People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — SUFFERING IN ENGLAND. [ARTICLE]

SUFFERING IN ENGLAND.

British Poor Forced Into the Army for Want of Bread. London, Jan. 3.—-Army recruits have not been as numerous for many years past as they are at the present time. This indicates that the distress among the English poor is greater than it has been for some time. Nine-tenths of the men who join the army do so from sheer want; because they are forced into it for want of bread. All the regiments are filling up. The charities have failed to relieve the poor and there is yet great want and great suffering,