New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-04


tween master and servant and OF competition
which was great natural law OF socIety 10 these
objections the Professor replied az some lengtn.
He contended that It competition was great
natural principle, Il did not require 70 DC sIin1,
lated and as 70 the relations between capital ana
labor and master and servant. association ohered
the only method Of reconcilng them to each otnef'
The pripciple of men calling nothing their own
was proclaimed by the Galilesn fisherman before
was adopted in the English Constitution or gave
an impulse 10 the operatives OF modern france.
Everywhere there were great efforts OF mercy
based upon the doctrine that men are brothers
and must and may act as if they were. de
tboueht that these efforts wanted something 70
make them in unison with the pra;tlcal HABITS OF
our countrymen. The plan be had set before
them was founded on an eternal principle, ana
affirmed Gods kingdom to be upon earth as wen
as in Heaven"
After this. come the efforts which are making
in France and Belgium. The movement is quite
decided in this little country-olan the countries
of Europe that whish approaches most nearly to
Republican Constitution, and what is still better
a Republican Constitution perfectly adapted to
the historical and geographical circumstances be
cause il has retained two fixed pivOts IN the IN
situations of the past-the Catholic Hierarchy and
ROYALTY Beside the Workagmens Associa.
tons Belgium now counts several Associations OF
butchers and some stores. The organ OF this
movement is the little journal called La Cirutza-
ton, whose Editors, for the most part Fourertes,
have pursued the opposite course to that OF their
master, and in this respect have shown them
selves men Of more shrewdness. Fourier always
reviled civilization, and wished to cure the evil.
of society by the alopathy OF new world formed
formed outside the sphere al the old one. Inc
Belgian Fourierists employ, against this bad CIV
ilizstion or rather against the misenes inherent
in the present state Of civilization, those homeo-
psthicremedies which are applicable in the bosom
of civilization itself, and homogeneous with its
had occasion. a few days since, 10 see in Lon.
don one of the oldest Socialists Of France. tie
has taken share in party politics, and has occu-
pied himself since tho dissolution OF the SAINT
SimoDian College, Of which he was member Tar
more with industrial affairs than with the move
ment of general ideas For this reason, he IS only
the more competent TO express sound and I'M
martial opinion He afirms that the movement
for the voluntary organization OF Worklngmens
Associations is irresistible, and is advancing with
great rsPidity over the whole surface OF the coun
try He believes that the Revolutionary move
mept is arrested which / have been led to think
myself not only for 1850 or 1851 but for $50 and
still later. l draw another conclusion from this
fact-namely, that the traitors to the Republic
will be caught in their snare and that, IN rag
ing against Secret Societies, they will have OBJ
tanned the most favorable result for the triumph OF
Republican and Christian Socialism in France
They -~sil have drawn forth from these haunts Of
the police the most intelligent ana pov~erfalsaan-
They will have forced ideas to q greater degree of
suppleness, to a more profound study Of the part
of the Social Mechanism which the trainers ofsys.
tens are so ignorant of-the resistance OF the sur
rounding medium. | begin to believe that the
Republic will triumph in 1882
There is but one remaining illusion, one last
a., I.oI ,fC osol,o 4 D,r,r1
cans of good faith, last snare in the mouse traps
of the police,-that is the strange idea Of taking
no part in any of the partial elections until 1882,
in order at that time to effect a general rising OF
the voters by universal suffrage, and TO take the
ballot box by storm. Before this is carried into
effect, that s to say before the election OF 1892,
this idea is the most tiightful scarecroW 20 pre-
vent the propagation of Socialism among the
voters now on the list prepared on the basis of
the new law. At the moment Of the execution,
il is the surest method TO throw France back upon
the brink of the ABYSS from which it is beginning
TO emerge, and 10 deliver II prey 10 a revolu-
tionary movement more pOwerless than any of
the others, precisely because the Revolution
would aim at doing more, and going down TO the
very foundations of Society Things are never
changed by Revolutions. especially in the case OF
individual interests, and of reforms in the educa-
tion OF the people, the production, consumption,
and distribution OF wealth.
II a. the iass aFuos Sov~eVerf tsa@s ete sdue
OF retaining from the suffrage everywhere pre-
walls. A consultation, signed by great number
of Representatives, has Just been published by
the Democratic journals Of France. This consul
tation advises that the Republican voters should
take no part in the next elections for the Com.
munes and Departments. The Vote LnircTscHe
journal, which is said TO be under the influence Of
NJ. Ledru-Rolin was the first 70 publish this con-
sultation and TO adoptit as his own. This Journal
is edited by men whom should call the extreme
points of the party, and the police in general is
strongly tempted by such characters, because it
avails itself Of their boosted logical inHex bilty,
10 Illustrate the modest ideas by pushing them 10
an extreme. The Repubigue journal has pub
lished some very wise reflections on the subject.
I'VE believe says this journal, that if the
Democrats refrain from voting, and the General
and Municipal Councils are thus composed Of the
enemies of the Republic we shall lose at once
both the Republic and Universal Suffrage. Il is
wished, above all to preserve Universal Suffrage,
aud to accomplish this object the adgersaries Of
the universally OF suffrage are freely admitted
into the General and Municipal Councils of France;
they are allowed to seize upon the whole Adj
ministration, and to direct public opinion in the
interests Of the reaction. This, it is said, is
temporary sacihce. We fear that it would be the
sacrifice of the Republic itself"
These reflections are full OF good sense, and the
policy of Universal Suffrage and of the thirtynine
Representatives is the hight Of folly
The affairs Of Germany have at length been
brought to a conclusion and this conclusion agrees
precisely with what have long since told vou
Prussia has yielded on every point, except that it
proceeds on a level with Austria, which is how.
ever great advantage for her. The conduct Of
the King of Prussia will be greatly blamed. even
by his estfriends, and his nearest relatives the
Prince Royal, among others. But, after all, he
has followed the only course which King could
or ought to follow, in the present state of Euro
longer in the age of the wars of the Bible. The
mission of determination is no longer in harronv
with the law. Kings, even ambitious Kings,
nations, even ambitious nations, can no more
become great except by labor, peace and intelli-