Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-11-17

faster than the population and which now. in Great
Britain, equals the labor of 600 100000 men. and
could perform ten times the work required of il
me number OF paupers, yagrants and criminals
theTe Is lSoOoOU, or one-tenth of the whole census:
causing tax for the support of pauperism and
crime winch, Being fixed chiefly upon the necessa-
RES OF he falls principally upon the poor-operating
III compound method 10 multiply paupers and
criminals
lhls is truly frightful condition of affairs and
It may be profitable TO inquire what has occasioneI
IT. Having dwelt upon this subject in our last " g
do not propose 10 resume the consideration of il
now any farther than 10 remark that the same
causes are IN active operation in this country, and
must, If unchecked. produce like results. In thick.
~ populated districts these results, to limited OK
tent, are now to be obser ed and the only reason
why they are not obser, Ell to greater extent. is
that the unoccuped public domain has served to
dram thickiy populated localities OF great portion
OF that class OF population whose condition other
WISE might haze been that of paurerism. and. rer-
hars, OF crime. To be brief the whole trouble is
doubtless 10 be found in the modern system of wa.
seS and labor the tendency of which lin the
Y,
discomfort and revolution because built on an utter
~ false conception OF the value Of money of the la
boTer as an immortal being and of the nobIeness of
work. 1t cannot endure, and, if not gradually re-
formed will rock at last the foundations of society.
The following extract from an article in a late
Herald of Truth in aIIuson to the state OF affairs in
Great Britain, will be interesting to the thoughtful
reader:
Let 1t be kept in mind, that this is notthe
work OF monarchy, as such, but of a svs-
tem' rather. PerPetually sundering and pit
ing against each other what God has Joined
III one to prosper-the interests of Capital
and labor. An arrangement, too, that an
nually drains Ireland of twenty-five mil
lions oimoney by absentee landlords alone;
and, according TO Bishop Hughes, abstract
ing from eight millions of population five
millions since the famne.) altogether. not
less than titty-six millions of money, leav-
ing each year, for the average wealth, Tor
WANT large deficit upon the last. We
may well exclaim with Benjamin Franklin,
VINO spoke 1t as early as 1884: Look
around the world and see the millions en-
Ployed IN doing nothing, or something that
amounts TO nothing, when the necessaries
OF life are called in question:; although, as
ne says, 1t has been computed by some
political arlhmeticians, that if every man
and woman would work four hours dav
on something useful, that labor would pro-
duce enough to procure all the neccessaries
OF lie; want and misery would be banished
out OF the world and the rest of the twenty
tour hours might be leisure and pleasure
Now reflect upon the almost incalculablc
increase of productive power since 1891.
long enough before steam was employed as
mechanical agent. Yet where are the la
borer's twenty hours daily respite from toll?
Where, and how long his interim between
work and WEAKNESS! In the sleep of his
ignorance and delencelessness, a merriIess
competition battens like vampire upon
his lie 5 blood. Would that the wise and
bold would dare to drive it off,"