The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-25

! house are two or three small buildings,
! one of which serves as a wash room
! and the others as chicken houses or
dog kennels.
On the top of the parapet walls are
rows of broken glass, held in place by
cement and intended to impede the
scaling of this wall by anyone who
might desire to enter the house from
one of the adjoining buildings, the roof
being the place from which such at
tempts are generally made. The lower
doors are fastened ON the inside with
heavy bolts and bars, and can only be
opened by an inmate of the dwelling.
The doors are so strong that they
would easily withstand the attack of a
mob In truth, they were built to en-
counter sieges and revolutions, and are
admirably adapted to their purpose. So
narrow are the streets and so high the
buildings that there are places where
a ray of sunshine never falls. Many
of these streets are ill-smelling and I'M
healthy.
The level of the land is but 80 feet
above the level of the sea, and the city
presents a fine mark for attacking YES
sells.
Its houses in the winter or rainy sea-
son are damp and cherries, fireplaces
and stoves being almost unknown.
a STREET OF MISERY.
There is a street in Cadiz, San Fer
nando, named for a saint, in which the
yearly death rate is nearly u per CEN
tum of its population. Horrible con-
ditions prevail in this street. Every
house is crowded full of Lies Miser-
ables." They are used to dirt, mental,
physical and moral. The ground, such
of it as crowds up between the cobble
stones of the pavement, is sodden with
accumulated pollution, and the lower
parts of the buildings, esjecially near
doors and partitions, drip filth that
oozes through them from clogged-up
sewer pipes. Over this the tall houses
cast shadows from morning until night,
and for decades a CLEAN of sunshine
has not entered it.
The rooms of each house in this street
are damp, dark and bad smelling. They
are the night resorts of beggars, who
sleep in or on straw, which sWarmS
with vermin. They live on stale fish,
cooked in crude olive oil, and on the
refuse bread of the city. They are dis
eaSed. Scrofula or one of it's more
malignant or virulent cognates has
palsied, blinded or otherwise affected
nearly all. Sometimes among them
may be seen leper.
VICTIMS OF NEGLECT.
When out gathering aims these beg
s5eAA > CNl sc l4lOSS WIN pass Wy HllIiOQl
giving. They are unfortunates more
sinned against than SHINING, the unfor-
Inmates of a country whose rulers have
never studied the problems of making
the dependent self-dependent, educat-
ing the masses and by degrees, ele-
waiting all to a higher intellectual plane
and to a greater happiness and pro-
ductive powerr than their parents pos
sessed.
During my residence in Spain there
was one man who for years had been
opposed to its existing social and po-
litical organization. In appearance and
style he reminded me very much of Mr..
Clemens of Topeka His name was
Salvochea- He had been a Republican
and a Socialist, and when 1 left Spain
in 1898 he was in the Cadiz jail as an
anarchist. He was imprisoned, charged
with instigating the bomb throwing of
August, 1892. When arrested he said:
AN APPEAL FOR THE PEOPLE.
Those who, blinded by egotism,
think only of insulting with their wan
ton ponp the slaves of hire; those who,
covered with brilliants, deliver them