New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-22

down by wasting sickness; or widows, psralyzed
by sore bereavement and rendered helpless BY the
inter mockery of education accorded to the gen.
tier portion of the sex. The woman who was porn
in garrett, graduated in the kitchen and laundry
worked for her board when she was twelve years
old. for wages at fourteen, and marrled out Oh
drudeing service into a laborer's two rooms up
three flights of stairs, may have been left WHO'S
with fifty dollars worth Of household stun, three
children. no knowledge even of the art of reading
and not friend in the world in better circumstan-
COS than herself: yet abe will fight her own way
and bring up her children somehow; wnne her
lily. fingered fellow rer, who was "hnlsned
AT a costly boarding-schOol and married amid pomp
ard luxury to dasbirg young lawyer or merchant,
is left by BIS early death the most helpless useless
pitiable creature on earth. If she have relatives
who will take her and her children home and sup
port them till they can care for themselves or she
can marty again, they escape public at the cost Of
private charity: but in them and her, as general
rule, there is no resource for the day OF calamity
and sorrow. Society, which has go grossly mis-
educated this woman, has no right now TO starve
her; It is bourd to supply her urgent needs aud
generally does it, but seldom in the way of msce!
lar eous aims giving. The virtuously suferog, as
a class, are cared for by relatives and friends OF
tbeir better days: the applications of street-beg-
gary are mainly uttered by persons who would dis
Ike to have those who supply their wants follow
hem to their lairs and learn how their own time
and Others means are expended.
Our Public Charities. are, for the most part ne.
cessary, benefcent, and Proyident: they inquire,
crutinize Al discriminate, so that little tha' goes
through their hands issquandered on improyldence
and vice. Our private, casual, furive alms-givlng
TO strangers in the main is far less effective and
commemorate. 1t doubtless relieves some distress
but probably creates more, by panderlng to evil
appetites and gnOble desires. That is fearful
day in any mans history wherein he first conquers
that pride which revots at asking or accepting un
earned coin or bread-wherein he discovers that
dellar may be gained by beggary more easily and
quickly than by labor. Henceforth he may be re-
earded az permanent addition to the load which
Human Industry has to carry as well as subtrac'
ton from those whose sturdy shoulders are bent to
the task of unfolding it.
"A season is now opening in which every able
bodied man, every boy abo7e fifteen years of age
NAV find work if he will but seek it Alright, and not
refuse it when offered. Every farming township,
especially in the newer settlements sends up its cry
for 'bands"-tands to pillow and SOW, to plant and
til, and in time, to harvest and secure. We are
within the truth in estimating that One Million
more men and boys could find employment among
our farmers this Summer than will offer themselves
at the places where their labor is wanted The
wages may be moderate; but they include lodging
and food, and the work necessarily involves instruc
ton and improvement in ruralindustry. Every re-
bust. willing man who will seek out some gojd
farmer who needs help and go to work for him, mag
begin another season year hence with sixty TO
hui bred dollars in cash, better clothes than he now
has and an added knowledge Of and skill in farm
labor and management worth more to him than his
wages. And the plea, MY health is too delicate
for outdoor labor" is contemptibe; it IS want
Of the inygoratng influences of outdoor labor that
ofener occasions this debility. You may not be
able to do some kinds of work that require great
muscular power; it may be well for YOU TO COM
mepce cautiously, avoiding exposure to storms,
and earning no more than your board bu. nine
tenhs of those now complaining Of infirm constl'
tutions or poor health would be made stronger aud
harder by year of outdoor labor.
We have no fanatical preference for farming
over other pursuits; he who has good trade and
can find work thereat should follow it, but let him
not hang about the great Overcrowded cities IN
idle quest of it, and hold up his dish for soup next
Winter because million people cannot find work
on a few square miles Of paving-stones. II you
have work where you are, stay there and do IT,
carefully saving the of seeking it elsewhere
whenever this opportunity shall be fOrecosed. II
you have a large family of young children and find
yourself barely able to support them in good times,
by reason of the high rents and dear food of cities
try to make your way to some Western village or
settlement where bread is cheaper and shelter
may be bought or built for about the cost OF a
years rent in this seaside Babyl lon. GET LAND,
so soon as possible all OF you who have it not for
he who owns only an acre near enough to his work
TO serve him as homestead can always find him.
self in employment for a month in which it is de-
| MED him elsewhere. Cities are Fictitious and
wages precariOus; but he who lives in his own
house, though a humble one, and tills his own
land, though but garden, may thank Heaven for
the rudiments of solid and virtuous indie pend
eDce.