New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-09

at the regular rateof wage. paid their trade from loa
% 25s week and stnal sober. honest and resSas
many family reduced ana broken s hearted sunk II
the grave. ieavns ono perhaps beloved the hslpess
spectator OF All their suernxs who mad often bitterly
msop a. 81 parea and had found in Madness s
asylum for all his woes.
Laing, In his "Notes Of Traveller" says:
The actual operative IN Great Britain has no prospects
ceasng ndusr and soor,ey out wny s9qa ne sac
nrosnect Of not losing MS little capital in his most Sonss
prudent efforts Aud what can the wo rknsmaa DO be
e way living when BE- every
avenue to independent condition IL BY lhs power 81
fss, Sspsd psds q ssacesdn9 the
and he serf Of the loom !: IN lower snd more helpless
than the ss Of the sD ss Ssca 81 as sSe
and faulty social economy, ike the feuda which may b.
remedisd. but to be the unavoidable effect OF natural
causes
The London Spectator has said editorially:
Ir the siIken curtain be held up it may be seen IRON
sSoreSsSs or from the dark and deary side Of spita
fields When worn the dress is PROOF OF sno 70 10
81 socs The WHO
such silks that used in former days. 70 earn ~ d.
NO luxury 70 HIM; !s him ne psST,:sd ~
loaf because, whereas he could have anoraea tw9 SAL
IN mastering uEs six pence time be made his mis-
cradle cottage tSsraps sd rsn c sUSd kind
hugeermugger amusement. now his cupboard par;
the eas aDs S has
" Increased, he has beeu made douby aware OF IL ~
s Eht Of day which has been thrown in upon bis con-
dition
Carlyle, in his Latter Day Pamphlets" wrote:
British Industrial existence seems fast becoming one
~ GordsS Of ana SoaS
buried alive; such Curtus gulf communicating via
fs ns'ssC WORKING
selves swiftly DEATH three million paupers
are but items IN the sad ledger Of despair Thirty then
sand wretchcd women sunk In that PURIFYING wen OF
tsy Of
fe accumulated In the well OF the concern 70 tAss
extent
Kay In his Social Condition Of the People of England
and Europe" drew this picture:
II we have enormous wealth, we ought TO remembcr
that we have enormous pauperism ALSO II we have mid
otbsr country In the world we have poorer classes.
forming majority Of the people OF TINS coaniy noss
s q most Of the o.
ern Europe
From Thorndae's Conflict Of Opinions take this:
TnSss ss looking down At
Of mscry and dsstuton beneath them, and whic coz
daTs s COMPLAIN .. Of evils Of terrible char
acter They silent on that anxiety which pesets
peace they silent on that perpetual contest and
strife of commerce which SOW the sea OF nA'red -
Mr. Porter has already quoted John Bright to prove
his statement Of the condition Of the Scottish artisan
the grea, English Trader stating In public speech
recently made that in the city Of Glasgow alone 900
families out of every 100000 families live In homes
having only one room" and that In Scotland nearly
third Of tho whole people dwell In bones OF only ons
room And that English Free Trader In the same
speech ssid:
In fact looking ct thu psst-to me y 10 meiancholy
thing 10 look athers much of It which sxces in me
not sssonishmsnt only bat horror. line tast Is snsn
not indy duas but administrators, mothers children
xw-afF eken n
cessfon from the cradle to their grave.
Chom0erss Journal. Of the highest OF Scotch
authorities says
No abectness I'm any city in Europe SINKS the dsm
level OF rags wretchedness observable In the feA
alleys of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Such is English testimony to the pauper system q
English laborers. could fill columns Of The TRIBUNE
with extracts but will only ask for one more re-
mark OF that eminent Engshman, Ruskin, who says:
Though England is deafened With spfnniag Wheels ner
people have not though she DlSck WIN oggng
OF fuel they die COILS and though che has sold her Sous
for grain they die OF tnnger." Respectfully,
JOHN W. HINTON.
Nilraukee, WIS.,, June Is, 1885,