New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-05-08

The longer We 1--we and the more We see, Tue
more DO we realize that chance or luck has little
to do with mems prosperous or adverse fortunes
and that there is an important practical truth al
the basis of old King Georges seemingly heartess
sugeestion-"If beeples riH be boets aud balnders
"ht 'em sdarye." That seems hard, undoubtedly;
but what else is permanently possible
The world is able aud willing to pay few per-
sons-a very few--fairly for serving IT in certain
spheres of intellectual rather than physical exerton
say as poets, painters, sculptors writers, te,ch
ers of languages or music, and other SUCH But
three times az many as it is willing thus to employ
and recompense choose TO attempt those dizzy
psths-to attempt them in full view of the fact
that the greater number of aspirants must fail.
Well: A, B and C undertake to live by poetry, or
painting or sculpture, and two of them fail, as 1t
was certain from the outset that they, or two like
them, must fail. Shall we wiring our hands over
their misfortunel Why so' We know well that
all cannot live by poetry or painting-that, If all
who wished to could succeed in this way, there
would soon be deficiency of potatoes, and children
would be crying for bread. Is it not better that
the few should suffer than the many And is there
sDy other way to prevent the excessive diversion
of human capacity into unproductve and subsidiary
empoyments than that which Nature employs
Consider the actual condis of this and other
great cities, as well as of most of our manufactur
ing villages There is in all the,e present sureit OF
faculty and muscle far more than can be employed
ard, if there be no work now, there is dull prospect
Of any for months. On the other hand there is now
an active demand for labor in every rural district,
or wherever there is a population mainly agricul-
tural. Almost every farmer or gardener 10 willing
to employ one or more extra hands henceforward
till after harvest at wages which, though less than
were paid last year, will yet afford quite as good
livelihood, in view of the reduced cost of food,
those did.
But do the unemployed and needy generally start
in quest of work where it may be had Are the
highways leading out of the great cities black with
| pedestrians heading toward the great West and
asking for work Not bit of it A few 60, but
the many stay, tOrmentng the Central Park mana
gers for job stroling from this TO that quarry,
stone yard unfinished building or steamboat wharf,
begging for something to DO where the least con-
alteration might assure them that nothing is to be
had, and so idling, dawdng, dangling away the
precious hours which should be giyea to sowing and
planting perhaps getting, favor, work for few
DAYS here and two or three weeks there, and so
worryi ling through the Summer, only to hang about
soupbOusee, the back-dOors of hotel kitchens or
free dining saloons next Winter, or torment the
souls out of the benevolent by begging the means of
supporting existence from door to door. Must he
| not be a base hound who would choose to live in
| this cowardly way when there is work TOR all If
they would only seek it Alright!
We know how good at excuses those are who
are good for nothing else, and how pteOusly these
walters for tide on the mountains will whine over
the impossiblity of leaving or taking their families
on a tramp into the country after work But how
can a man who has nothing to do help bis family BY
staying with theml So long as they must live by
bepQary. will not one less mouth to feed De an adj
vantage? We say, Take your family, and travel
| =. Hestward until you can find some one who will
sgve them shelter and you employment" but bet
ter leave them than stay to aggravae their misery.
Work for somethiDg-anything-so soon asyOu can
find work; but never forget that the end of working
for Others liberty and opportunity to work for your
self. We can imagine no reason why m American
Fl. euan should be content to live and die hreGng.
Land 10 so cheap, and the facilities Of becoming
your own employer in almost any capacity are
50 great here that every poor man should aspire,
and struggle, and economixe to direct bis own Ia
| bor and own bis own home. Where farm Ia
borers yearly wages will buy eighty acres of good
land. that laborer is poor creature who passes his
twenty. fifth year without owning patch of land.
And those Eastern operatives wis abSurdy strike
for the same wages with -four at Sc per barrel they
received when it sold for $l2, and when there has
been fall of twenty-five per cent. in average
values and of far in the value OF factories aud
factory. stocks, why should they not at once turn
their faces westward There is room, there is
work for them all, both men and women, in regions
nearer the setting sun; and though it is very true
that our National policy ought TO be such as to
cure full employment to our factories, yet svery
certain that it is not and is not likely soon to be.
Instead of hanging about the manufacturing VII
lsge.. therefore, and vainy striking for higher
wages. LET the workers step boldly out for new
homes, and seek employment in the broad, free
We,t There are of course obstacles to encounter
perks 70 brave. hsrdsbips to endure, in this COURSE
but far better dare these than famish in compulsory
deness, after rearing up swarms of Children to eat
the bread Of lifelong dependence and ssryi.ude