New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-10

To the minimizing MAD! IL seems lncredloie
that the wisest and purest Of all ages-those by
whose bold and selfsacrifcing proclamation
OF truths previously unknown or misappre-
he nded the human race has been enlightened
81 d made happer-sAould have been subjected
to odium and contumely through their lives and
to ignominy and reproach even after death The
execution or exile Of the noblest statesmen and
heroes of Greece in her days Of glory, including
Socrates; the fate of the Roman Gracchi, and
hundreds like them-not to mention the cruel.
fxion of Christ-are insolsable puzzles to mil
lions who, perceivipg that the truth is no mans
enemy but ell mems ultimate interest, cannot
realize that its proclaimers and champions
.hould be stoned into untimely graves by angry
multitudes whom that truth was specially calcu-
lated to benefit.
The explanation of this seeming anomaly i'm.
ports that, though truth is indeed all mems ulti-
mate interest, yet there are thousands to whose
supposed and immediate interests it is implaca-
bly, hostile and threatens to prove fatal. Thus
it is the universal interest that every human
being should always have work at fair wages;
bnt the highly respectable citizen who is
rapidly amassing wealth by hiring shirts made
at sixpence each and pantaloons at a shilling
| pair does not realize this-how should hei II
work at fair wages were guaranteed to all,
where would he find women to dslye eighteen
hours per day in his service for the price of
| loaf of bread aud a cup of tear His Fifth
avenue palace is rising, stone upon stone, by
virtue Of these very privatiOns and suferlngs
which he, like everybody else, processes to re-
pret and wish ended; he may not be conscious
| of hypocrisy in that profession; but who ex.
poets him to accept and commend the means
whereby those social evils must be overcome,
| ifovercome they ever are to bel He will tell
you how profoundly he sympathises with
the needy aud furnishing; he may even boast,
not untruly, that he gives as much as you DO for
their relief; but to ask his cooperation 10 meas
ures calculated to life the least fortunate class
out of their degradation and misery is to send
| him away sorrOwing because Of his great pos
sessions. To seek the abolition of Pauperism
for the able.bodied is in his view a most I'M
| Christian enterprise; for did not Christ say,
1.-The poor ye have aieays with you" He who
attempts to confne Pauperism to the manned,
the decrepit, the paralytic, lie, according to con-
servative logic, flying in the face of Providence
! ar defying the averments of the Savior. Aad
thus the great majority of that numerous and
| ipfue ntial class who realize that they consume
a, enjoy larger share Of worldly goods than
| tbev nroduca or bono6contIy earn are instinct
I'VE and deadly enemies Of any suggested Social
IL elioratioD. They may not be consciously hos
tile to benefcent changes; they are only inca
pable of realizing that changes which would
probably place them in position relatively less
enyiable than their present can be benefcent.
Who could expect Of the craftsmen of Ephesus
any just appreciation of the worship Of Diana :
1t suffces them to know that "by this craft
the fabrication of shrnes for that imaginary
goddess-they were subsisted and enriched.
Find where you may one who is enjoying rank,
OF luxury, or honor, which he has never de-
served, and you see in him bitter antagonist of
what he calls (and perhaps imagines to beg
| SOCIALISM"
The Herald, in giving its tardy account
| (partly stolen from our columns) Of the recent
suicide in our City, Of the sisters Cecilia and
| Wanda Stein, thus mOralizes:
q
its stores of untold wealth and noble charities its
flowing sores and eluted markets two gifted women
should lie driven TO poison themselves from poverty
and despair Had those poor females had less diff
deLce-ha6 they been willing TO live life of shame
they might now be Haunting in silks and fare sumptu-
ousy every day. Yet our people should not be
deemed careless Indifferent to the actual sufferng
for though poverty intense is felt every day by hun
oreds yet had the of these unfortunate women
been submitted to benevolent citizens, they would
have been sustained in the hour of their despair and
strong arms would have led and gentle voices cheered
them onward. Yet IL looks as though there IS some
Ting rrong in our social arrangements that Uouid
permit fatalities Of this kind to occur"
of course, The Herald is not to be held
morally responsible for this slip Of some poor
subordinate, who wrote what his understanding
and heart dictated, forgetting for the moment
that he belonged to The Herald 1t 10 the de-
liberate, persistently expressed and well-pald-
for opinion Of that eminently conservative and
Christian sheet, that " our social arrangements"
are just what they ought to bo-that those who
can't find work ought to starye to death-and
that all who seek To remedy what Is hero un-
consciously admitted to be wrong are lnhdcls,
conft derntes Of Tom Nichols and jackson Davis.
hostile to Marriage, advocates Of universal
Ioentiousncns, and authors Of all tho crimes In
ntlgatcd by lust, Jealousy or revenge. For
nyownls Of these honest aud wcllconsiderod
convictions, soo The Herald OF almoat any day In
tho wceL. especially Sunday.
lit snow some aft.en or ain teen years sineo
a few earnest minds. after rendering ansioa'lr
AID patiently tho great problem OF Social misafy
fio,n want and compulsory ialeness. Of which