The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-11-02
The English Labor Crisis.

The year 1872 will be- ever memorable.
III English history as the commencement
OF a new phase ia the life Of the people
From sunny Devon and Dorset their
southern Yorkshire. ~ its colder. sterHcr
nature and largely populated t"wus. sweep
ing through London. the metropolis Of the
Empire, and Manchester the metropolis
Of Northwestern England the cry and
the viii u th- Tropi, have been heard
and fel;
The st"lId p.pa-hman II Saxon descent,
called hnid 81 tbe days ~ the saxon
Alfred ann treated A. \ hind through
every century -inc, a little better than
an OK OF a sheep, hut not much inferior
I" the fox hounds Winch have always been
better fe'i than tl- iyasani> paurrriz-d
by the operation NJ the freezing poor lav-
introduced AZ the reformation By Good
Queen Bess never aided hy the State ~
"htaH any education until recently fast
ened tn rh. land IA hateful settlement
law. only lately repealed n part taught
from childhood thar free America was one
of the gates oi hc.l-this white slave has
torn th- hauiage FROM ms eyes. and cast
tire ir.u fgttrr> frnn hi- s"ul ana demands
A least as nuch priyiir., AZ the tu- u
thu r-h MAN kennel. ,he I-yI' -- ..
live.
NJ one Whu an'vs anything pt slavery
I'D the Southern state, Will Seuy tha.
prur tu it~ uI-iitim there we're many
eases ~ kind treatment az negroes by
their owner. Nu one can truthIuily ssse II
that a. En- -.ish peasants have been cruelly
trrst-.m tnf a. wltA the rlI red slaves D.
America. ~ with the white slaves uf Rnr
ain. the whole system has IN either caa,
been a monument Of human seltshness
Of might crushn- rlht ur tine rich being
made richer AZ thr cost NJ human hearts
ana ~ou, W thr few rrvyIImg w luxury
while the many suffered
la the cities amt towns tne employed
in every branch uf industry have raised 4
cry a. piercing W that VI Israel m E.yut
The Pharaohs ~ capital know nu Joseph
the people have united IN one great wall
and one universal resolve not the cry OF
dispaIr, but yet the cry If dehverancr-
and have resolved tu be delivered
An exodus Is taking place. and thu
people are crossing the sea. leaving IN,
tyranny Of customs in Great Britain. and
the military despotism ot Germany, n
their rear The pillar and the cloud guide
them to these shores the Canaan for the
oppressed.
We are informed that sinister efforts ar,
being made III England - alarm intending
emigrants BY false reports of tAo capabih-
ties " this country The German autheF
itIcs are also using government measures
t. stem the tide If emi ration. All this is
futile The newspaper rress Is now lno free
and too powerful NJ permit the truth tn bc
long perverted, ~ ID suffer nation to bO
made prisoners by their own rulers
Ii all the other parts Of the great CON
tinent were sufficiently populated there
would still w roam fpr every English man
woman, and child to locate themselves 81.
the vast and Ioundless lands of the North
en Pacific Railroad in the States Of Wis
cunsin and Minnesota and the territories
of Dakota. Montana. Idaho and Washing
ton.
There Is not a board Of poor law guard
Ians. "r q missionary Suciety. or a mtchan-
Ics institution ID England but SHOULD
have AL th, printed documents issued by
the Northern Pacific Railroad Board for
the Icrusal of these officials. and for tn.
information ~ these localities
u i foolish tn suppose that AT pauper,
are willingly The farmers Ot EnglanC
have. durIn- three centuries. used tn,
lr,or rat. {" supplement the small wages
they have paid to labor We have FIRE
quvntly seen 4 dollar and half paid to J.
married man A. hi~ weeks wages The
man name aud ID, names If his wife ana
children IT course appeared on the parish
T-htf l-t, . hen farm work ceased u ths
irclemrnt s..a~rns The man. amd tcn
Thousand su,h men. honest frugal and
Industrious, n p,-Yr. ar, wanted IN the
great \orthRrst. g. uil the land and o.
hrcun, itl.G-INucrs
Th- ether a-raut- uf the labor revolu-
tIun taking piac, u England W. viii notice
Al futurr tine.