New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-20
Lnpd md Labor Reform.

going on through the columns Of your meritorous
journal. but am now drawn especially to the ques
tons mooted by your two able correspondents w.
W. and Thomas A. Devyr, both of whom are doing
good service by throwing light upon the same sub
iect from two opposite directions, and making more
transparent the evils Of the present barriers to
Reforms and more prominent the processes neces-
sary TO overcome them.
cannot agree in full with either Of these gen
tlemen, bat, as intmsted, think the world will be
indebted to both for suggestions that will acceer-
ate and point ont action in the right direction
through much collision Of sentiment and modes o.
exposition
Mr.. Devyr argues warmly and tersely, but seems
10 be unaware that all truth is arrived at by small
in.ta)lmepts in advance and that few minds possess
that ample grasp which IS competent 70 seize as
INIT the good and the evil Of the social fabric and
apaJ,ze them 60 IS to demonstrate what are the
elementary defects and where the relOrnatory
scalpel should commence and where cease It's op-
erations
The more, then that the workingmen and the
patriots of the day. either from Immediate personal
interest or from that higher motive which eniolds
the race of man in its promphngs and hoped Tor
achievements can be induced 20 agitate and bal
apce against each other reiormatOry measures and
IDEAS, the sooner will that light dawn upon the
world which will make apparent the processes
necessary to be adopted to give 10 every man the
opportunity to labor, and to that labor the nobies
stimulus and the highessremunerstion possible.
Heartily concur, however, with Mr. Dcvyr that
"the Land Reform measures are the Oniy meas
ures that can ever furnish the lever to life from
society the incubus by which morality virtue and
every desirable religious and social element are
being crushed 10 the earthand that, If the percep
ton Of tie masses can never be elevated to this
standpoint of Progress and Reform, never viii
the race Of man know higher blessing or realize
a brighter prospect than that mixture OF misery
and prosperity that now atillcts and blesses with
It's "bright.obscure' the American people Of thenon-
slaveholdrg States.
1t is an old adage Ibelieve,if not, here furnish
i-that society never stands still that 1t is ever
sinking fiom bad to worse but cheats Itself into the
opinion that it lOurishes the more the more lt5 ee
ments are corrupted and the more garish the lights
that glare upon its decay Therato OF the increase
and decrease Of the pauperism of a country, CON-
pared with its increase OF population, must ever be
the criterion Of a nations progress, whether to
veal or wo Splendid edliices, public and private,
and the opulence extravaganza and designations
OF the favored ew ever IN contrast yet sure IN
dicetions the WHILE Of the criminality, dissipation,
ard densndence of the masses Before silk stock
ines x ere invented or Queen Elizabeth oil England
uore them. the masses OF England were better so
cially and collectively provided Of cOmparatl'eiy'
than now and such is the nature ol man, WIN rare
exceptions, that eDiOyments sPTug not 50 nucn
from, abundance as from excess o. means ana lne
capacity TO rival others in the race ms is e3Pe-
cisly true of that class that have ever YET IN the
uord's history contrived to rule aud guide tne peO-
ple-reDdering the working men OF the sociai stase
iutthe mere machinery by when are eies a'eu 20
opulence stations and bad emlnences' those only
10 least care for the happiness oil those 70 whose
nd NJ l.
tby lor their own class they are indebted ior what
of CONSEQUENCE and wealth they possess. But the
dav has daWned, il is hoped when, through tte art
Of printing, an elechiiyin Intelligence WI dduse
sympathy, faith and iOrethOught among the masses
and raise up prophets and preachers OF duty and
kindness of so nal equality, Of merit and Of rights
among them, equivalent to the attainment oi tue
gre attest good 10 the greatest number within he
verge OF possibilities without in the least infringing
upon any equitableright of the more sordid luxu-
rous and sraspng OF the conservatiyerace, to whom
all change is obnoxious because 10 them nothing is
desirable or sacred but that which serves TO safe
their own sordid ambitions AMI appetites, aad
whose only happiness often consists 10 the con.
sciousness Of abundance while below them toe
multitude are struggling by every possible shift OF
mercenary contrivanceS 10 lii themselves above
the waves save themselves from sinking as
each fresh blast adds to the horror OF their con
dton.
Nv. w" will continue to wage an Intellectual
warfare but that others will enter the list for only
by full and repeated discussions can the mpulslve
vet impassive masses be fully made aware that
all righteousness, social and political safety, does
no. exist solely under and within the antigIated,
opposing and negative creeds OF the " Antedilu-
VANS of both the Wing and Loco FOco parties
In the natural world types or forms only arc per
manent-changes and denominations Of the ee-
ments ere constant, else would vegetation cease
and earth become desert Of dry bones. And so
OF Society-mutaion is its life. Could toe Astors
of the day continue to accumulate without waste,
in one hundred years and less the whole wealth OF
the world would be absorbed, and with it the
power TO tyrannize over mankind would DO the
property and at the disposition Of small moiety
of the race is it from any lack OF desire on the
pant OF the few noe that the mass OF Americans
are not as hopeless race OF sers As those oil Rus.
STA to day Let, then, the wofkingmen, the real
producers OF all wealth, look TO i that every pollt
cal combination Of men tends 20 some direc. and
practical benefit to them, or give the cold shoulder
10 the performers. II man may not live by bread
alone he surely eanno. upon tle mere dec.ara-
tons OF those general principles il is the won't OF
party leaders TO evsGe their responsibilities ~
the people through. Let them have cOSsTEUc.
TIVE PARTY-call it Wing, Democrats, or what
you please-s material party-a patty that will
take care Of The poor and leave the rich 10 take
care OF themselves party that viii secure the
common patrimony Of he race-the Land-sach
portions OF il, sl least, as remains unsod aud
public property, as resource OF the men OF 70 day,
snd their ohsprngs, against that power OF money
that seldom soruples TO make the misery OF the
race the source Of enjoyment % It's p0ss ssors aod
that makes the Increase Of the race anu itS neces
sites the rule Of rise in the price OF land rather
than the Plea for its more equal distibltioa-that
renders The virtues, impulses and patriotism OF the
many end tie increase OF population the curse
rather than the source Of blessings to the country
-repelling the spread Of the population by mo.
nopoly Of the aad, and driving through mortgage
leans The children OF our farmers upoa the cities 10
compete with the hafslavel population already
there, and 10 the manor and is miseriss
born
\ brighter day seems dawning upon ", bot
e-ouds often gather upon the brightest morn. and