The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-31

through which at certain hours, is al
most like taking ones life in his hands
and this is the improvement to Utah
Well, the old lady, as | have had oc
casion to say before, enjoyed kissing the
COW, and l suppose there are those who
have attained degree of civilization
which makes such conditions of life de
sirable, and preferable, and for one am
willing they should have them. Those
; fellows who howl about the degradation
of Utah should come and reside in the
Salt Market at Glasgow. They would
here find virtue and civilization suited
to their taste and they could wallow in
a rapture of filth such as they have de-
sired to Introduce in Utah-taking the
Iribune's utteranceS as the standard OF
morality, and its desires as the wishes
of those who support 1t.
Scotch people who are ashamed OF
these scenes, and who, unlike the re-
formers of Utah. do not cherish high
and feeling regard for brothels, saloons
and gambling dens, declare that the
people about the Salt Market, who are
thus vile, are all Irish, while the Irish
in Ireland as Indignantly deny the as
sertion, and say it is a custom of the
Scotch to try and get rid of their own
filth by putting it on some other
nationality. Be that as it may, they talk
like Scotch, and if Irish, they are GER
| tainly not from the north of Ireland, for
bad as Belfast is, l have seen nothing in
it that begins to touch this place.
Nationality. however. does not enter
into the question. 1t is simply one of
filth and degradation, and if | SAID
| it in a Mormon community should be
| led to the conclusion that the religion
was very bad one, or that it was very
lily practiced and | should hardly urge
people infinitely better to encourage
such things and then say Twas urging
freedom upon them. The man who
says that vice is ever an aid to freedom
is liar or else the Savior is one This
being the case. 1t Is the Tribune man
and the Savior for il.
Whatever else may be said of Great
Britain, she does look after the interests
OF the working people as against the
greed of manufacturers. There is little
protection from the rapacity of royalty,
but enough from that of capitalists.
Of course, as in all counties, the ques-
ton of wages is one that lies between
the employer and the employed, and
strikes are of very common occurrence.
But the trade societies are very strong
and man unemployed has consldera-
bic help. The law here, however, regu-
lates the hours man shall work,
and he cannot be made to
labor longer without extra paw. A
heavy penalty attaches to enforce extra
labor. AT or l 80 every Saturday, ali
laboring and mill work is practically
suspended. and from that hour on till
Monday morning the laborer and the
mechanic are free. 1t is not unfre-
quently the case that the man could be
much better off were it otherwise. for he
spends the hours thus given him by law
in getting gloriously drunk, following
which comes a train of incalculable
evils. 1t is on Saturday afternoon
that high" times on the Salt Market
are 10 be seen.
Glasgow Is a manufacturing city, a city
OF iron furnaces and of coal mines. All
day long the sky is filed with heavy
smoke which is emitted by the thousand
furnaces, and which covers ali
buildings with dust and CRIME.
and makes all alike in color-a
dark and dingy brown. \ fine building
for municipal purposes. is now being
erected near Georges Square-in which |
are number of statues of heroic size, !
while some are equestrian-and one
would think there was almost different |
class of stone being used for the upper |
part. from that employed below, so |
rapidly does the smoke discolor and !
subdue all hues, save its own. Bright |
colors are out of the question. There |
is dreary and monotOnous look about !
all buildings, contrasting singularly |
with the bright and changing appearance |
of many American cities. But Glasgow
looks like a solid city: and the same
ness in the color OF its structures largely !
contributes to inspiring this idea. 1t is
also peculiar city at night and is sug-
gestive of the orthodox hell in many
ways. The wickedness of some of its
is one, and the appear
anee of the surrounding heavens
at night is another Approaching Glas-
gov in the cars. it looks as though it
was almost entirely composed of colos-
sal chimneys out of which the heavy
smoke curls in black and lazy volumes
At night from these thousand Chin
neys belch forth as many tongues of
flame, capped by lnky black smoke,
and one would think conflagration
we're raging about in all directions, and
that the circle of flame that surrounds
you were ever decreasing. The hea-
lid not know, it would be difficult to
I
heaven or of earth.
The Clyde is a pretty river to look
upon, but filthy enough after it has
passed through and carried off all the
filth of Glasgow. 1t is the source of Il
life, however, for the city that broods
On either side, as trip down for
our or five miles will show, by
noting the docks on either side,
n which vessels are in course
Of construction and repair, and by
gazing on the shipping hugging the
vharves along each bank. In point of
ship building it is probably ahead of
Belfast, but for shipping and CONNER
,lal trade Belfast seems to be ahead of
t.
There is an old cathedral here, COM
nenced about 500 A. D., with crypt and
attached, and stained glass
windows of rare design tnereunto |!
and belonging; and
graveyard with elegantly
kept walks which wind about
a hill in the rear of the
cathedral and crown its summit.
But the place of interest is the Green,
opposite the city hall, Here every re-
ligious and other quack holds forth to
whatever of a crowd he can get to listen