New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-03-26


,,,..,.,ibs In spite Of McCuoch and his school,
an, sverige price Of Agricultural labor IN England
.oxs two dollars per week which Is just about tne
prce Of bushel Of Corn there or the usual pr'ee
81 h.sbs, of wheat; out Of this sum the isbofer
no.,a s,oths and lodge hip,sefto pay hs rsns anu
-. h,s family, n married How this DC aone 80
asospey not TO speak of comfort on susn 60.
What l. the evidence collected By PsrhA"e -, 49,,
,u,asiousra with regard 70 III VINO aoe' no' ''', 100
the Westminster Reviews statement 'h"' '"ee ,,
a ,tep but a mere hsndsbresdn oe'"een INC ''"'N.-
.,.-,..~., l.borer and Psupcrism" must be
=. We. 80. abundant testimony that cosrss bread
- Car too little Of that forms the hsoi'usl
- -. r,..ses of those laborers and that in sum-
- sspecisIly In harvest time. many thousands
-. no choice but to sleep In barns or under sheds
-~..~s and hundreds In q fock-mon. women and chill
..n unfortunately huddled together regardless Of
.v.rv consa Iteration Of pnodesty and morality am not
s.ins Of peculiar cases. but Of the usual and Coy the
v,edrus) unavoidable course Of thnsswisne'sed and
never hesded BY the landlords the money landlords the
treat farmers the dgnitares in Church AID stale VINO
are eonstitusionsly shocked with Mr. Bundle IN Oliver
rvst at ~the depravity of the lower classes Turning
sss,u 10 your own Courier Enquirer Of this day,
read IN your State Of Europe,' already quoted from;
awere IL no, for the famine which RACES IN Ireland say
Ing irs housasds outright, and preparing victims without
number for The l disease that may pass by more woad
Be said " the dcsution, II not starvation when snlT
sgIy psevans Only Q few nights since. FOR example,
y a. asserted without contradiction by member OF sne
House Of Commons That Ia me Counly OF SOne.se
iEnglsud 4 people subss,ng on scaniy supply OF
borseSssS. sDd rotten iunip. picked up here ADD there
10 The 6eds! and belssn journal Q. me n , unS
"a Inc horrible acme which will quickly nee, and TIE
repo Of several physicians prove 10 u. that the a..
se Son mas, spread death around France Ger
many and other countries are alike suffering"
This 10 the middle OF the Nineteenth Century In tne
very center Of Christian Civilization gatteo WIN 'ne
wealth OF plundered world and with food SUD-
ala. amply those whom famine and consequent diseases
are sveep,ns By thousands into their graves True the
sst crop was below average but there Is food enough
"a, n hose who need could obtain ii and fthey could
se their labor any fair rate, they could buy II even at
the pricss to which Monopoly nd Forestalng have
raised IT, The great mass throughout the world endure
Hves Of oen excessive irregular, hafrequited toll are
scanty fed poorly clad and hardly at all tsught-not
because Production Is deficient but because Distri-
button 10 imperfect and Unjust Europe might easily
support ten times, America hundred times, its pre-
cent population under wise and true Social Economy
Secure Opportunity, sklful Direction and Just Recon-
psnss the present Population and their average Pro-
duction would be quadrupled And cannot doubtthst
the progress Of Agricultural Science will outstrp the in
crease oil Populauon Tor centuries 10 cOme.
You wrench from my last article lines saying that
% Population increases the reward Of Labor must be-
come more scsnty and precarious without noticing the
preceding assertion that this Ia the result Of that mon
ssr evil che Monopoly Of Land" and then quote, with
cir of triumph my statement that the population of
Oregon and California han been doubled without pre-.
jadcs TO any OF course you only needed farther to
chow that the virgin soil Of Oregon and California is
nopozsd and held at prices increased as fast
~ practicable by those who seek to realize wealth from
other mems labor and you would have made out
requiring explanation from As 1t e, submit that
the facts uumphantiy grouped by you afford strik
ing confirmation Of tho truths for which am contend
Ing In Oregon the settler pays nothing for wild
land, which IL sbundent and no man is allowed
TO claim or hold than mile square. In Californs
any settler takes almost any unimproved land, paying
nobody therefor and such land If allowed be claimed
In large tracts has yet attained considerable price
Had the Land System Of State from Its first settle
men resembled that of Oregon believe its population
might have more rapidly increased to Ten Millions with
far less dsstution Of Employ nent and inadequscy Of
Recompense than has already been experienced among
u.s. though our population has not yet reached Three
Millions. trust you will that your citation of At
kuson and Greeley as adverse to Malthuss notion Of
Population naturally outrunnng Subsistence quite
That the Sound Political Economists, so called do
commonly denounce Early Marriages among the Poor
only improvidens but cupable think all who
accustomed to read the Edinburgh and Westminster
Reviews etc and especially their articles Psupersm
and the PoorLsws, will attest My recollection Of the
fact b distinct and vivid though have time to hun,
up authorities point so unesssntsl. But If you
ssy,
tAsva n
not without pons, do and will
I'll they support their families and that therefore CUB
ths lead, /"
they assert what is not true. The PoorLaw Commits
sion returns and the Liberal Reviews full of
plants that the Poor ,sn and do act nationally
and deliberately In this matter but finding their condi
oA desperate at best too apt 10 act the assump
ton that Marriage may alleviate its mseres and cannot
sggavate them And this Is natural however depreca-
Ted and denounced by sound Political Economists'-
Hence you win find that nowhere is Early Marriage 90
general 80 among the Irsh Poor. The only segment Of
truth In the statement above quoted is this Those
who are actually suffering the agones of famine are not
Mey to marry II single. nor to have children if mar.
RED Sound Political Economy has just two real RENE
dies for lie fsneied overpopulaton Starvation and Ii
ecntiousne" among the Poor If the latter fails to
check the too rapid increase of Laborers the landess
and anskiliu drift inevitably toward and are wrecked
upon the former.
few words on the Relations of the Sexes and tssc
leave Of your last article;
II believed that God created some men loY inoon
ssaney in other than are created to
forge and murder should hold as Fourier appear, 10
do, that In perfect Society," such cannot be hoped
for until after ages of preparation and experience mar
rsges might be dssolube without reprosch at the mere
pleasure Of the contracting psrtes But believing mos,
thoroughly that Purity is nseparable from Conssancy
and that the physical and moral nature Of Man ipers
lively require them both vital conditions Of healthfu
existence, hold that human beings rightly developed
and faithfully educated in true Society will no more
desire change In the conjuga relation than TO be con.
tnualiy swapping children with their neighbors II I
smnga In the premise that Consistency is the dictate of
Nature and Of Providence, then you wrong in con-
founding Freedom with License and In your whole ar
sausns on the subject Fourier reared amid the con.
Vnsons and license of Revolutonsry France and living
skssn observer Of the boundles debsucheres of Paris
believed that Inconsistency was natural to part of the
human family and the result of false relations and
peVsrse development Here was his error-not that
be taught that crms whatever tends to produce evil
and should be tolerated but rather tina, in