New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-30

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of the human race.
Tbis Industrial Bureau, under City manage
ment sbould be encouraged by every good
citizen. that it may, after experience has been
gained Give n decided direction to such as
ought to leave the city for the country or, at
least, to engage in common and useful industry
But a more extended organization will be re-
quired than exists at present, and the success
attending its operation, as seen by our exhibit,
will make future extension iustliiable; tor'
to secure the best results, the City must
take nnon itself the whole business OF finding
emnlovment for those seeking it, and, event
ually, for those who ought to seek IT. and TINS
for several reasons one of which we Will name,
and II is of great Importance. No extended
anternrise ny business connected with the we'll
being of society can bear full fruit unless 1t IS
possessed of all the facts which relate TO IT,
that classification may be instituted. A City
Intelligence Bureau must have full control
and its books must show entries of all the APP
plicants. that rs soon as possible, they may be
classified on the basis of their worth. The Old
intelligence offices are little more than houses
of refuge for many worthless characters for
when they are exposed at one office, II expo
another and it is notorious that such pass
their lives in fitting from one situation
to another and staying only until they
prove themselves incompetent, or dis
honest or probably both. Were there one
general Office, with a suitable number Oh
branches, and in each record and description
of all applicants, such persons would soon be
detected, their character would be fixed, and
they would be obliged to reform themselves, or
to leave the city. Now they swarm everywhere
they are skilled in selecting the unwary and
the confiding they are adopts in promises and
in describing their profclences, and while they
obscure the we'll disposed until they can cor
rupt them, they form the great obstacle to
the performance and to the obtaining OF far
and honest work. 1t is none too soon
that the city has made move toward
effecting reform, for the good of all
classes. Undoubtedly, employers should be
| cautioned to be considerable, humane, and
merciful, and above all that their department
toward these in their employ shall be melted
by patient and Christian spirit. But pretend
ers of various kinds claiming that no work
| can be found, sturdy beggars and unfortunates,
with their tales Of woe and disaster, should, in
some form, come under guardianship and direc-
ton and we are convinced that much
can be done toward giving honest bread to
the idle and toward relieving tho burdens OF
patient and accomplishing industry. After SO
much shall have been accomplished, the way,
not improbably, will be prepared for assuring
employment to persons of some standing in
society, who, with limited or no means, or
| without information, or with an infrmity OF
purpose, pass days and months in idleness,
and finally drift away into misfortune and
crime. But work so great will properly
belong to coming generation. STILL
it seems to us, that in ours we can lay its
foundation, by encouraging and perfecting the
enterprise which is the subject Of our remarks
The fruit of benevolent efforts made in past
generations by men and women now sleeping
in dust, certainly has been bequoathed to us
and much of whatever we are doing to benefit
our kind is derived from this source, Will
our best Judgment, let us give to the future a:
much as We have received from the past