Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1886-04-29
Good Advice.


For more than forty years. in Maine,
there has been constant 90 from the
country and farming towns toward the
manufacturing towns and cities of Maine.
New York and Massachusetts. And
they have gone so much and so long a
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 tue
wages capital is willing to pay, and hence
the 'strikes. "shut downs. =" and "lock
outs. we are constantly reading about
in the papers. and the poverty, distress,
and restitution which are said to exist
in the manufacturing towns.
This deserving the farms to remove to
the large villages, towns. and cities, as
| have said, has been going on forty
years. and has nj last produced It's nor
NAL. legitimate fruit. The Young men
and girls, who thirty or forty years ago
left good homes and farms and went to
the shoe, cloth and manufacturing
towns of ether goods. have many Of
them married. raised up families who
have grown up among shoe lasts. wheels
and spindleS. and know nothing of any
other way of getting a living, are now
starving for want of food, freezing for
want o, 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 SIS
tiers Of their parents who had the good
sense 10 stay at home on the old farm.
have now sons and daughters who have
spacious. we'll furnished and carpcted
homes and halls. can look ont upon
their broad acres of fruitful fields. with
their herds. focks AMI rushing stecd-.
and hundreds Of them can show a bank
account with our savings hauk,. larger
than can many capitalists. with whom
their poverty strickca cousins are quar-
relline.
| know what the homes of families oi
limited circumstances are in city,
have been there aud stopped over night.
| have seen the small. oYcrcrowdcd
homes. away upon some back street,
with no convenience in the world to rem
der life dns;rabD, and ,loa.an. Y,
good water, or good air; no pca>au,
surroundings; no flower garden or piav
ground for children or nci,Li,or. n;.L
,ybo,, vo u-;.L oa..,..,a.. o.;. ,,.
lac IN , toneroo, h,n.~ ,.;,l, ,,,'. -.
tbree small rooms txn ,l,roa 49, t.,r
stories toward. L..v., ,y;,bar, +, t.,,
of Garth ON which 80 tr.al a,.,., =,
common Min h. nul,;t,I.. /. ,l.
streets. Such are TN. Lou.. "a. ,1,..-
apds of tle vorkinn r,oo !, an ~ IL.
cities Of iii. bo.staJ l,,l - j.. IL.
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thousands oc Iar.r;.,c ,.., ,'.1 - !.
emaDcipatc th.m,.l,c1 fam H.. '.r.,'.,.,.
of citv life
Bnt how .oy .ano oe ,n,. ,.
can This .monc;nat;.r l.. ,.I;.,.}.
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