New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-07

We are finn believers in the Right to Labor.
We copctr in Carbles remark that q man able
and willing to labor-oneriog and anxious to give
honest downright work for needed breads the
.addest ,igbt urder the sun. 1t is not merely an
individual baIdskip-it is q scsndalous waste aud
stand Idle iecord day. This City is bsiDg daily
impoverished and enfoebled BY the numbe' Of her
uneDplOye ed inhabitants.
We hold that Sse;ety, through its political
| eresnizstion or frsme~ork should make adequate
prov sion seaihst involuntary idlensss and con'e-
ouent need on the part Of its members. Taat the
State or community as actually organized may do
this, We do not soy; in fact We never yet heard Of
benefcent exercise Of political power that
wac rot pronounced unconstitutional on one hand
or On tie other; but true and rightly constituted
State could take care that none Of its members
were forced 10 steal or doomed to starye for want
Of work.
Yet, if million people insist on crowdng them.
selyes upon two or three square miles Of sterile
pavement, how can the Right to Labor be gaarau-
tet d to them there? Suppose the next Half Million
persons who migrate from Europe were to stick
fast in this City, and say, We like Eew-York, and
'mean to stay in III give US work AID bread here,
"or We will take the bread by force" would it be
possible to comply with their demandsi IL yes,
for how long ? aud what could be done with the
next Half Million
Suppose ten thousand Ioen resolve to live BY
watcbmakiDg and working in jewelry, and there
sudCt My ar soc a time like tie present, in which
hardly snybcdy eau buy either watches or jewelry
can this ten th oussI be provided with such work
as they deem suitable IfyCu can only profor them
chance to shovel earth, and they are physically
unable to shove earth, what then
For years, we have demonstrated against the
overmasteripg tendency Of our people, b'th native
ard immigrant to crowd into cities and prefer any
other employ ment to that of coltivating the earth
Every one might see that there must come an end
TO this that we could not all live by selling goods
forging anchors prac.ici, law, making dagusrreo.
types, &C &C. There must be smaller proper
ii, n of he community employed 10 these vocaions
and larger engaged in subduiDg and filling the
soil. IT, indeed, We made al our Cloths and
Wares in our own country, our present proportion
of c1ltivatOrs might answer; but, .inoe we buy
these in good part abroad, We must grow mora OF
the wberewtbal TO pay for them. We cannot pay
Europe for her fabrics in clerk hire, aw, daguerre-
Otypes, or any such notOns-at least, to any great
e,,ort. UpIiI we make them mainly for ourselves,
therefore, we must dig what will pay for them
mainly from the earth
All through tho late growing season, the farmers
were almost everywhere throughout this country
short-handed and willing to employ more labor.
The Sprin g was very cold aud backward; the Sum.
mer and Fall in this vicinity rainy; 80 that too little
was planted, and that little has no. been half titled.
We have fields in our minds eye that hsve not
yielded half crop, mainly because thsy were
usually matted with weeds. Every one is now
talking of the bounteous Harvest and Of the gener-
Gus returns that have bic ssed the labOrs of our
demonstrating, we think, rather wildly. The
farmers have paid, in TIE average, high wages
through the season now closing; they have lost
much time by bad weather and drenched fields;
they have had to encounter crop after crop Of the
NEST luxuriant weeds; aud they are now selling
their crop at lower prices than have ruled for years
previous. 1t strikes us thai the farmer who re-
ceives for his harvest of 1867 a that it fairly cost
him will do remarkably well.
Those farmers who are in good circumstances
and substantially out of debt ought to do whatever
msy be in their power to relieve the present dis
trtss. If the farmers of any inland township-in
New. York or New England, as everywhere else
were to club together and raise $500, employing
herewith some competent person to visit this or
some other City and hire forty to one hundred
laborers for the Winter at such rates they could
fairly afford, take the men home, distribute and To-
cate tbem and keep them gathering forest leaves or
digging swamp muck henceiorward till March,
filing their stables and barn-ya,ds there With, aud
90 quadruplipg their usual Qusntity Of mauures,
they would, without loss to themselves, do more
real good to the needy than they could BY giving
bali their crops to sustain the destitute in idle
ress. We appeal to every farmer, to eve'y ci.i-
zen in easy circumstances, to risk, and ad-
vance, and (if need beg sscrifce something, in
order to give the utmost possible employment
to the reedy throughout tie stern Winter be-
fore US. But for that view of the Right to
Labor which eliminates in the sscking Of -four.
| stores, we have no respect. I. is not soGdly
grounded, and it leads to no good and much evil.
Weapprehend that the roisiest declaimers for work
in tie Park are not the most needy nor most de-
serving of the unemployed Poor Many of these
are "scurvy politicians tools Of some insatiate,
reckless demsgosue who would gladly burn half the
City if he might thereby rule more securely and
| proftsby over the residue. Let the virtuOus,
God fearing Poor beware of these wolves in sleeps
clothing, Their counsel viii never lead 10 good