The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-19

ture, their dress their sleeping accommoda-
lions, and almost, eVcfything that goes 10
make the home, the comfort OF The FAMILY IN
seriously abridged. And yet vast numbers
who earn good wages, say thirty, forty and
fifty shlIlings a week, seem to be satisfied with
the scantiest supply OF the most common
absolute necessities of life. In very many
eases lars 'e faniiies do nye in one and two
but Ii Is too common.
sin large proportion Of their homes family
comioTt Is to.sly nnknSwn; The menis
homes, IN multitudeS OF cases their whole
furniture not being worth more than lew
ness, and ia e only part or the Week wren COM
forts are introduced is on saturday evening
aud Sunday. after the wages OF the week come
aud ps@ning of tie previous Week, ana thus
the perpetual round continues. The tenements
are generally small and dirty"
The following extract from the Cambrian
News shows the uncomfortable lodgings OF
1.-The newly appointed inspector OF nuisances
for the rural district of Abarystwith has made
two reports. which reveal an almost incon-
ceiVable state of degradation among the peo-
pie. A large number OF the houses are alto
gether unfit for hahitation, and those h0ve'S
6esns bepded promiscnorisiV toceiheT' In one
ease sixteen men sleep In eight beds in two
small rooms, and In an another Instance four
men occupy the beds during the night and
four during the day. the day occupants fire.
qaently having 10 wait until the night men
get Up In 1 one Place in@dy lives o, In nut
room and butchers shop; and in another
woman, her grown-up daughter, COW,
heifer and nine fowls occupied one room,
which has no fire place, no window, and no
light or ven iiation beyond that provided by
the door,
DR. GrIffiths the medical officer of health for
the borough of Sheffield, in his annual report
issued in 1874, as refers TO the sanitary con-
dillon OF the dwellings OF the poor:
"Many of the dwellings of the poor are I'M
fit for them. One room frequently serves the
threefold purpose of bed room q yelling room
nd no for af is
totally inadequate for the health of the ten
ants. When 10 this is added that the windows
are generally what are termed Yorkshire
lights, or easements, many of which can not
be opened, and that when panes are broken
the deficiency is supplied by wood or paper,
excluding the light, and that whole families,
without regard 10 sex or age, the single and
Married, are promiscuously mingled, there
need be no surprise at the existence of disease
nor at the spread ofinfectiOn."
Look at the farm laborer of England. To-
day emancipated, his condition is no better
than when in S=rfdom. In 1871 the average
wages of English farm laborers were II shIl-
hngs per week. In the southern parts of Eng
tnu .e M We, ISM, anGt on nh s
was impossible for married man TO provide
proper food for himself and family; meat was
little bacon might, perhaps, be INDUCED in
once q week; for the rest of the time dry
bread was the chief fare. Meat OF all kinds
proportion of strengthening and healthful
food, constitutes but 1876 per cent. of the work
chester and Huddersfeld it is but little over
10 and IA per cent. Such fare causes physical
degeneracy, and the habitations, in many
eases "hoN els in which their employers would
not stable their horses; novels without ven
tilation, drainage, or the surroundings
necessary for ordinary decency; novels which
have bred race Of men who, from want of do
nestle comforts, spend every spare hour in the
pot house, and who have nothing to look for
ward TO but the pauper's grave; novels VIII ch
have bred race of women whose maidenly
modes ly vanished unborn in consequence of
the scenes they were Obliged TO witness
datiOns," tend to a state of society that the /
statesman who Is now framing law to break
with terror, unless his heart is barren of every
sentiment of patriotism and philanthropy.
May the great struggle now in progress In
England to Improve this state have full fru-
itiOn.
United States Consul Jenkinson, writing
from Glasgow in 1873. logically sums up the
situation IN the following words
High wages are impossible. And this ex-
plains in word the lamentable condition of
the working man and his utter inability To ell
evate his condition. He must work for mere
pittaDce TO enable his employer to sell his
goods abroad at low rates or there Will be no
work for HIM to do and he will be left to
starve."
In other European countries the situation
is shll more aggravated. The present condi-
ton of thousands and tens of thousands of
American laborers is as deplOrable as any
thing Mr.. Ward presents, and this state OF
things has been brought about by radical
legislation. 1t has turned thousands of PEG
pie out of comfortable homes upon the high
ways 1t has closed thousands of factories,
shops and other industrial enterprises, and
made it impossible for the poor to obtain
bread in country where food is in fabulous
abundance and prices are almost unprece-
dentedly low. This process of Europeanizing
American labor has been going forward for
years and success has at last crowned the
efforts of the Shylocks. The country is full
of idleness, hunger, starvation and rags.
Desolate homes are in all the cities and on
all the highways of the country, and to
offset these calamities we are told that John
Sherman can resume specie payments. There
is but one way out of the wilderness of
curses that radicalism has imposed upon the
country-but one way 10 arrest the work of
EuropeanIzing American labor and that is
to dismiss the radical party from power.
When this is accomplished, business will
revive, idle men aud women will have work,
the era of fraud will expire, and prosperity
will be once more enthroned.