New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-02-01

| tire, at the society Library last evening
| promised that the great Problem of the Age is
the entertainment and removal of the causes OF
our widespread and increasing Want and
Niserv-oft the downward tendencies of our whole
Social state In old Countries we see the masses
constantly becoming more dependent, degraded
and miserable, while Wealth, though increasing,
s steadily concentrating into few hands, and yet
| fewer. This is a universal fact; and Its unlVer-
SALTY proves that it does not result from tins or
that Political organization, as 1t is manifested
alike under all In our own Country, thus result
is postponed and obscured not avcrted, by our
Youthful vioor and our abundance of unappro-
prated land. But in Europe, and especially IN
Great Britain, the condition Of the great majority
has long been and still is growing worse and
| worse so that, while Labor produces far more
| now than formerly, it receives much smaller
share of the product and the workman in every
department receives but half as much wheat or
beef for weeks work to-day as he did five hun
| dred years ago, when his work produced but hall
what it now does. This cannot go on ; the work
| man has already reached the brink of starvation,
| and is often driven beyond it. reform must be
effected, or universal anarchy and restitution are
inevitable.
DEMOCRACY proclaims the equal rights OF all
men. 1t demands equal laws, equal privileges,
equal opportunities for all. 1t contemplates Hu-
manity as one vast symmetrical body, of which
| the individuals are members. But no Govern
ment, no party, has ever accepted and acted upon
the full idea of Democracy. No party proposes
measures calculated to place the poor and hum
BILE where Democracy implies that they should be.
Governments are devoted to the protection Of life
| and property-thc property which consists of the
results of past Labor; while the active, breathing
Labor of to-day-the most precious properly
this is left prey to it's own necessities and to the
| rapacity of Capital with which 1t ought to be IN
| trustfu union, but is more generally at deplorabe
variance United Interests-the Union of Cap
| ital and Labor in true and mutually bcneficent
relationship-this is the great work to be accom-
plished, and their means of effecting 1t are re-
veaed in the system of Industrial Association
proclaimed by Charles Fourier
Organization is essential to efficiency IN all
| thngs-in peaceful as in warlike, in industrial as
in philanthrepic effort. Every church, or lntem-
| perance society, or township, is IN some sort an
| Association. But we need complete and unlver
sal, not imperfect and partial Association; the de-
| lective must be replaced by the perfect. Espe-
cially must Labor, the great fountain and support
of all improvement be rightly organized and d.
rected The great battle Of our age is to emancl-
| pate and dignity Labor-to make it efficient, in
dependent, attractive. With this result are con-
nected and blended Intellectual elevation Tor the
| mass, and all Social blessings. This result it is
the destiny Of our age to attain, though the pro-
gress and triumph Of Association. Such, hastily
penned, are a few of the ideas of Mr. Godwln's
Lecture
| ADvERrs1NG.-The mass of those attempting
| to do business have very imperfect notion ofthe
| immense advantages of Advertising. Many
man gives thousand dollars year for a tavora-
bic stand, yet gruuges lluldrod for ad~ortisi"e
| not rejecting that hundred men would be made
acquainted with his business through the newspa-
| pers where one would pass and observe his store,
though in the most favorable location. There
| are a few who understand this matter and are
| making fortunes, while thousands around them
are toling in like pursuits barely olive, and often
failing in that.
| We have been impressed with this truth
| thousand times, but especially in observing new
| Inventions Last fall, for instance, friend
called in to beg favorable notice of new
Stave-C Cutting Machine invented by a Vermont
er. We complied, but remarked " If this ma
chine is what you represent it. the proprietor
ought not to ask lavors of any mamie must be
able to command whatever he requires" He
said the man was quite poor, his invention new
and unknown &c. and 1t was generous to give
him lift-so we gave it. Afterward we saw
his machine-there was no mistake in tin the
opinion of better man, backing ours, it was
richly worth $4,000. Yet the owner went
back into the mountains, and there he will proba-
bly, remain, until, in the rapid progress of i'm
provement, something as good in the same line
will have been invented by some one else, and
then his chance will be gone; though he ought
to have made $4,000 with it in two years.
| Some shrewder man may buy up for song the
invention that he so little understands how to
profit by-some extraordinary chance may ena-
bic him to reap portion of the just fruits of such
an achievement,-bu the probability is all the
other way The man does not understand doing
business.
An inventor should proceed on very different
plan. First satisfying himself that his invention
is of positive and available value, he should, if
destitute, unite with him. by sale or partnership,
a man who has means and knows how to do
business. He shoudnow obtain the opinion and
certificates of scientific men of established fame,