New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-01-13


ually Liberty Equality and Justice Society. The Lee
| ture vii! be free
u We SHALL be able publish the Constitution for
an Associations until Tuesday next; the Committee ap-
pointed to examine IT have not yet completed Ae ~orH
Peculainry Adyartases of Association.
The World i. sunk in Povery-.and Poverty often
brings with itself Ignorance, Vice and Degradation
The 6rsr great object of Association is raise the
World out of this state of general Destitution, and
secure abundance to the Poor, and safe investments
and liberal dividends to the Rich.
The question of profits is a proper question by
! which TO test the practical value of Association
What do large profits signify They signify that
the product OF Industry is abundant, that Wealth
is general, and that Poverty, with its evils, ID ban
shed from Society. A Social Order which does
Poverty exists, Man viii be sunk in ignorance and
misery The question of Wealth or Poverty must
always be the practical test OF rse or false sys
tenn of Society; as the harmony of the Passions
will be the spiritual test
IF an Association DE not profitable, it will be
proof that the labor and talent of the members
are not jsdciously applied unity OF action,
| lnetIoo anu eCououly GU HoS S>''', 1850 A''I
is not rendered attractve,-and that Science does
not exist in its material mechanism.
Association will have means Of increasing Pro-
duction or Wealth immensely, and of guaranteeing
abundance to ALL Let Us examine some OF these
means:
FIRST MEANS.-Iaerease in the nun'5sr Of Producers.
The heads of family for the most part al
present the only Producers; the labor OF Women
yields scarcely any thing, as they are absorbed by
dome site duties, and that of children not much
more. If wy take hundred famies,-say five or
six hundred person.,-we find, consequently, but
hundred Producers, and their labor must support
the whole FIVE or six hundred. Suppose the hum
drcd families were to unite and torni an Assecia-
| ton: one-tenth part of the women now required
csnld perform, the donae.tic work, and ting rest
could devote themselves to productive and iGcra-
tive occupations. Various branches OF Industry
such as care OF the vegetable and fower-gardens,
and light and pleasing branches of manufactures
could be attended 10 by women and children Win
proper Organization of Industry, we may safely
estimate lha, out of FIVE hundred persons there will
he four hundred active Producers, which would give
very Lara increase of productive Labor and, a. a
| consequence, OF Wealth
SECOND MEANs.-EeEaHes Of all Objects connected
| a-ih Industry
Our fields present are lonely, our workshops
and manufactures dirty and disgusting, the tools
and implements poor and every thing IS cal
culated to deaden the energy of the workman; he
works with lassitude and disgust. In Association
the fields and gardens would be beautifully laid
out, the work shops and manufactures handsomely
and conveniently fitted up, the tools and implements
would be OF the best kind, and labor would be per
| formed by Groups of persons between whom friend
ship ard other social sympathies wsud exist
Under such influences people will work with aIder
,,d satisfaction, aud the same persons would pro-
duce, we may satisfy calculate, twice as much as
thew now do.
THIRD MEANS-ComJned prosecution Of Agriculture
and Manu- jac!ures
| In every Association variety OF branches OF the
Mechanical Arts suited to the tastes and talents OF
both sexes and different ages will be established,
- that agricultural and manufacturing pursuits,
VI ich are now separated, will be prosecuted com
binedIy. The former will occupy the Attentions OF
the Association more particularly during the sum-
mr. ard the latter during the winter, and constant
emnovment will be secured TO all. The Farmers
are at present, during the wiater months, nearly
die and we may safely estimate that, tor want OF
a good organization of Labor and by the separa-
ton of those two primary branches of Industry,
rhey lose hsf their time.
FOURTH MEANS Machinery.
This will be a gigantic means OF increasing
Wealth An Association Of five hundred persons
could have machinery to almost any extent,-to
do the work, if they wished. OF two three OF tour
thousand hands AS tkey could owa tbs ma
ch;nery 1t would work FOR lhem and not AGAINST
them, as it now does, because 1t is not owned by
the Laborer, but by Capitalist or Employer whe
hires him.
What n contrast between the amount OF Wealth
produced by hundred families living separately,
and what they would produce II they lived IN an
Association 4 hundred isolated families have
at present the product only OF the labor OF a hun
dred persons, whereas, if they were united III an
Association the would have in the first place the
product Of the labor OF four hundred persons, TO
which would be added that performed by machine
". 70 the extent OF three four thousand more
Thus FIVE hundred persons, living m.eraby upon
the scanty product of hundred hands, would have
in Association that Of three four thousand, and
would possess all worldly comforts.
In Association the machinery will De owned by
IN, neSlbers: it will be their servant, Instead OF
their competitor: it will work Jor them, and
lessen toll instead Of working against them, and
| robbing them of occupation.
FIFTH MEANS-Haoloscle Trade
An Association would not pay 10 intermediate
Agents-tha, is, to Traders, wholesale and retail,
one half of what it produces for the comparatively
slight trouble of bsying aid selling its Products;
il would do liz OWE commercial business, and thus
effect an immense economy If an Association
were dependent upon Traders, and had to apply
10 them to purchase its Products it would, ia the
first place. find very often no sale for them; and
in the second place II would have to sell them al
- or 80 per cent. discount.
To avoid this dependence asd loss, an Asso-
ciatisn would es,ablish a Depot in large com