New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-08-05

round about charge of Infdelity.' at appears now
to nsinuate that have been guilty of this offence
IN something we have said about Robert Owen
man whose genuine humanity and unselhsh efforts
to improve the condition Of the unfortunate we re
spect and admire while we regret and utterly DIS
sen, from his notions Of religion. All this oar
readers must know as we have stated our views d
freely though not fully to them as TO him. "o
Express may possibly pick a few words OUT Vi Jul
columns which may seem TO It's readers 10 sustain
il charge but ours must know its futility and base
ness
The Fxpress is not deep in theology. 1t says:
.u.s vveud have made funny Agra1an or at least
an the peope ofCanaan must have thought tie made
cn,ns rrsrian division when he cut up the lana
| and tosk all 10 higseJ
We have here a clue to the Express zeal forthe
Bible. 1t obviously thinks it has found Scripture
precedent for It's treatment Of the Evening Mirror.
and various little pcculiarties of the sort But Moses
did net take the Promised Land all to himself, he
divided il fairly among all the children of Israel ana
established laws to preserve the division The fand
shall not be sold forever is one of his dctates-Bu
hear the Express again
Equally unfortunate is The Tribune in citing the case
Of the Early Christians" They, We are told SOLD
their possessions and Of course somebody must nave
bougb, and paid for them
Clear as mud but what did they do with the
proceeds of those possessions p Did they not lay
them at the Apostles feet, to be expended IN iced
ng the poor and needy Did they not have all
things in common But as we are not asking any
BODY to be so Agrarian as Moses or the early
Christians we need not pursue the subieci.-Raiher
ut. in be Il Y
press indictment which we have not hitherto con
sidercd
1.-The charges which we bring against the Tribune are
that il attempts necessarily IN the language ana splri
If Loco Focosn 10 excite the preudiccs of the poor
against the rich and in the general 10 array one cs 81
society against the other. we charge tne tribune, Hi
imitation of The Fanny Wright party OF THIS city ana OF
The country with representing constantly that there ~
arse amount OF suffering arising from want oil employ
,nenf and that this employment the rich mignt give we
harcc the Tribune with overrating entirely the suher
ng Of the poor and in speaking OF thom. with publicly
using the slang of LocoF by calling the poor IN
unpaid million" Gods poor'-and troddendown
humany"all of which ITALICS with, and Is portion OF
the very material which opponents use to prejudice
the poor against the Wings as party.
Now we do indeed say aud know that there is
vast amount of suffering which arises from or is az
gravated by the want of employment but we utter
ly deny that we have laid the blame of this on the
rich generally or specially The Express has
already tried to rdicule idea that the evils we
deporc do not exist through the immediate fault OF
any man or class but the result OF bad system
"a defective organization. Abuse of this man or
that class as the cause of universal, ever present
evils. we consider most unjust and mischievous-
We know that neither the Rich nor the Poor do as
well as they might we know that the relation they
maintain TO each other is by no means perfect; but
we do not consider either class alone in fault Very
many rich man is abused when he is doing the
best he can. We do not complain that the Rich do
not make work for the Poor. nor that they do not
give them better wages. What we greatly desire
to see is the termination Of this universal necessity
imposed ON three fourhs of the human family OF
asking the other fourth to permit them TO earn a
living In this necessity we detect a constant in
element TO rapacity and extortion-to eye service
on the part of the hireling and inadequate recon-
pensc on the side OF the master Their interests are
rendered antagonist the one is tempted to desire
much work forlittle wages; the other. much pay
for little work. Hence. jealousies, hatred collisions
which demagogues turn to account in perverting
the policy of the country and hosting themselves
into Office We would destroy the Political inHu.
encc Of unworthy and incompetent intriguers by
depriving them Of the aliment of their power We
would abuse no capitalist, no empoyer-lw sustain
in a humble way. the latter relation ourselvesl-but
we would enable and encourage men 10 be their own
employers so far as possible. Hence in part our
anxiety that the Public Lands shall no, be monopo-
liked by spectators.
Is il true that we "exciie the prejudices of the
Poor against the Rich p The phrase unpaid mil
lions we wrote - uaderpad,' and so corrected it
for Weekly paper. The others we do not
member having used, though see no harm in
them. We do indeed believe that there is a vast
and utterly needless amount of human suffering
from dcsiiiuton, want Of employment &c But we
never considered any particular class the cause Of
this much less the Wing party, which we consider
cmineniy right in its principles and its
far as they go. For the vital principle of Proicc
ton to Labor involving the pracicability and bene
fccncc of Legislation in behalf of National Indus
try and National thrift, We have ever baited. We
believe the vitality Of this principle has not yet been
exhausted, and that farther applications of it may
wisely and benetcislly be made All the elemental
ideas OF the Loco Focos-iheir axioms that The
world is governed too much, The bcs, government
is that which governs least, lie, us alone &c
are to us utterly Objectionable and offensive We
hold that wise and good Government directed by
popular intelligence and enlightened by free discus
sion may do very much to promote atirmalively the
well bcing of the People. We believe this very
question OF securing 10 every one an opportunity
to labor and JUS, rccompense for his work, is the
great question of our day we do not say that its
complete solution is within the sphere of Govern
ment; but we DO say tina, Government should aid
in doing it to the utmost of its power and should at
east be careful not TO throw any obstacles in its way
Now the fact that there thousands out of en-
poymen or unable 10 proc0rc decent livelihood,
Is no new discovery of The Trbunes; it is es,ab.
ished. notorious palpable. Whether we speak Of
il or not there are very many who bitterly feel iha,
their lo, in life is hard one and who sorely
tempted 10 look with envy on others prosperity and
comfort All this existed before there was any Ex-
press or Tribune-woald have been If there had
never been such papers. The Tribune saysio these
. no M, desnar. 4 not envy nor cu rse