New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-06
almost perfect BY nature in al the regions Of Tie

almost perfect By nature in ai the regions o. NO
world.
And you, brickmsker, al day molding vet clay
withou. straw a. ie Egypt Of DID, knos You not sAAs
your toll will in good time be ended That, even nov,
The st. engine takes clay powder without wetDg,
stamps II into cold mae ard carries brick a.ser
br,k erect into tie kim without loss Of tine 7
And ye too, mssons and stone-cEvsrs, ye who cut
those eIdess repetons on the Houses of Parliament,
ard deemed them works Of art, ard turned on, on
strikes AZ though mankind depended you, know 70
net that the chemat h now making better stone than
Ns,ure's self, and moldirg !. to sny shape without
the ehisel' Verify your present strike VIII make this
Ard ioiuers pstt,rn-nakers, carpenters, whom 1
once saw in Tor procession dehliug dosn 20 n''e-
hall 10 convince Lord Melbourne ard others how
ttrors We were--srd Of truth your fofms ahn i"'s
put the other trades the blush, FOR ye were OF tho
aris,ocIscy Of woskmen-speak, ] pray, lsni 'PeaS
the truth u does not team Usken onidngs shd p'sne
flooring boards and cut lemons and uorcss az cey IS
We can do We'll do remem Der you, while thhslnS
that tboee eyes that could look straight sioug boMI-
edge were tie very eyes TO take Fights alops nue.
barrel But ye rot the inen 10 DO tDs ID any ou
"a coed canse, and with The law on your sue.
Wei well steam has taken away your dfudgery, ous
Il leaves 10 YOU still the tue artistic w0Tkthe ps,terr-
makiI z, TIE origI ating.
Bot what is 10 become Of the great mass will be-
s.ked. Hsye they nothing TO complain OF Iney
have. No strikes could have arisen hal they been
fairly dealt by. TIE employing clas', a. body, nss
been gully of a heavy Elm OF omission; loo much
have men been looked On as living mschines, GO. 90
good cattle nasmuch a. cattle are cared 'of wnen
work ceases. But il great contracting pro ,ess's
sni Ell CINE. ring calculations speak OF men ana rae
tons OF men and fractions Of boys, as II they were
merely figures in arithmetic, and not living souls
great work and contrsct is on hand and dependen.
humanity r,,shes toward it for ~sges; the work Is
ended and dependent humanity sinks away 20 stnse.
The great contractor knows no more oi ms men lhan
by the numbers their tickets How this Is 20 end
we cannot clearly see bn assuredly it is not condl-
ton Of things to last. The contracting system does
produce things at the lowest cost, bu 1t Is not YET
proven that il produces the really chespest tnlngs'
The poor men no put their money IN savings oshks
OUGHT TO have better investments for it, and now that
everything is tending toward jontstock companies,
and securities are increasing tor their good manage
ment, il does seem a possible coneluSlon 'hA inc
time will come when workingnen will be on
psr with American whaling crews and
Cornish Understanding in profits prodaced oy
Individual ski ard general wstchtulness. better
feeling between classes is gradually gaming ground,
but trade still hard hearted IL cannot yet see tnas
the welfare of the is the welfare OF the master
II leaves the man to his devices deserted al DIS
uimost need ard so men of slsvsh notions try TO bind
the master down to take them a. daily slaves. ols oI
such en- did France get her universal sunfsge ana US
sale 10 the promiser Of daily bread IL oehooves us
ADMINISTERS and men, TO guard against ths-to 10.
crease 80 far possible the number OF the ares snd
10 decrease the number OF the hare "0fs: gtese
nation is not great by mere numbers or, So Emma
would be the greatest nation 10 the world IA by the
ab.epce Of poverty rather than by the excess OF riches
that the srei 9Th of naon must be reckoned 50 that
every individual may feel conv need he has something
Ia lose 90 that the faculties of every individual may
frd their proper sphere Of action, in which work
ceases to be drudgery and becomes pleasure.
Then a strike is a Elm against the lac ct common
sense though its authors have tbemseves been
sinIed agaipst by neglect Da'muoh ." u VIII
be found that the really disconted are men below
the standard of the civilized processes the nation
is growing up to and demandng, and tnas tneli
habits are those Of ruder state Of society IL would
therefore be mild and just to provide them from tune to
time with the Of emgrstipg to the colonies,
where their faculties finding employment, 'ner con-
dou might Become that of enjoyment instead OF con,
! slant disccutent At all events, may look forward
TO the time when many deterioratipg empoymetts aud
their followers will have disappeared from among US
just as the pretended needle women are disappearing
with the advent ofthe stitching machine.
It's blessed thought that the time may come when
ignorance and poverty aud disease shall almost disap-
pear and although is true that the poor shall never
i'cease from out Of the land that they may only be
the few whom it viii be pleasure to help and who
will keep our charities living. REDWWus.