New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-09-10

the course OF month Every one he meets
has business to attend 20, and it is no ones
business to find the poor stranger employ
ment 30 ne wanders on. passing dozen
GROCERIES every hour. and often tempted 70
step in aud take something to revive hope
and Danish melancholy Thus habits of
dissipation are insensibly acquired: thus IN
timacies with depraved and desperate char
acters are gradually formed and thousands
become drunkards and villains who would
have remained sober, moral AMI industrious
II they could but have seasonablv found
something 70 do.
Now such Intelligence Offices As person
al pecurIarv greed ~ organized voluntary
benevoleuce NAV establish never did and
never wll meet the eXlgencies of the case
They may do something, as they doubtless
have done but they leave much more IN
done. They lack scope and power. Here.
for instance. are two hundred immigrants.
freshly landed some morning from 4 Liver
pool OF Limerick snip. They have very
little means, no influential friends and can
not possibly find employment in this city
where there were forty thousand waiting and
begging for work before these landed. Very
likely there is some Railroad or Canal in
process OF construction five hundred miles
away. where they could all find work ii
they were only there; but they have little
money and less faith. But contractor Is
here who saws, | will hire them ii they
can be sent on : and the City might far
better advance the cost Of their passage
than take them into its alms-house. In this
fix the contractor offers to pay their pas
sage for a month work after they reach
his Job, he boarding them while they
do the work. The City or lis proper
officer advances the cost of the pas
SAGE on their giving a valid bond that
they viii do the work and every party
is benefited The contractor obtains cheap
labor for a month; the City loses nothing
but months interest on It's advance and
saves what the keeping of a part of the I'M
migrants as paupers would have cost 1t.
the immigrants obtain a passage far IN
land to a region where work Is more abuu-
dant and accessible. saving their money and
obtaining some knowledge of the country
and its WAYS before they are thrown on
their own resources We do not suggest
this as the thing 10 be done, but only ~
thing which might be done, if our City
were vigorously to assume the initiative
in the great enterprise of providing every
body with Something to Do. We believe
it might reduce It's own expenditures con-
sideraby. while greatly increasing the
comfort and improving the prospects of the
immigrants
To protler every person work somewhere
at something, and in such manner as will
at least secure bread and shelter to each,
would cut up the business OF ten thousand
iilflO>lbIS anu az Ahto W NV INV Hi'f' 'i't'
house to house leyying taxes on the sympa-
thies of the benevolent on the pretext that
they can find nothing to do. 1t would clear
the streets of beggars. or fortity every one
to disregard their appeals with the knowl-
edge that they had no good excuse for beg
ging. Make 1t 4 settled principle of our
public policy that every one who wants
work shall have work of some kind, and
the works worth in payment, and we may
fairly hope that the number Of etltloners
for aims will be steadily reduced by the diff
fusion of industrial skill among the class
hitherto most devoid of it. Reader Will
YOU help us plead for the principle that every
one who ,cH work shall at all times nave
Something to DO