The Republican journal., 1886-04-15
One Cause of Labor Troubles.
TIE RUSH FROM THE COUNTRY TO THE CITY
YOUNG MAN, GO TO THE AROOSIOOK.
[Dnniel StickneN in Home Earml

YOUNG MAN, GO TO TIE AROOSIOOk.
Daniel stickney in Home Farm.]
For more than forty years, in Maine there
has been Il constant 90 from the country and
farming towns, towards the manufacturing
Massachusetts. And they have gone so much
and 50 long time that it has produced a glut
in the labor market, and cut-down of prices,
until these emigrantS from the farms, think
they can no longer live upon the wages capital
is willing to pay, and hence the ''strikeS,'
">hut downs" and clock OUTS we are con
tinlnlly reading about in the papers; and the
poverty distress and dcsttution which is said
to exist in the manufacturing towns.
This deserving the farms to remove to the
large villages towns and cities, as | have al
ready said, has been going on forty years, and
at last has produced its normal, legitimate
fruit. These Young men and girls, who thirty
and forty years ago, left good homes and farms
and went to shoe cloth, and manufacturing
towns of other goods, have many of them
married, raised up families who have grown
up among shoe lasts. wheels and Spindles, and
know nothing Of amy other way of getting Il
living, are now starving for want of food
freezing for want Of fuel, and cannot attend
church because they have no clothes good
enough to wear, nor money to pay their pew
rent; whilst the brothers and sisters Of their
parents who had the good sense to stay at
home upon the old farm, nave now sons AM,
daughters who have spacious, Well-furniShed
and rurpetpd homes and halls, can look ont
upon their broad acres and fruitful fields. with
their herds, llocks and rushing steeds, and
hundreds ol them can snow Il pahk account
Win our savings bdllkS- larger even tii'lil can
many OF the capitalists, Wlth whom their power
tv-Stricken cousins are quarreing.
Know what the homes are "l iaiilileS OF
lihilleh circumstances III Guy. nave otei
there ana stopped over night nave seen the
small oNercfoWued homes, away upon some
pach street, Nlth n" convenience III the Worh,
10 render ne utslfabIe ana pleasant. NO Sood
Waftf- or Gopu ar; no pleasant Suffouhn'hgS
no hover garden OF pay %fonhu lor chldreh
or ntiGh"ors WIN whom we WISH ~ assoti'le
Of II may ,t III tenement mousse WIN Two OF
lhToc Slhall rooms tWo' ihfce or loiil Nlorit>
towards heaven, without Il 1901 OF eaIil OH
winch to tread except III common WIN llie
hHiill'ide> m the streets. Such are liiG MONIES
o. thou~ai'iH Oh me Wofklilg illeh ~ ~ oi 'ht
CUES OF TINS o"aS'o'i iaii'i ol 'lt lfe'' Ah'
Su"h Wlii forever pc Inc homes ol thousands ol
iah"Flng men uh'l thtI Gnf'hclPa'e thehi>'Ne>
from lhr slavery "l clty me
hut now say some Oh my ira'crS' eau 'hi>
eiIEil'il'"lloh ot d'hieNtl. ~ 'tnNN'i - II
I"iiio! e "ohe III once p'il >oi''l'li'2 ma! We
GONE J" PTrNehl thlS accumulation - ."Sci!
ny ll'T>ua''lii@ young men 'iiu "oii'I! W stal
away rom 'he a'fctll oNertroNued 'il'es :tli'
TOW lS. itiHtt'de thc young men VI Nhaihc'
Wh" Wish 10 remove somewhere 70 come ~
Af"">look. we nave already o''N' farmers III
class "l men III New Eh9Iaha I'ian arG .hey
ne laAahic Naiuatlnl Oh thtlr larln> Aiiu iari'l
hi!l 'il!iGN j. -f'0'o-l. ne. hdN' ot H"is s'N
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