Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1851-11-12


But when societies arc established for II
express purpose of reducing the price
labor, compelling the necessltlous poor
accept their inquiitorial proposition
these we contend aye evils of such ma
nitude, that the human mind can scarce
imagine remedy; they are evils sprln
ing out of religious cant, and cioaked
fashionably, that the most scePtlcal dou
if such things actually exist IN comm
nity like ours. These, indeed, are ev
which cannot be corrected---they are q
canker worms of the heart knawmg t.
vitals of the poor, and ultimately destro
ing life itself! X -.
Mrs. St. Clairville finding it impossit
to support herself and child, pay hous
rent, and buy firewood by making shi
al ton cents ,sss.ss vfso 10 0aProcure a SIT
,tation asa housekeeper, She was re-
commended to lady with whom she en-
gagged, but her sensitive mind shrank from
the task. She now took rooms with a
poor family, and thus lesscning her cx-
penscs, she once more sought the society,
related her situation, and again com
menced the, Herculancan task of making
the shirts at the prices purposely fixed by
the society. The coldness of the wealth
erincreased, the snow lay upon the ground,
and the hail of the winter night Patted
against the windows. There alone in
their little room, sat the widow and her
child. Agnes was now old enough 10
be of much use to her mother. 1t is true
they had little or no wood scarcely
bread enough in the house to keep hun
ger away, and as the eyes of the parent
rested on the pale check of the child,
deep sigh escaped her, and tcars-angels'
visits to wounded hc"rt-came to her
relief
"Dear mother, what makes you SO un-
happy ?" asked the trembling child, who
alas knew but too well the source of
her mothers grief, but was anxious to
lead her into conversation for the purpose
of diverting her thoughts from the rctlec-
ton of it.
"You ask me to tell you what you
know already. Look around my child
IUUK the broken gEasS, and see the re-
Election of your own pale cheek, look at
your mother-then ask what makes me
unhappy"
True, mother, VIC are poor"
"Poor child poverty l can endure,
Indebtedness and squalid misery, but 1t
not for them, but thee my daughter,
hcse tears flow, what will become of
yu, when am dead and gone. 1t is
tie thought of that which haunts me ev-
Ell"
Dear mother, why torment yourself
ths.-Cannot make shirt look here
at uese stitches, are they not true and
: hay not Just read that they have estab-
: lisAd society where they give the poor
soA and a good fire for the mere wor-
, kinR tall day p :. a..
pap \, but look on the other side of the
pict be. This society was established, as
stat to benefit the suffering poor. But
}, howl we 90 to their room in the NOR
y ning- where, it is true, there is a COM
fortale fire-we sit down, and work at
,, ouIt. Tor which, when completed, they
get H. dollars, for the cost to them is on
:, " th4ire and the soup, which may be
q fairlvetimated at about five cents head
IS This, v child, is called beneftting the
poor .,
> "Bp do they not pay, mothe %
Il q hve already told you the payment
for a's labor ah my child, little does
n the pub, know or care % such matters.
5; For th@ Dor there is no sympathy-their
Al suffering are their owns"
II 9Th s motives may be good, moth
e. er."
T. "No mtiye, child, can be truly good
d that won b operate against the suffering
le poor. Region is thus triaed with, the
!, = widow antthe orphan insulted, and the
Is proud an he arrogant looked upon by
w the unthmlnp as saints, when in fact
IS they are Int no matter, but let us strive
nv childy live without appealing to
AZ them; wAawas the reply of Elder Jones
S when | appld to the Church for assis-
n tance ? 1t.es that the decoration of the
III pulpit cost 9 r six hundred dollars, and
S that there " no money in the treasury,
o. Q, These facts " child, give me more un-
"a easiness tn an nv thing else, for if the
II followers of Crist forsake us in our mis-
r erv, and tie astitutions established to
as benefit us, S petlate upon our industry, to
"a "a whom are =" apply ?"
ye TO Him. n,her, you have so often
OF taught me to ply to, and who will not
CT CT forsake those v put their trust IN his
sS "Right my Cd. To that being lei
nu .Si us apply in our lur of distress, and as
~ Lest we shOd aid accused of treating these
liberal societies Toe serely let the following ex
tract from one of theuri1ted reports speak fol
IS Ro0Ff DuTIfI.. .sd fhs Of fG0de9