Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-01
JOHN BULL GROWLS.
Eli Perkins Finds a Great Deal OF
Complaining in England.
CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT AMERICA.
Farmers and All Being Knocked Out By
Jonathan and Protection.
RELIABLE FACTS AS TO WAGES PAID

rCoRREsPoEDENCE OF THE DIsPArcB.1
WARWICK, ENGLAND, May 23.-As
soon as the City of Rome passed out beyond
Long Branch and Coney Island and struck
deep water it became as usual quite cold.
But the third day we got iuto the Gulf
stream; suddenly the temperature of the
water changed from $50 to 74o and summer
was upon us. The Gulf stream brought its
tropical dishes and fowls. That evening
the first fying-fsh came on board. It came
sailing ike a swallow against the rigging,
and fell diving on the deck. It was six
inches long, had the head of bull, head and
nose covered with silver scales like the
Young shad. Its wings measured five
inches. The cook boiled it for breakfast, and
it tasted as sweet as Spanish mackerel.
By and bya second and third fying-fsh
struck the rigging.
"Ahi the bonitos are chasing them u
said the old sailor.
"And what is bonito?" asked.
"a bonito is species Of mackerel. He
chases the fying-fsh, who, to get away from
him, Jumps into the air and sails In the
vino ABOUT OU leet, dnu-
"And saves his life?" anticipated.
"No, not always. The frigate birds follow
the fying-fsh, and when they fly from the
water TO escape the bonito, the bird pounces
on them in the air. Therel don't you see
that bird with its long forked tail balanced
I'm the air 1t rests on the water like swal-
low perfectly still. It's watching flying
fish now"
And sure enough in q moment q flying fish
appeared and was caught in the mouth OF the
frigate bird, who scared away with it. I
forgot to say that the bladder OF the flying fish
which we ate this morning was four inches
long, and when extended was an inch in
diameter. Both the fying-ish and the
frigate bird belong to the tropics, unless car
ried north by the warm Gulf stream.
THE Aw'FLY FUNNY ENGLIsHMAN.
England is the hub of the commercial
and social world, and no one knows this
better than the Englishman. He doesn't as
sumo it, he knows it. 1t is instinct with
him. He says the Anglo-Saxon is the sur
vival of the fttest, and we are the fit:est
I was amused at Queenstown, where l met a
party of tourists who had just been doing
the Lakes of Killarney. When I asked u
John Bull who it was who made up the
Killarney party, he said:
1--WE had a rum fellow from Glasgow, a
bIarsted Yankee from Chicago, a bloody
Irishman from Cork, Canuck chap from
Toronto and two English gentlemen"
The Englishman loves a good story, but
his best ones always come from America,
where our wits grind them out by the COL
umn. The Englishman who reads the Lon
don Times always believes every story
printed in a newspaper.
Only to-day steady going John Bull said
to me:
"You have queer people in St. Louis,
haven't you?"
"Why?" asked.
"Because," he said, "Don' chew know I
read a strange story in newspaper about a
st. Louis lady. Some one asked her on the
steamer il she had been presented at court
while in London, and she said:
"'Well, no. 1 did'n mt go to court myself,
but my husband did, but he got let off with
merely a nominal fne.'"
Then as his single eye glass fell off, he re-
marked: ''Ex-traordinary. wasn't lt?''
Then, after moments deep thought, he
solemnly: II dare say this st. Louis story is
true, for really read it in Chicago news
paperp'
This is my third trip down through
England within % years, and 1 find many
changes. These changes are mot in archi-
lecture, but in the status of the people.
There are streets and houses in Chester,
Shrewsbury, Warwick and Stratford
which have not changed in 300
years. Probably the best specimens
Of buildings built when Shakespeare
was a boy and Queen Elizabeth was on the
throne are to be found in Shrewsbury.
Twenty-three years ago 1 found England d
great cultivated garden. Now it is a
pasture. You can ride miles now and not
see an acre of plowed ground.
Then wheat was worth 50 so bushel, hay
$40 a ton, beefsteak 25 cents a pound and
bacon 20 cents. Now you can buy Ameri-
can wheat for 81 bushel, hay for SIT ton,
American beeisteak for 16 cents and Ameri-
can bacon for 10 cents. The price of produce
which can be sent from America has been
reduced about 80 per cent. This is why the
poor English farmer, who is farming on land
worth $500 an acre, is growing poorer and
poorer every year. This is why the old
wheat fields have grown up to grass, and
why sheep and cattle are grazing where
great crops used to be raised. This is why
English farmers are fleeing to Canada and
the States, or almost starving at home.
When I asked a produce dealer where
rrices would go to in England when Amer
lea consumed her own produce, be, said:
"There will be famine here. Flour will
60 to $50 barrel, butter will advance to 70
cents a pound, and beefsteak to Sc cents.
With their present low wages our people
would suffer or starve."
''Then you are really dependent on
American"
AMERICA DOESN'T NEED ENGLAND.
"Ot course we are. We could not live
without her, but America lately seems to
be getting on without US.
"how?" asked.
"Why your manufacturers are knocking
the life out OF ours. We are taking your
provisions, but you are not taking our
manufactured articles as you used to-"
"How do you account for thls?"
"It is because you are making things 80
cheap in America that we can't pay the
tariff and compete with you. You are
making carpets, shoes, cotton cloth, cotton
shirts and stockings, and cheap wooden
cloth almost as cheap as We are.
What are you going to do about it7" 1
asked.
ave can do nothing, but gradually re-
duce our manufactures here, move them to
America, or buy your manufactures. This
buying American manu- actories is hurting
us in England now. We have sent to Amer
lea nearly e1OO, 200. 900 (s4sO, ,OOO, ,OOO) to buy
your manufactures. This is making hard
times here, and will make good times with
you. Free trade with America or q very
low tariff, which neither party in America
wants, would make better times, in Eng land,
but we despair ever getting it."
Twenty years ago you could hardly buy q
farm in England at .auy price and never