Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-10

| As SENSIBLE SPEECH.
Mr.. William Noble, an Enelisnman,
prominent in labor reform movements
abroad. addressed large meeting at the
Cooper Institute, New York, on Monday
last. lie spoke to laboring men, he said,
as the son of laboring mar. In 1918. his
father, ccal whipper. had ''struek" for
nine weeks against an iDiquitOus system
that prevailed in England. During that
time he had cried for bread, which he could
not get. The erog-sellers had been IN the
habit of employing laborers and then insist
| ing that they should sDend a certain part
OF their earnings at this or that gros-shOp.
on the penalty of losing their situations if
they refused. The laboreIs on their part
asserting a manly protest against this un-
just and unrighteous tyranny struck, and
finally carried their point. But the
conflict was unaccOmpanied by either VIC
lence or boodshed In this country, the
| speaker urged, the laborers had perfect
right to get the highest possible price for
their labor, and they had u right To COM
bine to maintain their position. Bnt when
it came to the destruction OF property
and the shedding Of blood. they no longer
had rig hit on their side. II the labOrers in
the present agitation would strike against
drink the speaker felt they would strike
at the very root OF their troubles. In Eng
land. t2I2 was spent every minute on drink
and the expenditure resulted only in pau
perism and crime. In England. too, ipcrcas-
ed wages tn the laborers meant increased
expense in drink In view of these facts he
urged the labOrers in this county to snap
the chains OF drink that bound them, and to
stand up free, be independent, and save
their money when times were good. Then
when the dull times came they could with
stand the shock. In England. tie speaker
continued, there was man named William
Baily, who had once been a farm laborer,
and wi ho now owned an establishment: whose
business amounted to thousands and thou
sands of dollars. Some years ago this man
happened to cross wheat field and SAW some
laborers at work moving. lie was dressed
in fine suit OF black, but walked over among
the labOrers, and asked one IT them 1t he
might be allowed to NOW. The man saId
".yeS," and Bailey took Il scy the and began
TO work lie had not been long engaged
when one of the aborerS said in some SUI
prise, noting his attire and deeming him a
wealthy gentleman "Why, you have NOW
ed before. "Yes. have" Bailey respond
ed, "and used at one time to drink beer
regularly when | did. But while | was
moving one day and drinking my beer, the
idea suddenly came to ne that could NOV
lust as well without the beer. "Oh,
couldn't work without beer, interrupted
one Of the lahorcrs: II never could get on"
We'll. continued Bailey. "'irrr began
to Now without the beer, soon discovered
that could get on with,ut moving alto
gethcr." ''We should like that very WELL"
Il lab ssDh returned
Barley; "ynu cannot do without YOUR beer,
and y1u will 60 on moving and moving all
your lives without rising To anything bet
ter" There are thousands of laboTers In
our mids, like those added the speaker and
they are tOIling and tOlliDg to keep some
brewer rich, bringing their wives and chll-
dren 10 RUIN. when, IT they would but stop
the drink, they might become independent,
honorable citizeus, like William Bailey. OF
England.
Uru.r DISEASE When M individual Is
reported To have died OF II disease ot the
heart" We arc in the habit OF regarding it as
an inevitable rvent,us something which could
not have been inrcsecn or prevented. and 1t
IL too much the habit, when persons sudden
Iv fall down dead, to report the heart the
cause this sIl,uc,S all inquiry aud l:Nrst-
cation, and saves tie trouldr and mcnnNe-
nicucc uf II rcpnsivc post-muttcm truer
report would have Il tendency Ia save many
lives II is through report "i disease "t
tbr heart that many an opium eater Is let
of INTO the grave. which covers ut once hls
folly and his crime q. the brandy drinkcr, too.
uuirtly slid,s round the corner thus. and Is
heard uf no more in short this report of dis
rnsc ui the heart, Is the mantle OF charity,
which the politic coroner, and the sympathet-
ir physician throw around tn" grave OF
.'ucntrel people. At II late scientific con
grrss at StrsburEh, 1t was reported that "f
slNty-siN persons who had suddenly died an
immediate and faithful post mortcm showed
that only two persons had any heart affection
whatever one sudden death only, IN thutN-
three, from dis, tst ot the heart. Nine out Of
the siNtv-siN died at np"pl,Ny, one out ot
every seven. while iorty-sN more than Two
out rf three died of lung affections, half of
Them ot congestion OF the lungs that is.
th, unrs were So full oi blood. they could
not vnrk, there was not room Tor air enough
tn get III to support hir. HfH> ,Iou15d 4
Hrhfi.
Tur Rutlapd Giob, sadly announces that
"nprrarances would mdIch'c that Rutland
- n yr,at city, whusc uhahIiaut~ - to the
watering places IN the sra>"n- The streets
L,r t!c pnst three days have been almost
deserted. Occasionally II team or stray
ned, ~trian may he srcn, bus a. general
him. merchants and clerks have been sit
ting around improving their minds and
cuIs,ny dull times" Rutland is the centre
al he graveyard interest, you know The
popular literature down there Is BLAIR 5
| "Grave."