The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-02 00:00:00

to be able to point to our exhauctlesa ingenuity as di64
played throughout the range of our manufactured pro'
ducts, and to wield the vast wealth which
us ; hut if these triumphs can only be achieved by the
sacrifice of the health and morals of our working Pa-
pulation—if our wealth is to continue thus dyed in the
blood of infants, and its acquisition to be tracked in
" perish
crime and suffering--we are prepared to say
that wealth—perish that manufacturing supremacy
which is purchased at such a cost !" thiey hrins
of
Most sincerely do we trust that the provisions
Sir James Graham's Factory and Education Bill no
employ iY
be at once extended to the population en the
ed
lace manufactures of Great Britain; for surely after.
this he must be indeed a hardy man who can contend
thatthe bodily and intellectual training of the children
of the working classes can be safely left to the to;
checked control of either employers or parents. Wha
can voluntaryism or the Sunday school system do--
what have they done—to meet such an evil as we have
here exhibited ? Comparatively nothing. And,...,Tet
we dare say that the very people, under whose. oil
contemplation are these scenes of festering vice an
appalling human suffering, are at this moment loading
the tables of the House of Commons with
against a measure of education and protection, for.
children similarly situated in the factory districts, an
a
talking forsooth of their opposition to .it be_ng---for
conscience sake ! petitions

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There can scarcely be' any man stupid ell°llgi, le
believe that the recent unworthy attack of Mr. Par
upon certain 'members of the Watch Committee, wa:
instigated by any better feeling than to give antloYanc
It imputed, by a sidewind, to no less than seven gen-
tlemen; equal in every respect—in character, talents,
and position, as well—to himself, the possibility, or 11:
ther probability, of their being influenced by klish°flesit
motives in the performance of their onerous duties.
said to them, in substance, " you are not men of I'9-
nour ; you are capable of acts in your official capacitY4i
which, performed in your individual capacity, w°ll
render you unworthy of the name of gentlemen or

even honest men."
We should not have thought it worth while to allude
to any thing so contemptible, were it not
for the ()p:
portunity which it presents to us of urging 1113°11 the
better conducted portion of the " liberal" PartY ind to
council the propriety of, if possible, putting an en,•eit
the scenes of personal attack and recrimination "'",l
too frequently disgrace the proceedings of that hbi_aeY.:
Is it not possible for gentlemen, opposed thOtlgh
may be in politics, to debate matters of merely local Icui,
terest without forgetting the ordinary amenities of re,
vilized society ? It may certainly be difficult t° of
al
strain, within any reasonable grounds, a gentleml he
Mr. Alderman Earle's peculiar organization ; but 1.0.
will persist in his unseemly displays, surely it is
l
able
ratter to allow him to remain " alone in his giora.,
Why should any men who have respect for their ewe
racter contest with such a one his very questialia
honours?