New-York daily tribune., 1843-12-21


ings OF these selfish and unnatural systems have
already reduced society to social He'll,
t'Where disorder, dscord, and wretchedness reign
and in winch the most cruel tables o the old my
biology are more than realized. The masses, naked
and destitute, vet surrounded by prodigay oil
wealth; seeing on all sides heaps OF gold, which by
a fatal decree they cannot reach; stunned by The
noise Of giIded cquipages, or dazzled by the bni-
lance of splendid draperies and dresses their ap-
petitea excited by the magnlcence o! heaped-up
luylreS of every climate and all arts: provoked oy
all that can crafty desire, vet unable to touch one
jot title OF il. offer terrible explanation OF an
iaius, tormenlcd by eternal hunger and thirst
after fruits and waters, always within his reach vel
perpeually eludhng his grasp.
Is this true? Without any reference to any
other organization whatever is Ours so d:sas
trous in its workings? Taking in the serfs toll
ing under every form OF tyranny IN the Old world,
with the groaning, desperate millions of England
and Ireland and the slaves and paupcrs of our
own country, we must say Yes, and the despe-
rate need Of SOMETHING being done for perlshing
! humanity becomes torture to the warm and gen
crous heart The earth, through all her smiling
valleys, waves wtllis rich harvess invitation to
man to eat and live, and yet he dies from famine
Magazines Of clothing stand in sight Of those
freezing for want Of apparel piles of gold mock
the eye Of dying want; luxury, and wealth, and
extravaganza, dazzle the gaze of suffering men
and women, forcing them to curse their race,
God, and life. Wealth buys immunity in
crime, and innocent poverty is punished. The
whole structure Of society makes the rich richer,
and the poor poorer, and the wretched more dcs-
| II, Ill, i
tiplied machinery, unless to bless man, He who
does not see this-ay, and feel it too-and feel,
also, that some radical change isnecded is gifted
with most miraculous stupidity. And yet what
shall be done that had not been already tried p
Every experiment of human government, and
every system Cor the relief Of man. has thus far
proved failure until after the lapse of nearly
six thousand wears, the earth seems like ship on
lee shore, and every great failure of human Or
ganjzation mnute-g gun of distress fred amid
the gloom Of human life. And yet can nothing
be done Must the earth be in future as it has
been in tic p,s;-a great battlefield, where ranks
Of living men bleed and call-or the poor wage a
heavier, painfuller fight?
Here we are with soul and body, with the
body mere easement, and labor an accident and
the soul the great creation. and yet our mere
physical nature and wants engrossing al! our flying
hours. Is this Heavens design? Can there be
no system that shall give the spiritual nature of
man it's proper ascendency. Docs any one sup
pose it was not designed our chief time should he
given to the cultivation Of our ncnta! and moral
nature Take q village where schools are en-
ioycd for only months in the year, and let there
be no schools at all for 90 years and who would
pass through it. But man has no school hours
they are all work hours. Now let this golorlous
earth be turned into one great School House, IN
stead of being mere Work House. and let God
and Nature be our teachers, and in three genera
tons the Angels would not know US. And who
will denv that this should not be go, and that Ia
Dor should be mere daily episode to supply our
few physical wants, and life be filled up with
higher, Wortiler aims.
But we have exceeded our limits, and we will
close by allowing the author to give what he
deems the remedy for all this,
O. Our help if any is to come to U.s. l. to be found
i'll the better adjustment oi our social relations
The vice for IHhch seek remedy is in the heart
OF society, It's oXtrcnnties; and 1t Is 10 the heart
that we must apply the cure W hal cure may be- is
partly indicated by the W hole tenor OF tins essay.-
We have shown that capital and labor ar. at open
war. The field OF industry, in all liz branches Is an
eternal field of battle. Eithercapai tyfamises over
labor or labor driven extremes, rises IN 'nSlrec-
ton against It's opprcsSor One or the other OF these
effects inevitably follows the working OF the system
of unrestrained competition. How obvious the sil9-
eestion then that This competition must be brought
to an end! five can introduce peace, where there
l.llo l,rlp |
where there was before antagonsIn and hatred, We
can discover mode of causing 10 work Tor each
olher-then we say, we have advanced most m
portant step toward the solution OF the problem
Now the power whichis able 10 effect this change,
which can turn opposition into accord divergence
into convcrsence contest INTO co-operatiol, s me
principle OF the oRGANIZATGoS OF INDUSTRY on THE
RASlS OF UNION OF INTERESTS.
In the closing paragraph of an article on woman
in this No, are sentiments utterly pagan, and have
no more business among the noble thoughts that
pcryadc it, than Satan has in Heaven.
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