The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-06

them 81 hated work ever since I was a
Kid" He appears like an educated
man, but he is the only park orator
nave heard using very profane Ian
guage. He calls upon British working
men to throw down their. tools, but he
does not tell them how to get bread.
That man should be stripped and made
to dance and sing by the application of
a strong lash to his back,
Close by is fellow declaiming
against the Salvation army; he Is fully
aware that General Booth has put aside
ten thousand pounds for his own pri-
vate use and the lecturer is crying out
for all England to rise in arms and put
an end to the Salvation army and all its
enormities. This is a knowing fellow;
however, he. too, depends upon liveli-
hood by passing the hat so his hat goes
the rounds many times during the day
and many pennies are collected. Over
there standing on chair beneath
wide spreading elm tree, and address,
ing great crowd of listeners, is an ex-
convict, glorying in his shame; he has
been fifteen years in Portland prison
doing penal servitude breaking gram
ite) and he is anxious to put an end to
all prisons and restraint; he bellows
loudly for Reform" He ties himself
up with rope like bound convict and
tells pitiful tale; round goes his old
battered head-gear and he gets plenty
of pennies. Not far off is an English
clergyman, very much run down at the
heel he breaches to a large crowd; he
speaks fluently and uses good speech;
wonder how that unfortunate man lost
his gown, but / can venture "a guess
which is not far from truth. There are
many such fellows in, England and in
her colonies. A youth of nineteen years
l-so he says-an American he tells us;
such information, however, is unneces-
sary, ''for his speech betrayeth him."
You could select him among a. thou
sand; he recites his sufferings in the Ell
mira reformatoryl he is bad lot and
such a strapping lad with such enor-
nous hands ought to be at hard work
somewhere; the gawlS however does
not desist from hat passing he is thank.
full for pennies and will not refuse
farthings, for he has learned that four
of the latter make a penny" 1t as
| tonishes me to see the quantities of
pennies the fellows collect Italian
street beggars in many cases collect
six francs in a day, and live on two
francs, and according to Wilkins Nc
Cawber are men of independent for
tunes. But the London Park orators
beat the Italians ''hollow.'
A poor hard featured fellow, think
he is an honest man, gives very many
hearers points concerning the london
casual wards and warehouses;. They
must be gruesome places to judge from
his description. God forbid us from
falling into the hands of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bundle in their kingdom of BUM
bledom,' where they reign supreme.
The speaker tells of ice-cold baths in
the early morning, sometimes it is a
wash and more hoften run hover"
1.-THE thin short blankets, the scanty al
| lowance of bread, and watery cruel,
ugh! it is awful to think of. Once
a week comes the luxury, so villainous
Mr.. and Mrs. Bundle call it; the speak
er refers to the suet pudding, ito find
4 the suet, gents, yer must use ha micros-
cope, and has for the pudding, my
I frens, hit his ard henough7 if put hinto
ha cannon and fired hoff, to knock
hover the Marble Harch. True hit is
i frens, go and taste hit hif yer doubt
! hitr' This speaker is an ignorant
man, but he speaks we'll and is wit;
in riot he could lead large mob
For years he had been driving a team
with two tons of iron sash weights
wage one guinea per week, or $5.04 for
the hardest labor; one evening after
iputting up his horses his boss told him
to 'lay hoff, no horders.'' The next
morning he met his team with the
load of iron and a new driver, working
at $40 per weekl Then the poor fell
low began the round of the London
warehouses, where Bundle starved him
and made him break 1000 pounds of
blue window granite daily-"the ardest
stone in Hengland." I fear that Dick
ems account of warehouses in 'Oliver
Twist" comes far short of the actual
truth. Why the convicts in British
prisons receive better tea, bread, beef,
pudding, etc, and in larger allowances.
The work in the prisons is far lighter
than in the warehouses, and the con-
lvicts fat and sleek. In the warehouses
men and women are Literally and slow
ly crushed, starved and worked to
death. Why? (They have committed
no crime.) Because they are SO poor
and friendless. Give the fellow six
pence and let us pass on. Next! l
will describe no more Of these speakers,
| there are plenty of them in Hyde Park,
no matter whether 1t pours or wheth-
err the sun shines joyously, speakers
gather great crowds and declaim on
all sorts OF subjects. Some Of these
! speakers go to the park for political
reasons and finally get into the house
of commons. Bradlaugh, l think, be-
gan his career by speaking in Hyde
Park.
If the male paupers we see here are
so miserably abject, what shall we
say of the women of that class, oh!
What wrecks are they, how fallen, how
loathesome; they are the creatures who
at midnight throng the glittering gin
palaces, and drown their shame and
misery in gin. Poor creatures, God is
merciful and judges the hearts of His
creatures. God alone knows to what
influences those women have been sub
jected ever since they came into this
world. If you ever wish to find the
most loathesome being in the world,
| more so even than Digger Indians ar,