The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-29

mon; and you can scarcely expect mucn
higher morality In some places, where farmers g. :
and farmers sons treat the daughters OF the
farm laborers pretty much az many DISCO
Lutte slave owner used to treat his female
slaves"
Horrible as this statement is. ! find IT fully
clared, at a meeting of the Western Associa-
ton Of Baptists, In 1876, that he found Ia
moral England heathenism OF the worst de-
scription. He described a village near Taun.
sick woman, with bag hung over her head
to keep the droppings OF the roof from falling
upon her In the same place was her daugh-
ter, with
SEVERAL IILEGITrMATE CHILDREN BY HER
/ OWN BROTHER.
"In tour of mine among agricultural la
borers, found frequent similar cases. The
landowners" he went on, chad reduced the
people to this state by their rapacity and
greed; and the State Church clergy have
complacently watched the progress Of squat
idlty without demonstrating with the men
Books prepared some time ago upon the en-
| plOyment OF women and children, show con-
clusively that the Church of England clergy
| possess full knowledge OF this moral rotten
ness, because, her Majesty's commissioners
chiefly relied upon the Information OF the
| clergy, who even went around with these
gentlemen and showed thorough acuuaint-
anee with the awful state Of their parishes
The. Russian peasant has generally been
looked upon as only one grade above the
Chinese; but am inclined to think his lot Is
| MORE ENvIABLE ONE
than that OF his English brother. The Lon
don Globe lately reprinted some intesesting
statistics, published at st. Petersburg show
| Ing the price Of labor In Russia this summer.
| AT Bembirsk, the pay OF q peasant has been
from ID to 1s day by himself, or from Is 4d
| to % Cd with his horse. The services of his
wife and daughter have been estimated at
| from 31.d to I'd. In Viatka. where the famine
has ragged, 1t has been possible to obtain
man and his beast at Is 3D. a day, and himself
for I'd, while 21.sd has been the average wages
for his wife. In South Russia, labor had been
dearer. The peasants of Ekaterinoslay
have demanded 1s Sd to Is Cd a day without
the use OF their horse, and at Odessa Is. This
seems wretched remuneration for physical
labor, but living In Russia is exceedingly
cheap, which Is not the case In England; and.
in most instances, there are sundry conces-
sions, In the shape of cheap pasturage and
the right TO gather fuel In the forests, which
make up In measure the deficiency
NO SUCH CONCESSIONS
are granted the British peasant Then the
Russian mOujik Is not, like the English la
borer. dependent on the farmer for bread.
Every moujk Ia the empire owns from five
To f1fty acres OF grounds; he Is invariably the
possessor OF several cows and horses and
altogether, says the Globe truthfully, his
many needy farmers in England. Except In
certain out-of-the-way provinces, like Vatka,
he has always sufficient rye In his barns to
keep the wolf from the door" and this, with
his food. Luxuries in the shape Of chickens
may be had in the villages In Central Russia
IarnboH, Ioula, etc--at 3d each; here they
cost ls Cd: There eggs can be bought for Cd
hundred; here the laborer will pay Is a
dozen There the moujik will consider water
melons dear II they cost him more than q
farthiDg, and sheep can be often had for a
shilling; here the laborer scarcely knows
what watermelon Is, and, II he ever thought |
OF buying sheep, 1t would cost him E3 or |
FL LII the Russians cows die he can replace |
them at lbs apiece, and he can purchase the |
best horse In the market for 81. II the wild |
est dreams Of the English laborer ever went |
SO lar as the possession OF q COW or a horse
ne ne would require to have in his pocket at least
Ed Tor the former and as much for the latter.
The Russian laborers living Is not luxurious,
but he has plenty OF food, coarse though 1t |
be; while the English moujik In many cases
crawls through existence
IN A SEMI STARVED CONDITION.
But the farm-laborers are not the only suf-
ferers In the present case. The tenant farm
ers have much to complain OF. The present
difficulty has struck at quarters never before
affected, and the farmer says rents must be
lowered or wages must fall. He says he can
not pay the present rentals, arranged when
wheat was 66s . quarter, now that 1t has
bread cheap because he gave such high prices
Turing the late war, and he must now make
It up. Then the laborer comes to the ground
between the two stools and the poor farmer
not better of, because he is called
upon to pay his old rent Everything else
Uses and falls with commercial tides, but the
price OF land never does. Land in Kent on
IN average, is worth G10O per acre. taking the
critic and the barren. To an American there
9 no reason for the fancy prices; but so GU
lously has been mixed up the possession OF
and with the possession OF political power
md social prestige that 1t has obtained
abulous value through "genteel' people who
annot afford to buy, but who hope to get into
ountry society by becoming gentlemen
armers; and thus the real farmer has to
'ay
AN ARTIFICIAL RATE OF RENTAL,
which he can only do by screwing down his
aborers' wages. During the last year or
wo, his chief difficulties have been the enor-
nous quantity Of cheap corn and the large
uantitios of beef coming into the country. .
II course, on the other hand, he has had the
enefit OF the imports OF cheap feeding stuffs
nd fertilizing agencies Another drawback
the farmer Is the fact that he is tied down
Q shall cultivate his land He is not allowed
} make the most OF everything. He must
DIV, for example, wheat this year. barley the
ext, rye, the year after, and SO forth. Al I
Rough his fields may be overrun with rab-
Its, and his crops are being destroyed under
is nose, he dare not, with few exceptions,
It gun. He cannot sell his straw, or hay.
: roots but must feed it all himself and re-
i'm it to the soil. These are
FEW OF THE FARMERS GRIEVANCES.
Some Of the tenants OF the Duke of Newcas-
e, see, have refused to renew their hold
gs, and the Duke will thus be driven to farm
10 own land, or let it at lower rents than he
rs hitherto done. The Duke-who. by the
ay, was not long ago a bankrupt, and was
Did off for the benefit OF his creditors must
We like Duke. He must have all the luxu-
es OF life, and, as he has the advantage OF
ling the tenant OF an entaiIed estate, ne is
Die to do so, provided he can get adequate
,ntals from his tenants. He is one OF those {
no propose to further reduce the laborer. In !
ent and Sussex, among the large proprie-
RS who have descended to reduce the wages .
the laborers I'D day, are Lord Darnley, :,
It'll an annual rent.roll OF esq, 900; Sir VIII
I'm Hart DYKE who draws from his rents j
1900 annually; and Lord Sondes, with an
tate netting him G26,OO0 every twelve
he