Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-26
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 tionate to their size and sex, shriek out the fact of their having herrings, bloaters. had COCKS, ana water-cresses to dispose of From till other gangs of boys and girls elect to noisily dispose of the Sunday newspapers- while the rear guard of milkmen form a ready chorus to the juvenile vendors of Sun- day literature. And the afternoon is devoted to Oranges" ''Nuts," Wrinkles" ssWater- crosses" "BIoaters" stHaddocks." and tbe ''Milkmen" again.
 Some faint approach to sympathy may be felt for these bawlers in the street on tbe ground that they are of English birth and are trying to earn their living. But none what ever can be extended by any reasonable per sonage to the lounging, lazy Italian scoun- oreis who have now overspread the whole iand with their wretched barrel-organs and pianos, drowning peaceand quiet in every street, preventing the brain-worker from earning his bread and sending the sick. on whom their demoniac din acts like poison, to their long homes before their hour has come. These hulking rascals are the offscourinps most frequently, of the Roman Campaena, of Sardinia, Sicily, and of every Italian town. Many of them are criminals of the worst da. scr1ptlon, murderers and escaped brigands who carry to this country their vices and their passions, their filth and their diseases. and their presence ought almost to be prevented ID the interest or public morality and decen- cy. The lairs in which they hudde together ara dens of vice such as can be seen in few continen- tai cities, save, perhaps, in the worst parts of Naples or Rome. Not content with living themselves like the lower animals-only less cleanly and with more danger to society they have for some time past been in the habit of decoying away English girls and dressing them in the finery of dead Italian women Henceforward the daily work of these girls is to drag about the barrel organ for the profit If the ringed 'spadrone," who treats them In much the same manner as he does the noe nnEk F~o.o AI,as. to beg for him. Finding that there are Eug- fish people of soft heart, and sober brains, who give money more readily if the beggar is deformed, they have lately started brisk trade in i'm mporting the halt and the maimed and the deformed, until the thoroughfares of London are infested by the purchased chat tel,, grinding out their din, lesping in mean ingless 'dances," screeching ditties which luckily are not understood by most of those compelled to hear them. and, in short, making themselves au intolerable nuisance for the profit of the padrone rufiaus who are permit ted to own them. The patience which would bear much longer with this pest and scandal would cease to be virtue. No Italian city would suffer from it's own countrymen what we tolerate from them. Only last year the bagpipe players, who for ages had been in the habit of crowding into the capital during the Christmas week, were prohibited from droning out the contents of goat stacks on the refined of the Romans. Paris would not tolerate for one hour the stolidly insolent Germans who, after praying out the "Wacht am Rhein'' in opposition to three other bands stationed few hundred yards of, will commence a pro. longed demonstration on the front door bell iu demanding payment for their discord. During the Franco German war a rumor got abroad that the vagabond musicians had been recalled to the army. For moment England was absolutely grateful to Count Won Bis marck, and hope was kindled in the heart of a IInnhnnar Ruk fha uvvaq nf short duration, for the heavy-faoed and faxen- haired persecutors;s sreturned, reinforced with numerous recruits attracted by Fritz and Hans tales of British imbecility, but whose sturdy limbs bore the impress of no other ''kreig" or ''Schlacht' save the perpetual one the English householder is compelled to wage singlehande with them.
 Now, the Londoner is, as the tolerance pest demonstrates, one of the most patient of nor tals. As railway passenger, he meekly sub mits to have his nerves shaken by the bang ing of carriage doors and the intermittent shriek of the engine motionless in the station, for he feels that this noisy nuisance is essen- tal to the dignity of guards and the glory of drivers; but he can scarcely extend the same indulgence to jangling bells which pushing coal-dealers have attached to their wagons, and he feels comfort in knowing that the law has at least pronounced them illegal. He Is even loath unless driven to it, 70 put down with strong arm the inharmonious shouts of street-hawkers, lest by so doing he might crush out of existence a useful class of smll traders, always hanging on the brink of pow erty, and whose families are never very far removed from the work-house door. But self preservation, a regard for his own health and means of livelihood, compeIs ths professional man to insist that they shall pursue their call ings in a mannes which will allow him also to pursue his. It is a maxim of the law of Eng land that there is no wrong without remedy. Here is a wrong long enough continued, and grievous enough to thousands-surely it can not afford the sole exception to this comfort ing axiom? We almost fear it does, unless, in deed, the sufferers do what in ordinary cir cumstances is never advisable-become the avengers of their own grievance Several cor respondents propose the formation of an Anti Street Music Association, the members of which will bind themselves to carry Mir. Bass act into effect. Many of them offer to sub cribe handsomely to it, and one gentleman expresses his willingness to act gratuitously AS secretary. Remembering the indignation which this nuisance has evoked from the days of Leech and Babbage until now, when, as is evident from the letters of our correspondents it has grown to gigantic proportions, there should be difficulty in putting it down through the aid of some such association as that proposed. Ia the districts haunted by these organ grinders there are abundance of men of influence who would be will ing to spare @ little of their time to hunt out of the streets the rascality who now so sadly break in upon it, and threaten in time to render life in London and its sub urbs unendurable. There have been many less laudabls societies, and few which can do less harm and more good. It is demagogism, pure and simple, to talk of this interfering with the Rights of the Subject" man alien or foreigner-has no more right to drive another from the street in which he pursues his calling than he has to erect soap facto- ry in the rear of his country house. It is monstrous that all peace for hale or sick should be lost, at the pleasure of a hulking Italian or German who chooses to put his thews and sinews to no better purpose than grinding an organ or beating drum for his own profit, and the delectation of the esthetic house maids of Kensington, Remington, or Chelsea.