New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-05-03
FARMING UNDER FREE TRADE
AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION WITH A VEN.
GEANCE IN ENGLAND
From The London Daily News.


From The London Daily News.
| have recently had occasion to be moving about in
inclined to think that nobody could do that with eyes
hd ears 3Ps sa without now ana as Stopping % ask
Just look round this neighborhood," said par
tculary wellinformed resident in the county.
over yondcr at such and such village, is an unoc
cuped farm OF 700 acres yOder is another Of 500
acres and little further off is another Of perhaps
200 acres, which has attached to it 400 or 500 acres
elsewhere At another Understanding the name
of it farm Of 400 800 lies another
of 300 or 400, and another Of 400 All these
ON one estate There is another lying away
!onder in another direction which has unoccuped
farms OF a total extent OF about 2lO0 acres and
other OF 600 acres :" and the speaker proceeded with
list which apparently he could have continued almost
indefinitely. not, ne was careful to understand that
the land going of cultivation. but that farmers
! were giving up, and the great landowners were
themselves cultvating il under the management OF
bails. One very general effect of this is reduce
a rule bainns are harder taskma,ier, than farmers,
Moreover, III the number of employers dminsles the
man has a smaller choice Of masters and is more
completely under the thumb of any who Will give
him work. If under such circumstances wages do nos
tend downward 1t is partly because they stand at a
point at which it is scarcely possible for exist
at all at lower rate and partly because there is q
continual depletion Of the country into the towns.
as rule, stand a. II shllingS
week There are some exceptional cases in
case, IN which they are tribe more, but II shlngs
week appears to Dee The usual rate Of pay nominaliy
weather doe, permit of their wording in the fields,
and nothing can be found 10 do indoors shlnnsi
day is stopped and Of course II often happens that
work is not to be had m.any weather.
TEN AND sIXPENCE \ WEEK FOR \ FAMILY.
81 assure you. sir said one dapper litile womsn
with round rosy face and pair Of laughing gray
statements trouble and anxiety assure you, sr
by ole man many a week in the winter ha made on'y
r or 10 ,hilllngS week, and rs the winter time as
yea seems to want 1t most
Yon may hear any number Of such dittIcs in almost
any village Of Lnco!n,hlre-Whch, ! suppose j. nos
oonsplcuou7N worse man Dilef dgi'utufdI c0uhue9,
All being we'll however the people make 80 or 50
harvest. and this may be taken t0 make up losses
hap,, fairly to represent the weehly wages Of aeri-
cultural laborers House rent may, perhaps, be reck-
ohed at = pence week, ana We haIe tn ana skpence
for me keep Of man and wife and family IN food
only a little while ago | paid lghting rate OK
one and hvepence ha'penny,' said a thin. harassed-
family troubles and since then paid oneand eleven
pence a'pcnny for a highway lHte, ana now NJ. Ms
Yes sir they be half yearly rates but they've managed
to ge three on 'em into the twelve months. dunno
This Isl poor woman looked to be almost broken down
with trouble owing to an injury to MS ioot | tnlna
time the season before last. They had got behind
with their 10 the extent Of 81. but they struggled
long delay she thought she her way to take thea
landlord 10 shllings on the coming saturday, ana
The very next day. her horror, she went into hef
cottage and found stranger seated in ore Of her chairs
shelter Of the dreaded wo-Fhouse was before them
ana tutit TWO or uIee yolns ohuIc' re GgI, &
vi III r"e M, ti a. Pnyr ,oril,,y in ,erv vsv:
, b, ~" ,,,o, a,, ,r-,,,d and ,onn,oerei
a. n,I helm Ptbcy1' nt tSonsb ,he fcr bart Of wear
had elapsed the mere recollection Of that terrible ap
prOXimaton 10 the wOrkQase agtated the poor woman
most distress nsly And' wei II might Tor IN APT.
last year her husband did only two DAYS work In tl-o
weeks. II that should happen again IN tie present.
April! They might DE- aSaln AZ Ihr N"rkA't'e d,rT,
and who knows that they might find friend another
time.
LIFE An AGONY OF DREAD.
~, ~ siIr.,-s , wool . .r,,ll f,-ry can inst man.
. p, -, ,,j.I nm. 80, .,.....rIlv iut II "a
- o. - .ti ~, ,L ., ,,,i 3D.. is., nrovisioo
S'"'''N -. t IL, .,i.,t ~ F, nr,.i
LOT any Sn'l 90 u.',i'' ~, "a" "a, ~ 49,, ,d ,lsr o..
iilne>s or snort ie.HSi Guy III ,'r ~" NM.
unu !" az, 'n,.' i ~ - ii ' , M. ID, r1,
,oe ,,n, ~ drosJ and anNl,fv Their whole
L ,, o,..-. t,,cd ly th. vrori,oI,o acaln,s
49, t 'D ,. 49, n.y., ,,, i, l.yt,.r ,,re1Il and
.tri,,. ther NAV hd I talked win ONE woman
Who had fpIr children too vou- 10 earn q penny
had to ~, o AZ han, p9,t In the msnnt Walk Two
miles work tin d O'Clock I'm the cycnlu, and walk tVO
niles bor', ag,in THIS woman wa, two and -ixpetco
H., .rr.,r. ,,fb her highway rato and Wa, I'M dreadful
rom e about H. and there wa, another rate FOR lsht-
~. .,.,. d.,,.n ,n Won, ~ II ,ou'd rof =, or 81
u.c,, . .b. .a,d out nf th.ir I. .iillir.s a week
Mi -, tbcv r,d a. an. rate of tbout one aud
s~yenpcrce for rent and ,iNpeuce week for schooling.
~ tit, C,r f,od and cl,f1.nr and liglt and fire tha
.x o them had somethin- under ten shllng> for tho
se\,n daI, n wa, indeed piiifn To think OF this I'M
C,t9fs man Kindly aer,t Ona'o father he appeared
b, 9l account. dpng his best - satisfy a.,
,r,,it,. ,f hi. cb-arnn and frudging on WITH
.c,tv clothur and empty stomach for arly twelve
rour., labor I'm an weather. depressed with certain
l,powledes thai between hi, family ami tie work
%r,sn .food nothing but hi own fall life and bodily
I ,r,|.,,h
EXILE THE ONLY ESCAPE.
-. , IT,. ., . ,,,,,it,-r
ans prr,ty wfh their lutte forecour glr,n, ther
windows full Of no%er, their red PRICK hoor tagF
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