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Allow me to opine, if I might, on the deplorable state of the White workingman in our former colonies. With the abandonment of such venerable institutions such as the poorhouse and indentured servitude, it is apparent to all men of standing that the lower classes have forgotten both their place and their manners, and have become a species as alien to their betters as the Chinaman from the Orient.
Of late, the anarchist subversives have found sympathetic ears and blame the disparity between their sort and the propertied classes on the distant and uncaring attitudes of said propertied classes, but any man of decent breeding and education will recognize the treasonous mendacity of these statements. The problem, as always, lies in the moral degeneracy of the labouring classes. It may be illustrated in the poor habits of these unfortunates, who would sooner attend a cockfight or den of iniquity than a church pew.
I speak only of the White labourer. While it is true that the depravity of the Negro is an affront to our civilization, the affairs of the lesser races do not concern us. No, good sirs, it is the White workingman whose piteous plight I shall examine below.
Matrimony: In my day, a good number of Whites were married. It is most troublesome that, while gentlefolk continue to marry, the poors are content to engage in vice outside of the sanction of the Church.
Bastardry: The labouring classes continue to breed, whether joined in holy matrimony or otherwise. The result of this licentiousness, naturally, is a teeming mass of bastards living in squalid conditions in the slums, a problem compounded by misguided Child Labour laws that forbid factory owners from putting these unwanted wretches to work. Few among the fairer sex have even the common decency to perish in childbirth.
Industriousness: It seems to me that the poors in my day were a good bit more industrious. Why, in my sawmill, they would labour a good 16 hours a day for five shillings! There were never any complaints. When one of my employees severed a finger in his machine, he plugged the bleeding stump with cotton and kept on working, lest he be docked half an hour’s pay. The workingman of today expects a lunch, and even basic safety standards, and denied these, will kick up his feet and refused to work at all.
Crime: Possessing no industriousness, the workingman has become indistinguishable from the criminal rabble. It is my studied observation that the rate of crime is greater in the slum neighbourhoods of the labourer than it is in the estates of the gentry.
Devoutness: The workingman will no longer listen to his betters, or to the Good Book. Many labourers have ceased to attend church altogether. It is clear that the dire predicament of the lower classes owes much to the paucity of their prayers.
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In my day, the workingman and the gentleman were not so different. While we lived in mansions and they in crowded tenement houses, and while they were far more likely to perish of consumption, the fabric of our great civilization remained intact. The degeneracy of the upper classes may, I daresay, also contribute to the cleaving of our social order; a good many of them have adopted curious habits no doubt borrowed from nefarious foreign influences. This lapse of judgment is most apparent in their exotic victuals, such as yoghurt and muesli.
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What is the cause of this state of affairs? While the Whigs may lay blame squarely on the avarice of the aristocrat and businessman, it remains self-evident to any right-thinking gentleman that, rather, it is the workingman who is to blame for his own predicament. His decline has been aided by the folly of the suffragettes and reformers. His soul is in desperate need of salvation, a salvation that can be brought about only by the grace and wisdom of his betters. We must shun him for his vices and, in doing so, lead him back to the bosom of the Church. Only in doing so may our beloved colonies be redeemed.
Charles Murray on the "New American Divide." I may have paraphrased a bit.
Of late, the anarchist subversives have found sympathetic ears and blame the disparity between their sort and the propertied classes on the distant and uncaring attitudes of said propertied classes, but any man of decent breeding and education will recognize the treasonous mendacity of these statements. The problem, as always, lies in the moral degeneracy of the labouring classes. It may be illustrated in the poor habits of these unfortunates, who would sooner attend a cockfight or den of iniquity than a church pew.
I speak only of the White labourer. While it is true that the depravity of the Negro is an affront to our civilization, the affairs of the lesser races do not concern us. No, good sirs, it is the White workingman whose piteous plight I shall examine below.
Matrimony: In my day, a good number of Whites were married. It is most troublesome that, while gentlefolk continue to marry, the poors are content to engage in vice outside of the sanction of the Church.
Bastardry: The labouring classes continue to breed, whether joined in holy matrimony or otherwise. The result of this licentiousness, naturally, is a teeming mass of bastards living in squalid conditions in the slums, a problem compounded by misguided Child Labour laws that forbid factory owners from putting these unwanted wretches to work. Few among the fairer sex have even the common decency to perish in childbirth.
Industriousness: It seems to me that the poors in my day were a good bit more industrious. Why, in my sawmill, they would labour a good 16 hours a day for five shillings! There were never any complaints. When one of my employees severed a finger in his machine, he plugged the bleeding stump with cotton and kept on working, lest he be docked half an hour’s pay. The workingman of today expects a lunch, and even basic safety standards, and denied these, will kick up his feet and refused to work at all.
Crime: Possessing no industriousness, the workingman has become indistinguishable from the criminal rabble. It is my studied observation that the rate of crime is greater in the slum neighbourhoods of the labourer than it is in the estates of the gentry.
Devoutness: The workingman will no longer listen to his betters, or to the Good Book. Many labourers have ceased to attend church altogether. It is clear that the dire predicament of the lower classes owes much to the paucity of their prayers.
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In my day, the workingman and the gentleman were not so different. While we lived in mansions and they in crowded tenement houses, and while they were far more likely to perish of consumption, the fabric of our great civilization remained intact. The degeneracy of the upper classes may, I daresay, also contribute to the cleaving of our social order; a good many of them have adopted curious habits no doubt borrowed from nefarious foreign influences. This lapse of judgment is most apparent in their exotic victuals, such as yoghurt and muesli.
*
What is the cause of this state of affairs? While the Whigs may lay blame squarely on the avarice of the aristocrat and businessman, it remains self-evident to any right-thinking gentleman that, rather, it is the workingman who is to blame for his own predicament. His decline has been aided by the folly of the suffragettes and reformers. His soul is in desperate need of salvation, a salvation that can be brought about only by the grace and wisdom of his betters. We must shun him for his vices and, in doing so, lead him back to the bosom of the Church. Only in doing so may our beloved colonies be redeemed.
Charles Murray on the "New American Divide." I may have paraphrased a bit.
