Year: 1869

my portraits with an English pencil and dipped nv
brush into English col0rs, completing the entire


- nothing extenuate


Nor set down augh In malice.


have, since writing that document, received
from England several works on the same subjects
and they Iully confirm al ! said. All that stated,
and now state give for the warning OF the people
OF my own State and country. that they may ward
on the evils OF the foreign factory system by the
shield Of moral and intellectual culture-by I'm
proving the hablls, refining the tastes and utilizing
the capacities OF this rapidly increasing class OF our
population-so that their own individual elevation
shall add its strong support to the general good and
elevation OF the whole Commonwealth"


Further along IN his report appears an extract OF
factory life in Massachusetls:-'Tne principle OF
slavery, disguise 1t Us we may has always existed
and always VIII. The manufacturer will pay his
help as little as possible and keep them at work as
closely as possible, and all he intends they shall
have Is enough To feed them, to cothe them and to
Keep them IN heart as long as he can prohtaby use
tnem, ana then the supply having answered the
demand, they may 60 their way. Certain parties
are called the great manufacturers of New England
and they have been engaged such for genera
tons; yet the man or the family that has been in
their employ and come out OF 1t with more than
enough lor decent 1nterment Is yet to he found
Now when such party begins work he buys water
power or If he uses steam he selects u spot where
Ieip may be handy, and then quietly buys all the
land IN the vicinity and as soon as ne begins the
very foundation Of his mill he starts what ID called
the store, and everybody buys AT the store and it
seems to be very handy, the store does and 1t is,
for 1t Is helping the manufacturer to put In his
foundation and build his mill by the very
money he paid his people Tor lheir work,
ana which tney pay back to hun for suppnes
at the store. with good percentage OF prOnt, and
from being their debtor they have, before they know
1t, become his. And slch as ths Is what the matter
is, and ls the great hitting lever which rts him up
by the orce OF others muscles. Everybody at work
IN the new city buys and must buy at tue all
needed sulpiies, household and personal When
payday comes round the employed get no money,
bni only receipt or store credit for future sup
Plies Usually they are in debt to the store, ana II
they want TO ieave the place they ind themselves
tied down by the letters OF such debt and they can
not leave. The result Is u helpless crowd OF
workers, the oppression OF low wages, inevitable
poverty and disguised serfdom, u rich master,
poor servant and mean population Such Is the
story OF manufacturing In Old England, and such IS
the story OF manufacturing in New England. Let
the people or Massachusetts to 1t that evil be
muzzed one here, and they themselves be pro-
tected against its biting by the shield Of educa
ton that shall keep II from eating into the bowels OF
the body pOlltic."


Alter referring at considerable length to the wages
OF operatives ana cost OF living in England the
missioner produces the same facts concerning manu-
featuring cities ana towns lii Massachusetts reckon
ing eleven hours the standard days work, and
reerrink more particularly to establishments in
western section OF the State:-