New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-05-17
THE TRIBUNE.
The Great Reform.

PARKE GoDwIN," is the tl;!c OF pamphlet of So
pages Just published by J. Manchester. We have
already published in advance several pages of
this mastery work, and if shy ei:git or sacrifice
OF ours could secure it q circulation comniensu.
rate with its worth we would make it most cheer
fully. 1t is brief, clear, direct and simple, ana
ought to be read by every freside, TO be studied
by every phianthropis,, to gladden. the waking
hours and color the dreams of every youth who
has not vet discarded or barered away Youths
generous hope of better condition for the de-
pressed and suffering majority Of Mankind. 1t
IS OF course not so full nor SO precise the au-
thor's larger work, a Popular View of the Doc
:rines of Charles Fourier but as an introduction
% the study of Social Science it has superior.
The portion VIC have already quoted establishes
the incoherencc and anarchy which now prevail
IN every department of Productive Labor and the
paramount necessity of an ORGANIZATION OF IN
ousrRy The advantages already and uniformly
realized from any approach, however Purbhnd or
partial, to such organization, were shown, and
the author now proceeds TO portray, more defni-
lively, the general and systematic Reform which
is needcd-as follows:
3 VI.-ORGANizArIoN OF THE TOWNSHIP.
THIS object can be attained, we think, by the
organization of the township. Let US suppose,
that in q district composed of some three hundred
families, (about eighteen hundred souls,) the in
habitants should call public meeting, to consid-
er their social condition, and after the maturcst
elaboration, should adopt the following resolu-
TONS
LIST. An Association is formed between all the
inhabitants of this Township, rich and poor; the
capital to be composed of the fixed property Of all,
and of the furniture and goods which each one
may see fit to contribute, at an appraised valua-
ton.
2nd. Every Associate shall receive in exchange
for what he brings, certificate representing the
exact value Of the capital relinquished to the So
ciety.
Sd. Each share shall be mortgage upon the
fixed property which it represents, and upon the
general property of the Association.
4th. Every Associate, whether he have contr-
huted fixed property or not, shall be allowed TO
take part in the productive use Of the Common
Fund.-, for the employment of his labor aud talent.
9th. Women and Children enter the Society
on the same terms as the Men.
9th. The Annual Income. the common expcn-
scs being first quidatcd, shall be divided among
the Members on the following terms:
(a) y first portion shall go TO pay the Interest
on Stocks.
10 A second portion shall be divided among
the Laborcfs, according to the difficulties Of Their
work, and the time devoted 10 it by each.
lei The third and last part shall be distributed
among those whc have distinguished themselves,
in various laboTs, either by Intelligence Activity,
OF Nigor.
Thus, each Nan, Woman, and Child, viii be
Ity-is'o
to their respective concurcnccs IN the production,
by their three productive faculties Of Capital, La
Dor and Talent.
Let US suppose, further, that the inhabitants OF
this Township, instead of remaining III their $50
lated houses, should agree to dwell Ill u large
building, or rather, in row OF buildings, sePara-
ted from eaca other TO secure the privacy
and independence OF each family, but at the same
Fine, so connected as TO render available the OBJ
.vious economies OF fire, hight. cooking, Gel
lars &c &C.: that all the different branches OF
Labor were distributed among groups OF wolkllen
best adopted for the execution OF each, including
in the term of Labor, Domestic Avocailons, AZ
riculture, Mechanical AT and Instruction; anu
that each Group should have the entire cohi'os OF
its special department, subject only to the advSo
nv direction Of a more general dnd superior Group
we say let this be supposed, and we shall nave
the outline of the simple, but most important !se-
organization OF Society which we propose we
do not here assert that an organization CT tins
kind is the true Organization for Society, al
though we hold that the position can be proved
beyond cavl: We merely wish TO show that
Society. If it would escape from the terrible evils
under which it now groans, must resort to some
similar Organization the next step IN the pro-
pressive career We assert that Association by
Townships, as here dclineated, if not the right
wny al least leads toward the right way, and Is
the best approximation TO Perfect Constitution
Of Society that has been presented to mankind
We assert that it is the most easy. the most tea
sble, the most safe, the most rational, and the
most desirable phasis in which we can look at The
treat question of Social Reform. We assert this
upon the subjoined brief views OF
6VII-Irs CHARACTER AND ADVANTAGES.
lst-H begins Nth the beginning. 1t begins
with the Organization of the Township, where
saoacious minds have long since discovered that
ali Reforms, TO be efficient and practical, must
begin. Napoleon, whose overwhelming energy
of action so absorbs our minds, when con.
sdering his character that VIC are led to Tor.
get his deep.searching practical insight, has SAID
IN note, addressed about 1890 10 his brother
Lucicn then Minister OF the Interior, that If he
had not been distracted by war, he should lay
the foundation of the prosperity OF France IN the
organization of the commune III commemorate Ia
.prOsperete dc Ia France, par les communes S'H
'.etait distract par Ia guerre'0 Thomas Jetter-
son, one of our most profound and at the same
time most sagacious minds, writing to one OF
his friends, insists that all true political rctorm
must begin with small districts. The trainers of
the Federal Constitution felt this when they were
80 careful to distinguish and secure the rights CT
the States. A consolidated Government, OK
tending over so wide a field of influence, would
,, f-o,,>
smi,ten with the death. stroke of immobilitv.
State action is the life Of the Republic, such life
as il has. Again: the class Of Political Re
formers, lately sprung up in this State, demand,
inc an amendment of the Constitution, are ina
messed with the necessity Of still further ex.en