New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-27
at Lexington, will have been fulfilled In speak

ing Of the future, he says; ,.,,,
an 5i, ~ he population Of lie United states viii
- nc ne 49, ,ssss viii be- such reduction IN the puce
and vaue Of labor as 70 render h-el t1~ie5 ~
fres are abr ard slaves 5 ~ and allowed
iheiro vii be voluntarily u4'r
TO 60 rec" e.,.-
And are we then approaching SO nlouriei v von'
difiop in the affairs Of the working classes les,
II is too true And as surely iriH VIC reach ID a.
that other countries haze, unless We use sne pre-
veutive before il be too late. but Oeio'e We
reach it-thcush it may be soon-the triumph OF
orrress;on accumulated wealth. and neafuesS
5Inr over The struggles of the destitute Tor iood
sndfreedom, will have thrown this hePuOHo, WIN
its liberty and glory, into the dark reTept u
things that are 10 more-the past, poIo'o -
final triumub poverty and toll will have msde
many ftfuI efforts for relief and to be treei OUT
uower will gather power, and wealth increase ~
wealth. till crowded want, at last worn out ana
starved must sink down IN hopeless need anu
seryitude This has ever beenthe result IN every
land; it lrU be the result IN this, unless you now
or soon 10 some extent, withdraw your cares
from the mere incidents of life, and class ana lux
ury. and turn them TO the absolute ana never
ceasing wants aud demands Of man and natHTe.-
To DO this to any effect, you must secure 10 man
as man a rieh1vl place on earth Leave the sou
mass dependant upon the telc tor mere eeG'Ia.o
tenure in the SOIL and you leave them win OUT
charitable tenure in their lives or their hoerues'
But allow them certain tenure ant r1gRb 70 Us
POSSESSION and they can use it for the purpose az
least for which the Creator gave lt-tnat OF 0ee-
/ ,eD1e1t sS7f subsistence From the earth eacn IN
dividua can obtain, if no more, his t00d ana RAJ
| UeDf and on it have q home. With these he can
burl a yeoman's defiance at petty tyranny, defend
the State and advance the true glory OF MS coun-
/ try. while he reioices that wealth exists TO I'D
vance ss well its splendor.
who would not rejoice at so pleasing and peace
I fG harmoney in the political and social system
| And vet il is bat the contamination oil true De-
/ pocracv-butth the fuflment OF the designs oil our
/ fathers when they declared " that Governments
/ were established among men 10 secure the 9DSY
I,fe the inalienable right to life, liberty, ana the
nursuitof happiness with which men were en-
| loved by their CRETOR" Cementthus the alice
| tions of the people to your Government and nst'
fntions and the eternal pyramid stands not more
firmly on its base, than will this Republic and the
Union stand upon their foundation
But as things now progress and tend' We can
console ourselves with 10 so pleasing contenIle-
tior. We are hurrying on TO day OF desttution
and dependence TO the laboring multitude, and oil
danger 10 the country, much faster tnan many
would suppose who suppose without rehecIoh OF
investigation. We are approaching II mucn more
rapidly than the fight of time, the increase OF o-
pulstiOn and the aggregation Of land would seem
alone to indicate. Improved machinery-a great
and providentia blessing in itself, under proper
" regulated political and social system-is now
performing labor which the most numerous labor
ing population could not perform. True, there
lA
not onsume the necessaries of life, and affords
cheaper fuel and some other necessaries to the
laboring poor in large cities but If you exclude
| the poor and landless from the SOIL and monopo-
| lie their labor elsewhere by machinery, how are
they to obtain of these necessaries even the su-
| periiux OF luxury - -
In report on manufactures, made in 1882, Mr..
Adams estimates the mechanical machinery oil
Great Britain in 1915 to have been equal 70 tue
labor of ttro hundred millions Of persons! 1t will
now at least double the amount OF that number,
as will also that of this country. From data fur
nished by Mr. McCulloch, it appears that, with the
present machinery, each hand In a cotton mill
| peforms more work than two hundred could with.
out it eighty years ago. We have the testimony
| of Farey and Dr. Taylor to the same purport.-
/ Reduce these performances to those OF individu-
ais, and you will find that the manual energies OF
| ten fold our present population would be unequal
to them From this we can appreciate our rapid
| increase in labor.numbers Now, bear IN mind
that this machinery works in competition ruth the
| laborer but rarely for him, and you will perceive
the extreme justice and necessity of allowing him
TO turn for subsistence to the soil, when you have
| supplanted him in his labor by a machine. But
much more plainly will you perceive this when
you reflect that, in addition to the other embar-
| easements of the laborer from competing ma
chinery. you compel him to sustain and foster that
/ competition, by forcing ham 10 pay tribute or
fo'!B Of ten TO tofty per cent. upon us products!
/ Could there be more glazing instance to show
that not only are the mere Incidental wants oil
WeaHh held superior to the absolute wants or me-
cessities of man, bat that his very lfe's blood
Itself or if not his blood, his bread must be taken
70 minister TO ard crafty them In Justice, cease
to demand this tribute Of the laborer, make its
/ payment optional, by allowing him the slterna-
tive Of digging subsistence from the earth. Tariff
protection, wuh free land, might be consistent, but
| rth0W IT, NEVER
Bat it may be said that the laborer receives an
equivalent for the competition of machine labor
in the reduced price at which he is enabled to
purchase the products of that labor for his own
use and consumption. This would be s0meUhat
true, if it were not also fact that reduction Of
/ he price II machine products produces Il cores
D0ndiRg o. greater reduction an the prlce0f manual
| loJor. Machinery over produces and consequent
/ y its products fall The machine owner uW not
/ produce without Proft he cannot lie idle with
out a loss He therefore takes from the wages Of
his manual labor not only what will meet the fall
in machine products, but what will leave him a
profit beside; and so goes on producing and re-
/ duciHg. A little struggle follOws-a strike"
/ perhaps-but hunger, and the fearful appeals of
/ hungry children or Of aged parents, soon bring
/ back the toiler to his scantier crust.
/ Now sir, if land be dear, what alternative has
| the laIdess laborer in such an extremity but to
surrender his life or bis freedom but to Stare,
/ or to become an AFFECT dependant And land is
/ sure to become dear. Machinery having driven
so many from the bench, the anvil and the work.
shop, TO take refuge in the soil, like everything
else the soil becomes scarcer and scarcer in pro-
portion to the demand, till at last it can no longer
| be had at living rates for unlike everything else
| in which wealth is permitted to speculate, its
quantity cannot be increased as the demand is
enlarged. Starvation or passive dependence is
the result 70 landless Industry, while, IN the Ian
guage of Lord John Russell, " the higher classes
advance in luxury beyond measure" The world
looks on agspe, and wonders why it is so. The
true refomer-whOse voice is rarely heard, and
still more rarely heeded-maY see and tell the
cause and point out the remedy; bat no one
henrs-no one pities! Over the dying and the
dead the wheel. remorseless. rolls alongl Great
men sit supinely by and cry " Ais well !" or con-
sol. The mseves and their country with lie ralac.