STATE OF THE LABOURING CLASSES IN IRELAND
... TheLimeriekReporter has the following gloomy state- ment respecting the spread of distress in that quarter consequent upon the enormous advance in the price of all kinds of provisions I- The state of the poor is lamentable in the extreme. We never remember to have witnessed them undergo more privations. The capitalists' who speculate on 'war' have absdlutely placed provisions beyond their ...