The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-09-03
lizard Times in ENGLAND.

At late Corn Law meeting in Manchester
England, II. Smith, Es,I., President Of the Cham
Der of Commerce, stated that in the township Of
Manchester, in 1896, there were ,! empty ware.
houses, there are now $40. In 1896 there were
in Manchester 300 or 400 empty houses; there
are now about 1900 In Stockport, there are 1000
empty houses; in oldham, 100 in Bolton 1900;
in Bury, 1900; and in Stafford 400.
The Rev. Daniel Heame said
| ale went lately to administer the consultations
of religion to a poor dying woman. On arriving
at her bedside she seemed to be alone. He asked
her if she was Johnny said She and mmc-
dlatey a sack in the corner of the room began to
move, and out of these tumblcd the poor woman s
sons, their only bed being the inside OF the sacks
filled with shayings. He had about 10000 Of his
flock living within half mile of his chapel.
Scarcely single Catholic, unless in cases of sud
den death, brcathcd his last without sending for
the priest and of these (and he spoke from pcrso-
nal obscrvation) at least onc-half died from star
walton. Talk of war ravaging country; better
by far was he who died by the sword than he who
was stricken by famine Men in want of tempo
raj comfort, were but ll-fttcd to receive the con-
solutions of religion--tor he had found how
difficult 1t was, when the poor man was dying,
with his starving children around him, to stop the
word of blasphcmy issuing from his lips, in his
parting breath
What! "Na;d Times in Enghnl!" with her
National Bank--hcr Taxes on every thing that
she impor,s-on the silks that cover the rich and
the bread the poor man cats! Aye, Hard
Times in Enelandr Let it wiring throughout
the land, that in England, where home Industry is
protectcd by her rulers and National Bank is in
full operation, that the poor arc suffering for the
ncccssarics of life, and thousands die of starva.
ton
What comment is this on the policy of the
Clay dynasty, who would initiate England and
pattern after her institutions! If American citl-
zcns wish similar state of things to prevail in
this country as the quoted paragraph above gives
of England, let them establish u National Bank
and encourage our Aristocracy in the eastern
manufacturing cticsby protecting thcirworkman-
ship from foreign competition, and not many
years will clapsc before we will have a splendid
government with an impoverished people" As
'''' 80 '' l'''"'' INV loulN
ted by England, aud extends privileges to a GER
tain class Of citizens at the expense Of the balance
so soon will individual enterprise be smothcrcd
and after corporated institutions are once firmly
established, and free and uninterrupted in
tercousc with other nations is once checked, time
Is only required for this system to engrail
itself with the free institutions of our country,
to reduce the mass of the American people to a
level with the operatives of Europc-thc same
| policy will produce the same result.
| Thanks to the enlightened wisdom of President
TYLER! The blow he has struck in defence
of his country, by strangling the infant monster
of oppression in its whiting cloths, has raised
him high above the shafts of calumnv that a
selfish and yindictivc party spirit hurs at his bold
and patriotic sentiments His name will live
with that of Washington, Jefferson, and a
Jackson, near and dear to every advocate of true
principles aud republican government; and whilst
the tongue OF rcproach and unhallowcd bIasphcmy
which may now dcrilc his principles and curse
his name is scnccd by the course of time. he will
stand side by side with the noble and the great
posteriiy will shout his name in praise, and un.
born millions cherish his principles and revere the
name $50 mote it be-