New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-04-09

TURNER and vaster uiumphs. We nav dA.
plore this, but cannot prevent it.
But what, then. tasks H is to beeous
Of the Working Classes [ueaning the d.
bsrers for wagesl whose only capital |.
their muscles?' We answer, They mu.
become something more than mere hireli,s
drudges- unthinkiRg movers Of matter
They, too, must move forward. 'Ths tr.s
Eden is not in the Past but ia the Fuure'
II labOrers on the soil, they must strive n
become owners of the Soil, and to thi, end
must exact such changes in cur fundauep.
tai laws governing the disposition of Lsud.
as will insure the frequent breaking up Of
great estates, the easy acquisition of Pub
lie Lands by the landless, while prohibiting
absorption in large amouats by noa.resi.
dents and non. cultivators. la short. thew
must so shape the Public Policy as to rem
der the acquisition of liale land EASY 10
all and the retention Of much land difficult
to any. Such is the foundation Of Public
Policy adapted to the altered condition Of
things, which now ominously threatens "a
render Labor so insignificant by immensely
increasing the power OF Machinery.
But the Mechanical and Manufacturing
laborers have their duty to perform also.
They must cease 70 be mere hired walters
on or adiuncts to Machinery they must
resolve to become its creators, directions,
owners. They must begiu BY saving (aal
if temperate aud industrious, the majority
of them can still DO this while unmarried j
and, having saved something, they must
legally combine this in common capital
(which is easy under our excellent General
Manufacturing Law, and the kindred acts
of many other States,) to be directed and
managed by their own chosen officers and
so wSlded as to supply themselves with con-
slant employment and the use of the best
and most effective machinery. la other
words, they must contrive to make the con.
stantly transporting Improvements ia Ma
chnery work no longer against but for
them, and the whole problem is solved.
This they can do, not without brains but BY
the use Of such a. they have; not without
forecast, fugality and self-denial, but BY
means of them.
For example, the Carriage. Makers Of
Bridgeport lately reduced the wages Of thsix
Journey pressure Of what se.
csssity We do not know, but we presume
there was q reason for it. Certain Jour.
neymen said-'W will not work for the
reduced wages now offered US : but, instead
of standing iele and SO insuring their own
ultimate submission to the masters cx-
actions, they dubbed together what means
they had and bought tools and stock with
it, while the fact that they had a capital,
amassed by their own labor as Journeymsn.
emboldened men of larger means to erect fOr
tAem such Ia building as they needed, in which
they went to work for themselves, and are
now quietly ard steadily constructing Car.
riages for all who will buy of them. Here
was no mob, no violence, no hard words nor
hard feelings, but new Iudu,triaI system
quietly adopted and inaugurated without
convulsion or struggle. Now suppose new
invention after invention shall diminish the
labor and cheaper the products Of Carriage.
making, we see nothing to impede their
adoption by this company or firm as we'll -
by thei. rivals ia business, nor can we per-
ceive that these workers will lose by such
improvement. If less labor shall thereafter
be required TO make . carriage, there will
probably be more carriages bought in Goa.
sequence Of their lower price, so that tho
aggregate Of labor required in carriage
making will naturally increase instead Of
falling off, (as has been the case with Print
ing since Power Presses came in vogue.)
In short, we see in the facts which .
alarm and appsll our correspondent only -
earnest intimatiOn that Divine Providsncs
is unwilling that the mass of mankind shnh
longer remain mere mindless tools ssd
make weights in the hands of the Ssw,
but summons them to a higher and nsblsr
existence. They may be led, for ono o.
two generations, to mistake or disobey ths
summons, they may seek like Jonsh =
fee in contrary direction from that toward
which they are impelled--but the ressls -
clearly indicated must ultimately be astaissd.
In the fullness of this conviction, we vssk
and wait. l