New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-06-09
ASSO CITATION;
Or. Principle. Of True Organization Of Society
Commerce In Associntion.

for Economy. Justice and Order. The immense
saving which could be effected. and the perfect
method which could be- introduced. would both
surprise and delight.
Our present Retail System is full Of complicaton
and waste 1T multiple, immensely the agents Of
trade who are Withdrawn from productive Indus
try, and who must support themselves and families
and pay heavy rent, and other expense. by the
profits which they levy upon the consumer 1t
gives a constant round Of harassing care. and
anxicties to obtain necessary ,upplie',-leads to
fraud. and authorizations, to chickering's, qaarrels
and lawsuits without end.
Association will deal only by wholesale, and will
save the enormous profits paid by the consumer;
| il will relieve the family or the individual Of the
trouble end ve,ation of personal tratiic,-preyeni
frauds quarrel, and li,igations and secure pure and
good articles Of consumption.
Three hundred families, (about the sumbcr for
m A,socia,ion.) if they live in the City, send to
market, or to the ncighboring groceries, not les
upon an average than twice day exclusive Of
Sundays, on which day even, among the poorest
population trade does not cease. This gives the
enormous amount Of at least two hundred thousand
petty purchases in year for three hundred ian-
lies What infinite complication, loss and trouble
are here involved
The time of a little army of individuals must be
wasted to attend to these small purcha-es.-to
look Tor the articles, select them and higgle and
bargain for them. The retailer must live out Of
src profits OF his sales. aud Iii. necessity, to-
sc,hcr with the fierce competition which exits,
ads to extortion and the imposition Of bad anti
| Gle, upon the consumer, who pays an immense
| indirect rax upon all hc consumes, and obtain
! bad articles \ volume could tot sloN the trouble
md waste which III, ,,.tem produces.
I,rry hog. head of Sugar, every chest Of Tea,
must be- broken up and rctailed out, pound by
pound. The paper and Irvine alone consumed IN
putting up the bundles of our retail system is
heavy tax. Every Ok Or Sheep must be cut Up
INTO an infinite number OF litle pieces, III order to
| accommodate the wants of single family. BY
this means the number of butchers, markctmrn and
retail dealer. Of every kind. increased beyond
calculation, and many of the simplest ncccssaries
Of life must be paid two or thee times their real
value, and what they originally cost. The mere
we 90 into these details the more shall be cen
yinccd that with this waste and want of economy,
individual economies and stinting parsimony are
delusivc, and cannot save the Mass from poverty
and privation.
If we wish one of the most striking pictures OF
our incoherent Societies. have but TO 60 through
our Markets We there Gee beings whose whole
soul, are absorbed in buying and selling few OBJ
Iec,s necessary to their physical wants There Is
persuasion and misrepresentation, cutting down OF
prices and cxtoron 1t i, not the fault OF the III
Aivduals but Of the system and the general poverty
| which exists, which forces people to such shifts.
Another feature of our system Of Retail Trade Is
,rrct.vendng; if few clans or radishes are to he
.old the air is rent with screams bells, horns and
| other instruments are also used TO raise din
Quackerv is also characteristic Of our system OF
| false and incohercnt trade. If an individual can
arouse in himself spirit of imPosiure' he can by
putting his drugs and nostrurns IN shameless ana
barelaced manner, impose upon an isnorant Mass
and enrich himself at their expense III short time
People take this system of license for Liberty and
| rxtol it as such. How little does the Age know
wha, Liberty is
Three hundred farming families make nothing
like a. many purchases in the course OF the year
as the same number OF city families, and yet tiey
make UPON an average from twenty TO thirty
,bonsand. They lose their time and tina, OF their
Team. in neighborng towns and villages they
run in debt to the Merchants; get entangled IN
lawsuits mortgage their farms, and are IN the end
| generally sold out and ruined. The farms OF the
country are falling rapidly into the hands OF Counr,
Merchants. Shavcrs and Banks. and in time our IN
dcpcndeut farmers will become tenants, cultvating
the soil of others, and will sink-when time has
brought about thick popus tion--into az depend
emf and miserable a condition as the fcasantry oil
Eurep-. The titled ArStocracy or teudality OF
ru,one will not be revived, but we shall have a
| Commercial Feadality, which will be more
mcanly oppressive and exactiog
| Association will save the enormous lhierne-
date profits, spoken Of above, which amount 10
n,entv fold all the taxes that people pay; 1t VIII
4, away also with the endless quarrels, conflicts,
c.,1. ovcrreaching and double dealing which
now take place between buyers and sellers ana
which are most prolific sources ct dl'corss and
| lawsuits
4, Association would buy all lis goods OF OBJ
iccs of consumption a, wholesale, and at the lowest
cash prices. and would take great pains 10 OBTAIN
them of good qualities and free from adn'era.'on'
II would furnish them at cost price to the Mem
bers.-transporta,ion and a small commission only
added.
The inhabitants of an Association would OBTAIN
their goods a, half and quarter what they NOW
paw for them, and the avoidance OF the frauds aud
ex,ortions OF the presest system would alone At
zach them to Association and excite disgust Tor
AR falls. Societies The Commerce oi the W orid
,h.orbs one.half the product OF the labor OF the
p,.s,c;n. Classes; il is the master Of Productive
I,dus,ry. and controls eteciuay the Press, Legs
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