New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-11-30


WING Young Men.-A regular meeting Of this G snn
it,ee will be held The Broadway House on hipAi EVE
MING Is. December. az O'clock BY 9Iae ,,,;rrn
ADDISON DOUGHERTf Chairman.
fsa'; 5 5 sg 1s,s Ssscretafies. 2,
c,+v work-Houses or Houses Of Industry.
The rigorous season of winter is upon US, and
the suflerings which poverty and want entail
upon large portion of our fellow-creatures as
permanen: affection have now become more ag-
qravated and painfully evident. Destltution and
Misery now stalk the streets in more revolving
importantly for relief Poverty is multiplying her
wretched victims, and drawing them into her
maelstrom of deprayity, degradation and crime
It is at such season that we should think OF
the poor. The rich and the prosperous, who are
blessed with plenty, are now called upon espe-
ciaDy, from generous sympathy, to regard the
necessities of their less fortunate fellow linen, and
to provide some means for shielding them from
the bitter privations of Poverty. The authorl
ties of the city are admonished, from sense OF
duty, to extend their fatherly protection to the
helpless and unfortunate, to feed the hungry to
clothe the naked, to shelter the housclcss and re-
ieve the anxiety and despair of those who have
no future but one shrouded with the gloom of
hopeless Poverty.
We take this opportunity to awaken attention to
the subject of providing for the poorot all descrip
tions Of this City, and will present plan for CITY
WAREHOUSES;, which, with little, and perhaps no
permanent expense to the City, will eectually re-
Ieve the destitute and suffering part of our popu-
laton, and to great extent guard against and
prevent the crimes and Indebtedness which result
from helpless poverty,
As the term Workhouse carries with it repul-
sive idea-thc idea of disgrace as well as tyran-
meal discipline md CONSTANT, IN consequence OF
the false and coercive systems upon which such
asylums for the poor have generally been conduct
ed, we shall call the establishments we intend pro-
posing to the City to found, Houses OF INDUSTRY !;
and as the name indicates something more honor
able and reputable, SO the institutions we propose
will offer to those who are so unfortunate as to
need such asylums, retreat far more honorable
and advantageous than is now found in insttu-
tions of public charity
Instead OF degrading and demoralizing the
poor, such system will be pursued as TO encour
age the feeble and depressed, reform the degraded
and vicious, give them moral strength, excite in
them a love of order and industry, and thus ele-
vate and prepare them to take care Of themselves
and become useful citizens when they again enter
into the world. The objects to be accomplished
by establishing Houses Of Industry, are numerous
and important; and in undertaking such q work,
there should be the broadest spirit Of philanthropy
with scientific and solid basis, that the charity
contemplated may be as comprehensive as the
evil which calls for its exercise, and the remedy
effectual and permanent.
I'm founding these Houses Of Industry, the
City should have four principal objects in view,
First; Economy; it should endeavor to save
tho enormous expense it now ncurs for the sup.
port Of the Poor; an expense too almost wasted,
so inadequatey are the necessities ofthe poor re-
lieyed and their wants supplied.
Second: afford an asylum for the sick, the
1nfrm, and the aged, who are incapacitated for
work, and, destitute and friendless, are without
succor or power to help themselves
1hird: secHre temporary retreat to those
who are sinking into poverty from want of en-
pioyment or misfortune and who if they could
hno help even for short period and of an
honorable character, might maintain their posi.
lions anu avoid the danger of becoming real pau.
Pers Such retreat for persons sinking into
poverty but interrupted by degrading associa-
lions, would embrace in It's plan provision for or
phan and founding children, by which excellent
industrial and general education could be given
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themselves of it; and for this for this class
of dependents upon charity we do not make a
separate enumeration.
Fourth. 4 place Of refuge AID reformation for
the c'eious and criminal part of the population
who are poor and unable TO eX,ricate themselves
from their degraded northumberland Grimm.
ais, drunkards, prostitutes, and outcasts of all
kinds, poor wretcheS who are forced to continue
their mode of life from the impossibility Of OBJ
tanning livelihood in respectable way, and
who ind no where helping hand or an encour.
aging word from society. An establishment would
have to be made expressly for this class, as they
could not be associated with the virtuous and
respectable poor Two Houses of Industry at
least would consequently be necessary.
The city is now at a yearly expense Of upwards
oil S25O,ooo, for the support of its poor, which
would be saved by establishing Houses of Indus
try IN which, with a well organized system of
Industry, the poor could easily be made to sup
port themselves, which, by proper application of
labor to Agriculture, Manufactures and Mechanics
combined would be done too without interfering
with the business pursuits of any class of our
citizens Production and consumption might be