The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-01-20
HIS TURN.
Mr.. C. R. Savage Replies to His
Fair English Critic.
And in a Pleasant Manner Does
Justice to the Occasion.
Editors Herald:

- hnl44sOuf your IalT correspondent /
"a England, il p1ofeesed refutation c
e. certain statements of mine in letter
- written from there lsst tall, | deny
~ that her letter is seUeTe, or that shl
L proves any descriptions untrue. TIT
n0 amount of the letter is this, she does
not ike to have the truth told abou
the ses grit isle.
l have no apology 10 make for
anything l wrote. | stated just what
10 l saw and what was told me. | have
" no enmity against England or her
&c institutions. | admire some OF them.
of imagine that Miss Harrison is rot
y much travelled lady. People Of that
sort have very narrow ideas. Travel
brOadens them; il would do her good
to get further away from home. l
2 almost believe l shall have to
If 90 over there GGd sAow her
N where to &c and what TO See In her
native land. Ny critic, no doubt, lives
10 the charmed circle of the middle
. classee; If that is so, she could have
: lived half century in England with
. out knowing the true condition OF
the lower classes. People in England
do not mingle on a common level.
h The employer is the master; the en-
ploye the man. There is little socia-
, bility between the two. When one
travels in a new country be likes to
see both upper and lower tendon. l
did not, however, see her pet work
house, and l sincerely hope she may
never have to do so, and stay there. |
There may be pet paupers IN Eng. |
land, I do not deny, and they may be
] we'll cared; but how about the tenn
] ing thousands who are seen upon the
streets morning, noon and night in
. the large cities, who are nobody's
pets?
As to the I0lO grade of society
l. must have mingled with, it is
my business. l could not see England
in first class ho!els. Wealth Is cosmo-
politsn. We can bes! judge Of the
Institutions of a country by the work
ing classes. Show me them and l can
tell you what kind of a country it is.
l am very sorry to say that Icannot
retract one statement of mine and
tell the honest truth. put my name
to my letters like man. I did not
hide them under nom de plume.
walked and rode about like other q
people but my eyes may have been
open wider than some others that y
travel. I visited the aristocratic {
quartera OF London and the sluns;
saw the immense gap that can never :
be bridged over between the so-cslled !
classes. Coming from land where
the working classes are with come
exceptions on q par with the middle Z
classes Of England, Intellectually and =
otherwise, do not admire the decided !
class distinction Of the old world and
must be excused for visiting the T
low grade of people she infers we're 8
my associates in England. 81
l presume if the lady had read all 81
my letters she would have seen that I
spoke of many things that are admir- a
able and very pleasing to American i:
eyes. l must now notice few of her h
criticisms in detail. il
As to the dress of the Liverpool
police protecting their loins and leav- a
ing their back exposed, this will speak q
for itself; l cannot help it if they i
think more of their hips than their ~ ~
lungs. =
Add if the lady would rather jump
of of an English engine than one of
American make going at the rate of 8
fifty miles On hour, I can not object. .
One msy as well stay aboard and take q
chances as take such a fearful leap u
going at such a speed, unless they are e
like the famous rubber man. If there
is any beauty in lines, the American y
locomotive will obtain the premium. n
Now as TO fifty miles per hour, the o.
the lady IS out by ten miles; forty "
miles per hour Is the average time l
made On the railroads in Britain. b
The English railroad cars are very OF
gcol if the laws of nature can be set Ii
aside; if not, those who have used al
them know for themselves, without bI
any description of mine, how much oe
superior they are to ours, DC
As to the umbrella being a part of co
an Englishman's outfit, no one can LII
deny who has ever seen the English III
tourist in our city. They all have dl
them, snd some OF them more than Il
one. pr
The lady Iaya / exaggerate about
tipping. | have bills in my posses.
sion where the proprietor charges BY
both for his own seryices and that Of Cr
and If the enlightened
lady comes over to America she will
find our commonest 25c. restaurant :
superior to many of the high-priced
ones in Londen. Everybody kroWs
this that has seen the difference.
1t was in the aTistocrRtic part of
Manchester where 1 got the shave in
the antique chair. l think nay fair
critic will allow that a mans expert
ence in getting shaved ought to
weigh against lady's who had never |
had occasion TO test the different l.
shops. I only know what saw. She
is entitled to cay anything she likes ;
about matter she knows nothing Il
about. She is lady. 81
As to reaping machines, | saw :
none, and travelled through all the
named, but saw hundreds
reaping by hand.
1 wss told that the street cars in
Liverpool came from America; that ia 80
ali know OF their origin.
If the talented correspondent should ID
ever live to enjoy the luxury of O bt
irst-olas5 American cook stove, she Ell
would think half her life wasted; that bl
is, il she had been a poor housewife "
with the little fire in the CRATE and a
the miserable ovens on each side "
that l have seen in use IL the homes th
Of the poor in England, She is talk it!
ing again ebout something she has hi
not had the opportunity OF Judging &C
about. Every English woman in "
America rays if she returned to live %
in England she would take a cook bC
stove back with her for use. th
As to the price of meat and other pl
and TO the objection to CT
American products, case has just 1T
been cited where an Englishman sold eE
oysters, and did thriving ct
trade IS long as he kept their pedi- d
gree from the consumers. As soon, a.
however. as the fact became known, Ell
his trade fell of completely. OF b
course, Miss Harrison has only her ia