New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-03

sale soup distribution and its onc,mtans 10
nearly at an end, becsus. Business, whether In
good seasons or in bad, slwsys begin to improve
about this tine Of ysar. New firms have taken
the place OF bankrupt houses; building revives;
merchants experience some prenonition of the
spring trade; farmers begin to hire laborers tor
the opsriDg year. and signs Of fresh scsi'isy are
exhibited on every tide. Naturally there is n far
greater demand for labor here ia February thsn
in December or January, AID consequent i'm
provement in the circumstances and prospects ot
the Poor. By the middle Of the month, we may
expect that all soup-touses aud other extraor-
dir AIRY arr pigments fer feeding and aiding tho
destitute y ill have been laid aside. Whist lesson
will these sgencies and the ste m necessity which
evoked the m have inculcsted What guarantees
will they Lave suggested against the return of a
similar season of calamity We believe
l. The old notion of Pauperism being an in
evitable incident of human existence not to be
a serious shock from the experience of this win
ter. Truly, THE poor ye have always with you, :"
and always will have; but they ought to be con-
fined to the manned, the decrepit, the imbecile,
to widows with young orphan children, aud
others essentially helpless. To feed robust mea
AMI women in pauperized idleness is monstrous
and wastefnl blunder, unbecomipg an age OF gen.
erd intelligence. 1t always did aud always must
lead to Wholesale hypocrisy, knavery aud demo-
ralization. Thousands have doubtless been so
debaucbed BY subsistipg on aims this winter that
they will evermore be subject to faint Of vsga-
bopdi.m and lurking desire to live on unearned
bread L. was our misfortune that the sudden
ness ard vsstness Of the calnify left us no alter
native but aIms giving; it will be our fault if We
are caught in such spredicament again.
H. Itisi idle il is mockery, to hold up voluntary,
unaided in mi graft IN to the West, or the late
rior, as cure for the evils Of City Pduperism.
To those who have relatives or fast friends by
whom they will be welcomed to the West We
say Co. by all N aus This is no place for poor
ofmodeIatt efficiency and energy who have families.
A single man who knows how to work and has
once obtained employment, may do almost any
where; so may a capable and industrious woman;
but TO bring family here, or take wife here,
with the expectation of earning livelihood as
mere lsborer, or porter, or ordinary clerk, is
culpsble faulty. Labor will always crowd TO
th point and single persons will underSid and
undermine those who are burdeued with families.
Against this tendency from Europe to America,
from TIE country to the seabosrd cities, strikes
and combinations to hold up wages can avail but
ftebly and transiently. The poor man of family
who is out of the City must stay out; if in it, he
must get out as soon as possible, unless he has
some way of earning at least two ordinary mems
wages. This is no place for poor man to die
and leave widow and orphans. There ought to
be an emigration from our City Of at least One
Hun bred thousand persons between this day aud
the fret of June. If all creation nM live in
New York, Rents must 20 up and Wages tend
downward, beyond remedy. But to expect ser
want girls to set off alone and unfriended for
Iowa or Kansas in vague quest of homes aud en-
embark on such venture, most Of the n would
prefer to work here for the barest necessaries of
lfe-and wisely. With men, the caae is some.
what different; yet it is better, even in their
case, that those who want Labor should como
where they know it IT, than that the laborers
should go at random to points where employ
meDt may or may not be awaiting them. SO
many nigh. skrt for one point as to create there
q glut like that which exists here while the en-
ployers can send for exactly such and so many as
they want.
III. Our City cannot undertake to send away
at her own coat all her people who ought to be in
the countryside might as we'll undertake to bail
out the ocean. The vary fact that she began thus
to send away would cause tens of thousands to
flock hi:her from every quarter on purpose to be
sent to the broad West. II would be another
form Of universal pauperism.
VI. We are more and more convinced that the
true solution Of this problem is to be found in a
Business Company, organized to hire laborers a. !
this point for terms in no case exceeding one year,
and remove them ~ sections in which their labor
is in den and and where they may be hired out alta
profit. This would greatly cbespen, (by system
izing) the business of Westward emigration, and
would put the whole business on footing of re-
ciprocal advantage. The aborer would be un-
degraded BY charity; the employer would obtain
the very kind of help be required; and the COM
pany. if well managed, might make a fair prof.
onits capital while doing immense cool, We
see no other plan so gene rally bene6cent as this
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