New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-17
EMIGRATION TO TIE COUNTRY.

ANY plausible suggestion Of means to the de
fciences and evils Of the prevailing relations of labor
deserves attention. and accordingly We give place In
another column 10 q communication from Mr. Rees pro-
posing plan by which be thinks the condition Of the
working classes might be much smeliOrated His
scheme briefly that they should emgrate from the
City to the Country. proposal refuse to
applaud with oil his heart. But the question is, how
they shall be induced to go there Our correspondent
very Justly holds that better industrial aud social
raneements will suffice TO attract them. Furnish the
same opportunity of employment for workmen the same
varied industry in different branches and specaltes and
the same resources Of amusement aud instruction in
the country may be found in the metropolis, aud the
latter abandoned by its excessive population.
Every one would prefer to live in pure air and amid
rural scenery if labor there as much divided and
social life pleasant Only give US that, and the
Oyergrown towns are reduced to healthy proportions,
and the world is reformed at once Or even give US
some considerable approximation it, and you confer
great benefit myriads Of people now suffering from
the ycssitudes and expressions of urban industry and
of existence in a sweltering and unwhOesome thrOng
The plan of our correspondent is not complete and
practical might be desired IL is that square tract
Of 10000 should be purchased at some favorable
locality that village should be laid out in the center,
and the be divided into farms of not more than 40
acres each On this population OF two or three
thousand or more persons might be established, carry
ing on agriculture and manufactures together, raising
their food and making their own clothing with the
land TO fall back upon when the factories were no.
pressed with work, and with plenty of operatives 60
drive them when they we're. The farthest habtatiOn
would not be more than miles from the center,
that its occupants might take part in the industrial pur
suits of the community well attend TO their own
forming With regard to the purchase of the property,
and the arrangements between capitalists and opera
tves our correspondents propositions are somewhat
deficient in lucdity and business like cOmpactness.
Still the main idea of his scheme is undoubtedly a
true one Emigration to the country the concentra-
ton Of the people in a thousand centers instead of
their crowdiDg in one the establishment OF manuiac
lures on the ground where the raw materials and the
foed of the operatives produced-this is precisely
what is needed only for the welfare of the working
classes but for the solid prosperity and power of the
republic.
But in urging this dea correspondent leaves out
of view the overwhelming influence exercised by the
commercial policy of the Government. That decides
whether the artisan shall shall not take his proper
place beside the er of the soso that the exchanges
between them will be conducted with the greatest
omy and advantage-and at present in this country it
decides that he shall not Had the tariff of 1912 been
preserved We should have thousands of such vii
lagos springing up in the Southern Middle and Western
States and drawing 10 them the surplus population that
now encumbers the OvergroNn cities of the seaboard
Under that tariff, there a powerful and increasing
tendency to the diffusion of manufactures, assuring to
every community aud every region the inestmable ad
vantages of the division of labor sefsupport and local
independence 4 few years more, and it would have
secured to our country the prOudest position among in
dustrs nations and would have laid the foundations of
prosperity safe against the competition OF British
cottonoYds and the fluctuations of the London money
market But that tariff was destroyed by party poll
tcians and Office seekers. The country thrown
back into the position of colonial inferOrity from which
il was emerging Industrial Capitalization aud CONNER
cal dependency forced upon and the population
instead of concentrating in the desired by our
correspondent has either been dispersed over the
Western wilds, or amassed in the Eastern cities This
tendency is now somewhat checked by the effect of the
great gold discoveries upon the labor market of the
world but the true path Of permanent prosperity and
progress viii not be reganed until the policy Of prOtec
ton TO American industry is restored. For that
We wait patiently though by no means oyfully When
through disaster and suffering its necessity is felt as
sooneror later must be will be resored TO- and as we
trust in way which viii thenceforward put the question
beyond the reach of the contemplate race of Office
seeking politicians
Mr. SrxyuKS PKARI ANDREWS has published /