St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-01

Lords will have to look to itself If we do
go tothe country we will bring up some of the
most horrible crimes they have committed.
1t will not be single poaching case?'
Here again Mr.. Arch interrupted himself,
and suggested it would be more pleasant to
continue the interview in the smoking ROOM
He went into the house to obtain ticket for
his visitor and returned in three or four min
utes. AS we went down stairs he chuckled,
'Well, had another dig at a cabinet minis
ter, while was in the house!'' Once upon
time l was tolerably familiar with the com
Portable leathern couches in the smoking
room that overlooks the terrace and the
Thames. We found seats and Mr.. Arch or
dered himself ga go OF Irish whiskey, old
chap which was brought him solernny I
wished to bear my part in the entertainment
and offered him Russian cigarette.
Lord, no. he said, cts like offering a
pig cherries. I've no objections to 'em, but
I'd have TO smoke bushel to get a decent
smoke"
He filed an old black wooden pipe with
"Three Castles and as he puffed away was
gently led back to the subject of this inter-
view.
81 came out for the farm laborer twenty
years ago. he said 'sand in the hot-bed Of
Toryism where I lived it was question
whether l was going to live or die. Finally
we got them organized"
Glow many organizations are there?' %sF
ON 1876, the organizations were very
strong, but for many reasons they have gone
backward. 1 should think we have but 15,-
600 or 16, 900 enrolled in the eastern counties.
If we had the cream of the laborers we should
have 200, 900. The organizations are scatter
ed like the tiles of this flooring. They
checQuer the country, but I know them best
in the eastern countless
as there any element among the farm la
borers antagonistic to your I asked.
''Well, yes, there is. When David killed
Goliath, you know, there were lot of chaps
to jump on the dead body and say they did
it. We have lots of fellows like that What
have done, have done. My work is al
most finished. I have got them better
wages, better furnished homes, the franchise
they have their own newspaper. Now
comes this bill to give them compulsory pow
ers to hire allotments. Do you know what
it is to man to get an acre or two of arabic
land? His own, you see. Would these chaps
be working themselves away here in London
if they could get on the land? Thousands of
them would not. Yes, I fancy hundreds of
thousands of them would go back to the land
and leave the field of city labor clearer. In
reality, the effect of this movement for small
allotments will improve the condition of Ia
Dor everywhere"
HAS agriculture been losing these last
twenty years."
''That is all bosh. When a man has cult
waited his land well, he has made profit in
spite of the squire and parson. He may not
have made the profits of twenty years ago,
but he has lived on lines of broader comfort,
you must remember
HAS American competition had anything
to do with the falling off in agriculture?''
''No, not a bit. If I had forty or fifty acres
of land wouldn't care about competition.
In America no more than twenty-five BUSH
els can be raised from an acre as rule.
Then there is the cost of transport; even
when you ship wheat as ballast there are
stevedore charges. Here as high as sixty-fve
. bushels an acre can be raised. and can have