The Portland daily press., 1867-11-15
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DAILY T. PRESS.
PORILANDaGI
Friday Morning, November is, 1857
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( rs .bsnblp" Bread or Buiieis.,, ", ,,.,...,,
b9iilt is one Of the luckiest things in the worl
for the English phtoeracy that the Englis
peasantryi Is not composed of so oiinflammabl
material as the French else the flaine tha
has sprung up down in Devenslire ,oiaI
spread with lightning fapitiityD even toath
gates Of W indsof Castle The tforbieaf I
Devonshire isl that tile fwworkinemenr.o bayyin
earned all the bread that is earned at an Al a
not allowed enough for their own use to sus
tam the lives Of their families. They bay
oeen ro9bed' Sea few days ago they bega,
70 make reprisas at Exeter the shire town 9
Inc heeounty,nsAssmo most frequently happens il
cases otfeprisal, theyliid nosidevy theirDtorx
ed loan lrealicnlprits, TIE capitalists
put upon 'theiry inelghbols, the bakers an,
butchers, who ehahced to- have what the
wanted. - The first spark Of nirtinya at Exc
terwas statined out by military force, ut the
disturbance immediately broke, out ut n il AZ
minister where there are many Woikmen en-
pioyed in making the famous carpets and in
manufacturing wollen goods; then in Tor
quay and neighboring townsa and finally in
Barnstable wherethe bakers andzbateherspo
only lost their bread and meat, but Had tbej,
shops burned down. This was the State o
affairs at latest accounts, with lrSgular troolps
coming from Portsmouth to give the people
that Kind ofhard=bread called bullets - ba+
II This u is but repetition of what occurred e
last winter at the metropolis, in the part, Of
the city known as London Fields some 5000
people ~ dock7laborers,t tcostermongers &c,
were IN actual distress ior1 the necessariese O.
lte.o Eight children died in, Hhe street from
starvation. Riots oceurrad at GreeuwiclS
Dsptford, but peace was restored blythe favor.
lite method of administering the national
remedy, composed in equal parts of assistance
/ from voluntary relief associations and powder
and bali from the police and military forces1- lees1
There is hardly month IN any year in which
there does not come from some part of the
British islands the cry for food. N ,,i vggs,
l9IfIo a person who had never acquainted
himself with the state OF affairs in ENGLAND
it might seem that the working classes OF that
country are TO the last degree shiftless and
improvdent; but in fact they take greater
pains to husband their means, and have stud
led more nor thoroughly the most approved meth
DDS of domestic economy than any other
workingnen in the world In this country, uni ". a
large per cent. Of the earnings OF the laborer
goes to pay the profits Of persons engaged in
the distribution of the materials for food, shell
ter and clothing. 1t is only recently that our
industrial classes have thonghtit worth while
to save this per cent. by forming cooperative
associations BY means of which they them
selves take, the profits which otherwise would
go to the commercial "middlemen.no .no But in
England the cooperative system has extend
ed to almost all classes OF thelaboring people
AT the close of the year 1866 the number OF
associations was something like 1000, and the
number Of members 100000. They possessed
an aggregate wealth, Including their capital
and assets of s1o,Oo0O0O, They realized a
profit of S2,500,000 on the amount of goods
sold last year. These, associations have been
gradually adapted to the purpose Of, furnish.
ing the laborer, with /. almost everything, that
he needs at first cost. The stores mana ged
on this principle furnish him with articles
ior household consumption cooperative din.
ing-rooms and eating houses give him chear
food ;eandi the comparatively new ibuiliirfa
and land societies are intended ultimately
lat7G ,6dFli''o.1 y 'f,n'''SsN " y tN'S
o"iif sniH8T9 yELlB3l lsEl ,g9sl ia 10 aAl
But cooperation does not create wealth
1t saves the workingman's wages; "a but il
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hin, tra;t, attittlo tloo aan ,nan y Isnta q, ~, -
nevole,,t ,,,d sI q :. 80
ain .collect ana astn;l.,,J 30 M, ~
annually indanandar.l,, - sS''i'Y'l:'gs y
ual Donations, All, l'sn..e
ship load of food TO the poor I,a,eas,,.
eratives while the rebellion was in ,,,ooress
not forgetting to make IA Just and human,
discrimination between the British aristocra
| CIV with its insolence and the English peopl,
who are our brothers. But with ali, the ad
vantages of couoperation and all the aid de
rived from relief associations and niuhiffeen4
private donations ike those of Geo. Peabody
large numbers Of En- slish operatives are still
clad in rags and insntiicieltly provided will
food. 80 NJ -,
The secret of the whole matter. is TO IN
found in the anonopoly of lands, and wealtl
by that great class of criminals. the Enolis,
nobility. There is abundance of wea,tb1i,
England, but it is not distributed None
: is plenty and waiting for ,borrowers AT oon
per cent. 1.-THE Oueen can AFFORD tn sunend ~,
thousand dollars in fra nsnortino her srro,v rro,vs
person from Windsor Cast,e toD 9i,aimno,ra
through a country where. her loving s subject bbts
are starving. She can afford to keen conl anlI
plate worth half the State yalu,tion Of Main,
while other lowing subjects are sleepino no,
fore in the streets and epouehing of. a col
night un lei, the arehways of bridges. Tn.
gold that should feed and shelter the poo,
goes now, as before Tennyson grew old an,
Tory-bitten "to gild the fstraitenedlgforehea,
of the fooln The land, ,iAstead of being equit
ably divided, as in this country, is owned b,
the old Dundrearys, who assemble In th
House Of Lords, and the young verisopht
who, wander about the Continent Of Europ
~ s. 9 stale oi mental yaeulty, Since SLAYER
was abolished in. America, no wrong remain