New-York tribune., 1869-02-27


food "Iike herself The physician testified
that her body indicated she had died from star
vation. One of thejurors, after the evidence SAID
at was of no use returning verdict oil death
"from starvation. It only caused the distress
"in the island to be talked about In the news
"papers. He thought the paupers mign. DC
"bufied in an egg-box, or perhaps It would DC
g still better TO bury them withont q comm az
0all.D The Jury found that she had oled from
exbanstion.i priyation, and "want OF food"
@Two davs after, her husband went mad, and
% was taken to tho Work House, but there was
ono room for him, as it was crowded with mad
"folksp @ rr ,r,r .r
+ We have stories of one woman dying " from
"an exhausted heart, accelerated by want of
"food,p and another "by sudden drOpsy
"brought on by want of food" Another from
congestion of the lungs. owing to want OF
q food" One cause of this evil is the stagna-
ton of labor. Certainly, If the doctrine of Free
Trade could bring with it the prosperity of the
laborer, the City of London should be the last
place to suffer from the misery Of laboring men,
Yet we are told "that the children of twenty
Thousand widows in London are growing
sup beggars and vagraDts because, no work,
{" can be found for them;" and this IN coun.
try where thirty -One millions OF acres need
outiyationl Large bodies OF destitH6e men,
many of them even skilled artisans, parade the
streets clamoring for work. We have meet
ings in Liverpool, and Manchester, and Lon
don, to plan means Of relief. And tho distress
in London takes the shape Of communications
ii tn6 newspapers, which only show that
the suffering IA increasing, and that the
best efforts of charitable citizens fail to
reach it, They have system OF Parish re-
/" lief" but it does not suffice in many cases to
" keep life in the bodies of the poor" The
"poor-laws in execution very often make pow
" erty o crime, aud Parish relief is so deplor-
"ably deficient that the English Dauper breads
"itp The wOrkhouse is often the refuge OF
men of education and respectable famly'
while the tax upon the people for maintaining
paupers is growing SO large that the properly
holders are making complaint about IT., Reso-
lutons are passed viewing with great alarm
the increasing expense of the maintenance OF
" the poOr;' and as England has virtually aban-
doned any hope of reaching the evil, its newspa-
persare beginning to discuss the question OF
"pauper emigration which means nothing more
than the expectation Of free and independent
Britons, who cannot live at home, to America
and Australia. r
Therefore in this land of Free Trade we find
that thousands Of working men have nothing
left to them but Punishment or starvation.
The Free Trade that will bring TO the laborers
so many blessings in the way of cheap food
and raiment, and make their condition one of
happiness and prosperity, and enable their
little income TO go twice as far as IN
countries like America, in practice makes
them beggars and exiles. Here is a
chapter from London life in 1893: yet it is
the year of plentiful haryests and mild
weather, and great commerce, and OF almost
universal prosperity. Let the champions OF
Free Trade, especially those who exult over Mr..
Wellss discovery, that Protection in America
makes the rich richer, the poor poorer" adj
dress themselves to the examination of this
singular problem, and tell US why it is that
the homo of FREQ Trade is in this year of
peace and prosperity the land of wretchedness,
poverty, ard crime