New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-24

10 supoort their families without the COOPERATING
labor of wife and chi lren. They buy a. retail IN
small quantities and sometimes on credit, thereby
losing large percentage. Their houses are b,d
their clothing decent, their bedding wretcaed
Their expenses in church and school, their direct
taxation, their anu emeuts. amount to almoss
nothing. Their deposits in savings banks and their
contributions 10 mutual aid societies are equally
small. They have frequent recourse to the m0S'
4, oifff. or established pawnbrokers, and are not
proof against the allurements OF tobacco and the
srog shop Their morals and habits are found TO nave
almost ss much effect upon their comfort as the
amount of their wages. In great number OF cases
expenses 90 SO far beg 0nd income as to lead crime
debt, and avowed pauperism. The average dsliy
WAGES received in different emplOyments Is ;
meD, ] franc 40 centimes women, II cen
times boys, 81 centimes girls, 80 confines
If family, consisting of father, mother
and four children toll at these rates,
they cal net carr enough to support themselves so
comic, tally as the poorly paid soldiers, the ma
rines, and even tie prisoners Of the State They
consequently lead lives Of continual misery, and
can anticipate no char &c for the better except BY
ceasipg from their oIdnary work and seeklog the
relief " hch crime and Idle poverty receive in the
public iiil aid alms.house In the second halt OF
his volume the writer enters into the causes OF
tlis yretchedness of workiogmen and concludes
with some suggestions for it's relief The genera
causes Of the misery he states lin what we consider
to be no very logical or philosophical manner as
five--the dearness of provisions, the insuhcIency
of wages, the frequent want OF work In certain
occupations and localities, the lack of economy in
daily expenses, and the crowded population. He
states several other things which may at any par
ticular time be special causes OF want and trouble
ouch as war pestiltnce famine aud the like.
The remedies which NJ Ducpetaux prescribes
are az varied as the evils which he points out
He il a strong believer'in the power of Govern
meIt to remove all social troubles, and some gov
eminent regulation is naturally the grand balm
the universal panacea which be would provide for
every social disease. Guarding against this ten
dency, which is frequently manifested 10 his work,
it will be found that his suggestions are often
practical and valuable. If DEAFNESS of the necessa
ries Of life is cause of trouble food he says must
be made more abundan. by improving the 81 stems
of agriculture. If the potato continues to
rot it must be replaced BY rice, corn
or other vegetables. Model farms and agri-
cultural schools should be maintained, and
all unjust or unequal taxes on farms and their
produce should be Immediately removed. Com
merce should be encouraged, and particularly the
free introduction into Belgian ports Of the staple
articles of food. Octro duties and special taxes
on Ugh: and heat should be abolished. The mesns
of communication and transportation should be
increased. good bureau of agricultural sta is
ties should be maintained TO guide the operations
Of trade. There should be a suppression. or at
least a limitation, Of the distillation Of grains,
potatoes, and other similar articles, both to leave
the quantity of food larger, aud to improve, by
taking away the temptations OF cheap coarse
spirits, the morals and health o. the working
classes. There should be good organization Of
markets, uniformity Of weights and measures,
and full precautions against ira I'D in buying and
selling The excessive number of intermediary
sellers should be prevented, and the retail
business should as far ss possible be lin
tied, that the producer may be brought
as near as possible to the consumer. Institutions
Of Providence, Savings Banks, Mutual Aid Asso-
Citations, and the like should be encouraged.
There should be in certain cases, he thinks, re-
stIictioDs upon marriage as for example, among
soldiers and some classes of employees The immi-
grafton of persons without property, Migrants and
the like, should be prohibited. The systems of
public relief should be reformed, public education
should be advanced, emigration should be encOur-
aged from the over-populous districts, and finally
habits Of prudence and economy should be incuL
Gated by moral and religious teaching.
Our limits do not allow US 10 enter more fatty
into the multitude Of details and the variety of
subort mate suggestions which are made in the
three hundred quarto pages of N. Ducpetaux.
Enough, it 10 hoped, has been said to show the
character Of the work which he has laid before
the political economists OF Europe, and which is
likely to engage the attention Of Soyeregns and
their Ministers in almost every country Of the Old
World, until the cry of the downtrodden people
,hall be quoted by permanent relief.