New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-15

ing the downfall Of Louis Philippe, fondy fancied
that they were working ont more ausPicious
and endurable destiny for themselves and their
children Was this hope unreasonable COZ
slider the terrible restitution which must be the
fate OF the Proletares or Hirelng Workers OF
Paris. whose wages will hardly average SKI!
cents per day, with employment on the average
two hundred aud fifty days per snnum-iess t''ah
50 per week for the support Of family IN o'ly
where nearly every necessary OF iie - oesie'
than ia New-York and many OF them '"Ice
as costly as here. This remember Is tne
average reeompense Of the Laborers OF Paris IL
times Of general prosperity. But now on the heel
If O Ravolut;on effected BY these same oarr7ers,
in the confident hope Of improving their condition,
the great majority suddenly find themselves de-
r,rived of their sole resource by the stopPage Of
manufactures and fight OF plessure-seeking for
eiqpers while the miserable and shameful pit
lance doled out TO great proportion Of them
through the National Workshops is about 70 be
cut of Condemn as We may their desperate re-
sort. can We wonder At their despair
The Laborers' Revolution bad deprived the La
borcrs OF employment and Of the 'cauty ana DIT
ter bread il bad hitherto secured them. The Oo'
eminent called TO liie by their yslor' had nearly
effected their starvation OF the Liberty EquaI-
~. Fraternity they had avished their blood to
achieve only the Liberty had by them been reali-
zed even in shadow For what real equality i
there between the owner OF a county or suburb
and the thousand who must hire on that own
sr,. t.,,os or cease 10 live What fraternity be
tween those who can barely live by their labor ond
he who amasses wealth by buying that labor AZ
two-tlirds Of its actual worth Who can fail 70 see
that there is rqdicql impeachment here 70 any prac
tical realization Of Equality and Fraternity
But the blouses Of Paris have certainly Liberty
Won can't deny that Each can vote and be
voted or-aspire 70 any station, even the Presl
dencv All this is very well in its way, but poor
substitute for bread and clothing. Says Carlyle IN
his Past aud Present Liberty, ! am told, is a
Divine thing Liberty, whenlit becomes Liberty
10 die BIZ starvation, is not 50 Divine
The worst phase Of the late dreadful carnage
i'm Paris is the fact almost universally conceded
that it has settled nothing accomplished nothing.
If it has been proved that the strongest available
force in France IS on the side OF the contented or
comfortable class it has proved also that the DIS
contented. the miserable, do not fear TO die Nay
it argues that when the only choice is between
diving slowly OF hunger in ditch and being struck
down behind barricade, musket in hand, form
dable number viii prefer the latter. These may
be exterminated to-day yet, unless the causes Of
their misery are removed, the despairng Of TO-
morrow may raise new barbados, and the work
OF storming and leyeling them be all to do over
again.
The Organization OF Labor-not Of idleness
no quackery or iuggle 10 appease a momentary
clamor, but an organic adjustment OF the mu-
tua relations of Labor and Capital so that
every man willing 20 work shall surely and
speedilv find work to do and every one who
works shall receive the fair and equal recon-
pense of his labor-this is the grand problem OF
the age wherein is bound up the vital issue OF the
French and sundry other Revolutions. II no sou
ton be possible then Liberty is a chimera, Equal
itv lest and Fraternity mocking delusion.-
But a solution is possible the means have already
been discovered, and they will ere long commend
themselves TO general acceptation. Meantime
there will be distractions, Commissions, carnage
for while the Social Edfce is based on discordant
aud warning interests can never be steadiast and
secure. Horrible is human slaughter, but hardly
less horrible is that more diiiused and ceaseless
agony and waste Of life whereby the destitute
aud despairing wither away by thousands OF Ia
mine and fevers IN garrets. IN cellars IN wreched
novels and by the roadside. OF these and their
suilerings little account is taken they die and
make no sign. Heaven speed the day when to
every human being shall be guaranteed uniailing
opportunity to earn the bread OF honest, useful Ia
Dor. for when that day shall have come barbados
and cannonades and iusilades win speedily be
numbered with the things that were.