Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-08-10

slices OF bread with one OF the atoye
mixtures between them.
OF WHAT THE ENGLISH WoRKMAN'S S
ROAST BEEF" Is COMPOSED
Perhaps twice a week for dinner
they have roast beef" This sounds
well, but the meat is simply the rib
end of the flank, which costs from )
to cents pound aI home, but II to
IS cents here. A pound or two of
this will make roast" for half
dozen or more people. They take
four pounds of -four and some skim
milk-and on holidays or Sundays
those who can afford it add an egg
mix them in baking pan, put the
piece Of meat il the center of this
dough, then take it to the bake shop
to have it baked On other days they
have liver pudding. sleeps head,
cows head or lights of the pig or
sheep Veal costs high. But what-
ever kind Of meat is used the dough
is used. whether boiled or baked. The
neck of the beef Is used for steak
by the bones being removed, Some
times it is used for pudding meat. A
pound and quarter of this, costing
from 10 to l6 cents, is enough for a
large family. To make beef pudding
the meat is cut in small pieces, 2
cents worth Of suet added (and suet
costs from ~ 10 l6 cents q pound);
then 5 cents worth Of -four is mixed
with water, and the whole boiled.
With these dinners they have pota-
toes or greens. Such a thing as pie
CT pudding is only bad once a year,
when the plum pudding is made for
Christmas.
For supper they have bread, little
cheese aud beer.
Every man who keeps house has
TO pay SIS rates" as taxes are call
ed, end cents week for each child
that goes to school
lfa man gets out of work and loafs
for week he either has to starve or
beg or go the workhouse, as the
wages he gets are SO small and the
cost of living too high for him to lay
anything by.
HOW HIS EXPENSES COMPARE WITH
THOSE AT HOME
Now let me tell you 10 regard to
my own expenses. 1t costs me fully
40 per cent. more to live here than it
did in Boston. pay $3.50 rent and
$50 Income tax The education of
my three children costs me $3.50 n
year, not counting books. Foods of
all kinds is much higher than in
America. The only things that | find
cheaper here are woolen goods and
clothes.
| am no longer free trader, for
any one can see that should America
adopt free trade, workingmen there
will have to compete with working
men who live as [ have been describ
iLg ~ you.
They make n better and cheaper
shoe here, on the average, than iE
America, and should the English
manufacturers wake up and introduce
the improved labor saving machinery,
American workingmen would lind it
hard work to compete even with
their present protective tariff.
AMERICAN WoPKMEN sHOULD VOTE
FOR THEIR HOME INTERESTS.
think have given you sufficient
reasons for ms change of opinion on
tho tariff question, and l trust that
you will do all in your power to
avoid such calamity as free trade.
in America. l hope every man who
works fer living will recognize the
fact that his employer will not vote
for his ruin. and every time u work
ingman votes against his employer,
his own bread and butter are at stake.
w hen workingman hears
public speech, let him ask what does
the speaker do for living. or is he u
broken down lawyer or politician If
he wants to hear a speech let him
hear some manufacturer who knows
what be is talking about, and he will
hear something that is for his own
interests.
Hoping that the American work
ingman will vote as is best for his
own interest and those dependent
upon him, | remain,
Yours respectfully,
IL STpIcL,IpR