New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-06
besrtlessness, that makes so many csllous to the
sppess of suffering. They feel-too deeply

.p,e.l, Of suffering. They feel-too deeply
nerhaps and a. the wrong tme-thst alm.-givins
/, at best but .mal plaster for wide aad deep
nleer-snd thi. il true, but not conclusive for II
s,mebody hsd fed John Murpby's children for
anopth or tao, be would have lived 10 feed
them himself thereafter. Better s'ill-f.r bet
.er-bad there existed Social Providence pre-
pared and competent to ssy, "John Murphy
come here ard work for the STATE, the Cry. at
half wages, until ;ou can again find work fr
yourself at ull ~sges-wOrk at something you
can DO tolerably well, If not at that which you
., can do best"-tbsn be would have struggled
through this bard winter undebased By eating
bread be had not earned, and prepared to doa mans
work ard discharge mans duty thepceforwscd.
All his work thus done wouli have been so much
clear ain to the community, and his children
would never have become public burden. Aud
what is true in Lie Gaze is messutably true in
thousands Of others.
-" But this Fourerism-
Hold Cd, there, Mr.. Cavler FOurierism is
dead. There are as many as fifty D DIS, editors
AID other pillars of Social Order, who have its
dry hide hung up among the special trophies of
their valor and dexterity. Mr.. James Parton
in recent Biography of some note ssser.s that
it was lilled by 1t. Gov. Raymond 10 Discus
sion several years ago. Dr. Potts and Dr.
Hawks have each in bis turn shu. both
eyes and let drive a. it with as they
suppose) deadly effect. The Hon. James Brooks
aid Senator Erastus have recently paraded the
streets with chip on the shoulder of each, beg
cling Fourieriim TO rise from the grave aud knock
it off; bu. the obstinate ghost would not stir to
obliee them There are lots of people aoxOusy
awaiting opportunity for shy at said ghost in
behalf of Commercial Christianity and Cotton
Conservatism. yet it does not make It's appear
aDce. 1t may as well be ruled out for contumacy
and left in its shroud.
But the problem which Fourier, and s.. Simon,
and Robert owen, ind so many Others .r m
Patos day to our own, have left I'VE viii 80
unsOlytd, is nevertheless problem, AID all the
mole demands solution because of their failure.
As cities expand, and life becomes more and
more artificial, and human relations more com
plicated, the necessity for practical solution be-
comes every day more urgent. To give the
needy Work instead Of Alms-tO let him live
on the proceeds of Lis own labor rather
than YOU'RE or nine-to bridge across the gulf
which separates warehouses full of unbOlgh:
garments from ragged thou.ands who would
gladly buy ard we.r them if they could
only sell their sole commodity, L,bOr-to
let the seamstresses starving in their narrow gar
rets have more garments to make in place OF
these, giving the factories a market for more
cloth and the groceries more Cor better custom
ers for foOd-all by setting to work the unwll-
lpgly idle artisans and laborers whom each via
ter sees torpid and shiyering in our cities
and yllsees-eating up the little they hsve saved
in better times, and begging or borrowing to exc
out the season of frOst-ths is an achievement
not overtaskDg human faculties in our .esent
state of development, and which the next age
shall see fully accomplished. Blind Ananiss and
bitter Saul may deal out maledctons for time,
yet they too shsI be convinced and converted.
They must be, for the progress Of Humanity re-
quires ire ,nfrsnchiseuent and security Of La
bor they shall be, for in spite of the sGfiecings
and SORROWS of the present, there are still
above the clouds Heaven aud beyond the
priest God.