New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-10-21

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u Lecture.-A Lecture VIII be delivered THIS
EVENING TIC Fourier Hall. All Broadway, tins re-
lauon which exists between Christianity ans true nne
Harmonious 9eselopment IF Human Nasve The Lecture
will commence u O'Clock, and viii be free.
Free Competition.
A more rulnous, demorazing, anti-social and
Christian principle than that OF FREE Co'
PErITlos-or, as 1t should properly be termed
reductsvs, rui,.ous and hostiis Competition vas
never established in Society. In thnly settled
Country where the field of action is broad, it does
not produce its disastrous results, but in thicky
populated Country, 1t entails upon the Mass a
greater degree of misery and oppression than
Slavery itself We have but to look 10 Eng land
for a confirmation of this assertion: il is un-
deniable fact that her poor worked and half
ianished Operatives are worse off than the Slaves
of other Countries.
People look upon Free Competition as the life OF
business. and the means of maintaining fair prices
in Society. 1t produces false, Earring and fever,
ish life, it is true, which is disgusting to look at,
and it cuts down the price of Labor, (and, a
consequence, the Products Of Labor until the
Working Classes are reduced to AFFECT want.
Let Us examine the effects which it produces.
In the first place, it sets the Working Classes
to opposing each other, to cutting down wages,
and to disputing with each other for the work
which is offered by Capitalists and Employers !
it prolongs, also, their days labor to degree
that wears out the human frame. In many of our
own Cotton Manufactures, the Working Glasses
now toll from o clock in the morning till o'clock
at night with half an hours nermisson for break
fast and threc-quarters of an hour for dinner. What
slavery!
In the second place, Free Competition cxctcs
dislike, autipatby, and often the strongest hatrcds
on the part of the hired Labcrers towards Employ
ers, and sewers completely all bonds of fellowship,
union and concord between them. In the third
place, it produces opposition, envious rivalry and
strife between Employers and Traders, and iinFeis
them to wage an Industrial war against, and strive
to break each other down. In the fourth place, it
leads to overrcaching, fraud, aduteration manu-
facturc Of bad wares and the preparation OF other
dep1edalons upon The Public or Consumers, which
are necessary to make up for the scanty profits which
the strife Of reductive Competition cuts down.
Besides these pernicicus effects which Free Com
petition produces, it engenders universal seishness
and distrust, destroys all fellow feeling between
men, spreads disunion and anti-social spirit
through Society, and causes an incoherent turmoil
and wranglng and an unprincipled strife, in which
one-half, if not more, Of the labors and talents of
men are wasted or misappled. In the confused
and Earring efforts which are made by all to obtain
fortune they only rample each other dcwn,an four
6ths Mt least arc in the end ruined and die poor.
Such are, without any exaggcratlou, the results OF
Free Competition, and we leave candid minds to
decide whether it is not iase-a trlghttnl prin-
ciplc. How is it possible, under its influence that
Justice social feeling, fair dealing and uprightness
can exist in Society land, above all. how can
Christianity be carried ont practically! 1T Is
foolish to think of it. We shall always have what
we now have,-good precePts, and Christianity
in ,cords, tut exactly the reverse in deeds and
practice.
We must replace Free Competition, isolated In
dyidunl Action, Conflicts ndStrie, by Association
Union, Unity of Action and Harmony of interests.
We shall not do away with incentives to action
by this means, for if we abolish the envious Rivalry
which grows out of Free Competition, we shall es-
tablish noble Emulation in its place-and if We
abolish the feverish Action which results from the
ucoherent forts of individuals, shall call forth
the corporate Enthusiasm and the Energy which
crows out OF combination of Efforts OF vast scale.