Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-03

heydsy of health and vigor. Those who
till the fields, and very many of those who
work in the factories, toll through weary |
life, with the workhcusein view as the only |
goal of their old age and with nothing but |
the poor fund to fall back upon IN the |
event of sickness. With us the County !
Infrmary is looked upon as the last resort |
of the hopelessly unfortunate and though |
there are exceptions, the rule is that only |
those find their way there whose
passions have led them into vicious ex-
cuses, and whose restitution is the direct
RESULT OF THEIR OWN IMPRovIDEscE.
Doubtless, too, many go to the poor-houses
of England for the same reason; but
large proportion of the inmates OF such
places are simply the victims OF circum.
stances. They have worked hard, lived
honorably, made the best of their lot, and
that best, through no fault of their own,
turns out at last to be the hard bed and
mean fare of a public pauper. And the
worst feature of English pauperism is that
those whose position and duties should tit
them to pass a correct Judgment on the
situation see no help for it but in whole
sale emigration. Such is the recently ex-
pressed view of the Primate of the Church,
and of a statesman closely connected
in character and counsels with
the Prime Minister of State.
No help for Woodworking
but half-starved Englishmen, except
by leaving the land of their nativity and
seeking those broader spheres and better
conditions of life offered in other countries
A more humiliating confession could scarce
ly be imagined, and the wonder is that
every Britons breast does not
BURN WITH INDIGNATION
At the thought. Tie richest Government
in the world proclaiming its inability to
devise conditions under which certain
classes of its subjects, whose only fault is
poverty, may earn an honest livelihood
Plenty for the wealthy, nothing for the
poor The soil, according to the best
authorities, not producing as much as it
might, if held for the many instead of the
few, by the value of $3.50, GOO 600 annually,
and yet no help for the want and distress
that prevail but in emigration Great
thing, and naturally we see in London the
bitterest effects of those social and indus.
trial conditions which doom so many of
the English people to lot of poverty
The commercial metropolis of the world
the banking center of all the nations-the
city whose name is accepted everywhere as
synonym for immense wealth, and for the
affiuence of luxury in which it's upper
classes disport themselves-fancy such
place having nigh npon
A HUNDRED THOUSAND PAUPERS
At its doors-a starving hundred thousand
begging daily for the bread necessary to
keep body and soul together. Such is the
summary but what picture could be
drawn were the mind given full play in
filling out the details Outside the circle
of absolute pauperism what a wide, debata-
be And what battles are constantly being
fought on this territory! How many men
and women are struggling night and day to
pick up by honest efforts the trife they need
to keep them off the parish. To what
shifts will they not resort, what privations
will they not endure, and what SILENT I'M
complaining agony, if only there be the
least chance of escaping the dreaded odium
which attaches to the name of pauper
How many noble spirits have worn them.
selves out in such hopeless conflicts ! They
could not earn living, and to beg they
were ashamed SO they died, as many, per-
haps, of broken hearts as of the
WASTING EFFECTS OF BODILY WANT.
Were the records of such cases obtainable,
every day that passes would no doubt yield
its sad tragedy and every night its horror
of death. Mary Bsxter's case was only
one out of many. The landlord distrained
her goods and she was left shivering in
fireless room, with but sufficient clothes to
cover her. The next day the landlord sent
man to remove the door and window
of her room. The day following neigh
Dor went in and found her almost insensible
from cold and hunger. But she murmured,
"Give me time, supposing him to be the
landlord. Removed to the work-house,
the poor woman died three days afterward.
Pending information to be given in flu.
ture letters in regard to the way in which
the paupers of London are cared for, l will
simply observe that there are not few in
England who think that the time has
come for striking at the root of the evil by
complete reform of the land system and
radical change of the laws and customs
which bind labor here in such abject servi-
tude to capital. 81. I.