The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-01
mot A CHEERFUL FACE IN
MELBOURNE.
New Zealand Wants No Immigra.
ton Society to Increase Its
Population.
WOMEN DRUNKA ARDS-'PROSTI-
TUITION WITHOUT A PARAL-
LEI IN CHRISTENDOM."
An Anti-Plutocratic Revolution in Government
Needed to Arrest the Destruction Of
the Human Race.

We find in a recent issue of the Chi
cago Inter-Ocean the following letter
from London, written by Mary H. Krout
one of the regular correspondents of that
paper. Let every one read it,
FINANCIAL DEPRESSION.
But the multitudinous objects, many of
them most worthy, and all of them un-
fortunate. crying for help, might we'll
discourage and dishearten a more pros
porous people than this. If we have suf-
fered from financial depression during
the past three years in the United States,
it is as nothing compared to what has
been experienced iE England. 1t has af-
fected aH classes, and there are lew
public institutions but have been serious
ly crippled by the depreciation of their
securities. An eminent British painter
told me some time ago that many of the
finest private art collections in the king
dom were being dismantled scattered
and sold Americans being largely the
purchasers.
At present the great hospitals are MAX
ing daily appeals for funds, both through
the advertising columns of the daily pa
pers and by means of huge bulletin
boards set up beside the main entrance
of the institution.
AS an indication of the real condition
of things however, l have taken quite
at random these appeals, the like Of
which appear daily, from the London
Standard
GUYS HOSPITAL. SOUTHWARK, S. e.
FUNDS URGENTLY NEEDED.
ED. H. FLUSHING, Treasurer.
GUYS HOSPITAL-THE TREASURER
BEGS to ACKNOWLEDGE with grateful
thanks the following DONATIONS
Joseph Wileman. Esq. D
Joseph A. Brooke. Esq. 0
Mrs. e. S. Johnson (annuaD. ...... .
Further assistance of like character
is urgently needed, the loss of income to
the hospital from it's agricultural prop
erty having now reached 20000l per an
mum.
S. M.-eS DONATION TO COLDASH
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL gratefully ac-
knowledged.
HELP IS MOST URGENTLY WANTED
for our destitute chidren's dinners our
medical mission, our day nursery. and
hospital for sick children. our soup ktch-
en-, and the 'labour fund" which provides
work for the unemployed: also to provide
coal, food and blankets for the sick,
aged and infirm of St Mary. Plaistow.
F., London over the Border" pop. over
q 900. Checks and orders to REV. r.
GIVEN-WILSON, Vicar of Plaistow,
London. T..
MISS FAITHFUL. THE INSTITUTE,
1856. Regent street PLEADS for PECUN-
larry AID and clothing for gentlepeoplc
in the depths of poverty. Also to pro-
vide home for an utterly friendless aged
lady dying of cancer and softening of the
brain. Cancer IS Cd.
EXTREME SUFFERING.
When great and venerable institution
like Guys Hospital gratefully returns
thanks for contribution of 1925, it can
be realized to what straits it has been
reduced.
Imagine the Cook County, or ST. Luke's
or the Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago
in such financial straits that they felt
impelled 10 return thanks for a paltry
donation of S525. And if rich and wide
ly known public institutions are suffering
to this extent one can imagine the condi-
tion of the common people. How they
live at all passes comprehension. [
have discovered but four things that are
cheaper in England than in America /:
Bread tea. sugar woolen underwear and
WOCI6u CIOtU. T u6l is ENORMOUSLY dear
--one small CRATE fire Of soft coal costs
q lOdger S125 a week. Milk is dear:
beef beyond the means of the day laborer,
except on very rare occasions: artisans.
masons especially, have it once day be-
cause they require it to keep their
strength: but it is a luxury that their
wives and children rarely enjoy. But
ter, now. is worth shillings pound $50
cents), and fresh eggs cost five cents
apiece; potatoes are three times as dea,
as in the United States; in some places
apples may be had as low as 4 cents a
pound: mems shoes that can be bought
in the United States eor So cost S5 in Lon
don: women's shoes that can be had of
any Chicago dealer for 81 are here worth
81. Rents are eXhorbitant. AS l said
in previous letter there is but one
thing really cheap, and that is human la
Dor. If wages were even reasonably
good there might be some chance, but
men holding responsible positions would