Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1853-06-16

marked attentions g&sns nth sentiments, as
we have reason to belkve,. othsr than those Of
respect and kindness % ehis'c6untry in these
Islands. and these @tiAs especially, the ex-
tremes OF exalted woAh and basely degraded
vice-9f Doundiess wealth and squalid poverty
meet vgether, and tie constitution of society
is 50 sfsihcial and arbitrary that exuberant be-
stownsents OF wealth n charities, instead of eff
fecting but q monetary relief, are a means
OF promoting mendicsty, pauperism and crime.
In proof OF this they 9arnish abundant evidence
too copious to intrdgiuce here. N "A ur n IA
The writer Of an article in the late number
of the WESTMINSTER Review" under the head
OF "Ihe charities Of L4ndon,". after going over
great deal Of ground and adducing the best
authority to prove thsyicious state of things in
that city and the increase Of improvidence. vice
and misery, he says:-eSubsistenc is difficult
to obtain by labor-eas5 to obtain from open
and careless charity. What wonder that such
muitissdss .lstter mode The ex-
tent. the thoughtlessness, the indasrim;nsts-
nature Of our benevolense, has called into ex-
istence class-the mosk noxious that can in
fest community to &hom charity is an am
pie. regular, luxurishs livelihood" 1.-THE
same system not only Maintains this class, but
is Perpetualy recruiting and increasing It."
Again he enquiries :-awhat must be the ef-
feet upon the industrious of this boundless
patronage extended to sthe idles What must
be the effect upon the4struggling, Of this ex-
haustless and ready-at5h hand provision for those
who have ceased to struggled Alas the solu-
ton Of the problem is contained in the mere
statement oft; the QUESTION suggests its own
answer. What can the effect be but discour-
agement of all industry pnd effort destruction
of all honest and digpifed f.reliance-di
heartening all Independent feelings What up
on any other people than the Anglo-Saxon,
must the effect long ago have been, but the ut
ter disheartening and ALTERATION of all manly
energy. Of all sense Of worth and justice! The
pauper who sinks villingly upon his dirty
feather bed, we feed and foster; the criminal,
whose fall is consuminated, we pet and COM
fort; the frugal and toiling laborer who is
struggling with all his earnest soul to keep
himself from the great gulf of eleemosynary
degradation, we load with fresh burthens, and
mulct and neglect fosthe benefit of of the COM
placent recipient Of charitable doles the hon.
est man just stumbling on the verge of guilt,
and striving to avoid it. we prefer no aid to,
but surround with fresh temptations"
With regard to tie condition of things in
Glasgow, we remember that some fifteen years
since, it was statedin an official report on the
state of the poor in ihat city, that in its very
centre were to be found $4,000 human beings
who were wallowinEg in filth, poverty and vice
more squalid thap could be found seven
amongst the operatives Of England" And a
writer in numberof "Blackwood's Edinburgh
Magazine" for 1881, on the subject Of ''The
dangers of the country" after giving statistics
to prove the prevailing increase of wealth, and
general prosperity says: "Yet, in the midst Of
all this increase Vfnational industry, religious
zeal and philantbgopic activity. the condition
Of the great part of our working classes has
been daily getting worse, and was never per-
haps, as a whole,,so bad as in this year
The writer propoyes "irst to establish the fact
that, amidst all tue boasted and really aston
ishing increase Of our national industry, the
suffering and misery of the working classes
have constantly On an average Of years gone on
increasing and then to consider to what
causes this most alarming and disheartening
.s-s~ vf vnIngs Is 70 De ascrrUru.--
Again he says "From the tables quoted be-
low Statistical tables of crime in England,
Scotland and Irelsnd) since the year 1922, Sc
rious crime over The whole empire has adj
vanced fully 800 per cent. while the num-
bers Of the people Curing that time have not
increased over 80 per cent
He would gladly, believe that after the So
years of uninterrupted peace and prosperity
which Great Britain has now enjoyed, these
of the truth, but we find no reason to doubt
them, and while whiting we receive an account
Of discussion With took place in the House
of Commons whiting a month. on the state Of
intemperance in Scotland, in which one mem.
Der, Mr.. Henry Drummond, is reported to have
stated that Every Saturday night, 10000 men
got drunk in Glasgow, and lay in a perfect
state of insensibilit1 until Monday morning"
But we have no pleasure in these animad-
versions; we will hope our country may derive
useful instruction ftom the circumstance which
occasioned them; srd though we deny the
competency Of our kfnd and valued neighbors,
the British. to judge correctly of the moral
character and the wisdom Of our internal poll
ty, we freely admit the possibility of our re-
ceiving from any * our neighbors, valuable
suggestions which mag be pro6tably applied to
the corrections of eEors and evils existing
among ourselves and'we hold that, even from
our enemies, we shoula be ever ready to draw
instruction, and we df not doubt that under
different circumstances, our friends, Mr.. and
Mrs. Stowe, would return to us with many
valuable hints calculated to preserve us from
the errors into which Emost older political and
social communities have fallen, or perhaps we
should say, in which they have grown up, and
against which, under the rapid increase and
concentration of our population, we have good
reason to take warning. .And be guarded by the
aid Of such hints and lessons of instruction as
may be derived from any quarter. III.
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