The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-11-12 00:00:00

MR. T. HUGHES IN AMERICA.

Mr. T. Hughes, on the 21st ult , delivered
at the Cooper Institute, New York, to a very large
aniience, • farewell address before leaving the United
States. After • few introductory remark., he gave
an account of the labour movement in England in
terms very similar to these he has ,used in treating of
the RAMO subject in England. In conclusion he said
that although America had something to learn from
Eagland as to the best method of settling the old die.
pute between labour and capital, flO as to secure the
highest results, he was bound to admit that when
these results were attained Englishmen had more
to learn of Americans as to the way in which
wealth should be spent, for the latter seemed to
him to have realim more than any other people
among whom he had been, that the produce
of labour—the wealth which flowed in upon their
citizens in such full measure—should be held and
used as a trust and benefit, not of themselvee and their
families only, but of the whole commonwealth, and,
in time, of the whole human race. It seemed to him
that in the use made in the two countries of thaw vast
fortunes which must inevitably accumulate in some
few hand, in times of Immense commercial enterprise
, and activity such as those we live in, the democratic
"THE YOUNG LADY FIRST I" wee beating the aristocratic society out of sight. An
ordinarily prosperous merchant or professional man in
' the/Od'erluselselliabersinsa .O.Slool o.ffaiwastts" gegionit awarding to his
was also heal 0, which was an action or breach of promise
of marriage. Toe defendant pleaded that • sufficient time means. It was when he got clear to the front, and
had not 13.opsed to enable him to perform his promise, and passed into the first rank that he broke down. When
aim that, before the alleged breach, the plaintiff exonerated larger sums accumulated in his hands in a short
and discharged him In regard to such promise, time for which he had no used, his first idea was
In opening the case, Mr. Giffard said the plaintiff to found • family; the peerage, or at any rate the
was the daughter of • surgeon, at Swansea, who died baronetage began to look lovely In his eyes, and he
seven or eight years ago. His widow had since then must have a place at the first step of that weary ladder.

a in wale aormty. He would baild khottaa a little
bigger than that of the mania Doke Of 744 Among.
Americans, on the other hand, no gnarl seemed to;
want to found a family; indeed, no Aft:di:lan he had;
ever met thought it possible, even if they had a wishi
to do it. Accordingly, when their tweettenooessful men
bad all in the shape of combat and losary which
they desired and had come moue against the rlst. in ode
natural law that a man could only eat one log of
mutton or drive in one carriage at a time, their first
idea, if they had any faith or public spirit, wae
" What can I d 4 with all this lump of mosey for the
good of my State or Lay country ? " And theta, as
fortunately the number of human beings who sire about
accumulating wealth for its own sake were few in num-
ber, or, went Cooper Institutes, Cornell Universitiee,
Girard Collegex, and the like and after the exertion
the poor millionaire felt muds better, shook himself
down comfortably again to his homely, simple, daily
life, and could once more breathe freely. It seemed
to him that their democratic institutions, which for-
bade the graduation of rank and class which we have
in England, had tbie splendid advantage, that they
were far mo.e favourable to the growth of public spirit
is the use of wealth, and he confessed that, in this
respect, we had much to learn of America, and he
feared we should take generations to learn it. At the
conclusion of the lecture cheers were given for Mr,
Hughes, the champion of the working men, and the
large audience separated.