FOREIGN PAUPERS IN ENGLAND

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2289, 28 November 1889, Page 2

FOREIGN PAUPERS IN ENGLAND

Among the C7ldi'uo9 of the v&rlono witnesses examined before the Committee appointed to enquire into the Immigration of destitute ftl'eua^aro to be found m«ny atrikipg f«o»6 iii regaed to the condition of the alleuo m the (Jnlted Kingdom. Not the least ooriona are thoae given by tho Seorolasy of the Italian Baocvolcot Soolely. SJgnor Kl^hetti described tot c Oorauilstee the system under which the aafortnnate children who are employed m ocr otreeis m begging and playfna; on barrel organs aro Imported into England. Many of them, it appaars, walk the whole way froai thalc natlva country to Calais or Dieppe. The padroua, who BomtjtiraeH hcß aa m&ny ao fifty boya and girla undor h!a con'.toi, Boodu thorn about m genga all ovor London. Au nigh 1 ; thi.y rotirn. andjbacd him ovor flomefcir'ics »a laaciv as ton abiianga apiece. The miaerita eafTaced by those nohnppy oreainreo ore o^ton very feav«ro, fal!nre to bring back a ooneldetablo sam «»oh dny being madd an oxcubo foe horrible Hl-o»ai?o. The Italian Goveroojantdoes B^b.oan to atop the (raffij at home,, bat m aplto oi Ita efforta a gr^at many ohlldri-n ara every year Bmnggled oak of tho coaatty. Some intereßting f#cis ara' a']«io glve'^as' to the cindition of his 00-relfglonlatsAby Me Mobob Abrahame, a Rabbi conneoted with the Jewish conamaaity at Loedn. Prom hia testimony it sppoara that though tha PoUah Jaw vlolatoß bo many, of our, notions of oloBu ! lue:8 and onmfoct,, he obaeryeß very auiotiy the Lovlttoal Irjunctlons Ufl to the preparation of food.. ,'Vhe bouae m»y ba dirty, and vaoai sanitary raleß atterly neglected, hut strict diwtaty I^wb ara curried out, whfoh m effaot, .differ little from thoaa ecjiingd by the" newest and moat aolentlfio eohool of medical hygienn. Stlil, m spite of oltaumemDosj the general effect of - t&ey Jewish imm'grßtlon ia * diatlDct lowering of thu standard uf ulvilhetion m all thes^ districts In which the foreign ioflax is atronglyfcU. It jb on this ground, indeed, fenl; 'on tb^s gron-irt alone, that a owe oanibn m»(ie;ou . tor roßtriating thi? immSgrfltion of p;uper foreigners. .Lot It "bo oh>wn that by ailorcitg nnrantrio'cd forelga imml^.atiou we a»o demorallstnp; mmxf of out towca, and intcodaolc'Sf a half ciyiUa^d ekmon-, whloh p::.vontß thu ,e-.f »j .jupa* of a jjlghor auudard. of Jiving, a^d It moot be roiflonibla niu-uju to a-l-jpfc a polioy >f exc'.aalor, ftui o tox the ona'/raoc for thu hJj'hor n^t'Js of ,ha cnuuiaaiiy. In all p.-obablll-y "the amount of HiajjUih laboar ooiml y d'aulaoacl has not boen very yceat, uoihvl ! .hat»ndiag that go to any forii.'ga htnda «,:o onqugei iv tailoring Pe'ipln forpof. that v/hi!o gooda can bo eo!d m plant? .ot fiva ehillings, there la often not a third of tt»9 dumaad "?h^n they tiß? to Might. If the Jcwesh tailors woro \o be auut home to-raorrow their plicea would not mc-Bs-*rl y be filled by I'Jngliabmen. Half rf tnecoit«»nrt trona'/ra jnow prodnoacl wna.t fimjily not bo nnd^ at all, and th/ugh fv\< moc would get higher «r»g»3 ftb»u beforo, thoueanda would have to euffjir tho ha'difiip of mach dearer olotiiing.— " S'andard •'