New-York tribune., 1879-09-19
TILE orrLo0K ~ EYGLAND.

Last weeks advices brought us reports ot
the final outcome Of the harvcs's IN Great
Britain. which proved to be even more dei-
cient than wa, feared. The wheat, cats ana
barley crops are one-third less than the aver
age Weld; making, as estimated, loss oi
S125. 600, 600 to culuvatOrs. The loss on
potatoes is calculated at $13,OOo,O"o; OF
peas. beans ana rye, %15.COO.OO0; on hops'
81. 900. 900 on hay, S75,OOO,OOO ato'ai loss
falling upon the single class OF farmers OF apont
S297 OOO, 900; besides other losses when
cannot be estimated on butchers meat, grasses
vegetables and minor products. This Is one
third greater than the anticipated loss pub
lishcd month or two ago.
Mr.. Scott. who issues the estimate, calls
attention to the fact that it is only Che farm
ers who suffer, as the consumer is buying
cheap bread, corn and meat from abroad.
The farmers are forced to realize Immediately
on their crops at almost any price,. Land
lords i'm many cases have RENTED 20 and %
per cent OF the rents; movement bitterly
opposed by a large number OF economists VINO
"do not like to see any class receiving dole
and insist. with singular sort ot logic that
To lower a rent which Il tenant cannot pos
sibly pay is to pauperize the tenant. The
reduction of wages in the manuiac-
turing districts steadily continues, and
the discussions of remedies in Paria-
ment mass-meetings and the press for the
unprecedented depression in all kinds OF
trade grow more vehement; in fact this
problem of what to do with land and labor
ers appears to be a sort of blind alley just
now. in England, out of which neither states
men nor political economists can find their
way. The laborers and tenants are finding
their way out of it and of the country as
fast as they can get the money to cmigrate.
Whether they will do any better in this
country than in their own is not, however, it
appears. wholly a matter of good soil and
CHEAP iving The character Of the British
workman rs given 10y British critics Is hardly
that of a desirable emlgrant The PdH NdH
Ga-ete. in summing up the information
procured by our Consuls concerning labor
in Europe, says: "Wages III the United
Estates are double what they arc IN France
"ard England; three times those of Germany,
"Italy and Spain four times what they are IN
"the Netherlandsj the prices Of the necessaIics
"of life are lower there than in Europe. The
" French laborcIs. with far lower wages than
"the laborers OF Great Britain, are better of,
"becausc of their economical habits and
"sobrioty. More misery results in England
"and Germany from drinking, strikes and
" socialism than from all other causes, hard
"times included"
Several of the leading English papers. in
noticing the emigration 10 this country of
workingmcn from Sheffield and other manu-
featuring districts, prophesy that they VIII
probably succeed here better than at home,
not because wages are SO much higher or
living so much cheaper, but because they will
be thrown among American wOIkmen, with
whom the object of earning money is to raise
themselves and their children III the social
scale, and not simply to drink. 1t needs no
inspiration to foretell that a man who chooses
to give up liquor and save his earnings will
succeed better than n drunkard in any coun-
trv. Whether the English newcomers, who
are denounced by the friends they left
behind them as chronic drunkards, will
choose to do this remains to, be seen.
1t Is probable that they will. Those
who go to farming will have the novel
sense of ownership in the soil to stimu
late their ambition, and will soon discover
that drink does not pay man when be works
for himself, even if he could afford to drink
when hired by another. Mil hands and ope-
ratives crowded in towns will be less likely to
give up the sodden habit OF beer swilling in
winch they have been reared, but even they
will soon discover that the climate of tins
country makes such perpetual tippling n per-
ilous pastme. The freedom Briton soaks in
beer until he dies of old age ; but if perseyered
in here, even beer soon puts stop to work
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