The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-01-25
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MN UNCLE.

The N. Y. UtChtY " tHCSS: Ihe If1Sh
World and other journals ofthc same stamp
have no difficulty in finding, to their own
satisfaction, the reason why in land Of
abundance there are so many workingmen
going idle and starving. This is problem
they are never tried Of presenting, and their
solution is equally ready. 1t is all along of
grinding monopolies, bonds and interest.
There are only few errors in this solution :
In the first place, the problem is not correct
ly stated. There are comparatively few
workingmen out of employment and still
fewer starving. Wherever there is chronic
idleness and starvation the cause Tor it is
more likely to be whisky than monopolcs,
and beer than bonds. In the next place the
reasons given for this starvation" are not
adequate. So far from monopolies-such as
railroad and manufacturing companies-de-
priving the worgingmen of living, they are
the chief providers of work and wages The
bonds are,of course,a burden upon the whole
nation, but the interest upon them, which is
all that is necessary to take into account, is
being rapidly reduced from six and five per
cent. to four per cent. and to a nation OF
forty millions Of people, with the richest re.
sources of any country on the face of the
earth, that burden is not one to whine about
Few nations have less and many have much
greater burdens; besides, these bonds en-.
abled the Union TO survive the assaults of g
tremendous rebellion, and the commoncs
honesty requires the Union to meet then
without repining. If the Kearneys ,Schwabs
AMI other importations do not like to hell
pay the interest of the bonds, they can eas
ly escape from the grievance by returning
whence they came.
1t is not to any of the causes mentionot
by the Irish World that the hard time 70
workingmen in America is to be attributed
but to the fact that there are too many work
ingmen for the work to be done. Whilst W
excluded foreign manufactures we did nc
shut out the men who made them, and the
have come from Europe to America in sue
numbers as to break down wages of all kinds
and to force some to go idle or to seek othC
means of living than their trades. Nor
this process over? The unprecedented di.
tress in Britain will force very large nun
Der to emigrate, and it is the most vigorou
Cnterprisng and skillul who are usually EN-
grants. We may therefore look for grei
competition for work, very low wages, and
great extension of manufacturing indusr
in this country, not merely to supply IL
home demand but to compete for the trat
OF the world. No protection is worth eel
to American workingmcn that docs not pr,
tect them from invading armies of Europea
mechanics and artisans, but will the Ia
World tell Its deluded readers this truth?
In view of the present and prospecti'
severe competition for employment, shou
not prudent and reflective workingmcn 10,
out in time for farms before all the good Ian
is taken up?
The writer had an uncle who, in the tt
ribe depression of 1919, left Scotland wi
many other emigrants for Canada. lie W
wright or joiner, and after he reach
Canada he worked at his trade so long as
could get good wages, but as soon as IL
kind of employment fuiled he went on Fl
grant bush lot, built a shanty about fife
feet square to hold large family, and wi
his sons began mOnrully to chop and log a
burn the immense crop of trees that cncu
bercdss the land. Each succeeding year I
family had increasing crops,and made m,
and more potash; and each year they br
new and better shonty, giving up the
ones to cows, calves, sheep, fowls, pigs, e
ETC., till in seven years they already ha,
regular log house with two apartments. {
of the boys went to the woods in Winter
lumberman, and his wages helped the fal
ly. The lot they settled upon, though It b
good crops of wheat, etc, for several We,
turned out to be nothing but stones O
rocks after the vegetable mould produced
the decayed leaves and limbs Of trees
centuries was worn out, and the family
termned n move to new townships Just q
NVyNu lulIhcl htetJ Nhclc ldul pl luc ll'
est quality was to be had for nothing, W
sons and sons-in-law, and grandsons,
family entered some six or eight farms c
tiguous to each other, and became quit
power in that new place, and the old gr,
father could, before he died, count cig
four of family, being enough to fill
meeting house Of the village.
Workingmen of New York, what !:
hinder many Of you to go and do likewi
How much healthier and better to h
your sons growing up in the free, glori
country than in the slums Of city!
The Greatest Blessing.
sin nj , Dure, harmless remedy