New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-26

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piness pervades the establishment in all its
relations. Perhaps ifthey knew more init
mately of what they see but specifically,
they might find a state of affairs very diff
ferent from what they suppose.
Let us, then, take the English laborer.
He is a white man of a class that has
been emancipated since English serfdom
has been abolished. Has he advanced or
improved? He has no house, more than
his Pict ancestors. He can not read Or
write. Nor can he speak the English
language intelligibly to an American. If
our philomonarchist would go among the
lower classes of London he would find,
according to authority, 10000 dealers in
vegetables and second hand goods, some
of whom, at least, were ignorant that a
Saviour had died for them, and all of
whom spoke jargon that none else could
understand. But the English are afraid
Of their field laborers. They do not like
them to assemble in crowds. They do
not favor their personal independe nee.
Should one of them engage to work and
fail to comply with his contract, he is not
sued for breach of agreement, but ar
rested for misdemeanor and perhaps
imprisoned.
The English people fear to educate
these people. They do not dare intrust
them with suffrage, lest they should re-
peal the laws which Cypress them, and
possibly elect persons like themselves to
contaminate their parliamentary associ-
ates. Let us see how these lower orders
complain of this injustice. The London
Spectator thus describes some of the
transparencies of laboring procession;
There is an unbeautiful Ceres presenting
quar- tern loaf to very stout farmer and
a very thin laborer, with the injunction to
.'share fairly" There are long array of
fat cattle, bearing prices expressed in
guineas, and an equally long array of lean
men, women and children, bearing prizes
expressed in shillings. There is the police
man arresting husband who has taken
rabbit tor his sick wife, and a distant view
of the county Jail, with the inscription,
10000 criminals made annually through
rabbits There is the long ascent to the
workhouse and the pauper's grave, and the
only means of escaping from this fate, in
the shape of an emigrant steamer bound
for Canada, with the exhortation, "Best
men, get ready" The handbills are simi.
larry adorned, some with a cut of skele-
ton blowing, while farmer, who is not at
al! skeleton, locks on approvingly; and
others with more obscure presentation of
the farmer in the shape of an ass ridden by
the labOrer, the tax collector and the land.
lord all at once, and kicking viciously at
the agitator who is apparently trying to
lift the laborer off his back.
As for their education, Mr.. Gladstone
speaks of "the utter inefsiciency of the
education of English laborers for any
permanent intellectual culture"
The terrible extortion of the employers
to enslave these laborers brings them
down to bestial condition. There are
meetings held for the "underpaid and
half starved land drudges of Willis and
Somerset who have had to keep their
wives and bring up their families on six
shillings to ten shillings per week, and
live in novels worse than stables"
Suppose our monarchical friends and
alien advisers compare the ignorance,
misery and degradation of these laborers
with the content of the Southern people
who cultivate the earth. The United
States has given to the emancipnted mil
lions suffrage and education. They may
not be as well qualified to profit by either
as similar class in Europe, but they will
be better members of society, with the
permission to improve, than if they were
forbidden to improve.
A great test of human happin ess is,
however, the supply of food, rent and
raiment. Six to ten shillings week is
the allowance to the British laborer. Six
to ten dollars week is the earning of
laborer in the cotton or cane field. Yet
these wages are cheerfully given by the
employer, and while men will kill citi-
zen for his vote, they will pay him excel
lent wages for his labor.
Can we not hope that the malcontents
of the land will allow people to realize
the good that is within their grasp, in
stead of aspiring to apparent blessings
which are really neutralized by evils not
so obvious to the casual observer.