THE DEPRESSION IN GREAT BRITAIN.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 95, 28 March 1885, Page 2

THE DEPRESSION IN GREAT BRITAIN.

The agricultural and cotnnrvercTal depression now prevailing in England may be said to hav-* resolved itself into a fight of Charity against Starvation (say* the last issue of the Home News). Never was misery more severe, or helplessness more complete ; never was the hand of the bountiful more liberal, or the organisation for the relief of the suffering more conscientiously develop*.. If the existing distress is not as widespred as that created by the. cotton Famine twenty years ago, it is in. many quarters as deep. In every; town i from the East end of London, throughout the the Midlands, to far north of theUVeed thousands and thousands of families aie huddled in furnitureless rooms,- hungry, cold and hopeless. On the Clyde, on Tyne side, at J arrow, at Gateshead, at Aber.leen/ at Glasgow, at Sunderland, and at a hundred other centres of industry, men with large families i\to support have been unable to get w->rk now for nearly twelve 'month's, and it says much for 'the* thrift of the working classes that many have until quite recently staved off the hour when appeal to charity became inevitable, solely - I y their hard-earned savings. What the conditions of the country , wouldC beak tlijs moment bat for its cuaratibje organ- -, "isation it- is im possible to conceive. At places like Jurrow thousands of^childre^v are fed and families relieved out of yhsv: ■mids, of the,,contm ! ittee^Jn N^vca^tlf;