New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-14

ed in the minds of the people and then would the
leading minds among the people take them up and
carry them out in enactments, and IL mattered
little whether this was done by demagogues or
men Of principle, since such things be.
Mr. Barr further spoke to the subject by adyo-
eating Lot limitation, and also alluded 60 the enor.
nifty OF land monopoly driving the multitude into
cellars and garrets or go miles beyond the bounds
OF their WORK shops and the conveniences Of tho
city 10 find homes upon the soil elsewhere and at
vast expenses oftrsvel, sc. giving in the mean
time the value to the very land from which they
have been driven by antecedent monopoly.
Mr. Crux favored political action and was in
favor of Ii and Reform, and suggested some meas
ures should be adopted TO bring large audiences TO
hear the measures Of this Congress discussed.
w. j. Young urged political action upon the
grounds assumed by all the other deoaters, claim.
ing that all other reforms were secondary to Land
Reform, and that this reform was the only meas
ure upon which any Social Reform could be final
ly based AS all associations, however radical OF
cooperative in their tendencies, until universal,
would be close corporations and like associated
capital and machinery in every other direction,
now employed, would serve best to depress the
energies and destroy the facilities OF the aooring
population, who, from whstever cause, were with
held from combining their means 70 the attain
ment Of social elevation. He was prepared 10 de-
monstrste that the mortgage liens upon land
coupled with the unrestricted monopoly OF the
soil and the systems springing therefrom, that
now obtains consumed one half Of the industry OF
the whole people annually, and reduced the
masses in city and country to those low wages
and degrading shifts and employments for which
there was no moral amelioration bat in the adop-
tion Of those measures advocated by this Coa-
gress and especially and fore most, those OF Free
Land and Land Limitation.-That until these
measures were adopted we were and would Do
under the pupilage and the evils OF q monarchica
system in effect by whatever name we christened
our political offspring L and Monopoly and Land
Rents were the bases Of Engand's Throne, nor
could her lords and monsrchs exist moment De-
yond the exercise Of the power TO tax the present
and succeeding generations OF EDsland upon isne
TO which the parties themselves give the money
value He earnestly hoped that all Reformers
would well weigh the subject, and act accord
ingly.
Ancient my theology gives US in the character OF
the God Atlas, bending beneath the weight oil the
world, a pungent sarcasm upon the stupidity IN
the early ages Of the workingmen on the one hand
and the knayery of conservatives on the other,
while priestcrat gathered from the capacity oil the
laboring man to bear the social burdens, the ideal
of Godship entitled to worlds worship-and
it remains for the press, the schoolmaster and re-
former of this age, TO teach the God, Labor, that
he indeed is both the hero of all time and the al
moner of all good and all bis offspring entitled to
all the elements and productions Of social life
We are now an associative Labor community,
and require but the changed direction of afew OF
the social elements to be all that Socialism or even
Communism can ask TO be, or ever attain. lake
from landordism monopoly Of the SOIL create land
limitation, and take from our patent laws their
perpetuty of privilege and concentration. grant
ing to inventors in lieu per centsge upon the use
of inventions.) and equalze compensations. and
YOU at once drive into an equaiizing competition
among all the elements Of the social state, and de.
velop in every direction alike freedom Of thought,
of worship and of combination, without endanger.
ing the liberties of any, compelling to degrade.
ton and unemployment individuals or classes.
Adjourned until next Tuesday evening 7 o'clock.
VIM. J. YOUNG Reporter for the Congress.
New DELEGATES TO THE INDUSTRIAL Con-
GREss-Stephen Pearl Andrews and II. X. Brown
who, with Mr. f. Andrews, will complete the re.
presentation from the With Ward Reformers.