The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-09-15

| lore long profoundly aIIect all EnSllSl
habits and modes of life. The towns
draw and the countryside repels. II
| Essex, Surrey and indeed all the home
counties, and in every district within
| which there is a prosperous town, how
ever small, the villages, 50 far as rura
| laborers are concerned, are becoming
| literally depopuated. There are ne
| men left in them under fifty who car
do any manner of field work. In hun
| dreds of others, few laborers remain
! they are the residuum of the popula-
ton, the strong, the bright and the en-
ersetic having all wandered away
They are taught from childhood by
| their mothers that there are no pros
poets" for them if they take to the
land" they find for themselves that
the tale is true, and as they reach man
hood they depart. They prefer any oc-
cupaton in any town, put up with any
inconvenience to be in the streets, and
| often deliberately lower ther way of
life, especially in regard to crowding,
The whole influence of the younger Wo-
men is thrown in the same direction.
AS DR.. Jessopp recently pointed out,
they will not stop in the villages them
selves, and they. tell their suitors, even
those they favor most, that before the
yes" can be thought of, they must get
something to do better than the farm"
The effect of general education, now
at last beginning to tell heavily adds
to the effect of the women's teaching.
The lad who has passed the standards
does not like carting muck, breads eX-
posture to bad weather. and positively
hates the monotory of ordinary field
work. He does not hate the country.
He will become a village artlsan-smith,
Wheelwrlght mason, or carpenter-with
the greatest pleasure but he goes to field
work only to keep alive. There is an
other drain going on, too. England is
amazingly prosperous. Every year
hundreds of men who have made money
settle down in country houses; each Of
them wants an establishment-gard
ers, grooms, keepers and house servants
they pay sixty per cent. more than
the farmers can and they pay for the
whole year, and the villagers compete
eagerly for their employ. The total
result is that farm labor, partly from
valid and partly from imaginary causes,
is falling into such discredt that it viii
soon, except in out-of- the-way places,
be unprocurable and, as we know to
have already happened in Cambridge
shire, farms will be thrown up owing to
a sheer impossibillty of working them.
What can we do" say the farmers,
when men ain't to be had?" Moreover,
".
experienced employers are the least
hopeful, and few of them who have
read things say that the feeling of
dstaste for work on the land, which
once so greatly helped to sustain and
extend slavery and serfage, Is again
perceptible; that it is becoming in the
eyes of those who follow 1t an undigni-
fed as well as profitless pursuit and
that it will be: given up as domestic
service has been by American men.
Is there a remedy without some great
social change? 1t may be taken as
certain that q great rise In wages, an
average lift" of say, ten shilllngs a
week, which would make farm labor
pecliniarily attractive. will never be
obtained Prices may. probably will.
rise a little for cereals. which recently
were cultivated for loss but every
such rise brings IN new supplies from
countries where the pulk OF the people
must sell their produce or starVe; stock
raising grows less prontaple win the
increased importation OF Foreign STOCK
ana frozen meat ana Whatever the
fluctuations OF small prohts, dead rise
OF nity per cent IN 1arh wages cannon
ana VIII not be paid Better cottages,
Wh1ch attract, cost every year more 10
pulid ana TWO hundred POUNDS spent
on ploughman cottage means tWen-
" per cent adoed 10 ms wage shorter
hours are not asked Tor or much Valueu;
ana the panaceas OF the houf, allot-
lnents, though excellent thlngs eX-
haust the iaporef strehgth, ana are
not sulliclentiy attractive 10 keep MN
IN the village. Inc parish counclis,
Wnlch We're 10 make village lie so I'VE
~ Go not increase It's amenlty' much
Tess us stanuaru OF wages ana as LOT
SCHOOLS every BOY tney sent OUT IS u
boy VINO intends TO DO something pet
ter than hedger ana dltchers work
Hell tramp sooner, he says which is
4 deeper depth even than enllstlng USED
10 De-
Where, then. is the remedy for one
must be found We all exist by favor of
the ploughman. and England cannot be
4llOWed to go out of cultivation because
ner population are acquiring distaste
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