New-York daily tribune., 1843-01-31
a..oeio,;ou and the Preas.

Associotiou and the Preas.
Since we issued Proposals for establishing an
Association, several Papers have come out and
attacked US more OF less violently. The Hsral6
takes up foolish idea, frs, put forth by the Morn
ing Post which is, that if Association succeeds asd
spreads, all the farm-houses, towns and cities IN
the Country will have to be torn dowa to give
place to Associations. We wish 10 tear nothing
down we wish only TO build up. How much
land is there, for example, in The State of New
York even, tha. is unoccusied and wilderness.
Suppose Associations Of men, well supplied with
teams and implements and possessing varied
knowledge and sufficient capital, were TO COM
mence clearing and settling the uncultivated por-
tons of the State, world it be of any injury to
public prosperity! Would it not be means OF
giving an immense impetus TO Industry and Com
merce, and open fine field of action to the un-
employed among the Lsboring Glasses, and the
active and en,erprizing among business Men, who
have been ruined by the late revulsions? But
suppose an Association were established in set
tied region where The land was occupied, and that
some cultivated farms, with farm-houses upon them,
were wanted FOR the Domain; n;-what course would
be pursued The farms would be bought OF the
owners, who of course would be satisfied, ss they
would receive full value for them, and the few
log-heuses cottages er other tenements scattered
over them, could be made repositories for imple-
ments, store-houses rural pavilions, sc. As re-
CARDS cities, the surplus popuation-tho Popula-
tion that now lives in and uncertainty OF en-
ployment, crowded away in confined and unhealthy
tenements, would be drawn off, or rather an open
ing offered to them, which s much TO be desired.
Cities should be places for the transaction of cam
mercial business, not eceptaces, as they now are,
for floods of human beings living to frightflll
extent in poverty, vice and crime. we presume
that Tile Herald and Morning Post would wish,
because farm.houses are scattered thinly over the
country, that people should be condemned for ever
to dwell in them, if far better mode OF build
ing-such us Association offers were devised.
There is about as much common sense in this, as
if tribe of Indians, having their bark huts once
built, should object to the erection OF comfortable
and healthy dwellings, because the former would
have to be torn down.
The Editor Of The Herald has laid claim to
be in advance of the age in ideas of Reform and
general Improvement; he has promised from time
TO time a new Philosophy, new Docirines-socis!,
religious and political. We see, however, in his
paper nothing bat negations and protestatons
There is nothing positive, affirmative or con-
structive. He protests against the Banking Syx-
tenn he protests sometimes against one Party,
sometimes against another; he protests against
al! new Theories, Views and Doctrines, but be
gives nothing new or constructive. In attacking
new Doctrines, he peases, no doubt, that Con-
servatiye spirit which exists throughout Society,
and thus gains the applause of the Multitude.
As regards The Morning Post, it asserts that
the present relation between the Employer and
the EMPLOYED cannot be changed, and that hired
Labor, or Labor fer wages, which degrades Man
noarly az much as Slavery does, will consequently
always exist: it has no faith that any high DeS-
tiny is reserved to Man, and condemns the mag
nGcent and truly Republican as we'll as Christian
Idea of Association, of Union and Brotherhood
among Men. The Editor of the Post will 1--we,
we believe. to see that sucn views do no honor TO
his Intelligence or to his sympathies for Humanity
The Alias also attacks US, but as we do not
wish to lose any more time or space with SUCH
matters, we will make reply. Suspicion and
dstrust are so universal at present, and SO ncces-
sary withal, that we do not blame The Atas tor
what it says, although it might have examined
it strikes us, little more closely into the subject.
Contrast between The system OF 2ndusfry
OF Assocint;on, und Ihe present Social
Order.
The present System OF Society is wrong in all