The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-01-12
'CAN A CLERGYMAN COZ"
More Questions About the News" "
Free Trip to Europe.
ALL ARE INTERESTED IN IT.
representative Men About Town Declare
1t Fine scheme and Characteristic
of the " News" Energy and Fairness
More About the Details of the Plan.

Questions and comments upon the
NEWS project Of sending n workingman
10 Great Britain TO report upon industries
there continue to come TO the NEWS Office.
One of the more peculiar is here printed:
To the Editor Of the Ne,Cs:
SIR-I would like To ask n question about
your free trip 20 Europe. The case is this; Our
church people have long been talking about
helping Mr., our pastor, to take vacation
trip in Europe next summer. Ills salary Is
small and he can hardly afford il, and we are
a poor congregation. But 1t occurred 10 sew
coupons enough 10 send him 10 Europe at your
expense: Now please tell me IL n clergyman
is eligible, and oblige. j. *. r.
The question is one that we hardly ex
pected TO arise. IL -. X. r. " pastor
happens TO get the most votes we shall
undoubtedly give him an opportunity 10
visit Europe free of cost He is wage
Garner and workingman. a clergyman
would be at a decided disadvantage, how
ever, in collecting facts aDout the work
men of England. a man who works with
his hands in MILL factory or store, on boat
or railroad or farm, would get along bet
ter and we would naturally prefer him.
Another altogether too prying ques-
toner wants to know how much the trip
will cost the News. That's question
we don't need to answer. Besides, we
don't know.
a question deserving of more respectful
consideration is this
To the Editor Of the NeirS
SIR-Your free trip TO Europe Is all very
well, bnt how is IL If n man can't write well
enough 10 tell all he finds out in EnglandY A
man gets rusty after years OF mill work
CAERLEoN.
No danger about that if he can write as
well as ''Caerieon. ANY man who can
write a letter in plain English to IA friend
will probably be competent.
Here's what some people say about it:
Superintendent of Hacks Norcross-
Great.
Property Clerk Blanding-Good scheme
City Auditor Nisbet--It's n good idea
and will take. They had better send me.
I'm u laboring man and work pretty
hard.
Clerk of Committees Hayden-It will be
n good thing.
Recorder Wllliamson-lt Will be rather
expensive.
Police Clerk Horton-It is good idea
and will be popular.
Henry V. A. Joslin-I don't see why il
wouldn't be good idea.
Capt. H. B Rose-It will be n picnic for
the man who goes.
Deputy Sheriff McCabe-It's a great
scheme and will be great trip for the
lucky man. I'd like to take il myself u
there wasn't so much water in 1t. i don't
like the ocean.
The Rev. j. III. Larry to n working
mans trip to the British Isles, that is all
bosh. The only way to make working
men realize that they are working in a
protected country is to raise their wages
% per cent, But / do not take any stock
in questions of tariff reform or what is
called protection, for | think those are
questions which divert mems minds while
greater abuses are allowed.
The Conditions.
The NEWS has no wish to load its offer
with useless conditions 1t only asks that
its readers select man who is citizen
of the United States, who earns his living
by daily labor and who is able and willing
TO send an occasional letter giving the re-
suits of his observations. Employees of
the NEWS are, of course, debarred from
competing
The details of the trip cannot be given
vet, but il could easily include, besides the
industrial centres. such points of interest
as Glasgow, the Clyde shipbuilding. the
Scotch Highlands, Edinburg and its
castle. Abbottsford and Melrose Abbey,
the Eastern Cathedral towns, london
with its manifold attractions, Oxford,
Stratford on Avon, the Welsh mines and
mountains, the black country" Birm-
ingham, Manchester and Leeds, Liverpool
and the shipping interest, the Lake dis
trict and countless others in which Eng
land is so rich. 1t is trip well worth
taking.