ADVICE TO THE ENGLISH LABOURER.

Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1867, 2 October 1874, Page 3

ADVICE TO THE ENGLISH LABOURER.

The Times (June 10) remarks tliafc the end of all the strikes does not seem far off, and it is plain that our divisions will help to send off to iNeiv Zealand, Australia, and Canada,, a good many who are sorely wanted there, and will, perhaps, be missed at home. If a man is uot satisfied with the old conditionsof English industry; or oven with the much better terms he can get in these days.aud if he really believes that he caauot be happy or respectable without a farm of his own, then he will be wise to go where he can get it at once, or, at least in a year or two.. He is only wasting his time here. The tendency of English agriculture is to large farms, large capital, great skill, educated hands, machinery, and professional aids. So far from strikes counteracting that tendency, they greatly aggravate it, for it is becomiug every year more necessary to employ machinery, costly manures, consummate skill, instead of unskilled, underfed, uneducated, and underpaid men. The world, however, is still large enough and young enough for manual labour. Every young couple, at a very moderate cost, and, indeed, in many cases without any cost, may go. forth to regions as fair and fertilo as our own, and may there realize the paradise they read of at home. They can easily fulfil, not the wild' speculation of a demagogue, but the earliest dream of their infancy and the first lesson of their faith—a garden to be tilled .in due obedience to the first and great laws of nature. Many will go, and though they will be missed,, they will leave a little' more elbow-room at horns, which we trust they who stay at home will know-how to use wisely. The Daily Telegraph'{June 10) thinks it is a pity that the struggle of the agri-' cultural labourers for higher wages andjfor the right to combine should be mixed up with purely political considerations, or with the aims of persons holding advanced opinions on certain debatable topics. Yet, if Mr George Dixon, the member for Birmingham, has his way, the jS ational Agricultural Labourers'. Union will become merely an auxiliary to a particular sect of itadical Jieformors. Spoaking at the Conference of Delegates' which was opened yesterday in Leamiugton, ' the honourable, gentleman ■ is reported as; haviug urged the labourers to agitate for' the franchise, beoause they wero specially interested in the disestablishment of tho" Church, the revision of the game laws, and the laws relating to the tenure and transfer of land. With respect to the first point, all which needs to be said is that if the banded labourers" go iu " for disestablishment they will aliouate some of their best friends, 1 and will win no equivalent supjort elsewhere. A cry for disestablishment is certainly a very Irishway of thanking the Bishop of Manchester for his interference iu their behalf.