The Morning herald., 1878-04-25
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THE CoNU1r1oN OFsKaoLAND

THE ooHpur1oN Or'EaaLAND.
The people If f'Great Brian are to-day
in, ,aaworsea condition athAn nthoss Of the
United States. with their boosted single
gold standard, and with, theirsolid basia
efsbanking. their manu- featuring opera
tivssp are nnderpaid, suffering fors The me-
cessaries Of life, and many thousands on a
strike" This Is q most melancholy
state 81 things;; and besides the fearful suf,
1ering which II implies it menaces the
peace af society. With fifteen thousand
operatives on astrike in one manufacturing
sown, md slrike ~ occurring or apprehended
ia All parts Of the manufacturing districts,
me condition Of things is wen calculated
Us alarm the Government, and make i
ready to enbarkin foreign war = in order
that peace may Be preserved At home.
While the psorof England, who depend
upon their daily labor for their daily
bread, ale thus suffering the extremes Of
penury, and are compelled to submit to .
reduction vi wsges,y the upper classes are
lhxuriadhg in wealth. Great Britain was
never u wealthy as it Is 70 day. Her
landed aaristocracy, hsr manufacturers
.merchants, and capitalists were never so
rich,as they aresat the moment that the
millions are being reduced to beggary. M
This condition Of things argues d great
defect in the social organization. Society
caanot Be well organized where such dis,
PARTIES of fortune are possibles There is
something radically wrong ID the laws
which foster them. The problem ofthe
aga is the question, how can this tendency
ofciyilizatIon to make ''the rich richer,
and the poor poorer, be checked without
invading the equal right of every man 70 !
are fruitso IF bis own iabors. The remedy.
is not to be found in2th communisticI
theory of dividing the accumulated wealth
Of the rich among the poor. Such sys-
tenn would sap the foundation of society
a6d ofmorals., It. would be simple rob-
berry, resulting in anarchy and bloedshsd.
The eyil+disposed, the dissoluts, and the
idle, would thenceforth cease to rely on
honest labor for 4 support and their resort
in every emergency, would bee distribu-
ten Of property. In esseg aso3s,o 'Roa
But while the properly should be sacred,
monopolies are not; and among these, the
ownershipof large bodies Of land BY indi
viduals, is to be classed. England con-
tains about thlrtty-three millions acres of
lend and about twenty millions ofpeople.
There istherefore little more than one and
half acres to the individual. Yet the
land ia owned by few, thousand men, and
half of it BY a few hundred. The owners
of large estates not unfrequently drive off
the tenants, in order to convert the lands
into grazing farms, or parks for game. ri
The poor tenants, thus deprived of
house and home, ssometimes scrape tor
gether few pounds sterling, by the sale
of everything, and emigrate 70 America.
British 'benevolenc57' sometimes ekes ont
what they may lack OF mcans, on the con-
dition of their emigration othe colonies.
Others, who are not SO fortunate, 60 to tie
manufacturing towns to seek labor as
"operatiyS" in the factories, by which
labor is offered in excess of the demand +,
and the manufacturers are enabled TO
lower the rate of wages. Hence come
strikes, poverty, wretcheaness and COM
munistic societies. s.sssgyr laGssfs 4
Will any fair-minded man pretend that;
the English nobility and aristrocracy have
right thus to,drive off the people from
theland on which they and their fore
fathers have lived for generations? Sla-
very itself ID more tolerable than such a
state Of thinys.s" "A great reyolutihn is
impending over England, This mon
strosity-the monopoly of the land by the
nobility. the .aristocracy and the rich; by
the ellborn and the. wealthy--will moi
be borne with many years longer. If the
British Government is wise. 1T will anti
cipate the coming storm by preparing fo'
it. But arbitrary power never yields till
it is overthrown; and Great Britain, from
this cause, il msnaced by the. horrors o
the+French Revolution. s5 a s a. NJ
The abolition of primogenture is not al