New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-06-30
WI. u.,rss, on Land r eform, Poverty, fo"-
Ane -,ertsm, and The Tribune.

- o,,n The fasity of its vaunt that re worked the
Eonrierism GU, of The Tribune it says, we IN
serstand this is not permitted 10 so into The eeSty
Of course, it understands what is utterly untrue.
Then i, saws that the Editor of The Tribune. us
daily secuted and rebuked by the W mig fress VI
the whole Country-another unTuin' oacSeo " |
several subordinate ones.-Coming to the matter IN
hand. the Express says:
our c,v has no more poverty in it in proportion to
~. nonulstion than the Southern or Wesern county
TB,, no; so much physical snoins hare as On nc yet
t;il,d p,atrie OF Ia The Just s.ed rideRes Poverty
Ia conce ntraied here, looks trghtfu elsewhere II
/, and loses half its fright The poverty here
ia mostly foreign not natveborn IL comes in under
the policy of The Tribune that makes this city ne Foor
House OF all the European kingdoms.
Every assertion here quoted is either erroneous
or distorted There is more suffering from absolute
want in this City than in all the Agricultural dis
,ric,s Of the Union, and it is by no means confined
to persons of Foreign birth Thousands OF Natives
here are this moment ts victims The man OF bust
ness dies leaving his affairs at loose ends, and his
family fall at once from comfort to AFFECT dependence
or pnching want. The mechanic is cut off or pros.
trated for months by sickness, and his children are
left beggars No Chinese exclusion OF Foreigners
could prevent this, which is part OF the liked Or
der of things around us and how denial OF the
RICH, Of Suffrage TO Immigrants would modify 1t or
even prevent Immigration we cannot imagine. Our
plan would save our City good part OF the heavy
expense Of Pauperism, by tempting thousands oil
Immigrants now here 70 push on 10 the new lands,
leaving work and bread for the remainder. Sul,
we propose it but a partial alienation OF the
woes of the family just settled IN the
wilderness or untitled prairie has perils to en-
counter hardships endure, is most true %! 1t ls
never at a loss for employment, very rarev lot
food, and HOPE animates it's exertoDs: eve'T blow
it strikes i'm proves its prospect for the future and
the privatons of this year, manfully encountered
are pretty sure to lead TO The plenty and inePend
ence of the next. Who ever heard OF sarmer
starving on has own land
The Express asserts that Seduction and Suicide
are as common in the Country IS here, and that the
victims of the former oftener become such "irom
passion for dress than from want" We cannot be-
! lieve this but suppose il were true that many are
the victims Of their own frayi lie it not still clear
that some are the victims Of Want (which the Elk
press says" strides the world over j and ought we
not 10 do something for these even though oihersare
wao,only vicious7 When the widow is driven las
has been the case in this City, to sell her soul to buy
bread for her Vanishing children is there not some
thing monstrously wrong in the whole system OF
which this is the result But hear
We ask The Tribune answer us, what Is the lana
worth l labor IL expended upon till the forests cut
down by rnan-till the pillow through the burrows
In the hands of driven by cattle o~ned BY man
Precisely so, sir bu, we do not ask yon to argue
our side of the question. If Land, before Labor
has been bestowed it, be indeed so worthless as
you represent it. why not allow the wild lands YET
public TO be reserved for the sole use OF those who
need them and who desire to mix their own laoor
herewith? The hard handed millions need and
prize these wild lands the millions yet unborn
must have them What ask is that they be no
longer sold TO those who do not need them but re-
served for those who do TO The former class they
are desirable but for specuaiion-tha they may sell
again at largely enhanced prices which must come
out of the labor of the ultimate cutvator. Why not
keep them for him in all cases and let Capital busy
itself with building mills, factories, stores, &c
wherever the rapid progress OF settlement shall dc
tatel We do firmly believe thatthis LandJooolng'
viewed on the largest scale, is perncious to Wealh
as well as 10 Poverty, and all interests identlhed
with the Public Welfare would be promoted by It's
termination.
The Express closes with quarter of q column
of personal scurrility, which it can hardly be ne
cessarv that we notice, and Yet vii rot e' pass
in silence Be-e is sample:
"If the Editor OF The Tribune believed word OF what
Says he would convert his profitable Printing establish
ment into y Fourier commons stock concern lie "on,a
share his ourncymen and clerks and Reporters Mt
" or sixty dollars week. Instead Of taking all for the
proprieors as he does If he did this We should
give him faith practical sincerity. and not despise as
do now hts hypocrcal and theoretical crime and fol-
IL. Seeing him in himself carrying out OF his iheo
lies of Fouricrsm or Agrarianism, We are hressuoly
forced believe that nagogusm is with him trade as
II has been with all dcmagogues from the Gracch down
TO Jack Cadc He sides with the Whirs TO get money,
when in his main principles he is Loco Foco &c &c
How much the Express knows of the profits OF
this establishment and the compensation OF those
employed in it. does not appear That we have from
the outset, when our business was Improbable as
well as more recently paid for the labor employed
thereon twenty five per cent above the lowest prices
at which we could have obtained il, and nearly as
much above those usually paid in our City-certain
" so much above those paid by the Express-is
most true We ask as favor that all who take an
interest in this matter should inquire of printers
generally what have been the course and the intu
ence of The Tribune with respect 10 the prices OF
Labor business. ana now tney compare " uu
those of the Express If our net receipts would
indeed pay Fifty or sixty dollars a week to each
of the forty or fifty persons Immediately employed
by US then they must be far greater than those Of
any other journal in America, not pampered by
Government jobbing But if our adviser will just
point us 10 any passage, rule, maxim or precept OF
Fourier lof whom he appears 10 know so much
which prescribes pro rata division OF proceeds
among all engaged in producing them, regardless
of ability, efficiency, skill experience, nc we will
assent TO almost any absurdity he shall dictate
Whether we side with the Wings from MERGE
nary motives or otherwise. we do not care 70 dis
cuss with one who was among the first to desert
and bersy the position early and deliberately as
sumed by party on the Texas Question and me-
yer formally really abandoned by it. His idea OF
tina, matter would seem to imply that whenever de-
ieated the Wings should abandon all for which they
were con,ending when thus defeated. But no man