The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-04-14

create delay under prcence Of examining witnesses In
order 10 dotrrne TO children from to IL
years Of age 10 work them for u or 10 hours II
was only after the fourth Of struggle and severe con-
sessions the writer was the only advocate at
tending the committee la favor Of this bill 10 give some
relief 70 the most inursdof the working population In
In 1916 In an address delivered at New Lanark. In
Scotland on opening the rst infant school, which the
writer based on new system OF instruction by sensible
signs, familiar conversation. without books or punish
ment and governed solely by undertaking kindness, d
OF the qualities and faculties Of humanity In this ad
dress which widely circulated. the causes Of good
and evil experienced In society fully explained,
with the only remedy competent ever to remove the lat
ter.
These schools thus commenced have become general,
but In principal and practice sadly Inferior to the org
nal.
In this year, also, which period Of great distress
among the working cnsses the kingdom not only In
manufactures and trades but also i'm the agric dis
trics at public meeting held In the great Of the
City Of London to consider the Of and the
remedy for this xauipcd distress in time Of pro-
found peace the late Duke OF York presiding commit
eharman) to investigate thi. anomaly The writer was
one of this committee and at its first meeting
quested to makes report on the subject In conformity
with the explanations aud views respecting the pro-
grcss and amount Of mechanical productive power
which he had stated at the meeting. lie made an
tail the causes Of the general want Of employment
and the principles and practices which could alone
gainst continual recurrence Of it, and perman cnt-
y protect society from the necessarily increasing
hangers ana distress, should these be
y permitted to remain. Tho report considered of
such national Importance that the chairman and
mitec recommended 1t to be submitted to the Great
Poor Law Committee Of the House Of Commons,
presided over by Mr. Sturges Bourne and known Mr.
Sturges Bourne y committee.
The writer. being then well known to all the men,
bers Of both houses Of parliament presented himself
with his report and working plans to the committee to
ism. At that period, this committee deemed Of the
highest interest. 1t consisted Of about forty members
Of the first standing in the Commons and the members
I'm pf o;rtn,
It created great excitement. The members had there
fore met in full committee Soon after the writer
tered he was requested by the chairman to withdraw
into an adjoining apartment whilst they should discuss
tho proper mode Of proceeding their part with
spect TO principles and plans which If adopted would
they knew tho writer about to recommend. There
were as usual two parties desired and tho other
subject with closed doors the whole day when Mr.
Brougham, now Lord Brougham, was directed by the
committee, to inform the writer that tho discussion
was adjourned to the next morning to be then re-
sumed and that he was requested to attend and await
the result. He attended from A. NJ to p M waiting
while the discussion continued; at the termination
which Mt Brougham again came to inform the writer
that the committee had just then decided by a very
small majority, that he should not be examined.
Tho Impression out of doors that the committee
could not dsprovc the truth Of the principles the
lar future distress but that they too far In ad
vance, for the arstocratic views Of that period
Had the plain simple measures then proposed by the
writer been carried into execution Great Britain would
by this time have saved more than hundred aud fit,
ed superior practical character would have been
formed for the poor poverty would have gradually dis
appeared until poverty would have become unknown
and famine In ireland or elsewhere, would have been
impossible occurrence Ireland yet DO saved by
precisely tho same principles with modi6ca atoms in
practice as then recommended and rejected Through,
those means Ireland be made support than
four times Its present population in comfort ury
hitherto unknown in the history that island; nor can
u De made TO become permanently prosperous by any
other
In 1917 will appear by reference to the Times and
nn6 vanp tha,v.
shcd IN London, the writer held public meetings In the
City OF London Tavern, Of deep interest and high
| social world.
He held these meetings to denouncc, in tho most
open and public manner the fundamental error Of the
existing system world and to explain tho causes
hidden from the multitude, Of tho ignorance poverty
discomfort, crime and misery Of which all then loudly
complained, and again to propose the remedy which,
can alone ever remove those evils.
His rejection and denuncation of the Fundamental
errors OF all ATTITUDES and ongtudcs alone then pre-
vented. and until now have retarded the adoption of
his plans for general practice
Those proceedings widely circulated wherever
the English language was known, and they trans
lated into many other languages but they were natu-
rally opposed by old vested rights the ignorant and by
the educated errors Of ATTITUDES and lougitudes The
world has been hitherto governed by local errors
the time has arrived for It to be by universal
virtue, excellcnbe and happiness
In 1878 he visited the continent Of Europe and on
tour he addressed two memorials Congress of
rcigns held in AixaC pee which memorials were pro-
sented to the Congress by the late They
IN deta the causes OF the continually increas-
ing misery OF the producing classes and the future dam
S a nm J non,Proaueng classes unless the govern
t III u M "no m9uu pro'1de means TO stay and pre-
x ss ts .nu oanger lhese memorials were after
presented at that Congress
On this tour which made In company with the CO.
;.ar .user ana PROFESSOR Pcte OF Geneva, the
ssno in;,,er. 70 humboldt and the
va d ls' s.a,eshen ana philosophers OF France
& m swzerand and among Others through the late
Due p henl 20 .he then Duke OF Orleans now his Ma
ssy the King Of the French The writer's chief object
i nF s Journey was 10 ascertain the actual state
us !. eS's.eu IN inc most celebrated esta-
fsso p;n,ot hm I 80 owi.zerand ana Germany FRO,
ic'e' arng oeeh several years In France, one OF
e e oSi upss'onsrs OF education as well as ten
| 10 80 o. Vi 'ue irIpunatc IN France ana
ioI many VAR, at inc mead OF literature In Swift
h ino mri'er hao py TINS timc ascertaincd
i, LIN S G ; eaper'eIce the oVcrwhciming innu-
t sioe a,u ,ihPor,ac. oi ceucnton anu now easily
t ahp i.; ~ circumslances, u would DC
Sh, .hy pp:, iat,onai OF rrationai; put that
n " ~. anu praGucce conipetent 10 pro-
IId IT, ,h , MAJ aoIe. naa pcen unknowh or WIN
io .'e puc, ano .ncrsiorc an nations were sys-