Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1869-10-21
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to Women--Prospects Of the Vest
From Mr.. Coningsby's third article
in the London Spectator we make the
following extracts:
In most European countries, the
middle class, the comfortable" peo-
pie, represent the nation. This is the
class with which most travellers mix
and consequently have most to tell
about when they return. home. But
in the United States-although strictly
speaking, there is no working class at
the people who hcw and draw are
everybody" the rest being outsiders,
without real or apparent power. Birth,
beyond Massachusetts, goes Tor moth
ing, and the dollar is far front being
almighty, million of them not being
able TO purchase one ounce Of respect
for the person ot their owner. | think
many of the popular mistakes about
America have arisen from the fac: that
the uneasy and grasping middle class
has so often had to sit for the national
portrait. | thought so before went
to America, and although many other
IDEAS / had cherished were shaken Sc
vcrelY, this one was strengthened
every day. 70 take one instance, the
q esllon OF. American sobriety, how
much has beer said on both sides Of
this2 | was most curious upon this
point, and, as the result OF my ohser
..f, i hc, IL
charge of intcmperanee SO generally
brought against Americans is false
one, as | aim with the evidence that the
earth is not fat The working people
in the United States are beyond com
parson more temperate than ours; the
middle and upper classes, as remarked
just now, are infinitely less represents
tive than the same strata of society
are here. OF course there is much
hard drinking among the American
working classes; but, as far as outside
appearances so, 1t would almost seem
that everybody, except the workmen,
goes to the whiskey shop. Tie high
est in Office and deepest in pocket, all
their drams. 1t would not be becom-
ing to speak OF the President or his
Cabinet, but, III the interest of truth
| may perhaps be allowed to observe
that gin sings and cocktails" have,
to my certain knowledge, been taken
in front OF bar-which was not that
of public opinien-with gentlemen
who have ruled America-say, within
the memory OF man.
Clothing for men, women and child
rem, is, at least, double the price in
America it is here. aud more of it is
wanted, for workingmen ana their
families are better dressed A suit OF
broadcloth, such as may be got in Lon
don for seventy shilllngs or ca, will
cost CT or es in New York, and so on
with respect to all other articles of
dress. Thee is one very creditable
practice OF American workmen which
should put our own laborers to the
blush. AS rule, they seem to allow
their families to share III all their lux
uries as we'll IS necessaries. In Eng
land, too many men are in the habit
OF reserving a certain snnl-frcquently
no nconsiderable poit tion of their
waecs--to expcna upon luxuries out.
side their home. ! have kno Hn men,
for instance, who We're not ashamed to
boast OF keeping back as much as ten
shilings a week out Of forty Or fifty
sober men, too--to lay out upon them
selves in extras. There is more re-
spect paid to women among every
class in America than there is here in
fact, if | were not afraid that some of
them might probably see this, should
almost be tempted to say that | think
they are just little spolt by the ex-
treme Difference with which they are
treated. For instance, before | was
used to American ways, it seemed
ssrange to me to be parasol-splsed
out of my seat in street ear one day
by an elegant dressed young lady, who
only vouchsated the explanation that
she would ''sit right thercl'
II | were an agricu!turist-eith
laborer or small capitalist think |
should make my way 10 the Eastern
side of Iowa, few miles the other
side Of the Mississippi. There arc a
great number of English people set
tied there, and the undulating prairie,
and healthy, invi2orating climate are
very tempting. At a place called Low
Moore, some twenty miles from Clin-
ton-the great lumber station on the
riyer-there is a colony Of English
farmers, who left Lincolnshire, to set
lte there some fifteen or sixteen years
ago, Every one is doing well, has a
good name and balance at the bank,
(in America all the world knows how
much money everybody else has-a
public return having to be annually
ma1pl and, Notwithstanding the alice