Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-23

voluntarily as well as those allowed by
the state. There is but little work done
during Easter week, and in this region
especially little during the week follow
Ing Ascension day Then there Is hol-
iday time about midsummer and also
at Christmas and New Year. The Amer
lean would celebrate such times in a
rational manner but In d majority Of
cases the English laborer celebrates
them by getting drunk.
DRUNKENNESS IN ENGLAND.
Our people who have not visited the
factory centers Of England can have no
idea of the terrible condition Of the
working classes as regards the use Of
intoxicating liquors Women and girls
patronize the saloons almost as much
as the men, and YOU cannot 30 into a
public house without finding from one
to dozen women drinking. There are
saloons near all the factories, and at
the meal hours the hundreds Of factory
girls rush for them and sit down with
the men and have their beer, gin or
whisky with their meals. They drink
at noon and at night, and many drink
TOO much
his wages lays aside certain amount
for his drink over Sunday. II he makes
$40 week he may give his wife s. for
the household expenses and reserve the
other 81 for the public house. where
he sits and gu2zles In many cases he
prolOnls his spree till Monday, and the
factory then looks for him I'm vain
This feet makes English labor very UNI
reliable The companies dare not con-
tract TO finish their Jobs in a fixed
time. and as result much OF their
business is going out Of the country.
Again, when the American capitalist
has a big job his workmen viii turn in
and work nights to help him, Here |
am told the average man works rather
against than for his employer and the
more skillful man is the slower he
works,
ENGLAND's BIG DRINK BILL.
For fear what have said about Eng
lish drunkenness may be disputed |
have looked up the national drink bill
for one year and find that It exceeds
that Of any other nation. 1t amounts
90 more than $500, 900 annually, or
almost hundred dollars per year for
each family Of five. The amount spent
for liquors in 1900 was more than the
government revenue Of that year and
more than the rents Of all the houses
and farms OF the country Taking out
the people who II Is estimated abstain
from the use Of intoXicants, Ii amount
ed 10 about $35 per head, and two-thirds
Of the whole was drunk by the work
ing classes, These figures are taken
from the London Mail Year Book,
which also adds that Of all the ma
tlons Of the world the English drink
the most and the Americans the least
SHEFFIELD AND IT'S FACTORIES.
But let me tell you something about
this city of Sheffield in which am now
writing. II Is the typical English steel
manufacturing town, and is the chief
cutlery town Of the whole world II is
a city Of the rich and poor OF many
capitalists and tens Of thousands of
workmen. Its workmen have been do
ing the same class Of work for genera
lions, and they are among the most
skilled OF their kind, A vast amount
Of the work is done by hand. / went
through one OF the largest cutlery es-
Establishments and found IN II hundreds
OF blacksmiths pounding out knife
blades and razor blades upon anvils,
fashloning them just as the country
blacksmith does his work at home. |
saw the grinding done by hand, and in
other little shops the handles were