The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-10-25
now WAGE EaRvERs LIVE UNDER PROTECTION
FRFF-TRADE.
FREE-TRADE.
From Various Free-Trade And Other English
Authorities.
JOHN BRIGHT.

Authorities.
JOHN BRIGHT.
s'In the city of Glasgow alone Al 900
out OF every 100000 live in homes hav-
ing only one room, and further, nearly
one-third Of the whole people dwell IN
homes OF only one room. aud more than
two-thirds Of the people OF Scotland
dwell in homes OF not more than two
rooms.
1--WE find poverty and misery. What
does it mean, when all these fami-
lies are living in homes OF but one Rooms,
TO us who have several rooms and all
the comforts OF life? IL means more
than can describe and more than | will
attempt TO enter into; and as need be-
gets need, SO poverty and misery begets
poverty and misery. And SO IN all our
great towns, there is misery and helpless
ness, much as have described. In TACT,
looking at the past, TO me IL is n melan-
choly thing To look at; there Is much of
il which excites in me not astonishment
only, but horror. The fact is, there
passes before my ewes vision OF millions
OF fanilies-not individuals, but families
fathers, mothers, children-passing
CHASTITY, sorrow-stricken, in never ending
procession, from their cradles TO their
graves"
JOHN RusRIN
Though England Is deafened with
spinning wheels, her people have not
clothes; though she is black with the dig
ging OF fuel, they die Of cold and though
they have sold their soul for grain, they
die OF hunger"
RAY, IN SOCIAL CONDITION oFTHE PEOPLE
OF ENGLAND"
"If we have enormous wealth we ought
To remember that we have enormous
pauperism also five have middle classes
richer and more intelligent than those OF
any other country in the world, we have
poorer classes, forming the majority of
the people OF this country, more igno-
rant, more pauperized and more morally
degraded than the poorer classes OF most
Of the countries OF Western Europe"
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN.
'"The class OF agricultural laborers OF
this country are never able to make both
ends meet, and have To look forward, in
time OF illness or ON the approach OF old
age. TO the workhouse as the one inevi-
table refuge against starvations
Children are stunted in their growth and
duled in their intellects for want OF pro-
per nourishment and proper food. The
houses OF the poor are so scanty
and so inefficient that the most horrible
prevails, which seldom comes
TO surface, but which is known 20 all
those who move among the poor, while
the ordinary conditions of life among
the large proportion of the population
are such that common dccency is abso-
lutely impossible ;aud all this goes ON IN
sight Of mansions of the rich.
Private charity ofall forms and religious
organizations can do nothing 60 remedy
the evils which are 30 deep set in our So
cial system"
JOHN MORLEY.
at is an awful fact--it is really not
short of awful-that in this country
Great Brittany, with all it's wealth. all
its vast resources, all it's power, 15 per
cent.--that is To say, nearly one half-of
the persons who reach the age OF 60 are
or have been paupers. | say that it in a
most tremendous fact, and cannot con
ceive any subject more worthy the atten-
tion OF the Legislature, more worthy oi
the attention OF us all. 7"
HENRY FAwCETT.
"There are few classes of workmen who
IN many respects are so thoroughly
wretched at the English agricultural
laborers. They ARE IN many respects 80
miserably poor that they were convert
ed into slaves tomorrow il would Toe for
the interest OF their owners 20 feed them
far better than they are ut present.
Throughout large agricultural districts
not single agricultural laborer will be
found who has saved so much as Weeks
wages. A life OF toiling and inccssant
industry offers no other prospeC IL than
a miserable old age"
lgland, in his farewell speech after n tour
Is not your colossal fortunes that have
What ! do admire, what long TO see and
4, is what may be called you upper and
them men who would do credit TO any
of thousands OF houses occupied by the
al your farmers own their farms, your
and your artisans own their cottages.
mt this produces In time OF peace. What
nave often said publicly and frequently
n of utterances OF English and American
th some OF the strongest proofs OF the
list, and will ia the future accrue to the
he United States from the Amer lean
lilures al other countries we have taken
4 f; we have taken the men who have been
n them into this country, and the second
oil the country from which their fathers
IN, robbed we have taken the foreigners
heir ragsinto robes; we have transformed
I OF paupers we have made patriotic,
birth-absolute freedom, with plenty 90
eat and TO wear. Many Of these foreign
ers become solid and careful business
men OF which we are proud. But one of
the most surprising things is that some
vi them, after getting well-to-do, adopt
democratic principals and vote for dem
ocratic state and national government,
which means nothing more or less than
plncing this country in the same condi-
ton of that which they left because of It's