Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-09-12

me number Of people TO each house
ranged from 10 TO 80. There are few chill
dren ard but one woman to each house.
She Is the servant of the men.
They do not board with one man as the
proprietor OF the house, but each one pays
his share Of the rent and buys his own pro-
visions.
The houses are more bare OF com forts
THAN were tue negro quarters Of the south
du,ing the days OF slavery. There Is alb
solutely nothing beyond the rudest neces-
stiles Ia these houses. The floors are bare,
the windows uneurtAIned, and the cooking
and table utensils are OF the rudest kind.
The wall ornaments are old hats. costs.
Rceordeons aud tin cups suspended from
nails. The number OF people ID the house
make beds for them all an impossibility.
ShaFedowns Of straw are thrown down on
the floors from cellar to garrett and the In
mates, each on his or her own bed sleep
like sardines In box.-Mornin9 Mems.
This is not fancy photograph Of
homes Of "pauper labor" in free trade
England or nigh tariff Germany. 1t is
description, and faithfully true de-
scription, OF how "pauper labor" exists
and grovels in the Hungarian quarter of
our neighbor city of New Oastle-exists
and groyels to compete with American
workingmen, not on the other side OF the
ocean, but in our own factories and mills
and similar scenes of sqnalor, over
crowding and immortality, though not SO
disgustingly debasing, may be witnessed
here and there among Slovacks and
Italians domiciled in our own city. From
Ireland, England, Germany, Sweden, it
is chiefly the more enterprising
and intelligent who seek homes
in America, and who come here
to stay and become citizens; from
Hungary, on tie contrary, the vilest and
lowest dregs of the population are drawn
on to bring hither virtual slaves whose
only recommendation to their importers
is their ability to do rough, hard work
for low wages and their willingness to
put up with rough usage add cheap fare.
With little incentive or ambition to better
their condition; little conception of
morality or religion; accustomed to deers-
dation and filth; their highest ideal Of
human happiness Sunday of drunken
ness and debauchery; their presence here
is constant menace to peace and good
order and their neighborhood is stunned
by every American who can afford to live
elsewhere. Such are the creatures who
are brought here, under our system Of
protection, to degrade American labor.
1t was only last sunday week that the
Wilmington police raided house in the
Italian quarter Of this city and gathered
in half score OF the most djsorderly who
had been drinking and fighting and rails
ing pandemonium in general. 1t ismild to
say that their misbehavior was disgrace
to the neighborhood it had been borne
by the decent people living near by until
they could put up with it no longer. 1t
was in evidence on the trial Of the
prisoners that they were accustomed to
spend their Sundays in this way.
Now comes the rioting at New CASTLE,
in which murder has been committed. It
is not quite clear who was to blame for
the riot itself; but it is evident that the
race enlightenment which has evontuated
in bloodshed has been brooding ever
since the slavs were brought there to take
the places of men who had gone on one
Of the strikes so common under our "pro-
tective" system, and those responsible
for the introduction OF this "eheap labor
will be held by public opinion to a
share Of accountability for what hap
pened Saturday night. II appears that
poor Jsnkovsky was brutally, cowardiy
Lhot down, without any provocation or
his part, and EVERY EVENING trusts tina.
the law will ferret out and nass his muir.
derer. But the question tho people will
ask will be- who brought these Poles
and Hungaria4sto Ney'oastle and why
were they brought there, if the object OF
our tariff system is to protect American
labor FROM competition with the 'psupei
labor" Of aurOps'
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