The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-06
PERFECT SYMBOL OF LIFE
HYDE PARK IN LONDON THE TENT
HOLE or MILLIONS or People.

Horseback, Laughing Children ana Pau
pers In Misery and squalor Can be Daily
Seen in the Most Fashionable and Great
estParlS of England.
Eastbourne, Aug. -, 1895.
To the Editor OF the JoUhNAL AND Courier
1t was Carlyle who wrote in his very
clever chapter on Heliotage:
",rhe old spartans had wise method
to limit pauperism; and went and hunt
ed down their Helots and speared and
spitted them when they grew too nu-
merous.'
With our improved fashion of hunt
ing, how much easier were such hunt.
Perhaps in the most thickly-peopled
country, some three days annually
might suffice to shoot all the able bod
led paupers that had accumulated with
in the year. Let governments think Of
this. The expense were trifling; nay,
the very carcasses would pay it. Have
them sailed and barrelled: cannot you
yictual herewith, if not army and
/. navy, yet richly such infirm paupers as
enlightened charity, dreading no evil of
them, might see good TO keep alive?"
And vet the cynical sage of "Cheyne
. Row was familiar with the paupers of
! London. Why should they be 'salted
and barreled?" Some indeed would
gladly have administered the medicine
to. Thomas Carlyle which he prescribed
for paupers, as if paupers should be
sailed and divided and laid away for
future use! However that may be,
come with me where the great marble
aarch stands conspicuous in Hyde Park,
near the entrance of Edgenare road,
kand behold the magnificent equipages
occupied by the rich, attired in fine
clothing; how their proud horses steep
gaily along; how the powdered, be-
L wigged and short breeched coachmen
and footmen, in the bright lveries,
ssseem as stiff as iron and as unbending
! rs steel; see the laughing children as
oyous as larks, gliding past on their
Effect ponies. There verify seems no end
Ito the lines of pretty horsewomen and
Il fine looking horsemen as they hasten by
Ethe Marble arch, and so disappear up
1.-THE shady road leading to the Basin
Enear Kensington Palace, where Queen
Y Victoria was born. Youth and old age
Fseem equally delighted and oblivious Of
fall else except themselves and their
hown happiness Lo! what a panoramic
Tpicture does busy Hyde Park exhibit
kdaily, hourly. The picture is complete,
la perfect symbol of human life, but
Rthere is one feature which you have not
Jas yet beheld. Within the very sound
Kof the happy laughter of children and
Eof the voices Of their elders there Is
kmore misery and wretched isqualor than
Tin any other spot know of, unless, for
Esooth, it may be Whitechapel, than
(which no other more dreadful place ex-
8ists either in this world or in any other.
III refer to the countless paupers who
Sday and night are to be seen lying on
1.-The greensward in Hyde Park. Strange
anomaly this, that this lovely park
5should become thu, resort of the happy
and the wretched. Here we read les
son Of life, and Hyde Park is like unto
a great cemetery; do not the rich and
Ipoor, the high and low, meet there at
last?
Il One would verify think a battle had
been fought q am often reminded Of a
certain picture of the battlefield of In
4 kermann), for the paupers lie thick
afield, and you seem almost to be walk
ing among the dead. Drink has
brought most of these unfortunates
hither. One half million pounds ster-
ling per week Teceived from liquor Ii.
censes) drop into the nations Golfer
and the result is a vast army of pau
pers England herself at last must pay
| the bill, and sorrowful will be the reck-
oning I often wonder what. the Hyde
Park paupers, as they sleep ON the
grass, may be dreaming of; doubtless
they are wandering through the forests
and delightful meadows of England
perhaps they dream of kings and prin.
ces and of the rich and happy. Lo
Bwhen they awake and realize the reali.
ty of their misery and the utter forlorn-
ness of their social condition they begir
to feel they are like the seaweed Of
which Longfellow sings:
Ever drifting, drifting, drifting
On the shifting
Currents of the restless MAN,
They can cry aloud with Lowell,
God has plans man must not spoil;
Some were made to starve and toll;
+ Some to share the wine and oil
We are told"
II Hyde Park is the vent hole or safety
valve of the six million people who
dwell in smoky, bricly London, a whole
nation of itself. Thither the discon
tented and mischievous resort daily tt
declaim loudly against riches and lilxu
ry; they demand work Ooh! how hard Il
is to obtain work in LondonD while theil
X wives and babes are starving, and here
too, poor drifting paupers actually droI
dead for want of bread, a sarcastic crit
icism on the civilization Of the creates
city in the world. Anarchists, Social
y lists, often speak here to audiences
which number three hundred thousand
In 1887 the mob was so incensed and ex
cited by the speakers that they burs
their bounds like a river in flood; they
tore away three hundred feet of those
huge iron spear ratings of the parl
land crippled two hundred and fifty pc
licemen. The soldiers which were quar-
tered near by soon put an end to the
! outbreak Free public speech is al
lowed here to all; if it advances to al
Indictment of the mob the police inter