New-York tribune., 1878-12-24
1t is feared that the parisans Of exPresdent Guzmar
BlancO Will create disorder.
SOL U7YoNS OF THE SOCIAL PROBLEM.
LECTURE BY PARKE GOODWIN BEFORE THE WORK
INGMEN's LYCEUM.

A LECTURE BY PARKE GOODWIN BEFORE THE WORK
INGMEN's LYCEUM.
Parke Goodwin delivered an address before
the worlngmen's Lyceum, at Cooper Institute. last
evening, on The Social Problem" The audience was
composed largely Of workingmen who showed their
sympathy with the views Of the speaker by frequent ana
hearty applause.
Society,"" said the speaker appears to be composed
Of labyrinth OF probems-problems that are pressing
for solution The question H. In what way can the pro-
ductve forces of society be applied so that men may
grow In a genuine manhood The difference between
former times and the present is that then authority
ruled, whereas now liberty OF thought has sway "here
authority the have civic existence, anu
so cannot grow in manhood After the reign OF author
y agriculture and and the sciences we're de-
veoped The faculties Of the mind captured the forces
of nature. NOw-a-days wherever We look we nnd new
ministers TO mans Improvement and soace for his mis-
eres There is O shaaowy side, however to this picture
OF our happiness We about us large numbers OF men
who willing TO work II work were only given 10
them Others in poverty, or are harassed by per-
pe;ual fears for the future.
system Of free labor II is true, has its mperfec-
tiOns and they apparent TO all. The extreme d.
von Of labor tends to make machines Of men, and sad
indeed, IL the sight Of women and children In our mills.
Again, the capitalist can afford 10 await resuitsn ad-
rTrsOpa service to tho work. That the laborers will
combine TO protect themselves wuen tne progress o
there can be little doubt IA class they, too, as wen
as capitalist. could afford 70 await results And IN
t,me believe they will win. For capital is dead thing
"a tool y-while a abOrer IL living force. Any
fool NAV own capital but 10 requires brain TO use IL
properly BY strange freak debt has come 10 be looked
upon capital The two things are totally unlike. In
practice tue organization OF credit inevitably produces
commercial crs5s. From 1898 to 1S7s-for now we
nay say that there is commercial crisis
I'm Germany and in England-there have been
frteen ovcrturnngs Of afairs-nfteen In elgnty
years, and occurring too, al wonderfully regular
intervals. What, tuen, Ia to be said or machlne lnat
throws itself In every five yearsf The
fun ed debts OF the civilized nations amount 10 SoZ
600 the interest which Is furnished by tue
productive labOrers and goes 10 enrich the fund-
holders. go
The problem before how to maintain the liberty
OF labor how to proper distribution or lts
results. There moral, political and an economic
solution, and the last, think. will prove TO be the true
solution II upon the assumption that social de-
velOpment is based upon liked avs; that communities
ike Individual men, act from motives Statistics SHOW
n wonderful uniformity In the laws that govern sOei
Oiocy Crimes IN fixed order, and all great social
events haxe mteligibe aUtecedents and eOnseqnents
need to study facts OF social science and the 10
draw our logical deductions. Some or the elementary
laws have been taught by experience as that or eg
lar development. Advance Is To come IRON perfected
OF and four agents are working TO bring THIS
about assurance; participation In the results OF com
mon enterpTise the principle OF mutual credit, rea noC
fictitious credt and the principle OF cooperative con-
sumption. These Steps practicable, FOR they are
more use and believe that the END or the
century will see the foundations laid OF
grand industrial unity"