New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-09-21


operaton il to be reduced to practice for cannot
tell. That there will be experiments, and mistakes
and failures in the earlier tentative stages OF the
reform, foresee; that rogues and charlatans VIII
seize upon it in the hope of thereby promoting tfer
own selfish ends; clearly oil this, but think
discern brighter vista stretching away beyond H.
Now that the republican theory has been iuiiy APP
Piled to government and proved success ai'er
making all due allowance for drawbacks pehe'o
it's application to Industry is only question Oh to
that the workers who make clothes or shoes' Oh
whatever else nav minister to human sustenahce
and comfort will learn how to do this as partners
rather than hirelings dividing equitaby and whohy
the proceeds instead of accepting share OF the 10
wages Years If not ages may yet be required 10 per
feet the safeguards whereby the cooperation OF WORK
ers alone may be rendered practicable, benehcen.
and secure and yet feel assured that the day VIII
come in which he who wants q house built IN Cih.
cinnati will apply to corporation OF pracuca'
builders organized like any bank or railroad coni
pany bargain with the agent OF that corpoI"-
ton as he now does with master-builder OF hiin'
and have his work done at least as well and Us rea
sonably as now, while the stipulated pnce VIII DO
wholly and fairly apportoned among those VINO
have earned it, II YOU ask, "WheFe is the capital
to be hadi" point to the hundreds OF millions NO"
deposited in Savings Banks whereof at least TWO
thirds belong to working men and women, ana say
"There il tsp The depositors are careful, SAVING
thrifty persons, who viii not risk their scanty
boards in rash experiments-ag, indeed, they snouiu
not)-but whenever it shall have been demonstrated
that they may as safely invest in cooperative under
tal1ings as lend to those by whom the LaDoIlhg
Class are now hired and paid, there will be no lack
of capital for such investment, even though tne
rich should supply none oft.
Ours is prominently an age of lnvention-ot IN
dnsirial Progress. / can remember time when tue
steamboat was still novelty and freside mar
yel-when no mile of iron track had yet been lald
on The surface of our planet-when American canals
were merely contriyances for crcumyenting cata-
raots and of small account anyhOw-when no steaul-
propelled vessel had ever crossed sea-and when
the Electric Telegraph was as nconceivable as q
broad firm highway TO the moon. To NOV grass,
cut grain, or sew garments by machinery, was then
unimagined; we exported no grain but that grown
near the shores of the Atlantic its bays and nlets;
and our mails were wholly drawn by horses at an
average speed OF less than fifty miles per day.
Looking back at The immense strides of Invention
and Machinery of Steam and Electricity during
the present century and mainly i'll my day, VINO can
nationally doubt that Industrial Progress Is YET
on the threshold of It's caTeer-that tne IN
yentiOns of the next half-century must lar
surpass in scope and utility those OF the preceding
Happy the generation just entering upon inns stage
of being if its leaders and teachers shall realZe hat
the nOblest achievement toward which ITS eNer!i0ns
should be direced, the highest attainment Wlthlh
its reach is a generous more enlightened more
courageous mole devoted generation to follow It,
qualified and ntted to take up the work when lI s
Predecessor has laid down, and bear II on TO stlil
grander more bmetcent triumphs.