New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-30
How TO have Justice 20 Laber.

One OF our Washington Correspondents
this morning ably presents the general prin-
ciple Of reform Of Commerce originally ad-
vocated by Mr.. Josiah Warren, who regards
his scheme as the great means Of securing
to the working classes the just fruit of their
toll. According to him, set Commercial
exchanges right, and other things will come
right in consequence. His arguments are
powerful and impressive.
On the other hand are the Financial Re-
formers, such as Kellogg and Proudhon,
who contend that new system of currency
must be established, and interest either
greatly reduced or abolished before justice
can be hoped by productive labor. They
say, and there is no escaping the facts and
considerations with which they support their
position, that as long as the money system
is essentially wrong, the great mass of evils
which weigh upon those whose toll creates
the worlds wealth cannot be obviated, hard
ly be lessened Every business transaction
is made by means Of money, or implies mo-
ney, and with interest and usury. No man,
then, who has dealings with his fellow men,
can avoid paying tribute to this universal
medium, which gathers something from
whatever it touches.
Then there are the Labor Reformers who
see the salvation Of Society in the organiza-
ton Of Industry and the guarantee to the
workers of the product Of their exertions,
undiminished by any share appropriated to
employers and managers. They labor di-
rectly for the establishment of industrial
associations in place Of the ordinary private
workshops.
Then there are the Land Reformers, who
will have all men engage body and soul in
the realization in laws and constitutions of
that great idea of natural truth, that the
Earth is the gift Of God TO the Human Race
on it's surface, and that consequently every
man has an original and indefeasible right
to the use of 30 much Of the soil as is requi-
site to produce the means of living for him.
self and his family, while no man has such
a right to more. And this idea they Illus
trate and defend with such common sense,
eloquence and force that it is hard to see
how it can fail to convince every unpreiu-
diced mind.
Now it is a question with many persons,
and has been somewhat debated by our cor
respondents which of these great schemes
of Reform is entitled to claim preemi
hence, which has the most of intrinsic truth,
to which ought men devoted to the welfare
of the race exclusively to devote themselvesS
We answer that for our part we believe in
exclusive devotion to neither, but in contend
ing for each or all as occasion may favor
The truth is that neither can accomplish
alone all the expectations conceived with re-
gard to it by it's more prominent and
enthusiastic advocates. Each requires
the other to complete it; each must be
had in its time; each is to be la
bored for as there is reason to hope
that anything may be accomplished toward
its realization. Not only must the soil be
set free and houses secured to all, but
currency must be had such as shall render
usury in any degree impossible, industrial
associations must be established and Com
merce re0rganized. Production, exchanges,
and consumption must alike be put on a,
new basis. Such is the series of reforms
necessary to the attainment Of Justice to
Labor. But while we see them all to be
necessary we rejoice in the enthusiasm
which generally devOtes itself to the
exclusive advocacy Of either, even if &C
companied by some exaggeration of its
merits as compared with the others. 1t is
by such enthusiasm that new ideas are diff
fused and the world carried forward. Nor
is there any danger that genius will exhaust
the improvements possible to be made. The
field is boundless and will always offer room
for new laborers.
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