The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-02-01
Fourisrism-Town ship Association.

The second Lecture on this mighty matter was de-
lvered last night at the Society Library, by Parke
Goodwin, the son-in-law of the poet Bryant and the
editor of the defunct Pathfinder His subject was
a" Constructive and Pacific Democracy" The
humble disciples of their ''great MASTER" Messrs.
Greeley, Brisbane, Macdanie and Charming sccu-
pied the front seats, while ninety-elght converts
Knockers, seekers, Sylvanianlsts and Socialists
were scattered around the seats. The lecture was
based on an article written with much spirit and
force, in the Democratic Review for February,
entitled some of the Problems OF the Age" in which
it reviews the history of Labor, showing that
the reward of labor has been diminishing these
last five centuries, owing TO the increase OF
labor saving machines, and the struggles be-
tween the aborer and the laborer, and between
the laborer and the machine. The writer, having
reviewed the and the effect, asks, " Must
labor, the only creator of wealth, lose, from age to
age and from century to century, one portion after
another of its just and fitting reward And 1t not
what is the remedy!' The lecturer, starting sud-
denly into an attitude OF glorious triumph, exclam
ed, as he concluded reading the passage, the an
swer is with me-the remedy is association! Not
the association of cliqHs and corporauons-ot
cheating specuators-stock-o bblng scoundres-
who best know how to organize the human forces
to rob the aborer and to fll the golfers OF them
seves-of odlous party-going, ball-glving, ars-
tocracy. The only answer-the only remedy to
tons" Not Phalanxes, Sylvania Bands, Gree
lev Farms, &c.--but Fourier associations, re-
gularly organized in every township-each
Township to be an association-each association to
members of society, as at present organised, were
mistaken enthusiasts, who looked but to the castle
on the hill, and did not place the bridge over the
slough Of labor which INTERVIEWED II was IN con
sequence of the want of "the remedy" that the
hordes of miserable drunkards did not reform and
become members of the temperance society. Had
Arthur Tappan and the other benevolent petition
for the abolition OF slavery, but understood the
L., ,.Lo tLn nd nj
of thousands of well fed, happy, wooly slaves had
ceased to rise to heaven, and no longer would the
ear be panied with hearing Dandy Jim OF Caro-
line" whlsled byevery saucy white boy at me cor
ner of every street. 1t the want OF " the re-
medy" that caused the "Moral Reform Society
to shed tuns of tears over the degraded and "sen-
suous discord of their fallen sisters, SIX thou
sand tender hearted ladies mourned over and sroye
| in vain to reform twelve thousand hardened SIS
tiers who loved the five dollars OF sin. rather than
the shilling of honest labor And all this IN con-
sequence of the want OF the impregnating. princi-
ehe organic Panhhe nray 81 sScS nhan
thropiss were but drops Of oil to calm the raging
storm-but withes of straw to stay the east wind Oh
its westward course. The lecturer. leaving earth
| and its mpurities-lts paupers and It's priests
then scared to heaven, TO contemplate the associa
| ton of the universe and the grand deduc
uon from the solar harmony was, tina
| by combined concentration OF converglnt
| townships system OF social reorganization woult
| be effected, which would uproot the present mass
called democracy, which overturns into the slime
of its own filthiness whatever is nobler than itself
and erect democracy, pacific in It's nature, anti
political in its government-which would not chew
the stale husks of its not-come tothe-pOnt priest
| craft. but would make laborers gentlemen, ant
gentlemen laborers-and all, universalists-town
| ships, independent states-money into pots ant
kettles--sngle maids into lovely mammas- ant
Brisbane, Fourier, Greeley, Goodwin, Charming ant
Macdaniel into philosophers, philanthropists ant
fools This is a remarkable age, these are remark
able men, and Township Association is a remark
able discovery very!