New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-12-17
Association Discussed...-NO. 9.

As4OC
To III. Editor Of the CoaTi7 4 En7a5e
Icsn answer and set at rest nearly the iIrst haii
os vour article By the simple statement OF TACT
r. Association. those who furnish the original Cap
;,sl or nestegg are the owners simply Of so much
,,ork in the concern-not OF all the land and prop
ay.v as you suppose. We will suppose this $50
200 At the expiration OF the first year, ap-
prai.a is made and it appears that $4,000 has
! been added to the value OF the property by build
ing, fencing. planting, enriching &c. &c For this
amount new stock is issued. which IS apportioned
to Labor, Capital and skill. as impartial justice
shall dictate The member resident or not who
holds $1,000 of the stock will have tenth of the
new stock awarded to Capital and If he has been
a resident and worker beside, he will have tar
Their dividend on his Labor and Skill. provided the
subsistence of his family shall not have balanced
or exceeded the value of such Labor The man
who has none will have new stock apportioned 10
him for the excess in value OF his Labor over the
cost of his Subsistence Thus at the end OF ten
wears. supposing no cash dividends have been
paid but the whole net product absorbed IN increas
ing the property of the Association, the owners oil
the original $4,000 Capital will now be owners
probably of 100000 Capital, while the other 500
900 increase OF Capital Stock based the erection
Of Buildings planting OF Orchards and Nurseries
Improvement of Lands &c. will have been appor
toned to the Laborers, who will now be owners OF
four iiths Of the entire property the Just and natn
raj product OF their Labor after giving Capital Its
honest due How radically this differs from the
way things go on at present think need not IN
dictate Are you answered on this point
Let me now briefly answer your following ques-
tons
The natural increase Of population in an Asso-
citation will be provided Tor by successive additions
to the Edhce, the workshops, &c by the establish
ment Of new branches OF Industry with the exten'
sion and perfection OF old by the extension oil the
Gardens Orchards &c &c and the gradual nm
provement of the land until the highest attalnable
point in fertility and productveness shall nave
been reached and the number Of members shall be
as many rs it can comfortably and advantagcousiy
subsist II Il commencement be made wlth one
hundred persons. adding not more than my per
wear by acceptance Of new members, unu the
tenth year and thence only by natural increase 1t
will be many years before the whole number Will
reach iifteea hundred to two thousand Then II
have been reached portion OF the members
naturally the Younger and more enterprisIns but
less ailiuent-will conclude to take new location
and start Tor themselves. They will be assisted
with Capital from the parent hive--in fact. they
will naturally continue members oil 1t until Their
orchards gardens. buildings. &c. on their new
homestead will have made it comfortable resi-
dencc II none shall choose TO emigrate this year
or next some new branch of manufacturing indus
try Will be started-say cotton, WOODEN or silk
iactory-whch viii employ more labor without re-
quiring extension OF territory. and ultimately
the comparative Inconvenience and disadvantage
OF so large population Will induce portion to
prefer new location. think one who is Ia
miEar with the economy OF beehive need borrow
trouble on this head
New members from without will be received
upoa application, probation. aud assent OF con
stitutionaly prescribed number proportion OF the
resident associates This is n question which per
tains almost exclusively to the outset oi Association
Ultimately, presume most would prefer to remain
amid the friends and the scenes OF their childhood
rather than to seek their fortune elsewhere un
less marriage religious sympathy or some pecu
liar industrial educational faculty rendered a
change OF residence maniiestly desirable
AS to Education, il would be the special charge
of Councillors elected by all the adult members who
would take care that the very best talent from
time TO time employed in that vital department.
Nv own opinion is that true Teachers created
such not manufactured and surely need not
urge that the facilities for distinguishing those
whom God designed for Teachers Of TINS that
-, in
tion than they now are have already said that
the thorough Education o; every child, Physical
Moral and Intellectual OF the most important
ends to be attained through Association
The relation o! each Association to the State will
ultimately be that of the present Township, or
! rather combination OF the School Distric, with
the Township lntermedistey It viii be re
garled and treated much the same as manutac-
turing company
AS TO the definite arrangement OF details, that
would require columns to state it fully, think 1t
will answer here TO say that body Of voluntary
associates. banded together by mutual faith in
and assent 70 these fundamental PRlNciPLEs-that
every human being has right 10 thorough and
true Education-to ample and nniaihng Opportu-
nifty 10 Labor-,c the Just and equal Recompense
OF such Lsbor-to Social enjoyment Mental culture
and ample Subsistence-in short to Life Liberty
and the pursuit OF Happiness will have little
trouble In settling details, in the frst crude
experiments Il the original details should not
render exact justice, Experience would soon die
tate and ensure their amendment That knsvish
iadolent selfish, quarrelsome persons may engage
in such enterprise at the outset is true but |
have been satisfied by slight experience ths, they
cannot stay there. They will either be trans
formed by Che genius OF the place be iupelled
70 dee Its presence, The theoogic svermen, OF
the discomfort OF the wicked in the place where
there should be saeh is fully paraleled by the
unessiness OF conceited or eovetous person IN AS
socistion, and the ipossibity OF his long remain
ing there.
AS to poor Tom Paine since hsve neve. hear:
that he was sn Associa,ionist nor even Land Re.
former am unable 10 for the bitterness o.
vituperation with which you assai him. That 20
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