Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-11-08
Mr.. Beecher's Trip Abroad.
IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND
COMING CHANGEs-HoMR RULE.


To a reporter Mr.. Beecher said Thursday ::
II have found many marked changes in
England in the twenty-three years since |
was there before" 1.-The change is so
great that England has gone around
to the exact antithesis of what she was
then. For dynastic aud other reasons the
sympathies of the people then Were with the
South. Commercial and almost all other in
fuences were adverse to the North. But the
middle class, and especially the mill opera
tives and weavers of Lancaster, stood by US
When suffering for bread they would not
give up adhesion to the North, for they felt
that it represented the cause of free labor.
But the rest of the country was strongly
Southern in sympathy. America WAS at 10 "
ebb of reputation, and the end of republican
government was expected. There was also
g-eat ignorance about America. Since then
many men have travelled in this country, and
have found out our recources and gained 81
insight into the real state of affairs here.
The power we showed in the war COM
mended US to the English mind. The Eng
lish enjoy saints, but want them in Haven.
On earth plucky men who can take their own
part are preferred by them. Our coming out
of war ahead produced a profound religious
impression in England. And our power to
pay our debt and resume our industries sur
priced them. Other nations have always
been troubled to raise revenues, but we had
to beat down the tariff or pay our debt before
we wanted to.
1.-The importation Of our beef and cheese
produced great effect in England. They
have grown to depend on American products
to great degree. The manufacture of
cheese is to-day in our hands. The reason
for this is that our cheese is so much better
than theirs. The Mayor OF Brighton, a
cheese factor, told me that the American
cheese was the only reliable cheese. He
could never tell whether one lot of English
cheese would be better or worse than anoth-
er, but he bought thousands of tons of Amer
lean cheese and never looked at it at all-it
was all of one quality. was told the same
in Norwich. OF course few fine sorts like
the Stilton and Cheshire hold their own, but
the bulk of the people eat American cheese
and like it, aud they are now introducing
cheese factories in England to make it by
regular and scientific processes.
American things are now popular in Eng
land. while in 1868 to call thing American
was the way to damn it, The large emigrs-
ton TO this country is another reason for the
changed view. Nearly every family has rel
stives in this country, and they write lots of
letters and see everything in rosy light.
"How do England and Ireland compare +?
In England the condition of the peo-
Pile is very fair, and in Ireland very wretched
They are not we'll off in England as they
were. At the basis of all the questions in
England lies that of the tenure of land. The
farming class, who rented of the owners and
sublet to tenants, is practically wiped out
Land that brought e. or IS an acre now will
not bring 80 shillings. Landlords find it i'm
possible in many cases to get tenants and
have to hire laborers and work their land
themselves. The distress promise, to spread
and what will happen casts its shadow
before. There will be n shaking down of
land tenure in Great Britain. One-third of
Scotland will not be held for game and for
esry. The men who work the land will
become the owners
will there be better changss?"
There will be more than a social revolu-
ton. Disestsblishment will come as sure as
the sun rises and sets. Manhood suffrage
will be fully established as il is not now
There is going to be system of free public
schools similar to ours. We demand free
education al the public expense, and there it