New-York daily tribune., 1842-09-03
TIae want OF Employment.

The want of Employment.
ToMe Editor of The Tribune: .,..,uo,s o,,sses
Your well known sympathy with the industrious Classes
renders unnecessary ior to apologize TO you or In
would ask you simply, what are TO do who have
beep by the gicisstuae of these tnes thrown out o. e
ploy know independent OF my own case, nuoels @ :"
mon but usetu education, who now in summer sueq Jor
food; not because they are to blame through @
nricsNMen With wives-chdren oowho know not when
they lie down al night eoe,n M bnsnes of
This cty begging for employment, but hopeiesy 70 m
to their staying placehey cannot Ge Gaea eas and gb
that word implies happiness')-to hngie ea' a"0 'sA'
with their suffering group w;,.,,-es nc IN tho
What be done u.s. cold Wlnler sares @ US n,ne
face hope nearly blasted, though while HE as hope'
though stepped in misery, lyeh o have ,vai,
W6a, done or u.s. For iong .v me nd So
ed lingering in the belief that our Goyenen % nj @ hS 81
&C, as 10 relieve u.s. but alas a hope fails us our Liberty
ALMOST peckery se 'S naSga wond DRIVE out sa our
evil theugais gsad Isaen len
will RSe1 10 ea s
NJ Our friend doubtless wishes US to give our
oninon as to what those in his unfortunatecircum-
stances shall do to escape the evils which now
.hreaten and afflict them; and on this point we
can snly repeat the advice we have given them so
many times during the last FIVE years. we say
to every man unemployed in our Cities, Do not
stay here day longer than you are obliged TO-
but GO INTO THE CoUNrRY-not into some smaller
mart Of Commerce. unless you have promise OF
work there, but really into the Country ii you
have disregarded this advice until your means are
entirely exhausted, borrow ten dollars OF some
more fortunate friend or friends-twenty If you
have family-and bargain with some foEwarder
here to take you to Chautauque County, Ere
Pa, Cleveland or some other Ohio port-Mich-
gan City, or Milwaukee, if you can afford to go SO
far Transportation is exceedingly cheap at
presently Go where you have friend, II you
have any in improving part of the country and
ask him to help ysu find something to do; II you
have none, strike out boldly for yourself. Don
wait to find clerkship, but look out for school,
or Job of any sort, you so helpless as to be
entirely ignorant of Farming and all Mechanic
arts. Do MT remain idle day if you can honestly
earn u quarter of a dollar, and think no employ
ment dishonorable that is necessary sr useful to
your fellow men But keep your eyes on the main
chance of getting hold of piece of land and the
means of cultivating it as soon as possible, and
then YOU may cease to dread the approach of winter
or yainly beg permission to earn bread for your
families.
@AA~ 'NNS,N -"
is this: Let the unemployed combine to remove
to some more favorable location-that is let A.
B. who is in want of employment, speak to {. ID.
who is in like circumstances, and he to another,
whom he knows to De honest and worthy; and so
let a hundred OF two be gathered who will agree
to go together. One hundred men families
would be transported to any point for one-haJ
what it would cost them separately, and much
more comfortably than each alone; and they could
aid each other in locating and in living meantime.
Such band of upright, deserving, willing iHni-
grants would be regarded as an acquisition in any
new country, and treated accordingly. They could
procure lands on credit if they required but not at
cash prices.
If they could be so united in mutual esteem and
trust as to agree prosecute their abors in COM
mon, on the plan proposed by Fourier, we con-
6dent that would greatly conduce to their welfare
and speedy enfranchisenent from poverty, but we
win not here press this point.
Neither will we here descant on the causes
which have reduced so many to want and now de-
priye them of employment. That is theme too
vast for such an essay. We are treating 1t from
day to day as we can. We are contidens there will
be sensible improvement in busiaess, even TINS
fall, if a good Tariff is enacted; there would be
still moro if q National Currency were created
bu. of this there is for the present no hope Still
che commercial and general exeesscs of the Pei
Bank years, 1S34-5-6, have diverted thousand:
from Productive Industry to Intermediate employ
msu,s, like selling goods, which can never suppor
.hem all lia healthy stale of things. There mus
be more producers of wealth and fewer exchanser'
or mere consumers; and those who wait and wai
to be employed in mercantile pursuits are certain
TO be isappointed.--Enally, frieads, resolve
quickly; then ACT. Ed. Tribune.
10 A ine steam ioco.no,,,. of Rosers. Ke,chuu
& Grosveaor's make, Paterson N j., was landee
here this morning fur the Buffalo aud Auica Ra.s
road Company. We have assurances that the cars
will be put upon the road earyin September
Buffalo Com Adv.