The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-06
ENGLAND'S EXTREMITY.
The Prevailing Distress i'm the Island Star
walton Emigration.

walton or Emigration.
from the New York Post.I
The decline of British trade affords q
theme of constant comment for the lead
ing journals of the tight little isle.'
All deal with the subject in spirit of
commendable candor. Thus the Week
admits that the iron trade is practically
lost to Great Britain forever, the Amer
leans, instead of buying abroad, having
gone into business on their own ac
count, and as competitors with those
from whom they formerly drew their
supplies. "In 1872" says the Week,
"the Americans bought iron and steel
of us to the value of close upon $685.
000,0O0. This amount had sunk in 1877
to less than $12,5O0,0O0. Everybody
will at once see that this is tremend
Gus falling off. We go to the official re-
turns of the United States for these
figures, and, therefore, there can be no
possibility of mistake about them. In
all other things which the Americans
| bought of us there has been similar
falling off. In 1872 they purchased cot
ton manufactures of us to the value of
| $25, 100000 Gin round fgures); in 1877,
only $7,75O,00O. We have not made
proportionate gains in any other mar
ket."
The cause of the widespread distress
which now prevails all over Great Brit
ain is chiefly found in the statements
here made. England is declining be-
cause we, as her chief competitor, are
rapidly advancing in all the elements of
prosperity. In ten years our iron pro-
duction has increased twelvefold.
Every ton of ore produced has been SO
much taken from England. British
iron, once the largest item of our i'm
ports, will, at no distant day, be entirely
driven out, and we shall be sending our
manufactured iron to the British mar
ket. This decay of great interest af-
fects d vast mass of English laborers.
Then, as to the cotton manufacture, be-
fore referred to, not a great while ago
England had virtual monopoly of that
industry. She purchased our raw cot
ton and sent 1t back to us in cloth, the
industry attaining prodigious proper
tons. She had q market in China from
which, as from ourselves, enormous
profits we're derived Tens of thousands
of operatives found remunerative en-
/ ployment in her factories and mills.
Now the United States make their own
cotton into cloth, and are beginning to
supply England. In China our cloths
are so much better than the English
that we are taking the market. English
mills are initiating our American trade
marks so as to secure Chinese trade.
In India the natives are building cotton
mills and making their own cloth. Thus
the three great markets In which En-
gland has so long been supreme are lost
to her, and, with the loss of her trade,
the men who have worked IN cotton are
reduced tie idleness and starvation.
The picture Of the prevalent distress
in the industrial centers, presented by
the English journal, is sad and pitiable
in the last degree. All classes OF the
population are affected by it. In many
of the towns of Scotland and England
crowds of able-bodied men throng the
places of business begging for bread
, and on every side soup-houses and re-
lief-stores are being established. In
, Birmingham the suffering IS almost
l without precedent; in Warrington ex
pert workers in wire are breaking stones
at Is cents day; all through the Trent
5 region, in Stafordshire, where the low
3 est form of industry fourishes, the de
preston is frightful in It's scope ane
! effects; in Leeds the boatmen are ut
Y terly destitute, and the silk operatives
: are idle; in Wolverhanapton bread ant
t oatmeal are distributed to hundreds
daily; in the Manchester districts, the
4 center of one of the richest, most popu
J. lous, and most industrious sections il
8 England, "the trade depression, povert.
s and distress, hangs like 81 cloud Th
want is so widespread in that city tina
4 at one agency alone, in single day, re
: lief was asked for 10000 souls.
What is to be the outcome OF thu
" terrible condition of affairs? Wher
|, lies the remedy? These are question
e which provoke wide discussion in tn
British newspapers and among BIRTHS
; publicists. The balance of opinio
seems to be that the only effective relic
will be found in the emigration Of tn
1, surplus population of the working an
operative classes. Letterwriters 8
e agree that the emigration from Englan
d will hereafter be much larger than eve
l, before, and that it will be the emigrs
n ton Of the better class. Men of proper
I'd tv, or of business, who have abor
le enough for an oldest son, with portion
he for the daughters, consider that the bes
I'd career for the other boys is in th
l. colonies or the States. " Stron
efforts" says correspondent, writin
d, from London, are making by the Co
eminent and private enterprise to dire
er this emigration to Canada an
to Australia. But Canada is cold an
Australia is far away, and the burden
id it will go to the United States.
4 ! Fried i'm Lard.
OF The London World recites how r
nd venge was had by one Of the most EN-