The examiner., 1882-02-18

,e family per year, when the times are

rage family per year, when the times are good.
 When potatoes are cheaper than Indian meal potatoes are eaten.~ but one or the other constitutes the sole food of the peo- pie. As the cost is always about the same, the figures are not changed in either case.
 To this you want to add about G3 year for |" luxurics." Luxury in all Irish cabin means an ounce of tobacco week for the man of the house, and the remainder of the e3 goes for tea I admit this is an extravaganza, this tobacco and tea, and doubt not that a commission will be ap- pointed by parliament to devise ways and means to extinguish the dudheen of the man and abolish the teapot of the woman. This $3 year thus squandered would ena- ble the landlords to have many more com forts than they now enjoy. I presume the Earl of Cork could build another yacht on what his tenantry squanders on tea and tobacco.
 Add to this G1 for clothing Gan extrava- gant estimate) for each member of the family, and you have the entire cost of
  3s. 64d., or in American money, $6761.,
 The clothing provided by this pound a year means for the man of the house a pair of brogans, which he must have to work at all, couple of shirts, pair of corduroy trousers, @ secondhand coat of some kind. The women and children wear no shoes or stockings, and their clothing I have described before. Of bed clothes they have nothing to speak of. A few potato sacks, or gunny bags, or any thing else that contribute anything of warmth, make up that item.
 The Queen and the Princess of Wales sleep on down and under silk. and the Queen has 1000 people about her person.
 My Lord has his yacht in the harbor, and the humblest seaman on board sleeps under woolen and has meat three times a day.
 Some day there will be board of equal ization from whose decision there will be no appeal. Then I would rather be the Donegal peasants wife than the Queen. Despite the fact that she sent el00 to the starving Irish, she won't need silken cov- ering to keep her warm.
 To pay the rent and provide this $68 for food and clothing consumes the entire time of every member of the household. The land will not pay it-it is impossible to get it off the soil. So the man of the house plants his crops, and leaves them for the women and children to care for, and he goes off to England or Wales and works in mines or in harvest fields Tn the season, or at anything to make some little money to fill the unsuitable maw of the landlord and to keep absolute starvation from the house.
 Then the boy in America sends his sti- can be kept from the lynx-eyed agents who would raise the rent in minute if he knew the remittance was coming.
 But the work of caring for the crops is not all the women do. They knit and sew every minute of the time they have from field work. making thereby from two to three cents day. This knitting is done for dealers who furnish the material and pay for the work, and to get the material the material and the same distance back again to deliver the finished work, have to be performed.
 In brief, there is not moment to be lost nor an opportunity wasted to make a penny.
 The penny not earned makes the differ ence between enough food to sustain life, bare as life is of everything that makes it desirable, and absolute pinching, merci less hunger. No matter at what sacrifice, the penny must be earned and religiously applied either for rent or food. Clothing is always secondary consideration-a place to stay in and food to keep life ill the body, these are the first.
 What is the amount paid the drones of England ill the form of pensions? How much does the queen receive How much do the little princes and princesses cost the nation? How much the dukes and dukelings, the right honorables and the generals and colonels, and the secretaries, and all that? Hook upon this picture and then upon that !" A nobility rioting in extravagance-a whole people starving!
 And yet there are those who believe the people of Great Britain have no griev- ances, but should settle down contented and in quiet.
 If there is an American who does not hate royalty and nobility and aristocracy, in no matter what form they come to view, he either wants to become an aris- tocrat himself. or is grossly ignorant of what this triplet of infamy means. If there is an American who does not sym pathize with the common people of Eng land, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, he is either a heartless man CT does not know the condition of the laboring classes of that unhappy empire,
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