New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-28

| ceve the House Carpenters at their last meeting
advocated the appointment by the Corporation o.
inspectors of Buildings in progress Of erection on
! taking down, and that such Inspectors should be
either practical mechanics or engineers. The
Operative Masons Society announces the startling
fact that Sub contracting is carried on % a great
extent in this City, and the determination is ex-
pressed Of putting down this gigantic evil The
press OF Boston and NewNork are nearly unan'-
nous in their opposition to this, one OF the chiei
grievances at present Of the Masons, and se'eral
other trades We are reOiced % see that our mt
chanics are moving in this matter.
PITTsBURG INDUSTRIAL CONGREss-InS 10y
had quite an interesting meeting on the S''''
cussions take place at every meeli15 -, =,
previously announced The question: "he'no'
Protective Tariff were the trle policy o. 'hs cOuH'
-, ,,,os l;,.,ssed 8, the last meeting, by Messrs'
D.. CT. c.,,,yer Latshaw and Morgan. Mr..
III, .sJ ,tat Tariff would protect abor IN
a. - .|l,;,five system, but not now. Mr.. ~
uSI I'd. .pro.ecti6n" Each speaker in this
SIsOGs'sr Convention is restricted 10 20 min
-. and we believe all the Protective and Benevo-
~. Scieties in Allegheny Co. are represented.
The meetings are held pursuant to the call OF the
Rosrd of vigilance. The following questions were
All 10 be discussed. They were reported by Mr..
Watson Chairman OF the Board of Vigilance;
Besolred That The Board Of Vigilance recommend to the
Isl Protective TsG the true policy Of the country
discussed - ,.,,
Sd Are the interests Of CspGl and Labor identical
All lie il practices bic the present state of Society," 70 es
tanish joint Stock Companies Of Workngnen, and Pro-
5ib Is il iae policy Of the Workngnen forms seps-
rate political organization!
PROTECTIVE BENEvoLENcE IN UTICA - The
operatives OF the Globe Mills Utica, have organ
lied an Association, under the General Law, for
the creation of fund for the relief OF the INDECENT
sick among them. The proposed rates are % cts.
per month for adults, and l6 cents for boys and
girls from which about $500 per year will be re-
allied The operatives, when unable to work
through illness will be entitled to 50 per week for
each adult and 81 for each boy or girl.
A plan has also been proposed by the same oper-
atves to collect factory library by voluntary con-
tributions These operatives ought to cooperate
with their New-YOrk City brethren, and send
Delegate to our Industrial Congress.
PROTECTION TO AMERICAN LABoR-The Wings
of Westmoreand Co. Pa met at Greenburg on the
2lst inst. and thus
Peso,,d That protective Tariff is cardinal measure
OF the Wing parry that although our political oppo-
nents deceived the people and violated their pledges yet
the Wings still steadasuy adhere to that policy which
brought into the treasury ample revenue developed
mineral resources filled Pennsylvania with iorges furnaces
and rolling mills, employment 10 our laDorefs and
market to our farmers.
LAND MoYoPoLY-Hitherto the majority Of
mankind who have titled the earth, have been
slaves or tenants. The soil has been owned by
Kings, and the military chieftains and mobiles, and
by them rented to landlords, and by them to still
smaller dealers, and by these again it has been
divided and subdvided until the majority who
have paid, sustained by the sweat of their brow,
not only their own families bat three or four orders
OF society above them while they themselves
have been crushed beneath the weight, and have
lived on the borders of starvation the sickness OF
week, and often single day, rendering them
paupers.
The same monopoly Of the soil has sent another
large class of the community into manufacturing
establishments to work out their days in ignorance
and hopeless poverty and another TO the army
and navy, where honor and wealth await a few,
and ignorance and an early grave the many.
The consequence OF excluding such members
from the position and the healthful cultivation OF
the soil, has been ignorance, reckless Indifference,
turbulence and crime. Tortured by their impress
sions and unrestrained by moral principle, they
have been prepared for desperate deeds Such
a state of society cannot be made happy; the evil
is radical, and can only be remedied by giving
new direction to the physical, moral and intel
lectual energies OF man. We might as well band
with iron the trees of the forest and expect their
expansion, or throw upon them in stinted measure
the light and rain Of heaven, and expect their uxu
rant growth, as TO cramp the human mind by une-
quail institutions, and expect the development OF
Its resources In happy state oil society hoOm
for action must be afforded, and light must be
poured upon the understanding, and motive pressed
upon the heart But to accomplish this the earth
must be owned by those who will TIL 1t.
This will give action to industry, vlgor TO the
body, tone to the mind and by the attendant bless
ing Of heaven religion to the heart. From agri-
culture, stimulated by personal rights, will result
commerce, science, arts liberty and independence.
The attraction of gravity is the great principle
OF motion in the material world and the possession
OF the earth in fee simple by the cutvator is the
great principle of action in the moral world Nearly
all the political evils which have afflicted mankind
have resulted from the unrighteous monopoly OF the
earth and the predicted renovation can never be
accomplished until this monopoly shall have passed
away, and the earth is extensively TILED by the
owners Of the soil.
Rev. Lyman Beecher, d. D.