The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-04-18

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Other; the girl. like oil her sex, growing
sorry to her, he was going 70 redgn his
curacy.
Il will tell you, hs said, very PALE
have been mad enough b love you, you
engaged to another man.
There was silence; At Last, looking up,
Leslie nav her taco suffused with very
charming blush and shy, happy light In
her eyes.
-But I'm mot engaged. shs murmursd
The saeacious reader can guess the OK.
plantations and arrangements which fol.
lowed, and that the curate-soon rector
ever had an affection Tor that happy
coat.
THE IRISH TENANT.
How Ho and His Family Live.
D. R. Locke In Toledo Blade.
Look upon that picture, and then upon
tbic!' have shown how the English op
pressor lives. Let us 60. BY actual figures,
taken from Official sources. Tor y few actual
facts q to the Irish tenant. The parish Of
Gler solumbkille, In county Donegal. IL .
fair sample Of the west coast. In this par.
tsh there are 800 families. In the famine
relief list, and on to the end Of the famine
If famine may be said to ever end in Ire
land) 400 families had absolutely nothing
but what the relief committees gave them.
The committees were able 70 give each Of
these families pef head per week seven
| pounds Of indian meal. costing fve.pence
farthing up to about Is SO per year.
These people allsaid that II they got half
asmuch m6re-ElO-1.2, itwould be as much
as they would use In times Of plenty.
Your pencil and figures vii show you
that this would be equivalent In good years
to an expenditure per head for food for
every individual Of 81 lbs Cd q year, OF for
the average family Of say four and half,
81 13s Cd per year.
This is the cost Of food for the average
family per year. when the times were good.
When potatoes are cheaper than Indian
meal potatoes are eaten. but ono or the
other constitutes the sole food Of the per-
pie. As the cost 10 always about the same,
the figures are rot changed in either case.
To- this You want to add about e. year
for "luxuries." Luxury in an Irish cabin
man Of the house, and the remainder Of the
E3 goes for tea. admit this IL an cxtrava-
canoe. this tobacco and tea, and doubt not
that Q commission will be appointed by Par
lament to devise ways and means 30 extin-
| guish the 0udheen Of the man and abolish
| the teapot of the woman. This IS year
thus sguandered would enable the landlords
to have great many more comforts than
they now enjoy. presume the Earl Of
Cork could build another yacht on what his
tsnantry equanders on tea and tobacco.
Add to this FL for clothing ian extravaRant
estimate) for each member Of the family,
| and you have the entire cost Of the existance
Of the Donegal family, s12 So 6 3-4d, or In
American money, $57.6l!
The clothing provided by this pound
year means for the man Of the house pair
Of brogans, which he must have to work at
trousers, anda second-h hand coat Of some
kind. The women and children wear NO
shoes or stockings. and their clothing
have described before. OF bed-clothinR
they have nothing to speak Of. A few po-
tato sacks, or gunny bags, or anything 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 l 900 people about her person.
My lord has his yacht In the harbor, and
the humblest seai4.an on board sleeps under
WOODEN and has meat three times day.
Some day there will be board Of equal.
izatlon from whose decision there viii be
no appeal. Then I would rather be the
Donegal peasants wife than the Queen.
Despite the fact that she sent s1OO to the
starving Irish, she won't need silken cover
ing to keep her warm.
To pay the rent and provide this $58 for
fond and n1othinn Noy,u1,,,c 49,.
of every member Of the household. The
land will not pay tit 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 of to England or Wales, and works in
mines, or In harvest-delds IN the season, OF
at anything to make some little money 10
fill tho Unsuitable NAV Of the landlord and
to keep absolute starvation from the house,
Then the boy in America sends his sti-
pend, which helps, provided his remittnnces
can be kept from the lynx-eyed agent, who
would raise the rent in minute II he knew
that remittances we're coming.
But the work Of caring for the crops ia
not all the women and children do. They
knit and sew, every minute Of the time they
have from field-work, making thereby from
two to three cents a day. This knitting "a
done for dealers who furnish the ma.
terial and pay for the work. and
iourn eys Of twenty 10 forty miles to
got the material and the same distance back
again to deliver the finished work, have to
be performed.
In brief, there isnot moment to be lost,
aor an opportunity wasted to make penny.
The penny not earned makes the difference
between enough food to sustain life, bare
10 life is OF everything that makes it desir-
able. and absolute pinching, merciless hun
ger. No matter at what sacrifice, the BEN
ny must be earned and religiously applied
either for rent or for food. Clothing Is al
ways secondary considerations place to
stay In and food to keep life In the body,
these are the first.
What Is the amount paid the drones Of
England In the form Of pensions? How
much does tho queen receive? How much
does the little princes and princesses cost
the nation? How much the dukes and
dukelings, the rghthonorables and the
generals and colonies, and the secretaries,
and all thst2 Look upon this picture and
then upon thatls Anobility ri0ting In ex-
travagance-a whole people starving!
And yet there are those who believe The
people of Great Britain have NO grievances,
but should settle down contentedly and l.,
quiet!
II there Is an American who does not hate
matter what form they come TO view, he
either wants to be an ari-tocrat himself, or
Is grossly ignorant Of what this triplet of
infamy means. II there is an American
who does not sympathize wish the common
people Of England, ireland. Scotland, and
Wales, he Is either heartless man or does
not know the condition Of the laborina