New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-11

Soil Democracy who were sO1o OUT DIV Sn0
Syracuse State Convention. 1t cannot fall
to exert powerful influence on their fu'
ture course.
The Justice which outvses ali forms Oh
Charity.
The north-wind grows raw and chilly; the
yellow leaf fits and dallies in the morning
sunshine, on all sides are seen the portents
Of the coming on of Winter. Soon the vast
army Of laborers employed in building,
blasting, leveling, Sc. in our city and its
suburbs will be thrown off or greatly dimin-
ished Commerce, unfinished Railroads
Steamboatipg, Summer Travel, &c. &c. will
each dismiss its host of seryitors to crowd
into our great cities and underbid each 9TH
er for every chance Of employment. 1t will
be far within bounds to say that, while the
number of laborers of all kinds required in
our City during the Winter will be at
least Forty Thousand less than in the Sum
mer, the number actually seekingif not find
irg employment here will be Twenty Thou
sand more. That many thousands must, 10
the natural course of things, stand idle, is
inevitable; that many should sell their SER
vices for any pittance that will serve to keep
soul and body together obviously follows ;
that beggary aud restitution should abound,
leading to Vice, Disease, Crime and Death,
is the sad but irresistible conclusion. An
idle, destitute man, anxious to work but de-
MED an opportunity to earn bread for his
suffering babes, wandering all day amid the
palaces of wealth and the Store-houses OF
plenty, to return at night to his naked howell
and calculate the hours which will intervene
before his little ones will be turned into the
street-that man, we say, must be instinct
lively an enemy Of the Social Order which
deals SO hardly with him and his. How
should he dread invasion, conaagrotien OF
Jacobinic subversion? What can change
bring to him worse than that which is ?
iii few days, our citizens in comfort
able circumstances will be appealed to for
contributions in aid of the Association for
the Relief of the Poor. That is a noble
charity, and we trust that they will give
freely. Beggary has become trade like
any other, and ia as full of knaveries and
false pretenses as law, craft itself. Thou
sands live in wanton idleness on the pro-
oeeds Of their whining appeals for charity,
whom they really deserve nothing but a job
at picking oakum. Dwarfed and deformed
children, often hired for the purpose, couu-
terfeit limps and imaginary sick families are
among the stock in trade Of the systematic
beggar, one of the most worthless and ILL.,
deserving yagabonds on the face of the
earth. BY this craft, hundreds of thousands
are annually sponged from the benevolent
and sympathisiDg, to be boarded in misery
greed or sQuandered in Incidence and vice.
Hundreds of thoroughly depraved parents
lie drunk from week @to week on liquor
bought by the pennies begged by their hap
less children, who are Instructed to whine
and sent out to beg, often under FIVE years
old, and kept haunting frequented walks
I'LL near midnight by the knowledge thai
they are to be severely whipped if they fail
to bring home specified sum. Theft, de-
bauohery, and the most revolving forms Of
Juvenile corruption are connected with and
naturally grow out of street-begging. tits
Prcstitution's grand reoruiting-seryioe and
Crimes infant school, 1t must in some
way be broken up, and it only can be by
providing an efficient substitute for the
capricious aud ill-oonsideged charity accord
ed to beggars. 1t will go on until the hu.
name can feel sure that the stories Of chill
dren furnishing in cellars and novels for lack
of food are fabrioations-th there is in
truth public and general provision for al
the really destitute and suffering. We say
therefore, Respond generously to the appeal
of the City Association for the Relief Of the
Poor, for tina. Association combines vigt
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