The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-03-13
wonxsIlors AND woRKHousEs.


WOnKsIaOPs AND woRKHoUsEs.
Labor is disniied, and prompt attention
to a maw's calling or occupation most honor
able. The workshop Of the honest and en-
terpfising artisan is a grea, school Of life
But in America the mar dependant upon thu
bounty and aims Of government has eve
been regarded either as weak or imprudent
when no accident has made him unfortunate
In this land Of the many broad rich acres
teeming everywhere with happy Ito and bu
oyant industry. accident and misfortune mus
be the chief Of honest excuses for being We,
~ poor. Every channel Of honest industry
is here open for the thrifty maj of toll and
enterprise. Men are early taught to depend
upon themselves for success in business, and
our republican institutions do no, conism
plate that a privileged class Of lawgivers and
rulers shal! make each study yeoman an un'
derling and Sondmau TO the government
In this country the government looks up TO the
citizen for protection, and the servants o.
the people are not meant TO be greater than
their masters.
In despotirms, where the pairiarchal and
protective system has ground down tho chill.
drsn of toll 10 the lowest misery, the mania
for workshops drives the government to
erect edifces In which 10 find employment
for the needy, and these hives of govern.
ment industry and official patronage are
called ',rorkhouss." In Paris a crowded
and restless population could no longer earn
enough to pay the oppressive tax Of the ru.
lefs, and the government erected workhou.
ses-went into tho business Of tailoring, hat
ting and siefskeeping, and became the ever.
seer OF the ciazeu mechanic or merchant.
This ~as upon the presumption ,hatthe gov.
eminent knew more Of business than the
people.
In the worst days of old Conan degrade.
tion, the governmen, diverted the alt ention
OF the ignobiie uugus from the ~corrup,ions of
The Iulers. by furnishing public plays and
games for amusement, until the de!uded and
starving people of the whole empire cried
fenly for circuses and bread, but ever named
the. circus first. Metie mich of Austria has
played the same game upoa his masters sp-
psssssd subjects.
i4nAU these cases the governmenttbecomes
everything and the citirealsses The psanly
feeling Of independence, eaergy p.d sa,ion.
al pride. He is degraded to be a mora ma.
chine'of the privileged rllers.
.The' world calls tbc workshop Of govern.
ment a 'tsrorshouss," and SO let il be known
where it must exist. Blu, be i, known, too,
that the cou.try which has tho most ofthese
workhohses is the most 10 be pitied OF despi
cod E"sia"d has enjoyed Inc protective
system to her sorrow and shame, until she
has made of her Irish appendage one vas
aazaretlo of misery and suffering. The gov.
eminent took business under lite projection
and now look at the picture even in the cap.
ital OF the merchant.princes and money.
changers. Read The history of The paspel
from the government work house-the histo.
ry Of Toll and suffering, of sin and shame,
debased in character, but simple and sub.
Z lime in ita agony aid tears. Read ii, says a
friend Of ours in his eloquent enthusiasm,
written, as it is, in the puddle of the streets
oil the great metropolis, traced in the snow
under the winter shed, engraved OH the
granite steps Of the rich mans door, blurred
OF tho damp floor OF the workhouse, by
this woman's blistering, burning tears-this
history, every word a drop of liquid fire, is
evolved in the shadow and glare of that
mighty London.
There she sits, the lone outcast, in her
empty-garre,. the garb of theft on her shout.
dsrs, and the price of defilement in her
hand, whereby she stills the hungry cry OF
one as dear 10 hersas is the boy Prince OF
: Wales to the mother of a line Of monarchs;
-sHid having a soul as near and dear 10 God,
as kindred 10 his spirit, snd as much an heir
TO his kingdom there she sits, perhaps mid
way between the palace and the tower, in a
region overlooking with milk and honey,
wine and mama, and yet dying OF hunger
and thirst; there che sits, having need oil
endurance more eternal than tina, Of Tanta,
lus, tor she had lost in her shame and i'm.
'aortaliiy tina. impaired his power to him
thss efshe sits, iu the mids, of all the nation
al wealth, abundance, luxury and snperHuity,
which industry, inscriptions energy and
sekless rapaciiy, could pile iogeiher-thert
in tho store house Of the world, in the lap o
excess, sits this desolats woman, owning
nothing. Of her sex, but its shame; lonely
childless, ,iSougn the offspring of her erro
may be still living, but chained to the re-
esentan, lion ring OF >heartless charity Their
she rocks her 10 ard fro, his fallen angel
a thief, a besgar, and a oroe''''uts-and all
all because England must be the SotAnous
) Of the world.