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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-04-10
LOCAL NOTES.

From the National Liquor Dealer for
April.
Our wholesale men seem to be
busy.
Aug. Robin says his mescal
trade is good.
Billy Smell waits his trial with
composure.
The Epworth League will be
with us April 21st to 23rd.
Ben Kiolbassa would not take
$50 for his Mexican badger.
1t will BIZ great gathering OF
enthusiastic young Christians.
John Boshardt is renovating his
saloon, instead of running for Of
flee.
The coming Sengerfest will send
the month of April out in sherry.
The Mckinley people in San An
tonic don't propose to be Quincy
lied.
The new store house Of the Lone
Star Brewery is finished and oc.
cupied.
The coming OF the Epworth
League does not create any extra
stir in saloon circles.
The wood.shed black.and-tan
convention at Austin was har.
vest to that city. The beer and
whiskey flowed freely.
We must be ready for the Ep-
worth people, and give them a
pleasant welcome. Plenty OF fresh
beer on tap.
Joe Cooley's colored barkeeper
drew the color line on two promi-
nent colored politicians and re-
fused to sell them cocktail, much
to the discontinue Of the colored
statesmen.
Father Hennessy, what do you
say to this: Out OF a population
OF about 10000 people,-3OO open
saloons-only one drunken man
was picked up by the police in San
Antonio on st. Patrick's day.
he was an old Irishman,-the re-
corder forgave him.
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A SOUND LIVER MAKES A WILL
MAN

Are you Bilious, Constipated or
troubled with Jaundice, Sick Head
ache, Bad Taste in Mouth, Foul
Breath, Coated Tongue, Dyspepsia,
Indigestion, Hot Dry Skin, Pain in
Back and between the Shoulders,
Chills and Fever, etc ? If you have
any of these symptoms, your Liver
is out of order, and your blood is
slowly being poisoned, because
your Liver does not act properly.
HERBINE will cure any disorder of
the Liver, Stomach or Bowels. 1t
has no equal as a Liver Medicine.
Price rs cents.
Free trial bottles at Kalteyer &
Schuchard, A. Dreiss, Kalteyer &
Son and James Clavin.
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HERMANN BREUsINa,

Notary public, will attend to Pen.
sion claims, Power Of Attorney and
Passports to all foreign countries.
Translstions. Office, San Antonio
Daily LIGHT. 104 East Comp erce
street.
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UNTIL DECORATION DAY ONLY.
Will sod all graves from 81 to
$1.50 each, Ten years experience.
Walter Horton, 315 Paso Hondo
street. 32l BOT
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SILVER KING SALOON

Cor. Flores and Commerce SITS. East side Mil
tary Plaza. If you want drink of the cele-
brsted g. & B. 1892, PepsyIvania Rye Whiskey
of Gallagher, and Bourbon Philadelphia, and
receive polite attention, drop in and see H.
Z. FUTILE, the Genial Proprietor Silver
King Saloon, who always keeps the finest
brands of imported and Domestic Wines,
Liquors and Cigars.
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h6Vnrticp In the Daily LIGHT
Au'Vl OlpV IL you want business,
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Mn> bt!kg

To be thin, Tor a baby, is
to be deprived Of its natural
ease; to suffer and not be able
tofeeI it; towear a sad pinehed
face; to live on the edge OF
sickness; to grow irnperfectly;
and to lose the power Of re-
sisting disease. When a baby
is thin It needs more fat than
it gets from its food; it is
starved, fat-starved. Scott's
Emulsion is the easiest fat
It can have; the fat it needs.
soc. and $500 at all druggists.
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minutes and m sa me- rh pounda
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
all came into the room, and asked
t them how long ri it would take to earn
take more than day" Ito earn Is
cents). l thought. Miserable England!"
Women Coal Miners.
have ao Ret tWiae S Mi8sg ths tine time az
change in labor there; the poorhouses
which described and reproduced in 1892
still stand. 1t is pitiful sight to wit.
ness the poor women there, half starved
and half clad. wheeling coal on the toy
40 to SO cents for ten hours work.
reproduce here 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
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 Ameri-
ca to compete with our labor and manu-
features.
Charles L. Snowden of Brownsville.
Pa, writes me: I'VE pay our miners 70
cents per ton, or $500 per 100 bushels
&c pounds to the bushel). One man can
put from 15O to 200 bushels per day
and can earn from So to 81 daily. There
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with a table, chair, thing called a
bed and few pots. These rooms are
sublet for Is cents a night for two
size IL by 1O-where people eat, cook
and sleep. I entered some. Of these
hOuses-if such q name could be given
to the novels saw-apd in one asked
Of woman:
"Do you rent this?' eyes, was the
a. W =, I'd DO you pay, for it," F0ur and
"Have you the whole house? mo,
'sDo you sleep in here?'' eyes, sir;
we sleeps, eats, cooks and everything
"You have a room above-up the
stairs!" 'No, sir; that's another par
30; %Ga q. I 60 up'" Eyes, dare say he
.whsa Do YOU g do op for %0i iivineY" NY NY
husband sells sandstone, sand and blue
mole, or he gives the stone and gets
rags, bottles, bones or old iron for
them"
''What does he earn in week?"
At this question the woman smiled.
'Well, it depends-sometimes more,
Ing 't "a centsj, another: day i and 8
I should say here that the agent finds
the pots. pans, bed and fire, such as
scribe them. This I will say-no dog
Of mine should ever be allowed to sleep
on what is called bed in those places.
The whole outfit was not worth 10
aHave you q back yard?' 'No, sir"
"Where 10 your closet, thenw
-: There h sir sir" pointing to three closets
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This ''ccptt, wae horseshoe pattern
and containsd o. housss--16, dwellings
% on one side and 4 on. the other, and
these three closets were Ill there was
ZOE this whole court
Doard and Lodging.
:. These novels are inspected BY the po-
lice. I found a certificate In the hall Of
one of them dated March y, 1893, and
signed "a: Z. Wood, chief police super.
lntendent. These certificates are signed
at his Office, and probably he never Wis
its the places.
One man told me he had for his break
fast bread and butter and tea-no meat
land for his dinner bread and bacon,
but meat was luxury he could not af-
ford. The tenants focked around me by
the dozen In Miller's court. I would
have been glad to have taken some pho
tographs Of these scenes and courts, y
but the weather was too cloudy for any
satisfactory results.
l passed from this court to another
and, going to a door, asked, "NVhat
do you do for living?" The man there
answered., take in lodgers."
What do you charger "Fourpenct
q cents) per night or sevenpence IL
cents) a couple" (The man saw there
were two Of us.)
Passing on, we came to the largest Of
Its kind. containing 1906 beds. On the
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reports published by Pariiament) is about
$3.50. a difference in favor Of America
Of $208 per capita. Now there are thou
sands of people in England who do not
receive one-half this $3.50. We pay our
angle iron smiths 53 per cent. more than
they. are paid in England; our black
smiths, 1O2 per cent. more; our boiler
makers, ~ per cent. more; our brick
layers, 125 per cent. more; our boiler
shop helpers, 95 per cent. more; our
carpenters, 165 per cent. more; our con-
ductors ION express trains), $40 per cent.
more; our locomotive engineers, 191 per
cent. more; our police, 26O per cent.
more; our telegraph operators, 1O3 per
cent. more; our train dispatchers, 316
per cent. more, and our common labor
ers, 1853 per cent: more. The difference
in all classes of labor is the same as
these examples mention.
The engineers who run the fastest ex-
press trains on the road in England get
but $1OS0 per week for ten hours per
day. The firemen get $500 per week or
SO cents per day. The guards (who.
correspond with our conductors get
from $3.50 to $6.72 per week. The por-
tiers 1--WE call them brakemen) get $4.66
per week. This is a sample of the pay
of English labor. Our engineers in
America on the express trains receive
$31.5O per week, our conductors $26
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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Mrs Fowkes daughters
Taken Cradley August 26, - - 49,

at the expiration of which time they are
discharged.
Nobody is allowed to come to these
| places more than once a month. and he
can stay no longer than the time pre-
scribed. The ward l visited accom-
| mOdatcd tifty-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 D. m. in the summer time and
after 4 p. m. in the winter time. AS
soon as they are admitted they are given
a bath in one. of the six baths in the
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
they receive the same food as for sup
per. For dinner, in addition to the bread
and cruel. they are given ~ ounces of
cheese. The total cost for caring for
confinement. including the five meals, is
8 cents each.
Advice to Americans.
NV advice to every American working
man is, as I have said before, to pro-
tcct his own rights and the rights and
privileges of his family and not to fol-
low the whims, cries and falsehoods of
the frec.triuc pOllllSIun VIII SeCkS "
have goods imported into the United
States which are made by cheap pauper
labor because he thinks the goods can be
sold cheaper than if they were made
in America.
If the wages of the American working
men are not reduced to the standard of
those i'm 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
get their money to make their purchases
with?
Labor in London.
Tho following statistics are taken from
Rnoth's life and Labor of the People
If i,ondon," showing the number of peo-
Mo employed in the various lines in the
city of London:
T Tsdt and Observation-Disclosures: s g, 81
Hatters .......:. .::............. 9.s27
Dressmakers and milliners. ....... 43.7M
Shirtmakers. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1926
Nachinists. ..... 6.715
Drapers and hosiers. .............. 3l,377
Clerks. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1S1,5S0
(,abmen, cOachmen. Dusmen, etc.,. 261. 498
hallway service. labor. etc. ........ 92,S2S
H Sock Service. labor. coal beavers, e'
D porters. gasworkcrs etc. ........ ss,2Oi
General labor. factory labor. ...... 215.465
Engine drivers and artisans. 10000. 1890
Total. :. i, POI, 241
Guided above. ................... 711.240
Grand total in London. :. 1912, 400
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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 IL cents per night.
The 12.cent ledger has a place boarded
OF 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 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, 10 the Royal infrmary, all along
the front Of which there arc seats which
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T. so,, manufacture .,.s Xcur goods and supply
His an.wer was: 1--WE want the Amer.
Jean market. II 10 the greatest market
in the world and during the time the
t,re1s .ra Dill LILY, "a. law 9Hr manufac-
There was exported from Bradford
during the last nine months Of the ex-
istence Of the Mckinley law $4.478, 600
worth OF goods. This was from January
j; 1894, to September 80, 1894. During
the corresponding period Of the following
her 30, 1880, under the Wilson bin,
the exports from Bradford amounted to
$Zl,lII;OOO. Five times as much under
tne wilson bill as under the Mckinley
bill. The total exports for the year 1895
from Bradford amounted to $27, 745, 600.
Ihese exports include thirty -seven items,
put consist chiefly of card clothing, cot
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 Ubiquitous,
free trade, Wilson tariff.
Business 1hrives In BIRMINGHAM.
left Bradford on August "a for Biz
mingham, passing through Leeds and
Sheffield, whose iron and steel works are
in full blast. Not only in these places,
but oil over England, this line of in
dustry is prospecting. And the factories
IRE running full time, and the greater
part of their product is shipped to the
United States. And while their works
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men. His name is Wildemouth. He
lodges 391 persons in his house every
night. His rooms IRE 6 by 6 feet and he
receives IL cents per night for each of
these rooms.
: Went from there to Commercial street
lin WhitechapeD where l saw place
called the Victoria home kept in the
same manner as the one on Osborne
street,, where the rOOmers pay from 6
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
Inc and could not larry long enough to
even ask the price of it. asked the
price of herrings-1 cent each. Bread
was l 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 cents. Such a
filthy trading market would disgust
stole. They live in filth, breed in filth
and die in filth. knowing nothing else.
The "Casual Wartl.''
Then l went to public institution
known Us a casual ward. the same one
! visited eight years ago. found it
just as it was in 1888. 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 man has no money, he
can 60 there and apply for admittance,
which e-sa,ets if the place is not already
filled. When received. they are kept in
confinement for two nights and one day,
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One pauper to every 81 persons. TWENTY.
eight paupers to every 1850 persons.
Cost to maintain these panpers
cost 10 yn.;.;:;, ~. 470
: the royal family. .:.......::... s2,eos, 10
and his secretaries. ............ $4,000
The population of the British empire,
including India and the colonies, is 346.-
OW.OOO. There are 50 colonies and 40
distinct governments.
Life in London.
I arrived in London August %, ond
made q visit to Whitechapel. 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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the working people and comparing their
wages with those of Americans. -Four
years ago made second visit for the
same purpose and on August IL, 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 found
more restitution than I had ever seen
In any other city.
The s'Cesspool" Of Manchester.
Standing, looking up 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" Its history is history Of dirt,
vile crime, drunkenness, riot, cruelty
and robbery. The houses are low and
holes, unventilated, undrained, corrupt,
reeking with smells, utterly infamous
and sickening both to body and mind
all this within few minutes walk of
the Queens hotel, the Exchange and
railway stations.
There are scores Of rooms furnished
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slums. 1 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, IL of whom
were women; one with q child, had sat
necessary cents for bed.
The trade of Manchester is very mucb
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 new tariff bill and
because American consumption is less
ened through the idleness of the people
facturers and shippers here do not want
tariff. But they say they would rather
nave Mckinley for President than Bry-
an, for it Bryan is elected and a silver
Standard declared in the United States,
they cannot sell their goods at ali to
america: Yet they despise Mckinley
for, as the London Times stated a few
DAYS ago. his infamous tariff BILL"
Trade Paralysis In Bradford.
Leaving Manchester, visited Brad
ford. which is the. largest wooden and
shoddy manufacturing district in the
MS United States shipments are con- on
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 acconnt-for they can
get but few orders from the United
States. ! said to one of them: "You
have now the whole British empire I'm
Guiding India). with a population of al
most $50, O0O, 900 controlled by her majes-
II. to supply: why are you not satisfied
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There are $40 friendly societies Of
trades unions in Great Britain: WITH .
Of these societies are located ii london
and include some Of the trades enumer-.
ated in the Booth table. The societies,
control the wages Of their various trades.
and were it not for the stand they take
their wages would be reduced BY the,
they are ut present, which Is less than,
one-half of what il paid in America.
Higher Wages in America.
us 4,712,622 people employed in manu-
featuring, the average yearly earning Of
each person being $4SS. The average in.
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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.
III. British Chain Gang.
After leaving here went to CradIey
Heath-among the women chainmakers
and women blacksmiths-to witness the
misery there which I had visited in
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Who was very. sick. An sround were
signs Of poverty. II was not at for hui
man beings. It made me chill with
pity % looked on this terrible scene:
Going through little court about 1Ox
to the shop where one Of his daughters
makes chain with another woman.
asked her name and she told me Clara
Boxley. Her age IL % years.
She has been making chain for five
years and receives from $1.75 to $2.16
week for her work. She makes three
eighths inch chain and Is paid $l.O2 for
112 pounds. For breakfast she has
s9d e tsco and s Sc tc me ass
worked from o'clock in the morning
until Z in the evening; that the only rea-
son she staid there was because she
could not save enough money to pay her
fare away from the town.
The buildings look as If they had stood
the little court leading into the house
and which is walled on every side by
houses I counted fifteen little children
from 2 to 9 years of age playing to-
gether in all the filth that could sur
round a blacksmith shop in this district.
Across the alley was another shop where
a aa b! daughter was making chain:
$2.16 per week.
She has been making chain for twenty
years, having commenced when she was
IL years old. Her husband, chain
maker also, earns from So to $3.50 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 toe. old to work
at it any more Each of the daughters
makes from $i.2o to $50 per week.
They live in q little old house, with
stone flooring. Here they cook and eat
and live in the same room all huddletl
together. The girls are very smart at
the forge. I set five girls to work in
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1888 and in 1892. There are women
there by the thousands who make chain
for living in old, low buildings adjoin-
ing their houses.
One man, William Boxlcy, said he
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. I went into his house. On the
lower floor was room with q stone
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FREE TRADE MISERY ||ii|l ! !,
Nathaniel Mckay Tells Of His Tour
Through British Manufac-
turing 0entera
PEEP At POVERTY IN LONDON,
Working Women at Masculine Labor
Stern Facts for Our Wage ;
Earners

Free-trade slavery still exists in thc
British empire notwithstanding the re-
duction Of the American tariff, which
benefits s Its. the English a manufacturer, but
Eight years ago I visited England for
the purpose of studying the condition Of
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floor and an old-fashioned fireplace
with ovens on each side and a place for
coal in the middle. Back Of this was a
little space for Mushroom where there
is room for only one person. In the front
room all the cooking is done and 1t is
also used for living room and dining
room. Upstairs is q room 8x12 feet.
Az I entered here l noticed woman