New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-06-10
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We presume tlat few beside the regular read.
ers of tbs paper are aware that 10 is one of the
best it not the best. weekly d. this country. A.
the present TIME as the special organ OF tire Doc
trine OF Asslciation now attracting such wide no
tsntiou both in Europe and this county. it must
naturally POSSESS great interest .or ai vho sysh
% understand the great movement Of the times.
The HlrJinger from the direct relations II main
tains with the Associatouists of France and Eng
land. gives clearer explanations of the position of
the state %. things ia France than are within tie
reach OF other Journals. Ia the number of this
week we find an article on this subectirom which
we take following extract. After stating the fact
that tie great majority OF public menin France
are Scientists. without being pledged TO amy par
t'cular mode OF r ,iom. the writer continues.
On the extreme lcft Of this greet body OF Socialists
stand the Co7muuiss with C1htf and banqu for lead
crs. ENng-rrltue generous sentiment That ui ir,hi
ship and equality they Tor the non recognition oi in
diyidual property. Many 0f them sincere friends
OF peace and order bur naturally they take Boa large
class of the turbulent the jealous, the .auizn-.
Opposed 20 Them on the eXtrcme right are the Asso
ciaonists who hold to social Science discovered 10y
Charles Fourier They 90 for private property respect
It a natural right a demand tor humnu nature
Their word j. Organization. Liberty with and
the side of peace and order Their organ n Pals. the
Dtm0crafie P0rifgne. by IL very indicates their
policy. For seventeen years IL has dnused construc
tive ideas Of reform throughout France, and was
chief cause OF the peaceful boodes spirit OF the Re
vOutOn After the three day. II Immediately adopted
the mantle toes OF Lamartine has sustained his policy
from that time 20 this. and dscountenInced a oppost
ton 10 the Government. Victor CoSsfDERANT their
leader has distinguished himself by his calm opposition
20 the communists and 10 Louis Blanc in the Labor
Commission 10y bis indignant reply % the Cluonl.t-
who would make him swallow k0bespierre, and by the
patience with which, not seeking 10 force on the appl
cation OF his ideas be- has preferred ~ wait The
steady rpeninc of the public mind that the Social
Problem has been fairly put before the nation lie and
his cOlabOrers are in intimate communion with Lamar
tine
Then rs 20 Louis Blanc whose schemes Of Govern
ment interference in the relations of Labor AMI Capital
aud who-e National Workshops have been so con
tempuously sneered al. lie is not Communist. tie
Is not FOuucl-t. although from his candid -put from
the ceame-s of his intellect and from the earne-tncs
with which be dcvote- himself 10 the solution OF this
great humautary problem hope that farther thought
vii make HIM 50. lie has pet scheme OF his own
differing from either party We think hi- theory con
tans some fatal Vet We doubt not that he l.
much injured man. because he has failed IN the Assem-
by because being literary man. student, and not
accimatcd 20 the rude element OF politics and cspe
cialy revolutionary politics he has been forced int
misrepresentation Of himself and possibly has not been
able % keep h- balance IL will be- very fashionable Tor
time to come doubt o. rdcule all that he has
ever done or said or shall say. Let honor his noble
heart his devotion humanity his superior intellect
He ha given his life 20 the great question OF the hght-
OF Labor His book on the " Organization al Labor
contains much that j. true and important. with much
that wild ln his noble histories he has shown thar he
understood the movement Of humanity in these la-t
ccnture he has traced the rise and progress OF the
bgpQe0ist the selfish iai.ser fare principle wiki
ter hand and declared thai the principles of authority
and OF iniigidualism having run thcr course, and
reached the goal Of depor-m in opposite ways the
third principle of Fraternity is reconcile them
both, completing the grand cycle Of improvement