is no necessity for this do the families
living in large hotel like the Astor House, quar-
rel about the cooking Not at all they haze
nothing to do with 1t. In Association, the
Group of five or ten women having charge OF the
kitchens and the preparation of food would alone
attend TO that branch, which would avoid al. CON
I ~ do d
three families living together in one house quar-
rel st pre,entl lt Is because all three carry On
cooking and other household operations confusodl,
and incohercntly; there j. constant mlnsling,
which gives rse 10 dsagr cable contacts tina, lead
To discords The mind. Oi women are also preils-
posed TO discord. a they subjected to a mo-
notonons round OF domestic drudgery. Ihe family
Twin. up stairs must carry mp coal and water
: - staircase NAV be ,O.led, and here l. one cause
of complaints and disputes. Our houses are 40
constructed as to produce hundreds OF others OF
similar kind There are no arrangements for the
proper occupation Of ch'ren; they are IDLE and
huddl,d together. 90 tn, quarrel, which
-e,,end. 10 parents: ser $50 quarrel and their
contentious extend frequently To rnistresses
In an As.ocaiisn. on the contrary, people would
be agreeably and usefuly occupied, their minds,
nartcularly of the women, would not be harassed
bv the monotony and vexations Of the isolated
household they would be predisposed To good
feen. by the life which they led. The different
departments Of household work,-such as cook
ing. supplying the rooms with fuel and water
washing &c would be under the charge OF ana
nerfotrned by different Groups companies oi
persons They would attend TO them. and con-
tentions could not arise between the families az
regard. them. because they would have nothing Ia
do with them. If hundred families living IN az
Association had but one large kitchen, managed
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