They are careful not to allude to the fact that her farm hands can scarcely earn enough to buy the cheapest kinds of food and clothing. and that the workmen of her mills and manufactories are among the worst fed and the worst clothed of any laboring people of Europe. Neither do they allude to the fact that six out of every one hundred of Englands subjects are the inmates of an almshouse br receiving outdoor relief. and that 3.68 per cent. of the whole population of Great Britain and Ireland is in a similar condition. Considering further the fact that 4.698.098 of the. people of Great Britain emigrated to the United States between the years 1820 and 1879. presumably to better their condition. it would seem that that kingdom was not the paradise of the laborer. and considering also the fact that Europe sent to our shores between 1820 and 1883 the enormous number of 12.196.295 of her people. it would appear that they are not afraid of the " oppression" of a country whose people live under a protective tariff system. This tide of emigration. continually increasing by letters from emigrants here to their friends at home. is a convincing proof that the downtrodden and oppressed people of Europe consider this country the paradise of the workingman. And unless England especially does something to improve the condition of the laboring classes the time is not far distant when certain portions of her dominion will be almost depopulated. Her whole system is wrong.
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