New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-03-21

sr. v.ish down the labor Of the issod, and land
monopoly exists there On the LARGEST scale stl
it exists here also, while Moneylen6ing and trade
levy their contributions on Labor, with certainty
as fatal and thorough as in any other country
whatever And while the demand for iabor Is
among Is 50 propor;ioned to the supply that as
general thing. we are not reduced = the extremes
OF pOvelty and suffering which exist 10 E1'o2e-
az. az the present increase OF oor population
cannot be lor great lenetn Of time II Is ST.
notorious that workers in cities do not Away
end work D. 90, and arc not always pad hvlls
prices for the ssverest labor. The statement a
the philadelphia seamstreEses, recently puohshe
in or columns .be iacts elected IN connection
with the Tailors strike in Boston last Summer
the case Of the Cincinnati n-Molders and n
the workn.en ~ present standing out Al Pits
burgh. and indeed the universal experience n our
mechanics and manufacturing laborers make j,
impossible 70 DEM that the same evils oppress
laborers on this side Of the Atlantic as On the other
Tor the most part in mde- degrees, but sometimes
with equal intensity Upon this point controversy
is on, O: the question The state Of the working
classes in England may ihen fairly be taken a. a
warning Tor ourselves ard II We are wise we snail
no, wait for the calamity to come upon os more
severely before we take active measures n re-
medy it.
We propose, accordingly. to condense for the
readers Of The Tribune these Minute and impartial
reports Of the Ngrning Ckronicle and shall very
probably take occasion. in so doing, to enforce
yha, seem 10 rs the plain meaning and inca!cations
Of he facts We think it viii appear from them
that some Of The current prescriptions Tor suffering
society are Intellectual that political economy IS
hitherto expounded by its most noted doctors j.
not the most beneficial Of sciences that Free Trade
IS anything but means OF assuring labor food.
clothing, houses, odocatoD, responsibility and nap
piness 70 the industrious, and that we must g.
deeper and wider with reform than has generally
been supposed If We would Do more than agCroya,e
the evils which threaten and Justly threaten. the
very existence Of civilized society Indeed i wil
appear, unless we are mistaken, that 50 far IS
that Paradise Of professional stsckers Free Trade
from containing sovereign remedy for poverty
and pauperism and tie wee thence produced
that trade itseif must, az ar Gs It's yotares are
c oncerned suffer abolition. that is 70 say, mus
cease to be means ofproft thving on the lator
Of others, before those evils can be fully remedic'
Commerce the Ownership Of Land. Banking
Money and Money lending, and the Hirelng sys-
TEN Of abor, must all be transformed from begin.
ting TO end before Just condition Of the productive
classes, or Of any classes Gun be secured. This VII
perhaps be called crude speculation, baseless heorz'
ing possibly syenradicalsm For our part" are
not so anxious about names as about realities and
least Of al subjects do We talk at random upon
/ stor Let thocs who doubt or dispute orr posi-
tons give heed to the facts By which the are s1s-
tanned.