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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-07-17

UPPER MARLBORO AQUASCO, Pc Co, MD.
Will practice in the Courts of Prince Georges and
adjoining counties and i'll the Court of Appeals.
~ Collection Of claims specially. All business
entrusted to his will be promptly attended to.
MARION DI'CKETT, VI, Il. FREEMAN
EBERT DENT,
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-07-17

"Castoria is the best remedy for children OF
which am acquainted. hope the dry is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest of their children, and use Castoria in
stead Of the various Fuack noIrums which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium.
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their threats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
DR.. j. F. KINCHEIoE,
Conway, Ark.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-07-17

When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-07-17

List night took IA long stroll with
the one love best in all the world. u
II should think you would get tired
of walking by YOURSELF.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-07-17
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoria.

My husband hardly ever pays less
than fifteen cents for ci gar. and here
| have bought IA whole box for seven
tv five cents
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-07-17
Castoria.

"Castoria is an excellent medicine for chill
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me Of its
good effect upon their children"
DR.. G. c. OsGoop.
Lowell Mass
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-07-17
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoria.

Topsy-tnrvydom-"No, Henry dear
| cannot be your "Do YOU reject
"No; but since am member of the
woman's emancipation league cannot
belong to any man, but may be mine
if YOU like
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-07-17
Sc furnishings!

Everything Required in Horse Furnishings!
Which low as
his lie psw
No AGA PESNLy VENUE
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-07-17
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This sscourt'' was horseshoe pattern
and contained 8 houses-1S dwellings
% on one side and ON the other, and
these three closets were all there was
for this whole "court."
Board and Lodging.
These hovels are inspected by the po-
lice. l found certificate in the hall of
one of them dated March %, 1893, and
signed "a. T. Wood, chief police super
intendent." These certificates are signed
at his Office, and probably he never Wis
it's the places.
One man told me he had for his break
fast bread and butter and tea-no meat
and for his dinner bread and bacon,
but meat was a luxury he could not af-
ford. The tenants f1ocked around me by
the dozen in Miller's court. would
have been glad to have taken some pho
tographs of these scenes and 'courts, !"
but the weather was too cloudy for any
satisfactory results.
7 [ passed from this court to another,
and, going to door, I asked, "What
do you do for living?" The man there
answered, 81 take in lodgers."
what do you charge?" ''Fourpence
e cents) per night or sevenpence "a
cents) couple" (The man saw there
were two of u.s.
Passing on, we came to the largest of
it's kind. containing 395 beds. On the
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the working people and comparing their
wages with those of Americans. -Four
years ago I made a second visit for the
same purpose and on August II, 1896, I
left New York, for the third time, to
make another investigation. I arrived
in Manchester on August 20 and there
began my investigation, where l found
more restitution than 1 had ever seen
in any other city.
The "Cesspoo1'' of Manchester.
Standing, looking uD Angel meadow,
a graveyard on the left and behind one
of the worst Courts in Great Britain,
public houses of course, and all around
a population struggling in the ocean of
moral and social degradation, it has
been called the "cesspool of Manches-
ter" It's history is a. history of dirt,
vile crime, drunkenness, riot, cruelty
and robbery. The houses are low and
dilapidated, and many are villainous
holes, u1Fentilatetk undrained, corrupt,
Iseking AFith smYAs, utterly Infamous
and sickening botlp to body and mind
all this within a few minutes walk of
the Queens hotel, the Exchange and
There are scores of rooms furnished
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men. His name is Wildemouth. He
lodges 391 persons in his house every
night. His rooms are by 6 feet and ne
receives II cents per night for each of
these rooms.
l went from there to Commercial street
Tin WhitechapeD where [ saw a place
called the Victoria home Qkept in the
same manner as the one on Osborne
street,, where the roomers pay from .
to II cents per night. Then l went
through the thickest part of Whitechapel
an alley called Petticoat lane. The
meat hanging in the stores and on the
sidewalks was so filthy that it sickened
me and | could not tarry long enough to
even ask the price of it. asked the
price of herrings-1 cent each. Bread
was 1 cent a loaf, and it was hard look
ing bread; potatoes one-half cent a
pound; onions One-half cent pound; 3
pounds of carrots for 2 cents. Such a
filthy trading market would disgust a
stole. They live in filth, breed in filth
and die in filth, knowing nothing else.
The 'sCasual Ward.''
Then l went to a public institution
known as a casual ward, the same one
[ visited eight years ago. | found it
just as it was in 1883. The keeper, or
guardian, told me this ward had been
in existence for more than thirty years
and that there were thirty such places
in London at present. These institutions
are kept as public places and are really
poorhouses. If a man has no money, he
can go there and apply for admittance,
which he Sets if the place is not already
filled When received, they are kept in
confinement for two nights and one day,
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with a table, chair, a thing called a
bed and few pots. These rooms are
sublet for 10 cents night for two
size II by 10-where people eat, cook
and sleep. entered some of these
houses-if such a name could be given
to the novels I saw-and in one I asked
/ of a woman:
\ "Do you rent this?'' EYES," was the
sWhat do you pay for it?' ''Four and
six ($1.09 week -, ~
.Do you sleep in here?' Eyes. sir:
we sleeps, eats, cooks and everything
here" 49,
stairs?" mo, sir; that's another par
aCan I go ,up?'' Eyes, I dare say he
before / go up I would like to ask,
sWhat do you do for living? MY
husband sells sandstone, sand and blue
mole. or he gives the stone and gets
rags, bottles, bones or old iron for
SWhat does he earn in week?"
At This question the woman smiled.
"Well. it NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. more,
sometimes less. One day perhaps shil-
ling lo4 cents), another day ! and 8
~ should say here that the agent finds
A. nots' mans, bed and fire, such as
t he p are. for win not attempt to de-
scribe them. This I viii say-no dog
az mine should ever be allowed to sleep
An what is called bed m those places.
The whole outfit was not worth 10
een nH.ve You . back yard?' s'No, SIR
Z Where i your closet then!"
II the street. ~
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ground floor of this clearinghouse is a
large room for the men to sit in. The
kitchen below contained large closed
cooking range, which was red hot, and
the odor of the cooking going on made it
anything but enviable to be in. The lodg-
ers all cook for themselves and have a
variety of things to cook and they are
not very particular as to how many diff
ferent things are cooked together in the
same pot. We went upstairs and saw
395 beds, which are let at three differ
ent prices-6, 8 and II cents per night.
The 12-cent ledger has place boarded
off to himself-no water, no towel.
Wealth and Poverty Mixed.
Manchester, with her 100000 popula-
ton, boasts of her wealth and manufac-
turing resources and one would suppose
that all of the people alike lived in pal
aces; but to examine into the exact con-
dition I find quite the reverse. Thou
sands of these people live on alcohol.
When they earn any money, it goes for
alcohol chiefly. .
Coming back to my hotel, the Queens,
facing one of the finest streets in Man
chester, is the Royal infrmary, all along
the front of which there are seats which
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the blacksmith shop. They worked 30
minutes and made me Il pounds of
three-eighths chain. Each piece was
over two feet long, and they worked like
beavers to see who could make the long
est piece. They work ten hours a day.
gave them shilling apiece when they
them how long it would take to earn
that amount They replied, ut would
take more, than day. Ito earn IS
cents). 1 thought, miserable England!''
Women Coal Miners.
I did not visit Wigan this time (as
have done twice before), but there is no
change in labor there; the poorhouses
which described and reproduced in 1892
ness the poor women there, half starved
and half clad, wheeling coal On the top
of the pits for the small pittance of
40 to SO cents for ten hours work. I
reproduce here a cut of the shoes that
are worn by the women in these dis:
tricts. heavy clogs with big nails in the
bottom.
The situation has not changed yet. AS
long as there is coal in the pit there will
be women to wheel it. At one time this
class lived and had their families IN the
coal mines, but Parliament prohibited
this, and now they do the wheeling on
the top of the pits. With this cheap
labor no wonder coal is cheap in this
country. This coal is used on the very
steamers and vessels which carry Eng
lands free trade labor product to Amer-
ca to compete with our labor and manu-
features.
Charles L. Snowden of Brownsville,
Pa, writes me: eve pay our miners 70
cents per ton, or $3.50 per 100 bushels
&c pounds to the busheD. One man can
put from $50 to 200 bushels per day
and can earn from So to 81 daily. There
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-1ng,and for each person (taken from
renorts mblished by Parliament IS ABOUT
$3.50 q difference in favor OF America
pf sos ner capita. Now there. are thou
sands Of people in England who 90 not
receive one-half this $3.50. We pay our
an@le iron smiths SO per cent. more than
thev are paid in England; our PACK !I
smiths. 1O2 per cent more; our polleE-
makers. AZ per cent. more; our pr DITCH
LAYERS, 125 per cent. more; our ooilel
shon helpers, 80 per cent. more; our
cornenters. 165 per cent. more; our con-
ductors ION express trains) 349 per cent.
more: our locomotive engineers, l9l per
cent. more; our police, 260 per cent.
more: our telegraph operators, lO5 Per per
cent. more; our train dispatchers, 5lo
Der cent. more, and our common LABOR
ers. 15S per cent. more. The difference
in all classes of labor is the same as
these examples [ mention,
The engineers who run the fastesI e1
press trains on the road in England get
hut $1,000 per week for ten hours per
dav. The firemen get $500 per week or
9S cents per day. The guards (who
correspond with our conductors) get
from $3.50 to S672 per week. The por--
tiers 1--WE coll them brakemen) get $4.56
per week. This is a sample of the pay
of English labor. Our engineers in
America on the express trains receive
S31.5O per week, our conductors SIS
and our brakeman $13. We pay more
than double the wages paid in England,
where railroad fare is higher and the
coal cheaper than in America.
The following table of wages answers
all the free-trade fallacies of the Demo-
cratic party and cannot be disputed:
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two) and he told me it was his wife,
who was very sick. All around were
signs of poverty. 1t was not fit for hui
man beings. It made me chill with
pity as looked on this terrible scene;
Going through little court about lux
10 feet, in the rear of this house, l came
to the shop where one of his daughters
makes chain with another woman:
asked her name and she told me clara
Boxley. Her age is % years.
She has been making chain Tor nve
years and receives from $1.7o TO $A.lo
q week for her work. She makes three
eighths inch chain and is paid $l.Oz TOT
bread and butter and tea and sometimes
a piece of bacon. She told me she
worked from o'clock in the morning
until in the evening; that the only rea-
SON she staid there was because she
could not save enough money to pay ner
fare away from the town.
The buildings look as it they had $1,000
for centuries, and as l passed through
the little court leading into the house
and which is walled on every side py
houses I counted fifteen little children
from to 6 years of age playing TO-
gether in all the filth that could sur
round blacksmith shop in this district.
Across the alley, was another shop W v;
another daughter was making chaln.
She is married, has one child and makes
$2.16 per week.
She has been making chain for twenty
years, having commenced when she was
IL years old Her husband, a chain
maker also, earns from So to $500 a
week.
Mrs. Polly Fowkes has four daugh.
tiers making chain. She is 81 years old
and has made chain since she was Z
years of age, but is now too old to WORK
at it any more. Each of the daughters
makes from $1.2O to $1.5O per week.
They live in a little old house, with
stone flooring. Here they cook and eat
and live in the same room all huddled
together. The girls are very smart at
the forge. / set five girls to work in
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o manufacture your goods and supply

your own people"
His answer was: eve want the Amer
lean market. It is the greatest market
in the world and during the time the
Mckinley bill was a law our manutac-
turers were quite paralyzed.' . !,
during the last nine months of the exs ,
istence of the Mckinley law $4,47S,OOO
worth of goods. This was from January
1, 1894, to September 80, 1894. During
the corresponding period Of the following
year from January l, 1895, to Septem-
Der SO, 1861, under the Wilson bill,
the exports from Bradford amounted to
So, III 900. Five times as much under
the Wilson bill as under the Mckinley
bill. The total exports for the year 1890
from Bradford amounted to $27, 49, 600.
These exports include thirty-seven items,
but consist chiefly of card clothing, cot
ton goods, iron and steel, machinery,
hosiery, stuffed goods, worsted goods,
Mr. Meeker, United States consul at
Bradford, furnished me these statistics,
which were taken from his reports to the
state department.
We manufacture similar goods in
America, but on account of the Wilson
tariff bill we have been deprived of the
chance to manufacture them, and the
money which should have been paid to
our own working people has been paid
to the laboring people of Great Britain.
Our chimneys have ceased smoking,
while theirs are in full blast. Our
working people are idle and deprived of
living on account of this iniquitous,
free trade, Wilson tariff.
Business Thrives in Birmingham.
I left Bradford on August "a for Bir-
mingham, passing through Leeds and
Shaffiald whose iron and steel works are
in full blast. Not only in these places,
but all over England. this line of in
dustry is prospecting. And the factories
are running full time, and the greater
part of their product is shipped to the
United States. And while their works
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are occupied by poor people from the
Sums. l was Informed that many sat
there the whole night, so / arose early
the next morning and went across to the
seats and found that 80, II of whom
were women, one with a child, had sat
there all night because they had not the
necessary 6 cents for a bed.
The trade of Manchester is very much
depressed at present-awaiting the pres
idential election in the United States.
The merchants of the United States are
making very. small purchases now, be-
cause they fear a new tariff bill and
because American consumption is less
ened through the idleness of the people
and their inability to buy. The manu-
facturers and shippers here do not want
any change in the present American
tariff. But they say they would rather
have Mckinley for President than Bry-
an, for if Bryan is elected and silver
standard declared in the United States.
they cannot sell their goods at all to
America. Yet they despise Mckinley
for, as the London Times stated few
days ago. Ibis infamous tariff BILL"
Trade Paralysis in Bradford.
Leaving Manchester, 1 visited Brad
ford, which is the largest wooden and
shoddy manufacturing district in the
world. Trade is paralyzed there as far
as United States shipments are con-
cerned at present. The manufacturers
are awaiting the election of the Presi-
dent of the United States, to know
whether he will be free trader or pro-
tectionist. The merchants are very much
agitated on this account-for they can
get but few orders from the United
States. / said to one of them: You
have now the whole British empire Tin
Guiding India), with population OF ale
most Sc, OOO, 900 controlled by her males.
"a, to supply; why are You not satisfied
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t the expiration of which time they are

discharged.
Nobody is allowed to come to these
places more than once month, and he
can stay no longer than the time pre-
scribed The ward [ visited accom-
modated ffty-fve men and thirty-two
women. The beds consist of a narrow
strip of canvas stretched like hammock
between two iron rods about foot from
the floor. The applicants are admitted
after 6 %. m. in the summer time and
after p. m. in the winter time. AS
soon as they are admitted they are given
bath in one of the six baths in the
ward and their clothes are fumigated
and disinfected. After the bath they
have their supper of six ounces of bread
and pint of Cruel. For their bed they
are given three blankets. For breakfast
thew receive the same food as for sun
ner. For dinner, in addition to the bread
and cruel, they are given ~ ounces of
cheese. The total cost for. caring for
these people during the period of their
confinement, including the five meals, is
9 cents each.
Advice to Americans.
NV advice to every American working
man is. as [ have said before, to pro-
feet his own rights and the rights and
privileges of his family and not to fol-
low the whims, cries and falsehoods of
the free-trade politician who seeks to
have gOO0S lmpOFteu luCO the United
States which are made by cheap pauper
Ia hor because he thinks the goods can be
sold cheaper than if they were made
in America.
IF the wages of the American working
mon are not reduced to the standard Of
those in England, and the goods are not
made in America, he has no money
to purchase these cheap goods with. Be-
ing deprived of work, where are they to
gef their money to make their purchases
with?
Labor in London.
The following statistics are taken from
Rooth's "Life and Labor of the Peonle
If London" showing the number Of neo-
ME employed in the various lines in the
city of London:
Tailors. ................... 91,876
Boot and shoemaRers... 96,614
Hatters.. ..;:............ 9,S27
nressmakers and milliners. ....... 43'704
Shirtmakers. .................... 1926
MachinistS. ..:......... 6,715
Diapers and hOSlers. .............. 34,377
Clerks. .............:........... 181 $3.50
Cabmen, cOacnMen, Dusmen, etc.. 261 1896
Railway service, labor, etc. ....... 92'S2S
Seamen. 15232
nnck service, labor, coal beavers
norters. gasworkerS, etc. ....... 80 on
General labor, factory labor. .... Ok AK
engine drivers and artisans. ....... $500
Total. II ,2O1 ,241
All other classified labor not in -.
cluded above. ................... I'll. 249
Grand total in London.
~ N..Ml2
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One pauper to every 81 persons. Twenty
eight paupers to every 1000 persons.
annually. ..................... So, $685. Al
Cost to maintain the queen and
the royal family. ............. $2,903, ~
Cost to maintain the president
and his secretaries $4,000
The population of the British empire,
including India and the colonies, is 346,-
1000. There are 50 colonies and 40
distinct governments.
Lille in LonGOa.
/ arrived in London August %, and
made visit to Whitechapel. I visited
lodging house on Osborne street.
asked for the proprietor and was intro
duced to him. They call him "the gov
ernor'' to distinguish him from other
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are running full time our people are idle.
Today the goods that are being made in
Leeds and in Sheffield would, were it not
for the Wilson bill, be made in the
United States.
I spent day in Birmingham, which
is another thriving and prosperous manu-
featuring center. Here also the people
are very DESTROYS that no change be
made in the present American tariff
schedule which would result in depriving
them Of our market for their goods.
The British Chain Gang.
After leaving here I went to Cradley
Heath-among the women chainmakers
and women Llacksmiths-to witness the
misery there which 1 had visited in
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,rs 519 friendly soc societies m;sb a q

There are SO d friendly Britain saG's' With
trades unions in $50 aaKen from .r re-
Sd 1ss ssess; {ss ss trades
s i IL f. s Is 81 f E: s ssss
6e you'd lower ss FsasssdS
they AR are o e what Raei is paid in America
i5is'e ean "nS report of 1890 gave ave,
us 4,712622 people pre &c en Yearly earning Of
featuring ct na4son the being $4ss The average
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1883 and in 1892. There are women
there by the thousands who make chain
for living in old, low buildings adjoin-
ing their houses.
was Sc years old and earned 60 cents a
day as a laborer, when he could work.
He has FIVE daughters and five sons.
Three of this daughters are chainmakers
and one works in brickyard, carrying
brick. | went into his house. On the
lower floor was a room with stone
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FREE TRADE MISERY.
Nathaniel Mckay Tells Of His Tour
Through British Manufac-
turing Centers.
PEEP AT POVERTY IN LONDON.
Working Women at Masculine Labor
Stern Facts for Our Wage
Farmers.
PEEP AT POVERTY IN LONDON,

Free-trade slavery still exists in the
British empire Notwithstanding the re-
duction of the American tariff, which
benefits the English manufacturer, but
Eight years ago l visited England for
the purpose of studying the condition of
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are no poorhouses in Brownsville staring
these working people in the face. They
make from six to eight times the wages
of the poor people at Wigan, and there
are no women at work wheeling coal in
the United States.
Paupers in the British Empire.
Population Of Great Britain and
xEcIauO. S7,10Z,016
Paupers. ....................... 1,oao2s
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floor and an old-fashioned fireplace
with ovens on each side and place for
coal in the middle. Back of this was
little space for washroom where there
is room for only one person. In the front
room all the cooking is done and it is
also used for living room and dining
room. Upstairs is room 8x12 feet.
AS entered here 1 noticed a woman
hing On one of the beds there were