St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-15
HARD TIMES IN ESsLASD.

The distress among workingmen and theiI
families in certain districts in England, is
truly painful. The working classes OF Sun
derland are among these sufferers. No work
to be obtained, no means to procure food,
gaunt hunger and even starvation looking in
at the doors. Such scenes OF wretchedness
and destitution as exist there are never wit
messed in this less crowded and highly IA
vored land. The London Echo saws that the
stern presence and the grim reality of their
distress has so overwhelmed them as 10 drive
them 10 AJAX for outside assistance, in short
they have become paupers. AS samples Of
the prevailing distress and squalid 6estitu-
ton, the Echo presents the following batch
Of cases from q single street 10 Sunde rlsnd:
!. Old couple. No work this year. Pawned
guilt this morning( December 2)to buy dinner; in
afternoon pawned shawl worn by wife 20 get
back guilt. Nothing in house-no money for
neutrality-suspicious. sent in bread.
2. Sbipwrght, wife and three children. No
work since May. Had walked TO Forth bridge
and back. five days each way. 20 get work. Baby
dying. No food al all some days. Lived six
weeks on results OF furniture sales.
2 Family Of Eve. No work for twenty-five
weeks-everything sold or pawned-husband got
work this week. but no money yet.
Children 90 every day 10 Silksworth to beg
bread, which Is ali they eat. Grandmother. -.
i'll since food ran short-deeiines workhouse,
having been kept by her married daughter for
eighteen years.
S. Family OF FIVE. No work since April.
Evicted twice for non-payment Of rent Child
ren no clothes 10 70 to school IN. Sent out 10
beg, but frightened TO ask, and get nothing.
Family starTe when neighbors don't send In
food.
8. Woman and four children. Deserted by
husband. No income except from washing for
neighbors, and neighbors now too poor 10 pay
anything. No food in the house.
Z. Twelve persons in TWO rooms trent four
shilIngs q week.; income during the last six
months ten shillings 70 ffteen shillings q week,
earned by youth at Laung's.
8. Irish family. tent no work since May, ex-
cept four days harvesting. Never had anything
worth selling. No food today aud children cry
ing. Husband away AL dsy-couldR't bear
children crying.
o. Family Of eight. Que room. Furniture
old bed and mattress, no clothes: "God bless
our home"-inscription on the wall. No work
for nine months; everything sod, because, the
mother says: al couldn't see the children 60
ing back"
TO- Nan and wife-eVicted last week-staid
In the streets for few days-then came here
stranger 10 this part OF town-nothing TO eat
yesterday, but some one sent in bread to-day
dldn I you know Who-sOme neighbOr-Wom n
drying-couldn't leave home, having pawned
dress to pay one weeks rent OF present room.
IL. Irish family, eleven. No work this year
except harvesting. When no bread AZ home.
children went down and found things in the
street &c eat. "What thingsf"-old fruit or
vegetables-crusts, bones. Woman sure that
God won't let them starve.
H. Nan, wife aud ehild-two former eating
small fish caught by husband an hour before
no work for six months, but got one day this
week-nO money yet-hRd gone without food
"betimes," but plenty more worse than this.
1t is no wonder that people thus situated
desire to fee from such inhospitable circum-
stances, and look for new and better homes
by emigration to this country. Such class
Of people who desire work, aud would sup
port their families If they could obtain it, are
not professional beggIrs, nor voluntary pau
pers, hut many, or most of them, in a eouu-
try affording better opportunities, would
make useful citizens. Such may properly be
invited and welcomed to the vast domain in
the Northwest that lies outstretehed for their
reception.