New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-12-12
Remember the Poor

The season of abundan, Festivity, 0. Social En-
o,,rnen, lies before wherein the cham OF mend
shin il oft Frightened, the chords Of Affection
streng.hened-tbe season Of happy meetings, Ter
vent greetings and glad welcomes 10 the fireside
and the board 1t is the season, too alas Of keen
est and most widespread Sufiering-oi the most
intense Destituton, Of most squalid Misery, 1t is
.he season when the Pulpit, the Press, the Philan
thropic orator combine with Conscience, the fierce
North wind and the soen skies, 10 bid all who are
blessed with competence Of worldly goods tc
Remember the Poor And well they may.
Yes Remember the Poor though but with q
broken loaf, battered penny, or bone. Sorry
device as Aims giving is, The word cannot dc
without it Your aims rlay be grasped by the IN
worthy, and impel them onward in the path OF dis
.iustion rather than that Of thrift and wedolng
bu, ion cannot help that The aims bestowed on
dne inquiry and without ostentotion cannot fail TO
bless the giver though they harm the proiigate re-
ceiver Give carefully. bat give freely, to the ex-
ten. Of You ability. What man Of wealth would
not be richer more to be envied this day. ihe had
IN proper time and measure, bestowed hali ms
wealth TO smoothe the rugged pathway Of life the
wretched and famsbing7 Never indulge ths Athe
istic fear that any one harm himself l,y doing
good to his fellow men
But mere Aims Giving will never cure the woes
it encounters: nor materially diminish them. II has
nothing truly remedial in it, Dature-is but a mo
rnentary expedient 10 the present agony and
afford time for considering what shall really be done
If every man of property were regularly 10 coniri
butte 1.-THE OF MS for the relief of the desti
tute and stop there, deeply doubt that any good
would be effected thereby. The abundance Of
aims would create and extend the habit OF leaning
on charity for subsistence and thus difuse the evils
of want by increasing the number oil the dependen,
end destitute
No: the thing 20 be accomplished is not the bet
ter subsisting OF paupers, but the diminuion oil
Pauperism Mere aims are needed for the moment,
but the permanent want is some practical mode OF
obviating the necessity for alms giving. Why shall
not our Churches Jyceums PhiIanthiopic Societies,
&c. consider and discuss this topic
Here in New York probably One Hundred Thou
sand persons depend for subsistence on wages
paid for their daily nbor When Winter approach.
es, Business is contracted and Employment is dim.
inished, so that ut least Twenty Thousand who
have found work during the mder season are
most uniformly the least skilfu least effective most
meagrely paid portion of our citizens. They could
hardly by possibility save anything when they had
work now they need fuel and extra clothing in adj
dition to their former wants, and have absolutely
nothing Yet the landlord cN be paid every NOR.
sci of food or firing must be paid for at far higher
prices than are charged the man OF substance
What are the unemployed to do Rememberthey
are thousands and every YEARS. swelling their num-
Der What shall they do Christian men they are
your brethren Fathers and Mothers .yourchildrcn 5
fate may be theirs for No foresight no heaps OF gold
avail TO secure us against the sings and arrows Of
outrageous fortune Men OF wealth the cost of Pau
perism is annually swelling; the next age may see
It, il unchecked absorb half your incomes. States.
men! philanthropists wha. is 10 be done, not TO
maintain this immense multitude in dleucss but to
give them constant and adequately rewarded en-
pioymentl This is the problem OF the Age--do not
attempt 20 truwn or scout II away, for 1t cW be
heard and needed Why not meet II thoroughly,
and now