AN OOTSPOKEN CLERGYMAN.

Evening Star, Issue 3791, 19 April 1875, Page 3

AN OOTSPOKEN CLERGYMAN.

The Fev. R, Laurenoe, of Oha 1 grove, Oxon, must almost have provoked the Poysers of his congregation to swear in church ■is they li tened to him denouncing a system .mU r which, he said, “no provision is made for the decent lodging of the men, whose labor ; reduces the ieault that the tenant an 1 th. landlord look for; a system in which a man is forced to labor from day to day, almost to starve, and yot to work on without intermission. and without hope till the time comes for him to be cast aside as a worthless thing, or to be put down as a nuisance, and when he “hall be t o ld that hj. ought, to Ibank God f rfc c basing that habeen provided for him at his employer’s cost in a workhou :e ; or in the slid more lingering death that he must fie.- at, home, upon a pittance that would hardly li d lodging for a dog, ai d much 'ess keep him.” The only remedy for these evils, he told the farm laborers, was to be found in emig ation to Australia, New Zealand, or Canada. T here, said ho, “;s abundance of work at the most liberal wages, and the prospect of independence as the r suit. Here you have no hope whatever of this fort; you can but struggle on and die. If when this is put plainly before y on, as I b:.ve or been anxious to put it, you h,*!- ,- t to the c ur e t’ . t you should , ur. .u-, it is not for me to - -iy more than that you must put up with the consequent, and sink down ns you neccessarili ran t, though it be by little only and little at a time, into the most Abject slavery,”