Litchfield enquirer., 1873-08-21
A REPRESENTATIVE MAN.

- IMAM,
 America has often been visited by royal persons of various nations and various grades of rank, whose coming and going made great deal of noise but was of no importance to us, to themselves, or to anyone else, Within a few days, how ever, if not before our paper is published, there is expected to arrive in this country a really representative man of class of foreigners in whom the intelligent repub- hcan cannot fail to take deep interest," a man who can learn more of America. and of whom America can learn more, than any that has landed on our shores for many year.
 Joseph Arch, president of the English agricultural laborers union, is about forty five years of age. Till recently he has been farm laborer, week days; and Methodist local preacher, Sundays. Twen- ty-fve years of constant work at the star vation prices agricultural labor brings in England have barely suficed to earn him a little cottage in his little native town of Barford. In 1872, when the agricultu- ral strike began for higher prices, the Warwickshire laborers made him their leader. The squires and parsons leagued together to ''put it down" and gave all the cottagers on their estates notice to leave. These high-handed measures at tracted notice, sympathy and aid to the new movement, and it spread rapidly. Arch travelled all over England organizing branches of the Union and in two months after it's commencement it had spread in all directions and had become a great success-a revolution, we might more prop say in view of the political deadness that had always before prevailed in rural Eng land. From demanding Q dollar more wages week, the English agricultural laborer has risen to the demand of the ballot. That MT. Gladstone is willing to concede that demand, and that the next great battle between English Conserva- tism and English Radicalism will be on that point, has already been indicated in recent parliamentry proceedings; unless, indeed, Conservatism is wise enough for once to avoid the unpopular side of the great issue. There seems to be no doubt, also, that English radicalism is growing in the direction of repubIcanism. The action of the Queen in discharging labor CTS from her private estates for demand ing slight increase in wages, and the recent large appropriation from the pub lie purse to support prince who married asforeign heiress and whose mother has an enormous private property, have aroused much sharp criticism. Not that mon- arcy in England is very dangerous to others, or in immediate danger itself; but the uselessness and the heavy burden of it are becoming more and more evident to the awakening English of the lower classes.
 The object of MT. Arch in coming to this country, as we gather from an excel lent article in the Tribune, is to learn per sonally the advantages it offers to emi- grant farm laborers; and, if satisfied, he proposes to make arrangements for send ing over 200, ,0OO of the superintendent h. borers who are caring scanty livelihood by working for the men who farm~the lands of the English aristecracy. Our farmers need not be told what great need wa have of inst snch olass of labnrers nor what an advantage their coming would be to themselves as well as to us. MT. Arch is himself described as a quiet, moderate, religious man, with ''level" head and an eloquent tongue. a teetotal- Ter, and very favorable specimen of the English radical. America is so flooded with stolen English fiction, largely i'm bued with aristocratic prejudice, that we stand greatly in need of such corrective views from the opposite standpoint as we hope MT. Arch will furnish us.
 Mir. Arch will undoubtedly find that the foreign laborer is not always improv- ed by emigration. If he can keep his old habits of comparative temperance and great economy, with his increased income, in due time he realizes competency. The difficulty is that his old habits are result of necessity rather than of princi- ples. With larger wages he at once adopts habits of larger expenditure. Accus- toned to no other control of his appetite for strong drink than that of limited op- portunities for its indulgence, American plenty is apt to make drunkard of him before he can learn the necessity of self control. Still, we believe that, on the av- craze, even the first generation of emi- grants is greatly benefited by the change; and their children grow up Americans!
 COURAGE.
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