Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1885-09-03
MEMORIES OF LONDON.
THE SEVEN OIALs As SEEN BY DONN
PlkTT.
The Increase of Paurerism in thi. Fa-
NOUS Locality-Jones' Experience.
benevolent Bankers-Good
Men Abroad.

One OF the noted localities strangers ara
warned against comes in under the above
name. Ii consists Of a circular space, out of
which seven streets divergs like spokes from
tine hub Of the wheel These streets are solidly
I built up with what woull b. considered re
\ spectacle looking blocks with Us. but they
fairly swarm with ragged life, and seem
/ given up TO roughs, male and female. birds,
dogs, drinking holes, policemen and dirty
4 children. The omnibus upon which we ride
! TO and from Bowles' reading rooms passes
through the heart of this locality, and sit
ting ON top We have IA rare opportunity Of
/ studying Englands rot. Here is that which
saps the foundation of the kingdom. Not
that it is new thing but of late years
while fearfully on the increase, it has grown
more intelligent aud Is leaI ming rapidly
/ where TO strike
I II is the same old phase OF down-trodden
and oppressed humanity; but Of late il has
\ grown vicious ana Is eating rapidly into the
/ prosperity that is the foundation Of England's
/ power. The increase of pauperism here we
learn is something fearful, and a certain in-
telllgence keeps pace with the increase. The
old style Of crime such "a theft robbery,
murder, and acts of individual depravity or
desperation, have given place To combine
tons where masses act i'll deadly antagon-
ism 70 their supposed oppressors We
call attention TO the strike among
the builders here. They enforced
their demand, a full days wages
for eight hours work and a half hol-
day upon Saturday. After the result be-
| came known The Times very coolly told the
capitalists or contractors that they would
have to conciliate ths laborers; that no
remedy against these combinations could be
devised through legislation or the enforce
ment OF the laws already enacted. Ons day
ali TIE building and repairs of London hat
are immense suddenly ceased without
word of warning, and from some unseen
source came the demand 20 cease work, and
the laborers droppei their tools and disap-
peared. A commission waited ON the con-
| tractors, stated their demands, and no threats
or entreaties could move them to any modi-
4 ficatlon. Even demand for another hour
on Saturday in which TO pay off was 50
stoutly resisted for over week that it had
to be abandoned
Her Majesty the Queen, or some other
equally useless AMI expensive majesty, will
hold his o. her own; the House Of Lords
will remain a House of Lords as long as
Englishmen are Englishmen; but il is ex-
ceedingly doubtfal whether money can he
had to keep mp the dignity Of such places
after labor gets its own or rather what labor
considers its own. The talk about political
progress is wretched trash. The governing
element Of England to-day is the ablest OF
the world. Clear headed and well educated,
il stands better intreG,hel against political
innovation now than at any period Of its
eventful past. To talk about turning the
monarchy into a republic, as orr President
did. is TO make ourselves ridiculous. But
there is a power IN these trades unions in
these labor strikes far ahead Of the ballot
box. MS Lord" or rather 'Me Lud," is
1isgusted 70 find his Goals positive luxury.
All other articles of prime necessity follow
close upon the Goals in price. The laborer
Is gradually getting just compensation for
his labor, and after while he will, al The does
with us, demand and get more. And this
while the extension of the suffrage has
proven to be conservative, the middle class
being more earnestly in favor of the present
state of political affairs than the aristocracy.
There is a suspicion growing among the
more thoughtful that our much vaunted
baliot-box is a fraud. We stiff it, and there
the governing element stuffs the voter.
| Another indication Of weakness is OF re-
I a. al.
stanch supporter, socially and politically,
If the government, is in a decayed condi-
| ton. What with million of earnest, active
and prosperous Wesleyans on one side and
the reactionary Catholic movement among
| he aristocracy itself ON the other, the poor
| Did daughter Of Henry VIII is in tad way
She is not earnest enough for the Methodists
nor respectable enough for the genuine
aristocrats This sounds odd to an Ameri-
an. but the high church people Of the estab-
ished religion Of the government and the
,yowed Catholics are Of the bluest blood Of
England. II is something for one, il be
cannot carry his social status into heaven.
% get 1t a near there as possible.
This is taking us some distance from the
| Seven DlulS lue tStdDiiSucu AoS
not much TO do with the Seven Dials, but l
Inspect that at no distant day this odolors
locality will have something 20 do with the
established church.
During Cromwelrs time al! the stone
,aints and recumbent effigies of kings and
ueens had their noses knocked off. 1t ex-
cites o.ie's deepest emotions to see these still
things lying above the tombs OF departed
greatness. 10! these centuries, and all without
nasal promontories. What animated these
not eospelers of the iron dictator. old Noll,
70 thus assai the noses ofdeparted greatness
md GRACE cannot be accounted for.
Turning into Great st. Andrews street,
me notices the rougher look Of humanity.
Those sbreathing holes Of hell" as the
I horny banded Sam Carey was wont to say
.alled here ''gin palaces multiply on all
,des. These places are Gro .ded with men,
women. and even children, and the infa-
nous dealers of liquid poison to the poor
sretches drive thriving business The den
fitted up end finished in gorgeous style
,f marble AMI glass plate-for such neigh
oorhocd, and at night it fairly glares with
ms This sort of custom is common In all
England. Women patronize the place as
much as men, and il is no uncommon signt
n see families returning from church stop