New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-14
WORK For TIE NEEDY.

We have received many letters from rural neghbOr-
hoods expressing surprise that thousands of the in
digent will cling to the great cities, where they
certain to live mserably and die in abect want, when
they might by simply migrating to this or that interior
locality have abundance OF work, far wages, the
treatment of equals and prospect of success in life
And We are often requested by the writers to send
along good farm labOrer or house servant who will be
supplied with work his arrival aud paid fair wages.
Now it ia lamentably true that thousands linger in
the great cities who not wanted here and want
ed in the country especially in the newly settled por
tOns of it, There many families barely existing
in this City who might be comfortable at and ia
circumstances Of humble independence within five
years. if they were fairly located 10 Illinois, Wis
cO0sn or Iowa. We do not the enacity where
with these cling to the payements-on the contrary,
we have repeatedly demonstrated with them their
faulty and urged them TO get out into the Free West
soon as possible. AT time during each spring
for several years have exhOrted these to Go forth
into the feds at whatever inconvenience or loss,
and try to find work and homes where they needed
instead of remaining where they a tax upon chart
y and useless TO Society. But the is not
sided is too often supposed and We would have
country friends consider Of the obstacles to
the course which seems to them obviously rresis
bly, indicated by the fact that Labor is superintendent
here and deficient where they reside.
In the first place, the superabundance of persons
seeking employment here does by means imply that
Skilled Labor is not generally employed and rewarded
in cities On the contrary though there are many
effective workers who are obliged TO stand idle in the
dead Of winter yet the general truth is that steady
willing handy temperate mechanic or labOrer need
not often waE long here for something to do he really
and wisely seeks employment. So a skillful and re-
spected seamstress, dressmaker, cook, or woman ac
customed to general housework, after once finding
work and establishing areputation among u.s. pretty
generally have work here at better wages than are
paid in the rural districts There is no beneyolence
evnced in offering - or So per month for really good
female servant from our City; for such one can have
at least sc per month here with fair treatment
through at least fifty weeks Of every year.
The classes from which the ranks of the hungry
and desperate continually recruited in great cities
are quite ether than those usually inquired for by
country friends College graduates who have tried to
be lawyers dOcofs something else and broken down
in the attempt-not always through lack Of capacity
but sometimes through failure OF Opportunity-poets
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have lost their footing on the earth-nechanics who
have lost their standing perhaps their health ssO By
dTink-WOmen brought up to be duchesses and con-
demDed by tome turn Of the wheel TO sift cnders for
living if they could only find the cnders and knew
how sift them-patriot exiles from Poland Hungary
Italy or France, who only learned how TO fgh. and
were beaten az that game-ex editors, exprotessors
exepgineers, ex merchants, who were not up 10 the
mark Of their chosen vocation and never qualified
Themselves for any Otherthese constantly recruit the
gaunt legons who hopelesly pace the streets of our
City. If our phianthrOpc friends who are willing to
hire coed workers at s. to SIS per month if they can
only be sure without trouble to make double the money
out Of them viii hep US to employment for these des
pairing needy Thousands they will deserve the thanks
Of every lover of human kind.
Now We admit that these are not exactly the men
and women wanted BY our correspondents; bat we in
sis that these might most Of them be made use
iIL Let the employing farmers and mechanics Of any
township come together some fair evening and depue
one OF their number to visit our City prepared to
gage five, ten to twenty abe-bodied persons to come
cut into the country aud help them. If one wants
sean stress. another q washer and irOner, third
farm lsborer fourth spader, aud on, let sche-