New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-23
MIaRArlNG ro 1HE coUNrRY.

MIGRATING TO THE COUNTRY.
No question comes more nearly homo TO
mems business and bosoms than "Where shall
81 fix my homer 1t is one which every one
not already happily located for life should
steadily ponder and on which we seek to shed
all possible light. There is opportunity, there
is work for all but all arc not now where
these are to be had. They must go where
work is to be found-they cannot ration
ally expect it to come to them. The spec
tacle of a million people budding for years
together on three or four square miles OF
pavement, and grumbling or whining that they
can get nothing to do might mako angels
weep. There must be mole producers of
wealth, whether in the field, tho shop, the
furnace, or the factory, and fewer seeking to
live by vacations which add nothing to the
aggregate whence all must be clothed, housed
and fed The constant problem OF Society Is,
How to increase producers and production
how to minimize. mere. consumers who pro-
duce nothing of any positive value. A true
Political Economy deals directly and success
fully with this problem. TO draw population
from points where it is already IN excess to
others where it is as yet deficient. is an enter
prise conducive TO the welfare of all.
The NJ. Y. Times strangely misapprehends us
in saying as follows:
HELP FOR TIE WORKING POOR.
THE TRIBUNE can have no sympathy ior une 9,GIu
ave. car drivers while many fields arc open 70 1t,o
and anxious for labOrers In the Wcst M - olI
nehSors panarss Tor n6 ddn s has ~ is
only trouble with IL Ia that happens % he utterly I'M
~ be sure Of dinner or roof for Themselves and their
families, TO get to the far west where these nntign
done, and good deal OF money must be pad for IT, DO,
fore they get into the region where lE
cisey thing la which the poor are lacking WORKING
men, who well TO do, who can live comoftaoy anu
of this advice; but they do need It, Those VINO 80
need it are the ones who cannot possibly av;hI
them Their wants grow aud more
pressing Tho expense OF living does not dimnish WINE
are becoming more and more nonbus ON society; VI
the Trade Unions would contribute funds TO send tnen
would render them better and more lasting seryicS
anything practical and prosaic as THIS.
Comments BY The Tribune.
|. We do most earnestly seek to impress on
the class of Hired Laborers that they need not
and should not remain hirelingS for erer.
We profoundly disbeleve that God has made
any one to be some other mans Tom, or Bill,
or Joe. 20 the end of his days. We would
have every one who has nothing but his
hands to do with, accept the best wages
that are offered him, and earn them by
faithful effort. But we would have INN
save good part OF those wages with deliberate
intent to escape from or rise above the hire
ling condition mt an early day. And II our car
conductors can save nothing ut that business,
they should reject it at once and try something
better. They need not go to Kansas or Minnesota
| for this. At this season, work is abundant near
| at hand and in every direction. The Srping liz
backward; we shall have planting, tillng and
the Summer harvest crowdng close on each
other: and we are confident that hundred
thousand good men could find work within two
days walk of our City if they were to try. If,
then, a man has no work here, or none that
enables him TO save any thing, let him just
walk off in any direction inquiring for work ms
he goes. If, being out of work and out OF
money, lac knows nothing of farming it
is high time he were learning. Let him say
to the first farmer who needs help: 6 am
NEEDY and ragged; give me work and teach
enc, and | will ask no wages till you think |
" can earn them" In little while, he will DO
able to make terms.
III. We do not urge those who have nothing
TO strike off for the new West. But. if those
who ought to go West, because they would
profit by doing so, should do it, they would
mako room for many poor fellow
who lacks the means of migration. There
arc thousands Of mechanics and retail traders
in our City who once could and did save
money, but whose families have grown upon
their hands until rents and store-bills threaten
to eat them up. They could sell out and take
away from $1,000 to $1,000 each; and they are
| not likely to increase the amount if they stay
here and struggle on for the next ten years.
TO this large class, we say emphatically, You
can do better where population is sparser,
whether IN the West or the South, as you pre-
A.. " fer. If you are good mechanics, you can do
"wel in either section if you would grow Fruit
and Vegetables, go South; if your taste in
cline to Grain or Cattle growing, try the West
"In either case, large family will be no such
burden as it is here; you can buy or build q
rude dwelling for O years rent of premises
| equally spacious in this City; your new home
twill afford work of some kind for your larger
children; and, with industry, hugality, and
" good management, you can grow into compe-
"tence and comfort, while here you would be
"quite apt to grow poorer. Start while you have
"still the means"
III. AS to those who being settled here, have
work enough and good pay for it, We do not
advise them to migrate, but rather stay and
save so as to he ready to go full handed when
the proper time shall have como. IL seems to
MS that every man should aspire to have q
home Of his own before no dics--one not re-
stricted to q lot % feet by 100. We all natur-