The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-10-01
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TIL u LABOR QUESTION IN
ENGLAND.

MIR. JOSEPH ARCH AND HIS VISIT TO
AMERICA-HE. GIVES UP HIS Op.
|. POSITION TO COLONIZATION.
LONDON, August 3O.-Mr. j osoph
Arch sailed for Canada, August
28th. Before starting he deliver
cd a last address to the body with
which he is identified, tho Nation.
al Agricultural Laborors Union
at bennington. | gathor from his
speech that MIR. Arch is profound
ing dissatisfied with tho result of his
efforts in England to improve tho
condition Of tho laborcrs on farms.
At any rate he is now convinced
that emigration, which he has
heretofore discouraged, is necos-
sity, and that conviction has boon
forced upon him by tho way in
which tho farmers arc meoting
their mon. In tho misor.- tho la.
borers have had TO endure through
tho last oighteon months ho finds
proof that the farmers aro dctcrm-
incd not to do justice to tho men.
The farmers want labor on starv.
ing terms, and Mr. Arch has made
up his mind that emigration is
tho on y answer to their policy.
lilo spoke sharply about tho refusal
OF tho Queen to liston to tho pcti.
ton of her own laborcrs in tho
lslo of Wight, declaring, "with all
duo respect for her Majesty, the
Queen, he must say that he had
lcttcrs from tho honest tillers of
tho soil in tho 1slo Of Wight beg
ging him 10 80 there and plead
their cause, and if we wero not on
gagod to proceed TO America he
would be in the Isle Of Wight be.
fore the close of tho week. He
doeply deplored that her Mujcsty
took tho step she did, whom hor
laborers memorialised hor for an
increase of their wages to seven-
tccn shillings per wook; and he
thought, by tho course tho Queen
adopted, she SGT bad example to
tho country. If England's Queen
did not valuo her honest tillors Of
tho soil, then he would take them
away to country where their ID
Dor will be acceptable and well ro-
munorated." Ills demand had
been that tho laborors shonld have
somc of tho soil in this country to
cultivate for themselves, and he
denounced it as an absurdity to
ask mon to fight for a land of
which thoy do not own n foot.
Tho continuation of the speech is
a tono more violent than romem-
Dor to havo heard Mr.. Arch use
before. Flo said "they had now
arrived at q climax, and Parlia-
mont, the landed aristooracy and
farmers, must look at it through
different glassos from what thoy
had done in the past. Ho should
'deoply deplore farmers in this
country being left without mon to
cultivate tho land; bnt he would
ask the aristocratic landlords and
farmers which Of tho two things
should be2 and he would loave it
to tho chairman and gontlcmon
of his class to give tho answer.
Tho laborcrs had tried every
legitimate moans to bring. their
case tos The front in law. abiding,
peaceful manner. They had oniy
asked to bo paid so they might
1.-Two, aud that had been denied.
Eithor ho and six hundred thou
sand laborors must bow at tho feet
Of a atyrannicalElanded aristocracy,
and II grasping and parsimonious
class Of farmers, Or they must
cmigrate to anotho country,
where thor labor will be appro.
olatod, and whore thoy oan' 1.-Two
by their labor" Ho ropudiated
tho notion of disloyalty for him.
self and his associates, but avow-
cd that much as ho respected and
honored tho Queen, and much as
he loved his country, he loved hu.
manity moro. In its interest he
was to visit America, and once
thoro he would not ask tho laud-
cd millionaire or tho aristoorat, if
snch there .wore, to tell him about
tho condition Of tho workingmon
he intended to 500 for himself, as
he had done in Ireland.
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