New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-17
civ md Country.

meadows are green again; the buds are
opening: and. as a general rule, there IS
plenty of work. Shiftless men may not
find it; impotent and utterly unskilled per-
sons may not know now to do it; but
there is work enough to be done from this
time to September to employ every one
who earnestly and wisely seeks it.
Yet this statement, unqualified, may de-
ceive and mislead. Though there is work
enough to be done, yet all cannot find it
where they choose nor such as they may
choose. If One Million insist on finding
employment in this City, they cannot all
have it: on the contrary, many thousands
must waste their energies in looking for 1t
until they are tired out or starve out, and
20 elsewhere. If twenty thousand Insist
on finding places as clerks, book keepers,
&c. a great portion Of them must be disap-
pointed and shouldered off: for there IS no
call for half so many in that capacity
Thus there may be thousands who can't
find anything to do while there is work
in abundance if they only had the ability
and the disposition to do it.
The master evil Of our time-perhaps
of all times hitherto-is deficient and per-
verse education. Half the men and women
of to. day were trained with no regard to
their future usefulness, or even independ-
ence. Thousands whose education has
cost more than a thoroughly good one
ought to, are less qualified by 1t for the
struggle of life than many hod-carrier
who doesn't know from a bulls foot.
Here is our City to-day, while the Country
all around it needs and will pay for Labor,
with thousands of denizens pacing its streets
from day to day anxiously looking for
something to do willing to do anything,
but incompetent to earn their own salt at
any vocation in which their services are
wanted, ard actually spoDging their board
or running in debt for it. And yet The
cry is still, They come If fifty clerks
were advertised for in our City, there
would be five thousand applicants for the
places; even an advertisement for a porter
will muster a regiment of candidates in
double quick time. Europe and America
vie with each other in crowding the sea-
board cities, especially this one, till they
have scarcely standing-room for all their
inhabitants, and cannot find work for them.
We see no other course practicable but to
let them starve each other out. They
won't take any grntler hint than this.
Yet there ought to be, may be, less harsh
palliatives. The commonest Education OF
our People, ought to qualify them first for
earning good subsistence with their hands
after that let them qualify themselves to
earn better one with their brains if they
can. But first of all let every one be quail
fled to live by bona .fdc Manual Labor;
and then, though Banks break, Trade col
lapses and the Professions are glutted, each
may fall back on Mother Earth and live by
her grace and no mans favor if be must
Free Land for the Landless-a State Poll
cy steadily aiming TO make landowners
cultivators and cultivators land-owners-
these are cOrner-stones of true Repub-
lie; tut even Free Land would only re
motely, indirectly, benefit those who did
not know how to cultivate it. An Indus
trial Education is essential to personal in
dependence and general thrift. No young
man should embark in Trade or any of the
Professions, without having first qualified
himself to live by Manual / abor in case
fortune should frown or his vocation fail to
sustain him. There is enough wasted in
this Country every five years, for want OF
Industrial Education, to construct a Rail-
road from New ork to San Francisco.
Our City ought to establish and support
a comprehensive, we'll arranged Genera
Intelligence Office, intended to find place
to work for every person desiring ones
suited to his capacities if not to his desires
provided such can be found. such an of
fee, at a cost of $4,000 year, would
serve the needy four times as we'll as the
private Intelligence Offices of all sorts to
which they now pay at least $4,000 a
year But such an Office could not make
places in the City for those seeking employ
ment here; they would rather draw away
thousands from the City. There are Fifty
Thousand here to-day who could do very
much better elsewhere, and would gladly
go if they only knew where they are want
ed and how TO get there. And this know