The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-01-02

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coal on their backs unaled roads The report says:
I" cruel shaving revolving 10 humanity found 1T
ue girl only six years old carrying cwi, and making
regularly fourteen long journeys day one witness
says 81 have belt round my waist and cham passing
between my legs, and go on my hands and feet The
road is very steep Il j. very hard work Tor woman
The pit is very wet My clothes are wei through amos,
all day long have drawn until have had The skin on
says 81 could not have believed that should nave
found human nature 80 degraded" a
These details not the half OF the iniquity Hecoi'
lec they not OF things done IN bygone age-an age
of barbasm. II is only len years ago since these notes
taken, since Lord Ashle,s prohibiory bill as TO
employment Of women and children in the coal mines
passed Bot this but portion OF the evils IN
these localities Take OF the latest British Journals
and read OF the abuses still existing about these mines,
and then Judge what remains 10 be done Leaving oui
OF the way how these poor, hall starved workmen are
ddded by the check system out OF Their hard pance,
look at the state OF educaton OF all that constitutes CIV
ilzaoD, in these coal regions Who shall say there Is
not a, this tme noW, state OF society calling Tor
all the philanthropy that the Duchess of Sutherland has
10 exercised But what did she, or the females OF her
ORDER" do TO expose this past brutality What Is she
and her associates doing to promote the well being
OF these degraded colers! How much interest is she
mantle sting for their innocent children! Does she know
that the prohbltoy bill oil 1912, checking the British ava
and the hardness OF British landed propetos.
seen in OF British coal mines. lis the Duke OF
Sutherland y not disregardeds Has she ever been
to see !! These are the questions that American
will put 10 her grace the Duchess OF Sutherland and her
order They will say: go to your coal PITS see that grs
and not living again like beasts that they
have something to eat besides inc food or the remains
OF candles, that the children at least are educated
for property has its duties, and this is OF hem
first that they clothed and fed. and then that they
have the Gospel This duty being done, and other Brit
ish misery relieved, and you may. with little less i'm
pudence, lecture us
Once more: These duchesses and countesses may
plead account for absence Of active phanthropic
movements their parr, that this was the appropriate
field for men Though this condemns their informed
ding with American vet 10 another
| csse-that Of British needle women. Here the matter
comes close home-so close as 10 touch not only their
sex but their persons What is The fact Let the Lon
don Chronicle answer. "The wretche wages Of the
| needle already the shame and sorrow OF our own
time" The wages, under the most favorable crcum-
Stances of unbroken health and unfang eyesght range
firm 81 TO 4d per day. Alter vivid descr ption OF their
suferings, the Chronicle says "Soeiey itself Is in the
field against these unforlunates" Who does not know
OF Hoods "Song OF the Shirt /"
With finger, weary and worn.
|. With cyelids heavy and red
yomap sat in unwomanly rags.
Plying her needle and thread
Sitch-sutch--siilch
In poverty hunger, and dirt,
And still with avoice OF doorous pitch
Would that il. tones could reach The rich =
She sang this Song of tho Shirt"
But mo- This voice never reached the dull OF these
duchesses and countesses II it did with what
Where is their plea for these distressed needle women!
Where is the melioraon of their conditions Do they
know that over work and under pay among the most
active OF British female dishonorl One woman.
duchess, doing to relieve this class. by pro-
noting emigration, than all the philanthropy OF this
crowd will ever accomplish. American women might
take word from her with at least respect when they
would treat duchess with seorn
Take another case. In Ireland alone there is work
enough to employ these duchesses and connlcsses aud
all whom they muster, all their days But what pen
paint the mseries OF this unhappy couniry-made 90
because it's strength has been drained to feed the incomes
that support their glded Coaches and lnxurian living
The record of starvaon-letting minor troubles eo-has
been appalling. Take very recent period. In one
week the deaths from starvation in the small towns
OF Mayo 49, kilbury and Raoo so; Leitrim 49, Castle
and so the record goes IN county after county
British winners shall tell the story of British wrong:
Commandel Cafiin went through large districts In no
house that entered not be found the dead and the
dying" " In the village OF Skulls three fourhs OF the in
habans you meet the tale Of woe in their features
and persons they reduced TO skeletons" But
to 90 more TO particulars "a young man was found in
dying state without one TO attend him. The sister and
brothers lay dead quite close 10 him In the room
The sister dead for five days. the brothers two for
three days. The sick the only survivor OF
large family The father and childter died from want"
10 go from details to generals what fearful statement
the record that tells OF the doctrine of millions of the
population Of Ireland when these distressing scenes oc
sur! Now has word been heard from this Duchess OF
Suiherana and her train of mobiles when this going
ont Why have these impudent Intermediates not had
anihropy enough to labor TO remove the causes OF
such calamity as this
Again in society thus characterized by dark shades
al which humanity weeps how is il with the incomes OF
these duchesses and countessesi We have befo.e US
the sickenlng annals OF period OF distress in England
when II filed with bitter discomfort and bold roling
ysms OF ade were paadng by thousands under the ter
nble banner OF BREAD OR BLOOD and when British bat
alions obliged TO shoot them down 10 support the
British system OF law and order. How then Jared Ss-
husbands OF these duchesses and countesses We have
also before us British enumeration OF British incomes al
that time. The Duke of Northumberland with landed
estate OF hundred thousand dollars revenue, heads
the list The Duke OF Devonshire comes hext, with six
hundred thousand dollars income. The Duke OF Rut-
land, with five hundred thousand dollars. And so
the list runs. Who does mol know how splendid
the bishops revenues are ! And who does not
know that, let distress havoc with human life il
may, the rents the tlhes, the taxes that make up all
these incomes, must be collected. Here, still from
British authority, is short, Significant damnpg rec
ess AT Taunton, Somerset, no less than elk hundred
exchequer writs have bsen issued for the seizure OF
peoples goods for the pay nent Of lakes. And it
is all the country" Who does know how thou
sands upon thousands of British kept only for
shooting grounds, while the people who live about them
see their children die of hunger. Now, how much al
such tunes do these dukes and duchesses subtract from
these magnificent incomes TO alleviate the distress there is
about them Do they give one banquet the lessi Do
they of their diamonds into coin, and distribute
il 10 their distressed neghDors, Can they better
modicum oil these than TO appropriate it 10
remove the things that disgrace not only EGG and but
Christian civilization Suppose these duchesses and
countesses look at this matter IN this light: they pro-
Tess regard for Gospel teachings, and have
heard OF "he rights and requirements of this nineteenth
century," suppose they ask seriously what practical
these rights really demand. Pnian,hropIc objects here
are numerous These duchesses should know that this
distress Is regarded direct conseq Of their mo-
nopoes and privileges. What in this supports the
British arstocraey s,arves the children OF labor.
But there is closer view ye, 10 take OF this aristo