News from 01/08/1888
1888; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Autores
William Saunders, John Wheelwright, E. Lyall, Fred. Harrison, E. Carpenter,
ResumoFrontmatter: The Democrat. Essay: Trafalgar Square, Taxation and the Local Government Bill, The Following Press Comments Will Be Read with Interest, The Closure, Governments, and Especially Conservative Governments, Are Very Fond of Shelving Debatable Subjects by Referring Them to Royal Commissions, The Worst of Treason Is Treason to the Common Cause, The Crowbar Battering-Ram Brigade Are in Full Swing at Kilrush, Ireland, in Evicting Tenants on the Vandeleur Estate, The Misery of Those Who Are Sweated, Whether by the Drill of the Factory or the Many Links of the Sweating Chain, Is the High Price We Pay for the Glory of Sustaining a Class of Idle, Rich Men, Ithuriel's Spear.—A Vision, At the General Election the Conservative Candidates Pledged Themselves to Meet the Demands of Ireland for Local Institutions, and Now Every Such Pledge Had Been Shattered into Fragments, What Seems to Be Utter Ruin Is Often Complete Salvation; What Was Regarded as Cruel Disaster Constantly Turns out to Be Essential Blessing, The Ceiling of One Room in the Mansion of the Duke of Westminster Cost £15,000; Some of the Chairs Cost 90 Guineas, Protection to Monopoly Is Not Protection to Industry, Mr. Parnell and Home Rule, "No One Has a More Unlimited Scope for Evil than Statesmen, Not Excepting Kings; and Their Responsibility Is Awful", "There Is a Vein of Industry and Parsimony Runs through the Whole People of England, Which, Added to the Cosiness of Their Rents, Makes Them Rich and Sturdy", A Pertinent Parable, The Canker of Effete Gentility Has Eaten into the Heart of This Nation, Lord Salisbury as a Patron, Government Audacity, Multiple Essay Items, Received, An Inalienable Right, Notes from Scotland, The Children's Democrat, The Lawyers' Truce, The Committee Appointed by the Treasury Report That the Staff of the Solicitor to the Tresury's Department Is Decidedly in Excess of What Is Necessary, and That Many Members of the Staff Are Paid Too Highly, and That the Working Hours Are Too Few, A Lesson from Thanet, Something like a Million of Paupers Are Kept Year by Year from Absolute Starvation by Doles; at Least Another Million of Poor People Are on the Border Line, Fluttering between Starvation and Health, between Pauperism and Independence; Not One, but Two or Three, or Four Millions of People in These Islands Are Struggling on the Minimum Pittance of Human Comfort and the Maximum of Human Labour, Bryant and May, There Is a Living History Which Can Be Daily and Hourly Studied—A History in Which We All Have Our Share, Our Infinitesimal yet Priceless Share of Influence and Responsibility. Business: "The Line of Cheapness", Wages and Prices. Letter to the editor: Sir,—Passing down Great Wild-Street, I Observed Swedish Matches in a Window, at One Penny the Dozen Boxes, Which Fact Caused Me to Shudder at the Impending Fate of the East-End Match Girls, Wheelwright v. Bramwell, Sir,—Bryant and May's Dividend Is Not Made by Their Match Girls, The Following Letters from "Anti-Sweater," "Economist," and "Commerce," Have Been Sent to Us in Defence of Messrs. Bryant and May, Sir,—Mr. Gladstone's Utterances on the Retention of the Irish Members at Westminster Were Confused and Unsatisfactory, and Will Do Much to Lessen the Confidence Which Mr. Parnell Had Imparted by His Decided Declaration in Support of Their Retention, Sir,—There Has Been Danger of Late That the Measures Taken to Prevent Obstruction of Our Public Ways Would Result in the Greatest of All Obstruction, Our Minority Government, Baron Bramwell, Sir,—The Idea That Landlords Must Not Be Taxed Because They Have Not Votes, Is One of the Most Audacious Objections Ever Uttered. Poem, verse: Treason, as Defined by Cowper, The Following Lines Appeared in the Star of July 18th. Review: Meeson's Will.—Review.
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