New-York daily tribune., 1843-01-30
THE TRlBUN
F'rop, lie M,raing Chronicle of Fr.aa.sy.

tediy aad eooceluy advocated hts OF The ai,or,rs,
pre- pared well nv f,einc general hpo~i.
edge Of ne >a;rc, tn give correct opi aioa
Tfbnn- IL ;hr present n oi industry y ool aisc IN
yrrHcps and operation directly pejudcial and
tailoring ci.S ->iurciug th. by fres eonpeti
with each nher and The unboy stTlie 10 cut
tios ~sg.S aud reduce thcm l. uor+rry
W. ask mach Hery by slsi tuiion
yer manual tabor injurious last; ad o. beneoa 10 ue
m:rh Capn. dirofc-1i rom lator in interest: We ask
n machinery n,onopoiA@d by Cspni when hts or .ii-
uy, labor is NOT work AGAINST instead OF the
We ask itl tbe.v.. that Providence ha, - hIed II
thai r.r employ te poor and give hen' !""st't
rs ssape Of IedE,s'
hcve BE- by and a ca, aest dstfe 10
pie 4 caanot but put 20 ,f- bah pr-ended demo
aia loudly about democratic pT'ncipi,s, tie
inisnGu, and arlsiocrsc dc,fic ~cb subjects
VIII The eapIiss, aud makes al him de-
,n-nt drudg-s gardener TO dig fct mats garden
nd rosc,uau IN ci rich man, horse. tor s boots
which ensbes the owner OF i've >ol and the work
,aop deny him existence by refusing To employ him
al all services not needed add TO The r!cb
,nsns wealth" or 10 hlahten bis enJoynieht
Repiy.
The Chronicle has been for some doys engaged
in skitmi,h will the iornns Post topics
main, involved in The above questions. As both
these journals arc anti-rro,ccti,e in their princi
yle., wc >an hardly hope please either OF them
by an exhibition OF views. yet, since these
questions arc coureousy put TO Us. we Will endeav-
OF to answer them a. fully ". may IN the nan
hour and half column wo can dc'otc TO INC SUP
rect. To begin, then
|. Wc do pu, think tic present mode OF prose
cutting Industry entitled TO the name of system.
|, strikes us rather asscmblagc oil accidental
ch.o,c ircopr,uous conditions. Its essential fault
appear, 10 us to be tie 'cant cf system System
ot Industry which should secure to every person
something TO do and fair reward 'or IT, appear. to
u the rrea, dc.idcratum SO too OF free comPr,i-
Ton. VIC think tina, another unmeaning or decep-
,iye nbra,e. You may call a race between one
man in sack and another on horse a free race,
il you choose, bu, the term does not se'tn TO US
happy one To fair and equal competition We
hive no objection, though we believe Tie comFetl'
ton cf the people OF ono nation in the regular sup
nIy of the markets Of another with such art, ;lcs n
,l.a, other can with equal facility supply themselves
;s generally an evil Better that each should learn
10 miais,er 90 us wants, and thus save costly
needless transportation. We think q free trade
among all nations in the lich, and costly articles ct
manufacture would be injurious 10 the laboring
Classes of ell BY increasing the amour, OF labor
(inciudirg ransporta,onl required produce those
articles, diminishing the regularity OF employment
and reducing the average ol payment for labor
actual As we'll nominal
>. We do not think improvements in machinery
permanently injurious TO the Laboring Classes,
hous instances of Par;sland temporary INJURY are
notorious The Cotton Gin is striking example
OF tie bencfts OF machinery to Laber. The Print
ing Press Ia. doubtless given employment 10 far
more men than it at first threw OF employ as
.crbes-and so OF the various Improvements upon
ii. Wages may or May no, be reduced by machine
", but the Laborcr now buys his Cotton cleth for
ten cents which once would have cost dollar;
his newspaper for two cents which, but for Print
ing, would have cost ten dollar, and been utterly
ou, OF his reach. But
3. While think 1t mistake Of the Chroni-
Gle that Machinery works agdinst the Mass,
we rcgrc, that it does not work fer them Us II
ought 10 do, and might be made to dn, ii they
would but turu ther attention to the Practical me-
lloration OF their condition through means consist,
en-, with tho hish.s, good OF all. This improve
nnent is not 10 be obtained ihrouch strife and DC
pressing competition, but through union, harmony,
aud ail-embracins benohcence. The Laborcrs OF
England HOW produce ten tswts as much as rhe
same number would have done sixty years ago,
and yet they receive no more for their labor,
Whclhcr in nominal OF actua! value. than those OF
1898 did while the Rents, incomes, and Profits
o. the mo,r fortunate classes have enormously in.
creased. Va do no, believe the condition OF tho
Laborers ut England would have been essentially
5ettef il machinery had been invented since
1888; worse think ii hardly could have been.
Our own view Il. TIA; 50 long Labor and Cari-
tai shall stand IN tie Ieato ohs they occupy IN
highly civilized countries, Labor viii generally get
su.siscncc and Capital all beside and II makes
,eiy little odds 10 thc iormer whether machinery
continue 10 bc perfected OF not
T. Wc hold ,ha, every fich man who actively
employs his means ~ 'corIsct general or tasting
4sI.,tj is great Lcnciac.og ol The Poor Ii nc Is
ml.,r and boards, he i, an obstruction; It rfo-
dcal and .pcuds tcckc>sy his own arPet,ics
O. 10 ausGaclr his state, IN Is detri'ncnl.
rhis va. Shown by the late Theodore SedSwich i1
h> cxcclte,, thoug not tsultles< treatise oh ido
hc aud rtsyare ECONOMY some years since the
ro,t appears no, 70 hnNe read or regarded tA's,
thoush uii.tea BY ous, OF school and ciioc)
when i, sssctts IN sub.ssnce that tic prcd'gaI''y
OF the Rich is tho Dvincly appointed sus,enance
ot the Poor. While do no, question that
Whatever is, i. rrn,, in the largest sense and
that all lhiags are ovcruied for good, We believe
there is low a tendency in society toward a state
OF things IN whih tbs Rich shall no more be taxed
IN charities 20 support the Poor, and the great mass
., the l.abuling Class viii be no longer dePende"t
onhs aecessi,ies OF caprice ofthe Rich 10, chance