The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-31
acknowledgement
Eu,Rin on Hard Times.


In Fors for January, Mr.. Ruskiu, I'M
der the title Of "The fate Of Cyiarthfa, .
writes "a follows: "Mr. Crawshay has put
summary end to all rumors as to the
possibility Of a start at Cyisrthia. One
Of his old servants wrote TO him lately on
matters apart from the. iron-worksi but
in The course OF bis letter he asked his
old master whether there were any hopes
Of the works being again started. The
repIy from Mr.. Crawshay was as follows;
Trade 10 worse than ever il was, and ]
zee not the slightest chance Of Cyfarthfa
starting again but believe II il ever
Ioes start it will be under different cir
cumstsnces from the present, as 1t will re.
ouire large sun 10 be paid out in i'm
proyements, such "a making steel.works,
etc. ain loo near my grave to think OF
doing anything Of the sort; and | thinks
bldly Of trade altogether that | have no
wish to see my sons remain in il. am
feeling very poorly, and do not think |
can possibly live very long, and II l am
able I shall sell the works before / die.
There is nothing now TO bind me to them,
for | have been estranged from them by
The conduct OF the men. always hoped
and expected 10 die with the works going,
and the same feeling among the men for
their employers; but things have changed,
and all 10 different, and | may go to my
grave feeling AN perfect stranger, as
Ill my old men are gone, or nearly 10.
Il il 10 be noted, adds Mr.. Ruskin, that
there are four quite distinct causes opera
ting in the depression OF English-espec,
tally iron-trade, Of which two are our
own fault aud the other two, being in.
eyitabIe, should have been foreseen long
since by even the vulgar sagacity Of self
interest. The frat great cause is the sep'
aratiOn between masters and men, which
il wholly the masters fault, and the me-
ce.,ary result OF the defiance Of every
moral law Of human relation by modern
political economy. The second is the loss
Of custom, in consequences Of bad work.
also result Of the teaching OF modern
political economy. The third, affecting
especially the iron trade, is that the funds
which the fools OF Europe bad at their
disposal, with which to build iron bridges
instead OF wooden ones, put up spike
ratings instead Of palinss, and make
machines in substitution for their armt
and legs, are now in a degree exhausted
and by the time the rails are all rusty
the bridges snapped and the machines
found to reap and thresh no more corr
than arms did, the fools OF Europe will
have learned a lesson or two which viii
mot soon be forgotten, even by them; and
The iron trade will be slack enough there
after. The fourth cause Of trade depres
siOn-bitler to the hearts Of the person.
whom Mr.. Herbert Spencer calls patriot
|-is, that the inhabitants Of other coun
tries have begun to preceiye that the
have got hands as well as we-and posi-
bly, in some business, even better hands, ant
|they may Just as we'll make their owl
wares ~ buy them OF US which whole
tome discovery Of theirs will in due tim
merciiully put an end 10 the British idea
of life in the national shop, and make |
BIT last plain to the British mind that III
'clila Of Dover were not constructed b.
Providence merely to be made a larg
'noun,ar y