Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-10-21
Daizeu Talks OF England.

and talked of his trip 70 Europe 10
newspaper man as follows.
Il enjoyed very much my two
months sOjourn abroad, but enjoyed
nv return home more | have not seen
anv place that strikes me as being quite
equal to nv own country i do not
mean TO saw that there are not many
things on the other side that we do not
have here and that compel admiration;
such things. for instance as belong To
an older civilization than ours. But
do mean to say that it seems 10 me that
in the conyeniences and comforts OF life
people abroad are far behind Us. OF
course this judgement Is from an Amer
lean standpoint, and much allowance
is TO be made for differences in environ
ment and education.
4 went abroad for rest and recrea-
ton. and not to study social or econom-
ic questions. and / cannot enhghten
YOU very much, am afraid, in that
direction. Our course took Us through
portion Of rural England, through
Northern Wales. through portion Of
ireland. and a part of the time we spent
in Paris and in London. Rural Eng
land is very beautiful and if one
should make up a judgement from a
car window view he would be disposed
to say that the people were contented
and happy The farLI houses are com
Portable looking, the outbuildings are
extensive and the fields seemingly very
fertile If all Of England were cult
waited as it might be, agriculture ought
10 thrive. as it does not seem to do.
The real trouble. as it seems to be, Is
that there is so small part compare
lively devoted to agriculture. Thou
sands upon thousands of acres are in
cluded in the parks and pleasure
grounds of the nobility. Fertile helds
that ought to produce the cereals so
much needed are devoted TO the
pleausre grounds and game pre-
serves Of the nobility. We heard much
of the coming hunting season. What
endowment is TO be derived from butch
ering pheasauts and rabbits as tame as
chickens is beyond my concep-
ton. We visited one place near Chester,
Eaton Hall, the residence of the Duke
of Westminster, where we found them
raising pheasants in coops just alongside
of chickens and found them as tame "a
the chickens themselves. And yet
these are 10 be the sports OF the hunts
men when the hunting season opens,
Nv observation in Ireland leads me to
believe that the newspaper forebodings
as to n possible famine there are not
without foundation Year by year less
and less ground is being devoted in Ire
land to the raising Of cereals and more
and more to the raising Of hay and 10
pasturage. The past season has been
exceedingly wet, and in many places
we saw from the car windows hay
stacks resting in pools of water and IN
many places hay unwinnowed because
of the wet Many Of the farmers with
whom / talked in the south of Ireland
spoke in the most despondent terms of
their condition, complaining of the
failure Of crops and the great increase
in the price of -four.
so far as political questions are con
cerned, / do not know that | can en-
Tighten You much. / did not undertake
to come in contract with any nf the
puylc men abroad, or discuss political
or social questions. Parliament was
not in session when we were in London.
and most of the prominent public men
were out Of town.
80 far as the Dingley law is con
cerned, it goes without saying that 1t Is
not popular abroad. / spent portion
of day in linen factory in Belfast,
Ireland, and was very much interested
in the processes Of manufacture The
person who showed us around said that
pending the passage OF the Dlngley bill
the factory had been running full, both
as to number of hands and as to time,
3 0 as TO export their product in advance
Of the bill becoming a law. But since
the enactment Of the law they had only
beer running on short turns. ] learned
that the linen Of Ireland is made not
from the Irish flax, but largely from
fax imported from France and Bel
gium. Indeed. the manager Of the con
Germ. with whom | talked said that a
single factory of large proportions
would exhaust the entire output Of
Irish fax 1t occurred TO me that if il
be true, az claimed, that our American
crop Of fax is not Of a character 10
make linen there was no reason in the
world why we could not make linen in
America from imported fax. just as the
Irish do, and Just as | believe we will
do under the provisions of the Dingley
| law. In fact the Committee of Ways
and Means had that object in view
when our bill was framed, and believe
| that the duties provided for by the bill
are such that we shall successfully
| build up linen industry in this coun
| try, Just a. under the provisions Of the
Mckinley law we built up tin plate
| industry.
There is absolutely no excitement
upon the othcr side with respect TO our
| relations with Spain, or as TO Cuban
affairs, nor j. there any excitement
| with respect TO Hawaiian matters No
| body dreams Of a possible war between
the United States and Spain, and every
body seems willing TO acquiesce in
| w hateyer the United States may deter
| mine to do with respect to Hawaii.
Mr.. Sherman does not seem To be
very popular with the English people
| They do not like the tone Of his diplo-
| matte correspondence. They say he il
| too perenptory. The London journals
| are full from day to day Of comments
upon the attitude Of our State depart
ment and that Of Lord Salisbury with
respect TO conference over Bering sea
affairs The English press seems to be
| n unit in indorsing Lord Salisbury =
vie'v that England should not partici-
| paIc in conference In which Japan
and Russia should be parties
The real absorbing topic in England
| today IL the great strike Of the engin-
eers. Ii threatens to paralyze English
| industries, and To postpone the compile
| ton OF many business enterprises. IL
| is contest between organized labor
and organized capital. Up to this time
neither party seems willing 10 give way
| and what the outcome viii be 1t ~ diff
| cult TO perdict. II IL strike which, in
its proportions its importance, and its
| far reaching influence. is such as we
have never known in this country. It's
existence gives the lie 10 the free trad
er's claim that suoh industrial outbreaks
are consequent upon protective tariff.
| Yes, ] am expecting that the next
session of Congress will be n laborlous
one, and that it will have to deal with
many very important measures. OF
course. there Will be discussion and de
| liberation rs 10 currency reform. The
J house will undoubtedly pass a general
/ bankruptcy bill What the Senate will
do, no man can tell We shall have
armor plata discqssion and many other
things Of pressing Importance With
| the tariff question, however ont Of the
way and returning prosperity, Indulge
| the hope that we shall get 10 business
promptly, do our business promptly
and get away within reasonable
| time
Prospect Schools.