New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-09-13
Com m1nlca:sh.
Communicated
The Trr;c Policy OF this Country a 5 &c CARDS
Reform.

The Errc Policy OF this Country s &c CARDS
Reform.
If we take the history of the past, with the
ceaseless wars and The preponde7ance OF military
interests, and the subsection Of Agriculture, Com
merce and other branches of Industry TO the power
ofthe sword, as standard Of comparison, we may
consider the career of this Country for more than
half a century as highly successful. 1t has pur-
sued its industrial interests, or those relating to
Agriculture, Manufactures Commerce and In
terna Improvements, with a constancy, which
which has given them Preponderance and M
portsnce over all others, and offers the true e5-
PLANTATION OF our rapid progress, and our rapidly
acquired national importance.
We have now twenty-sx separate States, COM
prising the Union-each with its local admins
tration or government, acting in concert and With
perfect political unity, although the greatest d.
rerstv Of soil, climate and interests exists. Had
the People Of this country pursued the same
political policy and system which Europe
and other nations have followed, and which ex-
ist generally at present, there would have been
instead of twen.y-six United States, multiplicity
OF separate and hostile Republics or Sovereign
ties, with different interests politics and systems
of government, which would have given rise IN
time to conflicts, sectional jcaousics and annos-
ties, ending in wars ard devastation, which would
have absorbed in the pay OF standing armies, the
substance of the People, and the capital which
we have invested in industrial and internal I'M
provements.
The greatest political complication would have
grown out Of such policy. Each little Repub
lie or Sovereignty would have had its separate
m q
tons, It's separate mail arrangements, &c. &c.
We sec this in Germany and Italy at present,
where there are little Principalltes, not larger
than one Of our Counties, with their Princes,
Courts, Standing Armies, their particular Custom
House and mail arrangements, and often their
systems of measures and moneys. The aInbl-
ton of Rulers would have maintained this policy
and this diversity Of interests and separate gov
crnments and to defray the enormous expenses
OF such a complication, the People would have
been taxed 10 excess as they now are in Europe.
Luckily the superior intelligence of the People.
sentiment of union and an understanding of the
advantages which would grow out OF political
Unity have prevented repetition on this North
crn Continent Of America of the political policy
of the old world.
We have moi only abandoned as false and
worthless such political policy, but we have by
our great movement of 1916 reformed the poiltl-
I cal system which We received from Europe. We
have got rid Of monarchical institutions, aristo-
cratic privileges, of tithes, of civil inequality, &c
and established Democracy or Government OF
the People in the place, with equal civil rights and
political liberty and equality.
This progress on our part is lmportant-ls
great step in advance, and is worthy of all praise.
Lei us render the homage Justly due 1t; but let
,s not suppose, because we have pursued wiser
policy than older nations, and changed our poli-
ical system that have completed the entire
progress which is reserved to man to accomplish,
and attained Social Perfection.
Our Progress has been Political and Indus
trial, not Social We have reformed the Political
System received from Europe, but we have main
tanned the system of Society, received from the
same source, precisely as it was. We have
changed the political Institutions, cntaled upon
us by the old world bat not the Social Insttu-
tons. Instead Of monarchy we have a demo-
cratic government; instead Of a hIng, Presl-
dent; instead of hereditary legislative bodies, we
have elective Legislative bodies, together with
universal suffrage, equal political privileges &c.
All these reforms, it must be bogne IN mind re-
late only to the political system; if we examine
the Social System, or the Organization Of Socl-
ety. we shall find that there no changes or reforms
have taken place. We have the same rePugnant,
ill-reonted and degrading system of Industry as
Europe the same mental system OF hired labor
or labor for wages the same system OF free COM
retition or enyious and hostile strife IN the field
Of Trade and Industry the same unjust DIVISION
of profits the same wasteful, complicated, extor-
tomato, and ovcrreaching system OF Trade; the
same complicated system OF law, with It's tricks
and windings, where there IS no justice Tor the
poor and the ignorant against the rich and the
knowing the same subsection of labor 10 capital,
and OF the labor!ng classes to capitalists and en-
ploycrs, and the same system of monopozed ma
ctinery which works AGAINST instead OF FOR the
Mass. We nave secured to Man the right OF
Suffrage, but not the RIGHT OF LABOR, or constant
employment, which is the first and most import
ant Of human rights; VIC have secured to all equal
opportunities in politics. but not equal opportu-
mites of education and advancement; we have
established Political Liberty and Equality, but
not Social Liberty and Equality, which are
based upon the guarantee of equal opportunities
of Education and other social privileges-the
source Of human dcvcopment-to all children,
and the guarantee of the right of Labor or cor
slant enployment-the source of worldly prosper
ity and independence all grown persons
The true policy OF this Countrywide legitimate
continuation OF its great movement OF lI'o-ls
to reform and uproot those institutions of Society
which are defective false, and to secure to Man
those social rights, which he does not now possess.
How can this be done, it will be asked
We will give our opinion upon this subject IN a
future article We wish first to show that a re-
form in the false Social Institutions, which We
have borrowed from Europe, is the completion OF
the great political reform which We have achieved.
NEW SILK AND SHAWL STORE,