New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-04-30

other degraded Castes in India In all countries.
where you possess no Rights YOU are looked upon
with contempt ~ lie Higher Cl1sscs Who live upon
your Labor and who without you, would be poor
weak and destitute creatures, starving upon the
| fruitful Earth. In countries where YOU have con-
quered some Political Rights, such "a the Right
to vote, YOU are on he other hand servely fat
tered and lied to BY those who only raise them
selves with your aid. In proof of thi', sec the
| Messages Of all our Governors and Presidents :
they arc filed with fulsome praises Of your Intel
ligesce and Independence. and with pompous and
deceptive misrepresentation Of ysur Prosperity
and Happiness. The Political Press teens also
with serve and hypocritical misrepresentation,
and every thing seems TO combine to bewildcr and
lead YOU a,tray. We shall cndeavor to tell YOU the
truth, and hope our iraukness will not offend.
Your condition in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
when YOU were Slaves and Ssri. was most fright
fu; ard still you suffer no doubt, at present, more
killing anxiety aud scvercr drudgery than at any
former period. In order the terrible Poverty
and Misery which our present Societies entail upon
YOU, We must look to Europe, where the sy.tcrns of
Free Competition and Hired Labor have produced
| their full effects. You somewhat better of in
TIL, Country, because there arc All immense cx'oni
of soil and thin population, and because there l.
a vnst amount OF labor to be done, which cannot b.
performed by machinery; but in a century moro YOU
will il the present .y.tem Dc continued, he sunk H.
the same dc.iituton. IN saying that YOU ,re better
of, wc mean that you receive , few shinss msr
a day for your labor, and toll Il f-w hours less bu'
you are exc, here hired Dridge-, dependent on
Capitalist. aud Employers; you arc without the
ENJOYMENT ofthc irt. AID Sciences ,-cxtcnded So
cinl r.larion..-thc reincmcns Of life, and nearly
every thing that give. a charm To cNistcEcc still
YOU are not reduced that of semi-staryati0n
and bruslzing toll that your fellow Liborcrs are in
Europe, but your condition is growing yearly worse
and YOU are vcrging rapidly towards the same Dc
pendcnce and Poverty. Let their condition be "A
warning for YOU, aud if you take pride in the
Elevation of your Glass, if you feel for the welfare
of ,our Children and Grand-C hildrcn, advocate a
Reform in the present false and wretched Organ
za,ion of Society, which entails Poverty upon YOU
who produce all Wealth, and throws its hardshirs
upon you. who deserve the most.
We drew picture Of the Laborcr of the Eas,
and the Laborcr of Antiquity; let us glance at the
Laborcr of Europc,-thc most civilized country on
the Earth. The Laboring Glasses of Europe re-
ccive on an averagc,-taking the North and the
South, going from Italy to Denmark about ten
cents per day, and work from fourteen to eighteen
hours. The immense MINORITY are sunk in COM
pcte Ignorance; they live in miserable huts and
novels, and on the ccarsest vegetable food they
are shut out from all the higher enioyments of
life from Art, Science, Literature, agreeable So
ciul Relations, and the power OF travelling; all the
CHER aspirations which Nature has implanted in the
human Soul are unsatisfied thwarIcd or smo,hercd
and they are removed but one degree abo.e the ami
mails that surround them. In louth, they left
without education in Sickness, without care
when out Of Employment to starvc; and IN Old
Age, to suffer in their helplcs.ness. Such are the
results Of our boasted Civilized Societies, which
require, in the opinion of the great majority of
persons, no Reform.
We will illustrate their condition with few oX
amples In France, eight millions of Peasants live
on chcsnuts and such unnutritious trash; twenty-five
millions drink no wine, ahough France supple. the
the people are so poor that they have no beds, but
make couch of dry leaves. which, during the win
ter, become dccayed and full Of worms, so that
Parents and Children, on rising in the morning,
scrapc them from their bodies. In Ireland, three
millions of Peasants have not enough even OF third
rate Potatoes to support them during than half
the year. In Sicily the Peasants are frequently found
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Chronicle estimates the income of the Agricultural
Isborer. of considerable part of England at about
IS. I'd. sterling per week. and this, allowing -. Sd.
per week for rent and fuel, Cd. for soap, candies
&c, leaves 5s. for food, which, for man and wife
and four children il just l0d. week for each ; or,
allowing them fsod three times a day, it will give
something less than one halfpenny meal Such
is the condition of the Agricultural Classc. of
Europe.
We will point out briefly, in terminating. tho
condition Of the Manufacturing Classes. We will
quote Dr. Hays remarks those Of Manchester.
Leeds and Glasgow; it is but a sample of the
Of Europe, and Of what will be in this Country:
The Manufacturing Population is crowded into
| one dense mass, IN cottages separated by narrow
and almost pe.tilential streets. The Operatives
are congrcgated in workshops, in an cncryatng,
heated atmosphere which is loaded with dust OF
the 6laments OF cotton They are drudgcs, who
watch the movements and assist the operations OF
mighty material force which tolls with an energy
ever unconscious of fatigue. The perseycring labor
OF the Operative must rival the mathematical pre-
c'sion, the incessant motion and the exhaustess
power of the machine Having been subject to
| the prolonged labor of an aninial-his physical
energy wasted, his mind in supine inacton-he
| neither moral nal
ganc strength 10 resist the .educ,ions of his Ape
titles. Domestic Economy i. neclecied-Domc.tc
Comforts are unknown. 4 meal of the coarscst
fo,d i. prepared with needless haste and d.youred