Arizona citizen., 1876-02-05
THE CITIZEN.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1876.
Contrasts

other State and Territory in the Union
 ArIzona has among her citizens men Q
 foreign birth and allegiance who hay,
 great difficulty in discovering any,hin:
 good in American life or government
 We have met many of them. Thel
 game here poor, went to work eagerly
 gained ID 8 few years an amount whicl
 they peyeT could have hoped for il
 their native land, and in return occupy
 their leisure in deriding American
 morals, manners, manufactures, people
 laws and rulers. This class of for
 eigners is but class and not general
 rule. They scorn AmeriSan, citizenship
 and gloat over everything which can re
 dound to American disgrace. They
 abound in cynical and facetious re
 marks concerning American honesty
 and are never so happy as when con
 trasting this with foreign countries.
 We do not propose to offer any argu
 ments to such or in any manner en.
 deavor t5 cOnver', them from the error
 of their ways. They are utterly unde-
 sirable as citizens. They are too thor
 oughly mean by nature to eyer be any
 thing but the hybrld Outcasts which
 they arc. They left their country for
 their county's good, they are curse
 and blight wherever they rest and the
 only remedy Is a chance of their mov-
 ing on. The reason we speak of this
 class is because we have lately seen
 several statements, showing in strong
 colors the superior advantages of other
 lands over this poor land of ours. The present has been very hard season in the United States, and yet we have
 nothing but comparative abundance to show against the following picture from a late Montreal paper, which says:
 Last Friday morning between 1000 and 1jOO desperate labOrers again sur rounded the city hall clamOring for bread. Alderman Gernier, Chairman of the Police Committee, addressed the people and quieted them, advising them to wait until the next day.
 The Board of Aldermen decided that night to employ as many men on the iorilhcation as possible. In the after noon tumultuOuS crowd of 2OOO peo- pie marched through the streets. Sev- eral lights occurred and order was with difficulty restored by the police. The mob stopped bakers and beer wag- on and appropriated the contents. The Mayor addressed the mob, counseIlingl moderation, but at one time it was thought It would be necessary to read the riot act.
 A deputation went to Ottawa to wait upon the government and request them to proceed with the Lachine Canal work immediately, 10 relieve in some degree the thousands of men now stary. ing in Montreal.
 Turning our backs on this pleasing portrayal of the condition ofcommonl humanity in better and brighter lands than ours, let us take a look at Eng land during these winter months. A, letter in the San Francisco Bulletin. written in London on December 21. last says: t
 Never before here, and nowhere ( surely, has bread been so dear and flesh and blood SD cheap. Within the past ten days a clergyman of the Church of England, Tn good standing. died of. starvation, as jury of his peers found T upon their paths. He had been ac- 1 customed to live, keeping up the ap. I pearance of gentleman. on sixteen cents day. The snow, with it's extra | demands on him for fire, food and r decided the struggle and sent Inc poor soul up tO its master. Christ Lord, when saw we thee an hungered md did not minister unto thee yr With q n the past ten days a veteran of the British army, hero who had two \ horses shot under him in the famous = ;harge at Balaklava, applied for bread II Q a poor house official on duty He e vas no pauper Tn the ordinary sense :. h lad never been in the poor house. He z vas delayed in receiving bread. while ed-tape proceeded through its yarIous Il orms. When food reached him at last sl he breast that had borne several dec, n 'ratlons for valOr and two for rood , the breast, whose decorations lad been pawned for bread, was found tC old. A Jury of his peers found that l. le, too, had died Of starvation! Honor sI he brave and bold. Long shall ibcl - ale be told. Noble six-hundredm g
 Cases like these crop out in what are le alled the middle classes. Among tbn h. ower classes in this cruel weather n here Is, of course, a more annaIlingi pldemic of misery. Wretches scrane II tides Tn the market for shreds of retid| neat for human food. With nolice :, len, city missionaries and hosnital \, l have been through some ofI le most crowded hospitals and streets A f this city. 1 have seen sights that I c annot picture, heard things that are or lcredible. The newspapers are filled d, nth appeals to the charitable. the hos -, ltals and pOOr-houSes are crammed N he poor of all sexes that reach the hos WI ltal are found covered with vermin tic heir clothes are never changed. tbeIr odles never washed, and the number | absolute paupers in England and aies Is officially estimated today at Ve per cent, Of the entire population. very twentieth man in the poor icC ouSe' and now and then the nineteenth To, ian starving, and the eighteenth man 'raping offal off hides for buman sig ,odi There is no immediate prosneri Or improvement :. THERE IS nothing rehable from tho Iu,