New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-26

anxious to repeat form of being which is already
all that can be desired, while on the contrary if
the first production is gross and ill.made, she is
discontented with her journey.work and urgent to
try her hand at an improvement.
1t is in this manner that science promises to
point out the true preventive for over population
which has hitherto been the most discouraging
and absolutely irremediable difficulty in the way
of the philanthropc statesman and philosopher
If the wealth Of England, for example, were equ
tally distributed among all the people-if the ben
efts of machinery were equally shared by all-f
the possible economies, and augmentation of COM
fort and luxury were superadded and extendedto
every citizen, high and low, as they are now
reckoned, the too rapid augmentation of popula
ton would cease. The quantity would be less
the quality improved. This is to be the solution
Of society Poverty and destitution must be abol
ished If men will not study the subject the in
evitable laws of nature viii scourge them with
famines and poorrates until they do
In China the pressure of poverty has been a.
ready considerably relieved by the existence Of
an imperfect species of Association not Of a kind
to give an integral development to the individual,
but enough to cheaper the maintenance Of fami.
" and furnish resource against want. Hence it
is not unlikely that an experience of this sort may
have turned the thoughts of the lterati of China
upon an extension of the same System as RENE
dy for the monster evil which is every year be-
coming more aud more frghtful. The Rev Mr.
Williams in his Mddle Kingdom, quotes from
Chinese work called The Sacred Commands
the case of one Chang Kung-i who had nine gene
rations in his household and of Chin, at whose
house 700 mouths were daily fed, and proceeds to
say This Is q very different system, however
from that advocated by Fourier in France or
Greeley in America for these little communities
are placed under one natural head, whose author
ity is acknowledged and upheld, and whose pun
islments are feared Still it has the result Of sup
porting large number Of persons in comfort and
responsibility at small expense Beside this,
persons Of the same profession form themselves
into Associations for mutual assistance in case Of
sickness, each person contributing a certain sum
monthly system which alIevates vast amount
Of poverty.
The Chinese Reposuo5y has an extended article
on Clubs in China The whole empire Of Chi
ma is divided into about 200 families there being
no more than that number of family names. AS
all of these original families are dispersed howev
en- over the whole country, and the clanship
kept up, there is in every neighborhood knot Of
little claus or cliquea and as these constitute
themselves into clubs for mutual protection, it is
not surprising that they should cultivate mutual
hostility on the one hand as they do mutual friend
ship on the other Accordingly the existence OF
these clubs has been regarded by Government as
the source of much disorder Even at Bangkok in
Siam, much complaint is made Of the operation of
the club system among the emigrant Chinese who
abound at that place. 1t is not impossible howev
err that some portion OF the danger felt from this
source by the arbitrary Governments OF these
countries may relate rather to a combination
among these clubs for political purposes than to
their mutual disagreements. Possibly enough it
may have some such result as is now characterized
as Chinese Socialism. Our great distance from the
scene OF action and our comparative ignorance of
the state of feeling Of the Chinese people, may
leave fort long time in the dark with reference
! to the real state of the case.
The point which it would be wise both in Euro
! peans and Americans to note, however, is that
precisely the same causes are operating on our
side of the globe, as on the other to oyerburden
the and with population and to inaugurate ex.
! treme poverty and starvation as the permanent
condition of society, unless the true issue of the
/ dilemma is sought ont. 1t is especially to be un.
derstood that this whole trouble s not the mere
return Of an old event. such as mankind is
accustomed to, but that it it is the occurrence
of a new and untricd contingency. During the
early ages of human society causes were in exist
/ ence of various kinds, among which the constant
prevalence of wRrs was prominent one to keep
| down the increase oil population Peace, compare
| tive prosperity in a commercial and agricultural
| point Of view, such results from the enlarge
ment of empire and the habits o! civilization, and
prior to the period of the general refinement and
DEVELOPMENT of the race, furnish the conditions of
rapid multiplication of the human family. 1t is
precisely in that condition that the world gene
rally. now finds itself for the first time Ireland
during period of Sc years, from 1855 to 1871, in
creased in population from 2,84593a to 8,466,0Oo
France has increased since 1921 from $1,000 oOOto
$4,000 600 The nited states has increased from
1870 to 1850 from 3,729,328 to e5,0OOo0o or more
The average of these ratios is equal to the ratio
Of increase in China during the past 80 years, The
problem of the true solution OF over population is
forcing itself upon US Let those who dare, take
the responsibility of detering it by stavng off in
this age, under any pretext, religious, moral, or
POLITICAL the most profound and radical investiga-
ton of the whole social question.
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