The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-11-07
English Civi1ixation
cincinnati Telegraph.

Cincinnati Telegraph
The Inspector of Factories in England fur
nishes most startling, horrible revelations
concerning the brutalized condition of En-
glshmen in the manufacturing districts.
While England is boastiDg of it's civilization,
the report of the Inspector shows that a por-
ton of it's population has been reduced to the
lowest stage of barbarism by the lust of gain,
and by worse vices, which mock the week,
powerless religion which the English Govern
ment su bstitu ted for the teaching of the Church
of God. The pous Protestant Earl of Shafts
bury is constrained to confirm the humiliating
official record of the beastly degradation of
the lower classes in the Black Country. The
facts are admitted to be unnatural and mon
strous. The women are compelled by worth
less, dissipsted, drunken fathers and husbands,
who riot of their wages, to perform the hard
est work in the mines and iron works. 'The
women" says the report of the Inspector,
"take the place of fathers, we'll as of hus-
+ bands, while the men are idle and drunken.
Hundreds work making large nails and spikes,
work far filter for men than women the coll
liers' and puddlers' wives toll and slave for
any price any crafty knave of q master would
offer these people (the women) do not stand
out for tommy and beer 80 long as they can
get something to satisfy their half-starving
families, while the ought-tO- be- bread winner is
luxuriatiDg in some public house at his ease,
or training his whiffst for some future running
on beef-steaks and the best of good fare.
While the mother tolls and slaves, th9cbildren
are left uncared for, to wander shoeless and in
rags, till they are old enough to blow the
bellows, to be kicked and cuffed, hear filthy,
indecent aud blasphemous language, and are
then sent into the shop, amid men degraded
by drink and gambling, in time to follow the
same course"
The interposition of the Government is
invoked to change this disgraceful state of
society-to lift the mothers of the rising gene
ration in England above, or, rather, up to the
level of the most corrupt form of paganism.
But the Government itself will eject little or
nothing. There is need of stronger force or
higher power-a more divine regeneration.
There is need of the authority of that Church
which England expelled by fre and sword
from its shores, but which alone gave to wo-
man a sacred dignity and sacred rights, and
raised her from the fallen condition into
which a man-made religion has again allowed
her to fall. There is need of the divinely
constituted protector who exalted woman
hood and lifted her to her true, proper station
by the homage and the reverence that protec-
tor decreed to the Lady of the Christian
world, the Blessed Mother of God. When
England again becomes Our LadJ's dover,
when Jesus Mary and Joseph are the house
hold words of Merry England, when the Cross
rises az a sign of faith and beDediction upon
it's hills and plains, when the Catholic Church
brings back to the wild mining districts of the
north the Eight that shone in darkness then,
ard then only, will this and other foul blots
upon the name of England be removed.