New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-11
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W nhe Phsnds must do the work
AID o.ps - nv money lets me snlrh;
ffom w." ~, with ceaseless toll and care
os.,cs earn living, Is Il iair
seai09 sSoud draw the lions share
The only remedy ! see
For such abuses i the re-
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Construction Of society.
when grooming warehouses refuse
70 hold the cloths and hats and SHOES
tna timbers creak os If In pain
pepesth the weight Of meat and gram,
cons promise is indeed fulfilled.
The hand Of Industry hath tiled,
The busy fingers piled the loom,
And lol we scarce can find the room
To stow the fruits, the bread, the clothes
which he with quick response bestows'
Yet somehow, can you tell me why
Thousands by slow starvation de-
Ard strange it 10, yet Heaven knows
The men who made don't wear the CLONES
The only remedy see
For such abuses is the re-
Construction OF society,
CONSTRUCTION Of society.
Are quite unable 20 amass -.
IT. ,,esps Of study aud Of thougnI
o-Is;spre gain, as all men ought
a. s,yovV in knowledge, hope and love,
70 seek those things that are above
srbe;r nresent low and narrow sphere,
And so attain a state more near
To that development so grand
M mind and heart, Of thought and hand.
Which God for man hath surely planned
A life which few as yet have gained,
Destined TO be by all attained;
The only remedy see
For these privatioss is the re-
Construction oil society,
Construction Of society.
yvben on the worlds chief cities l.
Turn hopefully my scrutiny,
In their condition 10 descry
The issue and the tendency
Ofthat commercial system we
Have thought in very fact TO be
The basis of society
That "devil take the hindmost plan
OF competition man with man
THAT atug of war" at deadly ieud
with all that pure and just and good,
| ace the worlds best workmen bowed,
By ignorance and famine cowed;
The only remedy see
For such abuses is the re-
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Construction Of society.
Where scheming heads grow rich and great
By dickenng in real estate,
Nv wise avoidance Of hard knocks
And cunning trafhcking in stocks.
Who make their sum of hopes and WISHES
Possession OF the losves and fishes,
Where Governors thanksgivings cal
For peace ard plenty over all,
While willing labor scarce can earn
A pittance as its hard return,
Where friendless women scarce can find
Employment of an honest kind.
By sewing tilt eyes are blind,
Gaining if skillfnl and alert,
A daily shilling for shirt,
While golden bats their steps entice
To ruin in the path OF vice.
The only remedy see
For such abuses is the re-
Construction Of society,
Construction Of society.
When starched and sleek Conservatism,
With mad.dog cry of Socialism,
Calls practical religion schism,
ia IL mieh. 4 yell to read the facts
Narrated in the Book Of Acts,
And in the eady Christians see
An abs>l~.- >Jnv,oiity
OF interests and 9-os"srlty;
Here, pledged M n al guarantee.
Apostles FIRST in old Jude
A struggled bravely for the re-
Construction of society,
Construction OF society.
When every man of strength or thought
Shall reap the fruits his hands have wrought
Receiving nought but what he earns,
But gaining surely the returns
OF all his useful labor when
The varied interests of men
Become identical, and all
Successes gained are mutual;
When every drone must work or die,
And all superiaous merchants try
Some branch of useful industry,
And well paid work and moderate hours
Leave men more free to use their powers.
A remedy already see
For old abuses in the re-
Construction Of society,
Construction Of Society.
When thus united by a tie
of mutual interests, we spy
No more luxurious idleness,
Nor poverty without redress,
Nor human life conditioned so
That it can yield no fruit bat wo,
When realms of Nature and Of Art
Are open thrown aud form part
OF every young child's education,
When wealth no more determines station,
When all the helpless and forlorn,
Protected are instead of shorn,
When avenues Of progress stand
Enclosed and free on every hand:
In such state OF things would be
No longer reason for re-
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Construction Of society. B.