New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-26

h,oken out is one oil the Haste'a az" ~ Pr
,.ss Provinces 1t lies adjoining kwanS lung
y rrbiob is situated, and which is also the
r.;nese name of Canton, this last being the
rr,o,eap corruption of the pronunciation
A.,n necessary result of the crowdin8 together
.tsncb numbers of human beings upon every
marc mile of China, and especially In these
r..tern Provinces the slightest arrangement OF
bervesss occasions distress OF the most serions
',;ad rnop auch occasions the Government makes
a great display of its peterna care iof Tue well
ho;ng of it's subiects, aud sometimes pretty ETH
cient assistance is given. Inc motive OF THIS eA-
erhon is probably quite az much, the tear OF
oonsaouences arising from The desperation OF
..-are,, md staryaton as from tenderness for
4La t;ves of the citizens. The result has however
btberto been some amelioration OF the wretched
neas of the crowded population. But every year
s.il, the numbers are increasing. Population
presses upon the starvation limits. No Govern
uept car provide the means Of contending long
against on inevitable law OF society, as society is
row constituted. In proportion as the demand
upon the Government becomes greater, the ability
Of the Government becomes less, This happens
at given period in the progress Of civilization,
after wars and devaatation have substantially
ceased, when the development of the arts has
furnished certain degree OF comfort, and when
population has increased for q century or two at
what s thought to be its natural rate. 1t IS pre-
oisely at this point that several OF the nations
Europe now find Themselves, and at which the
treat Empire Of Chine finds herself 1t is new
dilemma 1t is not merely the occurrence Of an
occasional famine, but it is the Inauguration of
starvation as the rule-comtort and security being
the rare, and then the still rarer exception.
1t is well for wise men to look at this fact
which will be found on reflection, to be absolute
" appalling unless its terrific consequences can
be averted by the discovery and application to the
organization of society Of some new scientific
principles adequate to meet the emergency. Let
as for example run parallel between the con.
dition Of China in this respect and the prospective
condition of the United States We it is said
inhabit new world. We look with pity upon
the starving and circumscdbed populations Of Ia.
rope, but we Americans have ample scope, at
any rate for generations TO come. So reason our
political economists and statesmen. Who thinks
of ioreseeing want and restitution spreading from
Maine to Louisiana, in consequence Of an excess
ofpopuation, and Socialism or some other demand
for a remedy, not entertained as an amiable aspi
ration or a scientific speculation, bat forced, as
stern and terrible necessity, upon every mind .
Yet the fact u.s. that at the ratio of Increase
which has heretofore held good from our beginning
as a nation the same augmentation of our popu
stion which has occurred in China during the one
hundred and forty years past, willoccur here with
in the next eighty. The population of the
United States has hitherto doubled every twenty
wears or thereabout, and there has been no falling
off in the ratio during the latter portion OF the
period Assuming the population to be
o. 900 COO this ratio will make it in twenty years
$4,000 900, in forty years, l00,O00,00O in sixty
wears, 100000 900, and in eighty years, that is
A. D. 1880 it will reach 100000. O00-the present
population of China. Ii we suppose, then, this
augmentation Of population to take place within
the twenty eight States and leave the population
of the States further West to be made up from
the new sources of emigration opened by present
ing another frontier on the Pochc,-then within
the life time of the child now born, the population
of all these Statea will equal in density the pre-
sent population of China and that of these East
ern States will probably, like the eastern or
maritime provinces of China be found running up
so GIL, 7O5, and $50 persons to the square mile
which is the present population OF Cheh hlang
Ngan Hwui and Kians Su respectively being
considerably more than one person to the acre
Assuredly this is no pleasant prospect when
every standard work upon Political Economy as
snres us there is no remedy short of starvation
cor over population. Add to this the fact that the
inevitable result of the existing commercial and
lsndholdipg systems is to put hundreds and thou
sends of acres of the soil into the hands OF one
nerson. and to exclude hundreds and thousands
of persons from it altogether, so as greatly to
hasten the frightful results of wretchedness, beg
serv and starvation. 1t will be another fifty
wears according to those statistics, with things
progressing Just as they are, before pauperlsm
will bcen TO be lust as great an incubus upon
che prosperity Of these Eastern states as 1t Is
Aow upon that of China and most OF the huroPea"
countries
But the question will be asked, in what way
does Socialism propose to avert this threatened
evil? Can Socialism prevent the increase OF the
human family Call it Socialism or what you
will the science of man, and of the true laws
which regulate or should regulate populations
,nust settle the question, or mankind must DC
tprned over to the tender mercies OF Political
Economy and the starvation theory which is
blasnhomous. There are natural laws furnishing
every necessary condition OF human existence
II il the business of man 70 study to discover
and apply them, The law regulating this subject
has been announced by Fourier, and unwittinGy
illustrated BY several recent writer's upon popula
ion, but has not yet received that profound aeseh
zion of which it is worthy, and which 1t must com
mand. 1t is simply this, that refined men and
women are less provocative than gross and unde