New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-17
WANT IN CITIES.


In the thinly or moderately peopled Coun.
try, every one who really wants to work can
generally find something to dO-not always
indeed what he would prefer, nor just what he
deems best suited to his capacities or most
worthy of his genius, but still something For
a few weeks in winter, it is often difficult for
tLose of least capacity to find work at ALL
throughout the greater part of our older
States; but generally, we may say that man in
the Country may find work within few days
if he theoretically seek it, and is ready to &C.
cept any honest employment in preference to
idleHcgs.
In the Cities, the case is widely different
There, Employment is rigidly limited while
the demand for it is unbounded. If work could
be found in New-York for Five Millions of bu.
man beings, they would all be here, and at least
as many more, within three months. SO long
as there is chance of finding work here, the
stream OF immigration sets toward the City
from both sdes-inland and oyer-sea-and we
should have population of Two Millions forth.
with if we did not starve each other out.
For this tendency toward the Cites-insane,
as 1t might at first sight be considered
are many causes--many excuses. A man has
set up for somebody in his native town and has
turned out nobody-his pride will not permit
hlm to remain there on the level to which hs
has graVitated, so he flies to the City for en-
pigment and subsistence. He would rather
curry horses in livery stable here than work
d iaIm on shares there. So the young woman
who was reared in competence if not allluence
in the Country, bat who finds herself reduced
by the death or bankruptcy OF her parents to
the necessity Of selling her labor for living,
would rather live on bread and tea in some
double-bedded garnet OF millinery establish
ment in the City than expose herself to the
sneers OF her school-mates by working in any
hiieling capacity in her native town. Then
there are teIs Of thousands who mistake the
Inspiration Of laZiness for that of genius, and
HE to the City in the mad hope Of living here
by spinning verses or something like il, when
they should be digging potatoes, &c, for which
there is real demand and in which they have
ability to be useful. IL does no good to warn
such aspirants that there is no room for them
here--that their coming will only expose them
TO the temptings Of dissipation or crime, and
that Ultimately they will be driven out Of the
City by sheer want ii not taken out by the
Sherif-they must come and see for them
selves so they DO California is said (of
course truly to have ruined many thousands,
but New-lOrk has witnessed the utter wreck
Of more hopes and aspirations than ever Cali
lOlnia did, aud will continue to witness such
tragedies 10 the end of Time.
- But is there chance for nobody in the
Cities Are there no successes TO chequer 20
many failuresl'
Certainly there are successes-haye been
and viii be- There are persons all over the
Country who may yet come here ard do wei.
Men who have abundant means, and know how
to employ them to advantage, Can do well q.
most aayWLore. But y poof H4.n was isisrasss