The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-01-31
ENGLAND AGAIN.
A Native Dllates Upon the Good
and Bad Of the Country,
And Gritieizes Mr. Savage and
Miss Harrison.
Proud Of England, but Happier in
America.
SALT LAKE CITY. Jan. 26. 80.

g IN yours OF the lStD, also MI. savage
reply to the same, both of which
! think very good, particularly tb
! lady's, l will Try, with the permission
OF everybody, to make few remark
on them. l left Leicester on the 81
! OF September last, and after Twin
there sixtse3 years and suffering ex
, treme poverty there part of the time
l may presume to know something
about it. l have also dined in ,
West Ed mansion in Piccadilly
London. In the centre OF the city
lived some time, and in the suburbs
have had something to do with iht
poor. | have lived in Birmingham
twelve years, and although l never
was IN the woIkhouse | have beer
quite near enough for myself. !
would much rather be 10 the prison
here, if l hear the truth about il, and
can believe those who told me.
Miss Harrison speaks FIRST abost the
police at Leicester, they are very
respectable set Of men, fairly paid
have a most splendid chief, who is
total sbssainer, I thipk, and minds
HE own business but | have pitied
them on hot day, with their thick,
heavy blue clothing and their he'll
mets Their winter clothing is very
good. What she says about the crowd
moving on at the policeman's word is
ali right, though the rough element is
as bad at Leicester as anywhere l
have ever bsen. The drivers On the
railways that l have seen are well
protected now. They used TO be
open to the weather. All railway
servants are trained to jumping, and
the sight and hearing are tested, I
understood when in England. Ths
railway cars on tho Midland line,
mentioned By Miss Harrison, are now
good enough for anybody; but reco!-I
lect when they ueed to be as bad as
cattle trucks, being quite open at the
top aud, believe, had no seats. L
think the American engine-driver is
too much glass-cased, but they know
best. The engines are much more
SNOWY, bat not go strong as the Eng |
lish in appearance. All classes OF
people here, are. or appear 10 be, |
better educated than in Leicester. |
They are certainly more civil and |
even very polite. The middle classes
in England seem to think they lower
themselves by being civil TO the poor. |
The upper classes ara certainly mott
more proud. You can dine as we'll ia
Leicester or London SO anywhere in
The world. They know how 10 charge |
d London, Leicester and Sat Lake
City. Now, of the shaving business.
[ have beer shaved for a hslipenny in
London; in Birmingham by a
oman, at the came price. One
penny is the usual price. You can
20 to swell places and pay what you
ike. l t,ok q gentleman of this city
% one place in Leicester. He had his
have and hair cut, and paid Sd.
they charged me I'D. for the same. l
uppose they thought him a swell and
ne something else. l have had my
lair cut here, and l asked the boss if
le could sleep in bed alter charging
Sc? He told me he could, having
. large family and above one wife to
keep; but he charged me nothing, so
will not grumble.
Now, about American meat. l
used to buy it in preference TO Eng
ish, and l should not be surprised if
Miss Hsrrison's butcher supplied her
with it and called it English. | know |
hey used to buy lots of it. I have
leen them in the store late at night or
early morning. The English farmer
.akes the lead of the world. l have
seen plenty of reaping and moving
but 70 machine could cut
the wheat last season, as it would lay
Hat on the ground through the heavy
rains. There are come who use steam
Dlows. 1t is true some Of the working
in England are comfortable. |
and some of the shopkeeperl live very
but let Miss Harrison 60 and
dine Uitn the pco7, as I have done;
let her 60 and see tee poor buying
COWS, sleeps sad pigs liver; pigs
entrsils and other dogs food, and
then tell nae of the comforts of the
poor. Let her or any other lady go
and see how many poor and good
people, too, have not q single blanket
in the house. You cannot get drop
Of milk in come villages in Leicester
shire; at least I could net for love or
money. 1t is too bad to ray the ez-I
of the working classes has
caused meat to be dear, and if it was
a man who said so I should use
stronger language. The poor are no
more extravagsnt than the rich. as
for high wages, people of all classes
get as much as they can. About
drinking saloons, l will say to-day a
man who keeps one in Leicester
has to mind how he conducts
it or he will soon lose his license, and
they are not allowed to hang those
pretty pictures on the walls that l see
here. You cannot go to a grand
coffee house there, and have game
at bsgstelle or billiards for q few
cents, as they are not allowed to play
for money in these :places. AT Lei
cester there are splendid places, and
would pay here, and keep many
young man from q worse place. l
am just as safe from pistols or knives
here as in England.
No nation stands on a firm founda-
ton which does not grow its own food,
A great deal of land is idle in Eng.
land. There are some splendid free
parks for the people, bat the poor
have 10 land, and never will have. in
England. As for shop windows, 1
think them as good here as anywhere.
For myself, would rather sse a Co
Operative society on the model of the
Leicester Industrial Coop, combined
with the Manchester wholesale, than
all the stores II the world. This
would benefit all classes who do busi-
ness with it in any Rsy.. Rocking
chsiGs and stoves are slmoet unknown
TO the poor of England, though stoves
are coming into use. The workhonses
are much improved since Charles
Dickens ET0le "Oliver Twist" still
they are MT good enough Tor this
child, and as far as | can zee them
and the game laws, the devil and al
bis relations could not have invented
anything more cruel. Ii We, as a
people, here, take the Englishmsn's
solidity. the Frenchman's pOlitenes5
and vivacity, the Irishmsn's love OF
home and family, the Datchmau's
cleanliness, the Danes carefulness,