The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-14

in America could 60 where have gone
the last two months and see what have
seen among the working classes of Eng
land-could take with him the picture of
the comfortable and contented homes of
our industrial classes. we'll fed and well
clothed. and contrast them with the
wretched places called homes in "Merrie
Engiand"-if, say, all of you could have
travelled around among Engiand's workers
as did, there would not be one among
you who would not denounce as a traitor
to this nation the man or the party that
advocated a free trade policy for America.
Though my report to you four years ago
went into every city and village in this
country, and was mailed abroad as well, 1
have yet to hear the facts therein stated
contradicted or my deductions challenged.
The free trade press has ever since fol-
lowed me with its vituperations and mis-
representations, but though four years
have passed, not one of them has at
tempted to dispute the truth of my state
ments l have taken the same care this
summer to have my data as to wages and
ways Of living indisputab!y established,
and l undertake to prove to the satisfac-
ton of any unprejudiced man the truth of
every line in this document.
My tour this summer covered much the
same territory as that through which
travelled in the summer of ISIS. / left New
York in July and returned TO it September
Il. In that time | travelled the Black
Country, as it is called, of England, Wis.,
tied many of the same places and saw
many of the same faces as four years ago.
Time had not dealt kindly by them, espe-
cialy the women, the sound of whose
hammering on the anvil, the cIank of the
chains 81 " hich they work, and the noise
of the pit upon which they shovel and
wheel coal, were still all too horrible TO
the ear of one accustomed TO see the
mothers. wives and sweethearts of his
fellow workmen comfortably housed and
spared the terrible burdens which these
unfortunates have TO bear.
Where in our land of the free / ask YOU
can We find mother and daughter-aye,
and often neutrality-suspicious. day after
day. for a lifetime, side by side, a, the
forge or on the coal pitt
Where throughout our broad lands are
our women made TO slave like beasts Of
burden-il paid. poorly fed and clad,
and looking only 70 death to relieve them
from q toll 10 " hich in life there is no end
ing?
Free trade, No, Slave tradel And
even worse than that II is. and the eve
that can witness this spectacle undimmed,
or the heart that does not go out in sym
free trade i. the cause Of it. and for that
reason is the curse of England.
I landed in Liverpool in August On
the steamer going over | picked up Whit
takers Almanac. and found from its pages
that there we're ga .42l paupers in Great
Britain in q population Of 5.2i6. ST. That
is one TO every thirty-six people. Accord
ing TO our last federal census we have only
9G.c6A paUperS among the 65,009 600 in the
UNITED States, or one in every Gas of popu-
alton. IL England > ; per cent. OF The
people are paupers and charges on the
counties; IN this country but .l5 per cent.
| One person out o. every twelve in the
| United Kingdom needs parish relief %
keep him from starvation. II cost s49.-
| i69, Si5 last year TO support EnEiand's pau
| pers. Ia London. ont of nine persons
| who die. TWO die in q workhouse. hospital
| or other public institution: in Manchester
| IL Is but out Of every 5, and in Liverpool
| and birmingham, / out of every g. i
| couple OF years ago return was issued by
| the GLASGOW medical officer of health in
/ which he showed tina; out of every Is
| houses IN glasgow 80 consisted OF only !
| room. Al OF = rooms, Il OF 3 rooms, of 4
| rooms, . OF rooms and upward. out d
/ The children born in the i-roomed houses
! cut Oh every 5 died IL infancy: II ihs