The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-01-30

them unwilling to mako personal appli.
cation for relief are invited TO state theii
cases by letter only. addressed to boz l62
postofiice, Manchester. All applications
must be accompanied by reference to last
employer and one or two respectable
householders." You can inagine how
widely epread is want Ia Manchester
when you learn that on last Friday, at
one agency alone, relief was asked for
lO.SOO souls. In Kent the farmers have
resolved 20 turn out of their cottages
laborers who refuse to submit to o Yeduc.
ton of wages and to withd Iw from the
laborers' union. The iaborers have held
a meeting and resolved to emigrate to
New leland unless the farmers "stoppod
playing their pranks." Why New Eel
and? Is not America much nearer?
| THREATENED STRIKE OF THE CoLLIEns.
But the one hundred thousand colliers
| on strikel That is momentous fact
more to be considered than the glorious
Afghan news, with which all England
should be thrilling in patriotic ardor, but
about which no one seems to care. Who
| can rejoice over beaten and fugitive
Ameer, with bread so hard to earn and
ones piano and sewing machine and sa-
cred wedding ring going to the pawn
brokers' shop? Here is leading news
paper article, calm and we'll considered,
OIL the hundred thousand colliers. Their
wages have been pared down and down
until they can hardly keep shoes on their
feet. Remember this distress has been
coming slowly for long time, and these
proposed Christmas reductions are only q
step in series of reductions. Now the
Golfers are asked to come down twelve
per cent. The good times which were
promised as every clipping came of their
former pittance-the radiant, sunny times
when every Englishman would earn
enough to insure him at least q warm
dinner, with beef and baked POTATOES
where are they? Ae far of as ever, and
ers argne that while all trades have suf.
fered tueir trade has been the least affec.
ted that people must have Goals, whether
poor or rich, and tnat they are pinched
not because the masters suffer, but be.
cause they wish to take advan We of the
general distress to increase th..r profits.
am afraid this argument has holes in It
and will not carry water In q time of
such unexampled misery every industry
will suffer alike, and one feels quite GER
tain that nothing but necessity which
could not be surmounted leads to the
measure which has summoned the colli-
ers to arms. z The government can find
O. way to avert this strike it will avoid a
serious difficulty. One hundred thousand
men out of employment, and angry be-
cause they feel that their idlenes3 is
grievance enforced upon them, what NAV
not result? The argument of the WORK
men, a. quote it from an authority ia
vorable to the masters, o paper entirely
:a tie Troy capitalists interests, is this:
The workmen cay that the masters
promised that no reduction should be
carried further than the removal of all
the addition to wages made since the be-
ginning Of that extraordinary expansion
of trade which few years ago co en-
IIiched colliery proprietors and their
hands at the expense of the consumer
that is to say, of nearly all trades, and of
every family in the country" The mas
ters deny shat any such promise was
made. no reasonable business man
would promise, because he had a success.
fui series Of years and had put away large
pronts, shat in years to come he would
pay more for wages than he earned and
use his profits in the future to meet bad
times. In ell such quarrels, where the
point at Issue is matter of personal adj
vantage, there are right and wrong on
tcth sides. The masters pressed their
advantage when times were bright with.
out considering the workmen--now the
workmen meail to press their sheer force
against the masters without making al
lowance for the distress. It is hard TO
spend the profits of 1875 in supporting
worknlen in 1873. 1t is also very, very
hard to keep body and soul together and
have children around you on the wretched
wages paid to q collier, more especially
II twelve per cent. is to be taken from
them. One cannut we'll see how the
problem is to be solved; and the impend-
ing strike of hundred thousand coIliers,
which appears to be accepted as iuevita-
BILE, seems to me the gravess fact in the
present history of England. 4
AMERICAN INFLUENCES CAUSING DIS.
siis5f5. TREs5.
You have heard that committee ia at
work distributing bread and meat. and
also making searching inquiry into the
causes OF the distress. Many reasons are
assigned-the main reasons. the proaperi-
ty of the United States. Nothing seems
clearer than this, that England Is falling
back simply because America is advanc.
ing. Peace, it is written, hath her victo.
ries no less renowned than war. How
wise it was in those who governed Amer
lea to be content with peaceful contro-
versy with England. I am not writing
in any spirit of exultation because I
TeveT have seen cause for rejoicing i'm
any war, peaceful or otherwise, and
believe if She relations between the fami-
ly of nations were adjusted on q sound
oasis you would not see what pains one
so much-the suffering of nations like
Germany and England, and the prosper
ity OF nations like France and America.
One cannot help feeling that, having had
our day of sorrow, it is sweet once more
e SEC sHHs siin. But, SOONER or later. Inc
distress here must affect the most pros
porous of nations. IF you look for the
causes OF this trouble what do you find ?
There is the distress in the iron trade.
Wei, in ten years America has added
tweiyefold to her iron production. Every
ton OF ore produced is SO much taken
from England. We can make iron even
IN Tennessee and Alabama cheaper than
1t can be made in England. and as a con-
sequences the exnnrt trade of English iron
once the largest item of our imports, is
confined to the Atlantic coast. Very
soon 1t Wall be driven cut and we shall be
sending our manufactured iron to thia
market This makes an immense chasm /
II the profits of English labor. There ia
distress in the cotton trade. Not long
since England had a virtual monopoly Of
cottoa manufacture. She purchased our
raw cotton and aent It back to us in cloth.
and the industry assumed prodigious pro.
portions. She had mark ct in India and
China. I am afraid even to hazard
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