Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-01-09
BY C. L. SHOLES.
From the Boston Post.

language than that in which the London
Herald deplores The degraded condition of
the industrial classes of Great Britain. 1t
does not shrink from the work of an indie
pendent journalist. 1t places the monster
British wretchedness-before it in all its
hideousness. 1t then demands action, and
predicts the consequence of longer delay.
The latter, it boldly AYERS, will be suicidal.
1t thinks the crisis has come-.for English
poverty fraternizes nith Irish agitation! =
JOSEPH SURGE, one Of the chartist cham
pions, compounds, in behalf of one branch
Of the five millions Of British chartists,
with DANIEL O'CoNNELL, and pledges
sympathy, and, if needs be, help! The
Quaker patriot tells the Irish liberato' that
he is asking for his down trodden country
men emily that which the law Of nature and
natures God entities them to-a local leg
isaturc and that the English chartists
are with their Irish brethren, heart and
soul. Here is new feature in the pic
ture Of English, Irish and Welsh agitation.
All that are Engaged in these agitations are
bound together by the bond OF suffering
and principles; and every move they make
is seconded by every strike among the
destitute manufacturing population and
every meeting Of the great anti-corn law
league. All tend to one point--relief for
the growing destitulion Of the millions COM
posing the population of Great Britain.
The London HeIaid-tory-thus COM
mences:
"The bitter, grinding, and Increasing
poverty OF the Industrial classes is tie dis
ease OF the United King lom. Poverty is
Becca,' said handwriting Welshman the
other day; and poverty is chartism. power
ty is repeal agitation, poverty is anii-corn
law league fury. Ireland is afflicted, re-
ported in 1873 the commi ssioners appoint
ed to inquire into the condition Of its poor
er classes, with 1855, 600 destitute human
beings In England, stated SIR James
Grahnm. last session of Parl amcnt, there
were then L. 10, 600 persons receiving pa
rochial relic, 10 which must be added at
least an equal number Of unrelieyed cases
of semi starvation. And the condition of
tho poorer classes in the larg. towns Of
Scotland Is rapidly becoming, DR.. Alison
assures us, Ii>i;zed, and so d stressing is
the general state o the working people in
Scotland. that compulsory poor law is an
evil impending owe: that country. And
yet, in spite of all this poverty and mise
nv, our population incr, asses at the rate OF
about 500 souls per day, and year after
year matters become worse, instead of bet
ter
After going on in similar strain, the
herald writes as toilOwS:-
.Oh! we may be told. poverty shall
never ceus2 out OF the land true, most
true; but the poverty we complain OF is
very likely to make the land cease; the
poverty we point to is rapidly bring ng
millions TO the conviction that revolution
would be 10 them blessed change, the po-
verify we refer to is quickly paganlz'ng
large classes Of the community. 1t is a
poverty which cannot be left to neglect
to c,eom ssynarv reliel-to poor laws-to
Young Ergl md m )nrstaries-or to poilt-
cal economy, with safety. 1t is poverty
which no historic ionown, no amount of
national greatness, no extent o. external
territorial development can compensate for.
1t IS a poverty which is making the people
savage, is bringing the monarchy INTO con-
tempt, is destroying hope. is promoting
turbulence, and is lomenting spirit OF dis
order
"Unkind already, and estranged in part,
The wolf begins to share their wandering heart.
Good God, can any man think Of last
wears outbreaks in the manufacturing dis
tricts, of contemporancous disorders in
Wales, and of present and unfinished agi
tation in itek.nd, ard then coollv satisfy
himself with the sacred quotation, Poverty
shall never cease out of the landn From
the conflicts in Lancashire, from the hills
IN Wales, and from the monster meetings
in Ireland, the same cry was 10 be heard
- We are pe;ishing in the midst Of plcn-
ty: we are starving IN spite OF abundance.
But loudly as the Herald prociaimS the
disease, il does not 60 TO the cause. 1t does
not tell the British aristoc?acy, whose
splendid palaces il visits daily, that they
are the fountains whence flow these
streams of misery; that the monarchy and
is appendices are like upper and neither
mlstones 20 the industrial poor; that the
root of the evil lies in the power which ca
pital, by means Of law. have acquired over
labor; and that to these destitute millions
all prospect Of bcnoft,ng their condition
is hopeless without q revolution, as the
men who own all the land, also do all the
legislation; and that these men will abolish
their infamous restrictive system. their en-.
tail laws, their church establishment, their
pension list, their hereditary privileges
but at the point Of the bayonet. None Of
these startling truths go with the Herald in
TO the gilded saloons Of the powerful anC
rich. But the ears tina; hear such details
Of wretchedness IRE tickled by the propo-
sition that some great charitable scheme
of national education. subscribed 10 by the
nobility and gentry in proper graciousnes'
or some new patch in the poor law, oil
some scheme TO raise wages by law, OF
some other equally namby PANTY dose
which will be the cure-all of this deeply
seated ase.-and when some archbish
op Of Canterbury, out Of his large daily in
come. subscribes his $500; or her majesty
out of her daily allowance of $500 from
Ethe British Nation, subscribes her pittance
the amour, is chronicled as evidence oil
their fratermtyor the destitute poor! Ant
the sooner the destitute millions of Grea