Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 151, 17 Malaki 1891 — Wealth and Starvation. [ARTICLE]

Wealth and Starvation.

There is no country on fearth where there is so mueh money hoarded up as in Engiana, and now a portion of it is to be to "Generar' Sālvation Booth for the purnose of exporting a million or m of her starving scrofuJous population to Australia. And nowcomes another problem. A L»ndon naper just to hand is indignant over the arriv.il of 300 Russian |Jews to ewell the gr'eat mass of h«ngry, desperat« wretches who scramble for a mouldy crust and a few rags i n the East end of London. i The new arnvals were destitute and ready and arxious to toil for sixteen hours a day if they could obtain t?wo to three dollars a week and thereby make 300 'Sngliah workman starve in their Btead. They were not an isolattd bōdy, forgangs made up of similar waterials arrive in England ev<*ry week, and eaoh dlay the howl from three million URemployed inhabitants grows louder, fbreach mouldy Hebrew or moth-eaten Pole makes! the prospect of work more preca-' riout?. Yet under the svstem of free-trade and c«mpetitioi)i it is impossihie to exolude these bat-1 tered remnants of humanity ]

Therefore evea supposing Geoeifal i Hooth snouid be aliow«l to empjty all the slums <>f all tbe | cities ir»to Australia and Africa tf>c result will he absolutely nil, for either the competition of the cheftp hnman wreckage of contineint will ».presently reduce the left-be» I hirid inhabittnts tc-> the same degradation as the three million wbo now hang out in the gutter, ior else the hroken down debris of other countries in Europe will ill ihe London slums as fastasthey are emptied. and the problem ean onJy be settled when every hungry, dirty, f!at-chepted citizen in ill Europe has been siffced tbrough I England and duly converted v an»d exported to be, a nuisance and an eye-sore to the c«lonies; a proceerting to whieh the colonies w|ll object. The cry that England is over populated is the cry of the heredi- i tary nohle leeeh and the land- S Bhark. īt is the cry of the million-! aire whose father drove a donkeycart for a living. There will be mueh sympathy wasted over the ] project of genera! Booth by pe«-1 ple will who not pause to reflect opon whether that old fox is fool or ktiave. When the English people I will riseto the level of demandingi that the land is for the people and for those who t«il upon it, they will begin the great work of solving i the labor question and will lay the foundation of an industrial and social system that will secure bread to the laborer and give to the people the sovereignty of their eountry's government and their eountry's land. Then the army of parasites who fattea on the industry of the eountry will have to learn the motto "He that wiil not work neither shall he eat." and tae now wsubnfergect tenth" of Darkest Englflnd will be on their feet, and the "generals" occupation as a leader will be gone, for there wiil be no u Darkest England" in poverty.