Telegram-herald., 1890-07-15

With the American et41dAf0, We need
only 20 cali on few English witnesses
70 testify. Let rs Listen 70 theu eyi-
dsnce,
Ina speech made by Hon. John Nor
ley 10 the AmalgamaLed Society OF
Engineers, Il Newcastle, England, last
year, be said
ssIt : A awful fsct-it Is really not
short OF awfGl-that ~ tins country
Great Britain, With all its wealth, al
is vast resources, al its power, forty
tye per cent.-thzt Is 60 say. nearly
One-half--Of the persons who reach the
sge or slxty, are OF have been paupers.
| s&y that it = most tremendous fact,
and cannot conceive any subject more
worthy OF the attention OF the Lsgisla-
ture, more worthy OF the attention OF
Us al"
Fawcett, IN his political Economy"
says:
There are few classes Of workmen
who n many respects are 80 thor-
Oughly wretched as the English agTi
cultural laoorers. They are III many
respects so miserably poor thst If they
would b. for the interest OF their OWN
ers 90 feed them FAR better than they
are at present. Throughout large sg-
rlcultural districts not single agricul-
turai labOrer will be found vino has
saved 80 much as a weeks wages. A
life OF tolling and incesSant industry
offers no other prospect than mIsera-
bic old age"
Ruskln says:
''Though England is deafened with
spinning wheels, her people have not
clothes; though she is black with dig
ging of fuel, they die of cold; and
though she has sold her soul for grain,
they die OF hunger"
John Bright SAID in a speech at Glas-
Cow in March, 1888:
"In the city of Glasgow alone IL 900
out of every l00. 900 live at home having
only one room, and, further, nearly
One-thlrd OF the whole people, dwell IN
homes of only one room, and more
| than two-thirds of the people Of Scot
| land dwell IN homes OF not more than
| two rooms.
1--WE find poverty and misery. What
| does It mean, when all these families
/ are living IN homes of one room, To us
who have several rooms and all the
comforts of life? 1t means moro than
| / can describe and more than | will at
| tempt TO enter into; and as need begets
/ need, so poverty and misery begets
/ poverty and misery. And SO IN all our
! great towns, and not a little in our
| small towns, there Is misery and help
/ lessness, much rs / have described. In
fact, looking at the pact, TO me it is a
melancholy thing TO look at; there is
much of il when excites IN me, not
astonshment only, but horror. The
fact IS, there passes before my eyes a
vision of millions of famllies-not in
dividuals, but families-fathers, moth
ers, children-passing, ghastly, sorrow
stricken, IN never ending procession,
from their cradle TO their graves"
What did Mr.. Chamberlain, NJ. p,
say not long since?
"The class of agricultural laborers of
this country are never able TO do more
than make both ends meet, and have
10 look forward, in time of illness or on
the approach of old age, to the work
house as the one inevitable refuge
! against starvation. Children
are stuuted IN their growth and dulled
III their lntellects for want OF proper
nourlshment and proper food. The
| houses OF the poor are so scantv and Sc
| inefficient that the most horrible i'm
morality prevails, which seldom comes
10 the surface, but which Is known tC
all those who move among the poor
while the ordinary conditions OF life
among the large proportion of the popu-
latlOn are such that common decency
is absolutely impossible; and all this
goes on in sight OF the mansions of the
of the rich. Private
charity of all forms and religious or
CARNATIONS can do nothing to remedy
the evils which are so deep set in our
social system"
Carlyle says in his Latter Day Pam
phlets:"
british industrial existence seem:
fast becoming one huge poison sw amp
of reekIng pestilenCe, physical and
moral; a hideous living Golgotha oi
souls and bodies buried alive; such q
Curtius gulf communicating with the
neither deeps as the sun never saw til
now"
Kay, in his "Social Condition OF the
People of England" says:
'If we have enormous wealth We
ought 10 remember that we have enor
| nous pauperism also; If we nave mid
die classes richer and more intelligen
than those OF any other country n th'
world, We have poorer classes, forming
the majority of the people OF this coun
try, more ignorant, more pauperized
and more morally degraded, than th'
poorer classes of most OF the countrlei
OF Western Europe"
We could quote columns of such tes
timony, but the above is enough, anC
we Will see what they say of US
Lord Coleridge, the Chief Justice o
England. in his farewell speech after al
extended tour through this country il
lSs3, said:
cit IS not your colossal for
tunes that have interested me;
I can see them at home. What do al
mire, what I long to see and never shall
see in my own dear England, Is wha
NAV be called your upper and lowe
I middle classes. I have seen anon.
them men who would do credit TO an
capital in the world. I have seen ten.
Of thousands OF houses occupied by the
owners OF them. am told that In gen
eral your farmers own their farms
your cultivated gentlemen own thei
houses. and your artisans own theil
cottages What a state of satisfaction
and content this produces in time o.
peace What an irresistible force il
time OF var"
Even Mr. Gladstone has said
'fI repeat here what 7 have often sait
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