Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-10-16

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panion on the tour not sStOnishmeut only.
| through the city. but horror. The fact Is,
He conducted the re- there passes before my
| porter along a wide ave-eyes a vision Of millions
| nue. on both sides OF OF fanIilies-nOt individ
which between the street uaIS but fauuilieS-fa-
| and the sidewalk a plot Tiers, mothers children
Of green sward had been passing ghastly- sor
left row stricken. in never
At the top of the hill ending procession, from
view OF the city in half their cradles to their
| a dozen directions wasgraves-
| commanded. The gene
1 raj aspect Of the streets JOIN RysEIN
was that Of an enormous Though England Is
country village, built deafeEed with spinning
| of handsome houses wheels, her people have
nestled among luxuriant not clothes; though she
trees, and each theis black with tue digging
possessor of a lawn and Of fuel, they Gle OF cod,
| a garden and though she has sold
Each street was light her soul for grain, they
ed by electricity, and die Of hunger.
lines KAY N SOCIAL coSDI
| Here you can gain TIUS OF TIE PEOPLE
some idea of our city, OF ENGLAND
| Mr. Hi-rinson said IF we have enormous
There is room enough wealth we ought TO re
here to give each inhab- member that we have
! liant acres of land, enormous p1uperlsln al
and yet we have grown so; II we have middle
from 5000 TO 1900 niclaases richer and more
the past ten years" Intelligent than those Of
| ANY other country IN the
AMoDEL TENEMENT HOUSE world, we have poorer
| There Is a typical Glasses forming the ms
tenement house, hejority OF the people OF
| continued pointing outthis country. more igno-
a moderate sized house rant, more paupeT1zed
| Of handsome architect-cnd mora morally de-
ure with a pretty yer graded than the poorer
anda and bay windows classes of most Of the
! The grounds consisted countries OF western Eu'
of smooth shaven lawn rope
shaded by several fine
| elns and oaks There JOHN CHtHTBERtArs.
| were a hammock and a The class OF aFT1ctlt-
| rustic seat. Flower gar ural laborers OF this
| dens bloorned on all sideS country never able
of the house ito do more than mako
1t looked ike private both ends meet, and have
| residence designed for to look forward, 10 time
| the occupany Of a man nof illness on the ap
in easy circumstances proach OF old age to the
! That house Is occu- work honse as the one
pied by two families ofnevitabe refuge against
| mill hands " Mr. HigKip- starvation Children are
son said "one on thestunted in their growth
first floor and the otherand dulled In their intel
on the second, with each ects for want OF proper
having one-half Of the nOurishment and proper
big attic As Won see food. The houses of the
the bay window extends poor are so scanty and
! to the second story thI,ssO inefficient that the
| making both fOorsmOst horrible immoral
equally pleasant ty prevails, which sci
| F'What rent do the fam dom comes to the
lilies payg'' face, but which is known
Mine dollars month Ito all those who move
mine dollars month"; = among the poor, while
"Yes, sir cGn show the ordinary conditions
you scores yes hun of life among the large
dreds, OF such houses as proportion of the popu
that in this city" Mr. latlon are such that com
HigginsOn replied calm mon decency IL absolute
w. Elm some of whichly impossible and all
the rent viii be eventhis goes on In sight OF
less than that You canthe mansions OF the rich:
hire a whole house likePrivate charity of all
that for SI5 or 500 afOrms and religious or
month" ganizations can do moth
''Do many of the op-ing to remedy, the evils
eratives own houses in which are so deep set in
Hundreds of them
It is an awful fact
THE IDEAL COTTAGE HoMEit is really not short of
The writer passed aawful- that in this coun
| large number of neat try (Great Brtan), with
little cottages with yards all its wealth. all its vast
and gardens, in many of resources all its power,
which corn, potatoes, IS per cent-that Is TO
beans, squashes andsay, nearly one-half-of
nearly all kinds of vege- the persons who reach
tables were growing, an the age of 60 are or have
ample supply for the been paupers. lsay that
family table Such cot lit Is most tremendous
tages as that cost only fact, and cannot con
$500 to 81, 600 to build, : ceive any subject more
Mr.. Higgnson said. worthy Of the attention
At one point Mr.. Hig of the legislature, more
ginson pointed out aworthy of the attention
block Of three story of US all
houses. with bay win
dows and small yards in HENRY FAwCETT
front the kind of house There are few classes
that would rent at $50 aof workmen who In many
month in New York Just respects are so thorough
as fast as the agents y wretched as the En-.
could offer them to the glish agricultural labor
public. They wereers. They are in many
charmingly situated, fac respects 50 mfserably
ing beautiful park thatpO that II they were
stoned down to the river converted into slaves to
t'The man that built morrow it would be for
those houses - said Mr. the interest of their own
Higginson, made mis- erS to feed them far bet
take. He can't rent ter than they are at pres
them at 800 month ent Throughout large
even though he offered agricultural districts not
to make present OF single agricultural Ia
any one of them to any 'bOrer VIII be found who
person who would livehas saved much as
in it ten years You see, week S wages. 4 life OF
our people want yards toiing and lncessant In
about their houses, anddustry offers no other
won't take house with prospect than a miser
out so long they can able old age.
get them with yard"
Lord Coleridge, the chief justice Of England In
his farewell speech after an extended tour
through this country In 1888, said:
1t is not your colossal fortunes that have inter
ested me; can see them at home. What do
admire what long to see and never shah see IN
my own dear England, is what may be called
your upper and lower middle classes. l have
seen among them men who would do credit to
any capital in the world / have seen tens of
thousands of houses occupied by the owners of
them | am told that in general your farmers
own their farms, your cultivated gentlemen own
their houses and your artisans own their cot
tages. What a state Of satisfaction and content
this produces in time of peacel What an irTesiSt
ible force in time of war
MIR. GLADSTONE
repeat here what l have often said publicly
and frequently put in print that an attentive
reader of utterances Of English and American
Free-traders will be furnished thereby with some
Of the strongest proofs of the benefits that have
accrued, that now exist, and will in the future
accrue TO the agricultIrIsts and labCring classes
of the United States from the American Protec
tive tariff system
COL. INGERsOLL.
We have taken the failures of ether countries;
we have taken the men who could not succeed in
England we have taken the men who have been
robbed and trampled upon; we have taken them
into this country, and the second generation are
superior 10 the nobility Of the country from
which their fathers emigrated We have taken
the Irishmen- robbed; we have taken the foreign
ers from the almshouse, and we have turned their
rags into robes; we have transferred their novels
and huts into palaces: out of pauper paupers We
haze made patriotic. splendd men
The census report shows that the out
put of pig iron in the year ending June
80 was 9,570, 779 net tons, against $751;
021 ten years ago, and this with official
returns of imports and exports, and
allowance for decrease of domestic stocks
unsold, makes the consumption of iron
about 324 pounds per capita, against 1856
pounds in 1679-S0. With such evidence
of growth it is not strange that tempo
rary embarrassnents in this country are
little regarded. Weekly Report.
Both the official and commercial con-
nectiOn between New Zealand and the
old country are still maintained In a
fairly satisfactory condition, although
owing to the American invasion the
trade relationship appears to be in dan
ger of being seriously interfered with
1t Is painful to have to recognize the
fact that practically nothing can be done
to prevent the Americans from overrun-
ming our colonies in this way.-London |
Daily Financial News
The writer of these lines is interested |
in small factory which is able to sell |
one Of its products in England at lower
prices than the English makers get, and |
solely for the reason that the British |
home price Is much more than the |
British price here. The American price
is the same here and there, and is in both |
cases lower than the British price. The
Manufacturer,