Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-11-07
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No part OF Europe Is quiet, or viii be qui.
ct til the old order ofthings is complstss
sly removed. Monarchs and aTislocrats
may league and plot for conservatism.
but in vain. The masses ere rising, they
know that they have rights, and have
long suffered wrongs, and are IN DARK ON
ly about remedies. The demoefatiepn
ty may be restrained in one place, as in
Bohemia, and defeated in enoth6r, ~
Lombardy or Naples. But il is nos
crushed II is daily becoming sisong
or, while its antagonist IL daily be.
coming weaker; and the year, if not the
day, IL not far distant, when EurobeaA
thrones, nobility, state religions and 0x-
elusive privileges, will live only in history.
We have said that England would Be
their last strong hold, but that, they weld
be eventually overpowered. sSen there.
To show the democratic party Of Ed:
ropeis not centending for mere absiras-.
tions. that aristocracy PRODUCES evils Of
which-American democrats have not ev;
en- imagined, we will state a few facts oh:
tanned from the last arrivals. In Ireland,
with population of 6, 200. 600, the whole
number of landholders is said to be only
1000. Bot whatever be their number;
all the land of the Island is held in large
! estates, by proprietors who are mostly
absentees, leased at first to middle men.
or agents, and underlet to cultivato1s, Of
whom the majority are paupers. But be.
sides the poverty and degradation Of tAB
masses, this system has consigned to
waste, in moors, bogs and commons,
large portion of the land in the most fer
tile country of Europe. Whenever one
Of these middlemen is delinquent in rent
to his landlord, the latter, with the Sher-
i'll, forcibly elects all the under.tenants.
and demolishes their houses. In two
counties, Limerick and Clare, one thou.
sand three hundred houses had been re.
Gently demolished, and their inmates
thrown upon the world ia absolute desti.
tuition. Upon the estate OF single pro.
prietor, Sir William Fitzgerald, one hum
dred persons had thus been turned into
the road. Such transactions are no nov.
elites, in Ireland. being frequent in all
parts of the country, though more rare in
1.-THE North. We must remember that
Ireland produces food enough for more
than its whole population, while large
portion Of this population are absolutely
destitute, and that, in the last famine
through the failure Of the Potatoe crop on
", while all other crops were abundant,
hundreds Of thousands were starved TO
death or died Of disease produced by des.
tituiion. But those whose la Dor produces
the crops, own neither the land nor the
produce; and hence they are exported for
the benefit of the absent arisioerats, the
landholders, who waste he proceeds in
riotous living. ..f.-@a<s
Such is the condition of Ireland, pro-
duced by aristocracy. And to this sxces.
ssse poverty we must add its consequences
not causes, intemperance, ignorance, and
long catalogue of disorders. Let US
now turn to England. that boasted land Of
freedom, where fine, imprisonment or
death may be imposed for any speech up.
on politics, according to the discretion Of
an aristocratic Judge and attorney gene.
raj. and packed jury. who may convict
Of sed;tion, misdemeanor or treason, ae.
cording to the vengeance which they
wish to visit upon their victim. Over.
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population, agricultural and manufacture
ing, we call the attention Of our readers
20 certain institution in England. origi.
mating in poverty. Burial clubs have
been extensively established, to insure
the lives of children. Each member OF
the club pays a certain weekly sum for
each child enrolled. Healthy children
only are accepted, and the parent or other
insurer must make sixteen weekly pay.
mems, before any benefit can accrue from,
the insurance. Upon the death of child
a certain amount is paid to the parent or
person enrolling, from the common fund,
as burial fees, to pay the expenses of the
funeral, The average being about forty
dollars for each death. In one only Of
/, these burial societies, at Preston, the
number enrolled is 1890. Statistics
show that the mortality among children
enrolled, between the ages OF two and siz
months, is much less than among the
: same number not enrolled; but that. after
the age Of six months, the mortality ID
much greater among the enrolled. Six.
teen weekly payments being required be.
fore any benefit accrues from the enrol.
ment, which will consume four months,
OF course the child must exceed the age oil
four months, before its death would fur.
nish claim for fees. But after six months
the fees will be about forty dollars. and
therefore sufficient to furnisk--an inter.
est in its dedthH Sometimes the same
infant is enrolled in two, three OF four
different clubs, and consequently the
premium on its death may amount TO q
hundred and fifty. two hundred dollars. Oh
more!l The mothers generally work in
the factories. and several Of them hire
some abandoned woman to take care 81
their infants; and these precious nurses