The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-02-19
ENGLAND FOR EVER AND
EVER AND LONGER.
SALT LAKE Cry, Feb. Il, 80:

SALT LAKE Cry, Feb. IA, 80.
) Editors Herald:
GentLenlen:-In yours of yesterday
is letter from True Born English
man." With your permission 1 will
amuse myself by writing q letter. /
was born in the usual way without a
shirt, in the village of Yardley Hast
ings. County OF Northampton, on the
estate OF the Marquis of NORTHAMPTON,
and if l am not proud OF my country
l most certainly am of my parentage.
My father was a carpenter, my
mother was village school mistress.
Of my native land l must tell you /
never owned as much as would fill
my wife's thimble, go the attachment
is not very strong. 1 be darned if |
can see why / should love Old Eng
land and True Born Englishman
can't show me either. My boyhood
was spent in going to school and bird
nesting. 1 recollect the wages paid
by the noble Marquis to his latOrers
was 80. per week; and bread getting
dear they begged for more money and
get IL. more. That was forty years
ago. l was talking tG one OF his men
six months since aud | believe he
told me he now bal 13s. per week.
My father worked a. his trade to-
thirty years at 15s. per week. We
rented a little land, and the house
with garden and land coat about 30s.
per year. We were considered pretty
well-to do folks; but the Io0r farm
laborers, at least a great many OF
them, had no land and were miser-
ably poor and as ignorant as hogs
They were not allowed 70 kill hare
or rabbit sDd scarcely dared lock al
one. A man who was caught poach-
ing was sent to prison and his poor
family left to starve or go to that
lovely place, the workhouse. When
he came out of Jail no farmer dare
employ him without the great Lords
permission. These are some of the
glo-ies of Old England. II True Born ,
reads he will find things :
about the same to-day. Does he
mean the glorious Kings of England?
Here is a fair sample of the four !
Georges:
The first was bad as bad could be,
The second was rather wuss than he,
The third was rather bad than not, T
The fourth the wust of all the lot;
| hen praise the Lord all men alive,
The e Georges never numbered five. Z
The history OF the wars and coz
quests OF England are a record of the
)loodiest murders, rspine and rot-
,eries that the world has ever seem
enough to make the blood of a human
,eiDg curdls in his veins-not that O
Cog gland is worse than other white -
aces The gentleman speaks Of T
Mexico and Ireland. Has the State
# Mexico ever been worse than Ire n
and to-day or in the past? Is it e
,lory to Old England TO allow b
America to feed her starving Irish Il
ubjects? Talk about England being
be home of the oppressed. What t
las this county done in that line? tt
from three to five millions have left
Roland for this country within the c
Ist seventy years, besides what have RI
ONE from sll the nations under il
and l wouli now ask True n
}orn what on earth brought him d
ere7 Vas it the love OF Old England?
{ loved my own, my native laud so il
'ell l would have stayed Ihere. o.
Il fares the land to fastening ills prey, ~
Where wealth aecumulates and men de- - -
cay. ~
1 believe l could write acres, but l g.
ill conclude with a little extract
-om a speech of Lord Derby at the
Iuddersfeld Chamber Of Commerce, cl
short time ago: Ii
''Do you think that Emperors and
Iiand Dukes and Field MarshaIs and
persons of that sort really
7snt the manufacturing industries OF
heir empires to be developed? Do Oh
GU suppose it would do for them e
D have to deal with an intelligent, OF
een-Witted, active, well-tC-do popula- II
ou, such ss orr northern towns of
England contain? They are not such
1ols. They know their business
etter. What they want is something A
ute difierent-s peasantry hungry q
nough at home to find the ordinary a
lie of a soldier rather agreeable than r
therwise, and submissive enough to
boot their own brothers if ordered,
lithout asking Why"
will try IN nay next to say some
God things about Old England. -.
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