New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-12-21

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ma mar, IN order 10 be relieved from domestir
cares we are 10 have M home az all ihq, our pe
fehai government, in order to provide for our child
rrh, oegins by taking them away from us: when We
picture 70 ourselves the sort OF wooden melancholy
| hsures we must hscOme (aomething like the lrrer
Pa'nted dolls in Dutch garden, stuck here an
tnerc without choice or locomo;ion or their ownl
we FpeeGIy lose all inclination 10 enter upon This
Josephine OF happiness. We Quit with haste This
enchanted garden, which turns on; 10 be an enor
nous piece OF clock-work, and embrace with re.
ne"ed content the old state of personal freedom
albeit ate nded with many personal ipconyeniences
"niie reading of Utopian schemes, the idea has
very VY!diy occurred TO u.s. suppose that some
such society as this, where land and wves. money
and children, are ell in common, had been for a
io'g limo IN existence and that some clever Uio-
fian had caug h iokiing OF the old system so IA.
ihiiiar 10 us, and had made fre discovery that j,
wond be possible, without disso,ving society, to
nave Wlie OF ones Own, house of one's OVID,
land and children OF ones own. Imagine, after an
age 0! dro1sy clock-work existence, oac OF these
philosophers starting the idea Of free society," OF
soclai organization based upon Individual rights and
Individual eftor;-where property should not only
De possessed, but really enjoyed-where should
Tor the hrst time stretch their limbs and strain their
faculties, and strive, and emulate, and endure and
encounter difficulties, aud have friendships. What
connection there would be-. How would the
younger sort, rebeling against the old rotten ms
chine in which they had been incarcerated, form
themselves into emgraing bands, and start forth TO
Try upon some new soil their great experiment Of a
tree lie How would they welcome toll in all its
severIty-how willingly practice abstinence, end
suffer privaiion, for the sake Of the bold rights
which these would purchase! How willingly take
upon themselves The responsibility Of their fate
10 ENJOY fortune Of their own shaping! Hope her
sell would start from tire earth where she bad been
so long buried, and waving her rekindled torch,
would tend on TO the old race Of life !"
The answer to this irsplits that the writer
knows nothing practically OF the evils which As
ISOLATION proposes TO combat and overcome. Sit
ting in his well-furnished, comfortable apartment
surrounded by every means OF enjoyment, he says,
:" What do want of better Social condition
taan this9" Seen through his b4eker Of Hook
or Burgundy, the w01ii es Ii is wears a roseae
nUe-he Cannot see how any body can imagine
any thing more enjoyable. Theruddy Ere lights
cheeriuliy the Turkey carpet; the Aavcr o. the
venieon and canvass-hacks could rot be i'm.
pr0ved-Society as it is is Tie very thing, If only
those who have 40 opportunity or know no. how
to work, and will no, quietly sterve, were just De
Gently sllenced out OF the way, SO that all could
go on like clock-work.
But alas! tho picture has another and broad
or aspect. We viii not stop here to present it,
bit we viii take up his own illustration and turn
it. Let us suppose that the world had been from
time immemorial organized as Fourier proposes,
and some daring ;nnovatcr were now first to at
tempt inducing men TO abandon thai for our pre-
sent Social Order. Assuming That he is obliged to
state Or admit the truth, his persuasions must
run thus: "My Friends! you nov every che
possess the means and facilities OF a thorough
: Education, bodily and mental; each of you 30
guarantee d opportunity 10 work, under c:rcum-
stances which secure the highest efficiency TO
Labor, and each is sure of the just and fair lie.
8 ward of his labor. You have all abundant
: food, clothing, and every necessary; each has
under his own roof an ample library, picture
: gallery, statues, &c. &c. and is at liberty TO
select from vice range of empioymcnts
8 Families never need be broken the son pur
I. sues whatever calling he chooses, yc! lives with
shis friends; the daughter marries but remains
sin tho home of ier childhood. Any one may
properly aspire to be Scholar, a Sculptor, a
Painter, a Poet without change Of residence or
usual occupations, and without srbjectng him.
self to degrading dependence on others mu-
snihcence or credit. But in the Social Order TO
which invite you the few will enjoy luxuries
sand liberal opportunities; tho many must live
erudgingly and be still worse taught than fed.
There will be schools, not under your own roofs,
sbut a mile or two distant, to which your chill
dren may trudge through mud and sieet to learn
something; there will be eligible dwellings
for those who can affJrd them, and novels OF
various sorts for the residue; there wall be work
for those who can get and can do it there Will
sbc poor. houses, such as they are, FOR those who
I. are unable to do any thing or to find any thing
to do there will be three times as much reFni-
ssivc labor required to do badly the cooking &c.
i. SC. of your several families as is now required
to do it well, and there will be bread for those
swho can get work enough and do 1t; public
charity for most Of the residue, and starvation
cor suicide for the balance But who fears the
.bszard? Some viii b rich, en- 1ent ana
powerful, while the mass are degraded, destitute
sand wrctched 50 hurrah for the ncw-iound
world of strife, and disparity, and anarchlcai
.competition, in which every mans hand shalt
.be against his ueighbor, wherein some viii SHINE
aud riot though many droop and suffer !'-How
many now. think YOU, would enlist as poneeis
of the new Society
3. The Blsckwood writer's apprehension that
unless his land and tenemen,s were fenced of from
all others, his wife and children might also be
common property, is. We must presume well
funded {; but it is based OF experience under the
old system OF sClu;ch all ven can and enjoy Ii :
We must still! believe that thoroughly m
formed rightly placed man would no more seek
"a DESTROY the peace aud honor of his nsigheo''s
e,-;v ,han to despoil him OF any thing else.
And Low TIE writer concludes that, IN the s'c'a'
condition advocated by Fourier existence mus.
he drovsy, mono,ooous, aud ;jse c'ootwors-t .t
: devoid of personal irceeom-when he mas
.,,.wbs,. represented this system as giving ice