The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-10 00:00:00

No. 16,350.

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Lion. Why it was a long apprettieeship for those 4
serve who were young, and those who were not he: go
afraid might be in want of health and spirits toget
They had certainly gained by the way ; and, ;non the
whole, he did no: think there was any concern in, this
We
town that at the beginning of this new j.ear couhl 'a
stock" with more hopeful prospects than they would is
the Anti-Corn-law League.—(Cheers). They,liact./1.1
opposition shops set up to them, they
.hats had a goo.
many such concerns, and .they had all failed. Thalia
had been a concern for curing the distress% of the eO.Oll
try by transporting people to other countries, fat
that broke down—(flear, hear)—and latterly we 1.4
had a scheme, amongst others, for Oving peo pia
potato-gardens instead of wages, and they were cabiedi
" allotments," and that we heard no more abciae„
What would be the next opposition affair he did not
know, but whatever it might happen to ten t one
but it would assume the cloak of humanity, in order to
deceive honest and not very shrewd people., -(Cheers.)
Now, we had been charged with intolerance, ;because we
had found fault with soma projects that had b( ten brought
forward to remedy the distresses of the count 7. Why,
if they quarrelled with them at all, it was be muse they
had been ostentatious projects, brought forw? ;la! to cit.
vert public atteriffon, and riot, as they believed,. with the
real intention of serviug the object professed by. the pro.
petinders.—(llear, hear.) Who could say :that the
League had ever found fanit with private beisevolence
or had ever stopped to quarrel with men onini about
to do good, and not seeking to proclaim trumpet-,.ongued
their own goof works ? But it was when ins n who
supported the corn-laws were found ostentatious,ll • pro-
pounding other schemes to meet a great political a I'd, it
was then that they had a right to criticise and qua stifle
the intelligence, at least, of those parties, and to ask.how
they could- profess to serve the people, while at the tarn*
time, by their votes, they were trying
to starve and cm.
poverish the people ?—(Cheers.) Ile must confess th. tt
having been let a little behind the scenes in the condu et
of these parties, he did suspect that a great number
those who had got a reputation of being benevolent
minded in public matters, were trying to start these
false scents with the iew of leading the people off from)
the question of the corn-laws.—(Cheers.) Ordinary in-.
telligenee might teach them the utter futility of trying
to benefit the people who, by their own legislatiown,
were kept short of the necessaries of life. They told its
that the people wanted water, and wanted good house 3.
No doubt these were excellent adjuncts, and indeed abso-
lute requisites, to a civilised and comfortable state or
existence ; but did they ever hear of people short of
food keeping themselves clean or warm, or being com-
fortably housed ?—(lfear, hear.) What was the state
of the people in the worst district of Edinburgh ? Were/
they inhabiting miserable hovels—were they wanting;
of well-built houses ? No ; the very worst popula-
tion of all Edinburgh were inhabiting what were
once the palaces of the nobility and Queen Regent
of Scotland ; and if they would put the whole po-.
pulation of London into Buckingham Palaces or
Windsor Castles—if they kept that population on a short:
allowance of the first necessaries of life, they would be ass
degraded and debased as they were now in St. Giles's.--
(Cheers.) Now, he would charge with inconsistency,.
and express his detestation of the motives of those whc'.
he saw prominent in advocating better houses and a bettor
supply of water to the people, and who at the same time
denied them employment and food. He hoped he should
always be ready to discriminate and give the meed or
praise to those men who, whilst they were aiding, or at.
least sanctioning, the remedying of the evils which they
as free traders attacked, were also prominent in advo-
cating other ameliorations of the condition of the people..
—(Cheers.) He received a letter the other day from
an old friend of his, and a fellow-labourer in those efforts.
they made six or seven years ago in the cause of educa-.
tion—he meant Mr. James Simpson, of Edinburgh—in.
which he spoke in somewhat a tone of complaint of the.
remarks which were made in Covent-garden Theatre.
upon the subject of public baths. Now he (Mr. Cobden>
should be anxious to pay the tribute of his highest.
admiration to the conduct Mr. Simpson had pursued'.
He had not prominently advocated free trade in corn ;
but lie had been a silent contributor of his pound or so,
to the League, and they knew that they had his good
wishes. But if he or any one else thought they could
promote the benefit of mankind, by giving their atten-
tion to other questions, why God speed to him, and he
wished him well in his labours.—(Cheers.) He saw a
great many working people present ; indeed, hew could.
they assemble 5,000 or 6,000 people in that Ilah
without having a great portion of those who worked'
with skilled hands and heads fer their living ? Ands
he never liked to omit saying a word to them on
the state of their question, though it was difficult to
say anything that should savour of novelty. But
they had heard what Mr. Brown had told them of
the condition of the people in the United States.
He told them that every ;person there had seven
pigs and five sheep, and that there were 14 horses to
every family. Did it ever strike a working man what
is the reason that every family has more horses, and
every man has more pigs and sheep, and quarters of
corn, in that country ? Why, it was simply for this
reason, that there were more horses, and pigs, and sheep,
and quarters of corn in that country, in proportion to
the people, than there were in this country,—(fleal.)
And was there any working man who had not carried
his logic and argumentation a little further, and said to
himself, " If there is less for the whole of the people of
this country than there is in America, it is impossible.
that each individual can have so much as each individual
in America." And when somebody must go short, de-
pend upon it the short commons would fall upon the man
who was the poorest in the laud.—(Hear.) Now, this
seemed to him to illustrate what free traders meant by
having corn and provisions cheap; they meant to have,
them plentiful. It was only a kind of conventional term.
for "plenty," when they said "cheap ;" it would be a
better term to use " plenty," instead of " cheapness"—
indeed, as the old compilers of our Prayer-book did,
when they called it sometimes plenty, and sometimes
cheapness. But if they had not pigs, corn, and sheep in
the land, the people could not eat them ; and the only
way he was aware of was that of getting more into the
land. True, some of the agriculturists told them (anti
his friend Mr. Philips would bear out what he said),.
that if they would only wait they would produce as
much as the people wanted to eat. Now, they had waited
for thirty years, and they had not done it ; and he
thought they were playing the dogs in the manger now,
for they would neither do it themselves nor let other
people do it.—(Loud cheers.) Well, they had had
another turn of the wheel ; the wheel of fortune
had gone round, and now they appeared to be on
the upper spoke of the wheel, and the agriculturists.
were down in the mud. The agricultural class was
now the class that was sufferine.' more than any in
the :country for want of food. Now, there was not.
a more helpless class in the community than., the
agricultural labourers they had not the means of com-
bination ; they never met to express their grievances
they lived a solitary life ; and we heard nothing of their
distresses except through those horrid outbreaks of in-
cendiary fires.—(hear, hear.) Well, if there was not
another motive on earth to induce us to go on with this
agitation, to get more food into the country in order that
the people might have more food than they had now got,
the condition of the agricultural labourer ought to excite
us to continue those exertions.—(Cheers) Let it he re-
collected that this great community around them was
committed before the world to the carrying out of this
cause.— (Cheers.) This agitation had been cradled in.
Manchester, and monopoly must be coffined in Man-
chester.—(Loud cheers.) Every age, every generation,
had some distinguishing struggle that marked its his-
tory. In one century we had the contest for religious
freedom— another century marks the era of political
freedom—another century comes, and the great battle
of commercial freedom has to be fought—(Cheers)—
and Manchester, and those free cotton districts around
it (he called it a free district because the cotton trade
bad never been dandled by protection, and never owned
its devotion to monopoly)—were pledged to take the lead
in this great contest—a contest that had already become
historical ; for it was marked upon our Parliamentary
annals as one of the greatest of modern combinations.—
(Cheers.) Tilt y could not draw back from this contest,
but they must bring not merely disgrace upon them-
' selves, but disgrace upon the nation, and prove them-
selves recreant from the very race from which they
sprung.—(Applause.) It was not a mere contest for a
few more pigs, a few more sheep, or a little more corn.
If the mere physical, the material gain to which we were
looking, was all that we had to hope from the trial of our
principles, why it would be a sordid and mercenary con-
flict after all. No ; the triumph of free trade Was the
triumph of pacific principles between all the nations of
the earth.—(Cheers.) It was a blow, and a death-blow
to the old system of diplomatic intrigues between the
governments of countries.—(Cheers.) It was makin
them, as the industrious fabricators of this district, and
g
dors and merchants of this country, it was giving to
their friend Mr. Brown, and such as him, the enthuse-
them the title-deeds by which they would secure to
themselves and all nations the blessings of peace for all
times.—(Loud cheers.) He saw in the distance—he
might perhaps be dreaming—(No, no)--but he saw in
the distance a world's revolution involved in the triumphs
of free trade principles.—(Cheers.) The very motives
which had led governments and ambitious rulers to rear
up great empires, and to aggrandise the world's terri-
thheosehamdotitvaeusgwht ouldbe gone, and gone for ever,
when people that they could better
tory—t
y
profit by the prosperity and freedom of other nations,
through the peacetul paths of industry, than they could
triumph through the force of war or military conquest
(Cheers.) He might be dreaming, but he thought he saw
in the distance that
great empires, and vast and power-
hnaecdeesssa tar
power-
ful military and naval establishments, would be no longer
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throughout
what he said was founded in reason, and not the dreams
of the imagination, then he said this was a cause which
was worth contending for; one that not merely the mer-
chant and the manufacturer, but the philanthropist and
the Christian might well lay hold of, and glory that he
had lived in an age when he might take a share in the
conquest over selfishness and monopoly.—(Cheers.) Ali!
that word monopoly; if they could only get people to
understand what it meant! Why then, if the very name
was fixed on the back of a candidate, it would be suffi-
cient to secure his defeat at the poll,—(Cheers.) It was
an odious word. It was a curious fact, but it was a word
not known to our forefathers, the ancient Britons. Their
Welsh lecturer had got a distinguished linguist to trans-
late it into Welsh, and after a good deal of study they
turned it into a phrase which he again converted back
into English, and it was " a one-handed bargain."—
(Great laughter.) Our manufacturers and millowncrs
sometimes shouted and hurrsted for this one-handed bar-
gain. Now, there was a meeting the other day at Ash-
ton-under-Lyne—a meeting of the Conservative Asso-
ciation; there were 400 of them—at which Mr. Entwisle
Mr. Tatton Egerton, and Mr. Cornwall Legh attended
There was a Mr. De Hollineworth there—he had revive
the old Norman prefix to his name ; it was not 'Jai
" Mr. Flollingworth" now, but he bed added the " Le
before it—lle nollingwortli !—(Great laughter.) W ell
h© made a speech. Bear in mind he was speaking
Aabton, a place that had grown into existence, it nai