The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1854-01-07
PaupcrIsru III the United STATES Rad Ing
land.

| land.
| Tn an age when the passion and strife for mo
iney is great AS at present It Is highly crafty
us To see what benevolent provisions men have
made for the support Of those whom age, natu
raj defects and msfortaSes have rendered IN
competent to provide for the nccessarics OF LIE
! Institutions for the deaf the blind and The POOR,
have their origin in civilization and humanity
| They are indexes Of the degree Il progicss &.
[ tbs lumrn family. None but a christian people
have ever established them. The commerce
meGt oi their history dates since the r,!y.'uA
! tiui.
N state in The Cuiyn is whhoUt lEl Frovi
-ions ;r the rrotcc;iun and support ct rs iuHl
gen, population. IN mIHN they receive cstr
an attention which places them M an 1n'"ni,
condition compIcl viii some Of the MJa.ns
classcs u o.h,r Countries.
=. The whole nsnLeru i persons who have feceI
we'd the beugG. uf the funds OF q .i.rluI states
los the beneii. VI tlc IN liseni gmouul, o. 1874,
81. lon the year ending jane lSt, l>'o OF
this nLnbcr 6S 5Ss were foreigners, ana 40 i'l'
Americans At the close Of the year, only 49,.
geo natives. anl 1880 iortis ncIs we've on !hs
iuLhc charge. The entire cost ani suTrlIt O..
these persons during The year, was STOOL 500
THIS "a a large-arcunt otm"rev, CU' Wan "
compare he statistics Of our own country with
privilege, hich the United = atcs AT ii 10 usi.
.,ni PEOPLE. for piucuring'a livelihood
During the wears o.. ls}a '3S and 81 more
than 500 0UJ 600 we're ~ 1eEied TOR the rebel
nod main .cuance Cf the Door OF EnghrG auI
Wales, tx ,s,ye uf the immense Expenditures
,in tic payi,hss. H. I5I1 aad '4S. s5l0O0~si.
an during each ol the years oil AZ, As, aGd
AZ. S2S. 100 0U0 was expended The entire
number ,r plupege relieved by the public ilnus
Of Eughid AMI Wales from lSie 10 1878.
az. counted To - et9 It's pr s""UG', making one
person in every eighta paUpCr In ISIS, more
, man o,ouocoo were KEEP. from starvation "a IN
; land anil V ales, from public and private soug.
ces, W,iIin the past seventeen years, the poor
law fond in England aud Wales amounted to
! SI26.Ol0.O00 This enormous sum comes hr
/ short Of relieving al the wants oil the poor Of
Great Bsain.
! la the Netherlands, about one-iitb Of the 70
! phl,fton are paupcrs, aud assisted by the puoH'
/ fund.
These figures exhibit an alarming state ofPo
ycr!y in Great Britain. While many Of her citi
Gems have whole sections Of country at their dis
posal, aHi many have what We would call
prince,y fortunes, the subsuatum Of pauPeri:m
is Of enormous magnitude. s..
The population fthe United Statesis abou!
100000, Of which nun.ber, a,2ro,sss are 70
rrigners Out Of 2I,0C0,0oO Americans, &c 100
are raurers, and Of 9,2lc.,gs foreigners, Gs,SSs
ar papers, Taking then, the native alone, We
have one rauper to every SIT persons, while
England and Wales have one 10 every eight
The Netherlands onero evel$ five. OF the 70
reigrers in our country, sbog! one to every 50
So persons is a pauper.
The retuns Of the census Of 1850 show, that,
for the year ending the frs; of June, the Whole
number Of persons convicted Of crime IN the
United States, was about ~ 600 Of these 49,
900 were native, and II 600 foreign bora. The
whole number in prison the first Of June, was
about GOO, Of whom 4 500 were native, and
= 6Uu foreign. III. number of conyicls OF native
and foreign birth, are neatly equal, while III. 20
pula'iOI is as one to ten.
These statistics are taken from the Census OF
1850, aud may be relied on.
II is common and true remark, that poverty
and crime 60 together. Not that all poor persons
are criminals, for We often fad The most mora!
aad exemplary characters among those whom
want haun;s from day to day. But the truth lies
in tbs. that few persons whose names are en- our
criminal record, have much property
The statistics Of pauperi-m and crime often ex
Lbit starlllng f,ct. And in Ea-lAnd the condi-
tIcn aul unuibtr Of the poor, opens vast held
for the study and reelection oil the philosopher.
the nofalist and the Statesman. The best aud
,-,,y ana government Is The
prosperity and happiness Of the mass Of the po-
pulaiuu. Where then, is ths cause Of the po-
yefty and misery Of the lover classes, Of EGG
land and ltellnl There is wrong somewhere,
ei'her in the positive law Of the land, or in the
customs Of society which keeps so many from op
Dor tunities 20 procure the necessaries Of life
wi le 10 the United States there are, among the
American n"i@:.,,on, no more injigeu. persoIs
ihan We might reasonably expect,