Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-06-28

cigars, and every other man you meet
has a short briarwood pipe In his
mouth. This Is especially so OF the
poorer classes, The British are great
smokers. They consumed SOS. 600. 900
worth Of tobacco last year and nine
tenths OF the product came from the
United States.
A BIT OF TOBACCO HISTORY.
They have always gotten the most Of
their tobacco from US. The weed was
first imported by Sir Walter Raleigh In
1856, and later on IL became one OF the
chief articles Of trade between the col
onles and Great Britain. Some tobac-
co was planted In England during the
time OF James |. Tobacco smoking had
become general among the upper classes
and both ladies and gentlemen smoked.
King James denounced the custom. He
prohibited It's cultivation in England.
Cromwell did the same and ordered his
soldiers to tramp down the tobacco
crops wherever they found them,
Charles III tried TO restrict our tobac-
60 trade TO England. He forbade the
colonies to ship the product elsewhere,
and the result was the ruinatl0n of the
l.
lion OF the Virginia planters IN 1876
which was in reality the commencement
OF the struggle which eliminated IN the
American revolution and our independ-
ence In those DAYS the English had
the monopoly and the profits Now the
Americans are coming TO the front, and
the probability is that our trust will
even mp the egactions Of the past.
| don't knaNs tho apaount % oupttaI
possessed by the Imperial Tobacco COM
pany but Il runs high into the tens OF
millions. The American Tobacco COM
pany INCORPORATED IN 1890 had a capt.
tai OF $4,000 coo and IN 1901 II had so
added to It's holdings that rs outstand-
ing securities aggregated $4,000 0O0 The
Continental Tobacco company organic
ed IN 1893, has cauital stock and Sc
curitles Of about sl00.0 600, and there
are other companies which represent
millions more. II Is safe to say that the
tobacco companies Of America alto
gether have capital Of at least sl-0,-
100000, and that most OF them are more
or less interested In this fight.
AMERICAN TRACKS ON OLD LAND
MARKS.
Eyerywhe,e I go in London I see the
footsteps OF the ubiquitous Yankee. He
Is either on the streets with his car
petbag and samples, In the machine
shops with his American tools, or In the
book stores supplying England with his
share OF its literature. Mark Twain,
Joel Chandler Harris, Mary Johnston
and other well known American writer's
are 90 popular here as at home and
DO htt H.. a.
| find the American invasion not only
IN the books, but in the materials OF
which they are made. | dropped into
one OF the places immortalized by Dick
ems the other day TO buy a lead pencil |
and note book. II was, In fact, the
old Curiosity Shop" about which the |
great novelist woye the story Of Lit !
tie Nell" The sign over the door Is
that Of stationer named Poole, | |
asked him for his best lead pencils |
and he showed me two. which were ap.
rnrently just alike, but one Of which |
cost twice as much as the other. The |
expensive lead pencil was made In Aus |
tria, costing 10 cents, and the other was |
almost q fac-simile for cents but on |
The back OF the second l noticed O
gtamp showing that II was made by the |
Eagle Pencil company OF New York |
The statloner told me that much OF
his paper came from America. This Is
so OF the cheap kinds, the |
most of the newspapers being printed |
IN paper made of American wood pulp, |
IN WESTMINSTER ABB
BEY.
Speaking OF printing, Benjamin
did some Of his first printing |
In London. / came upon his old home |
IN one Of the houses Of Craven street |
his morning. II is within a stones
throw OF Charing Cross and there V a |
marble slab on the wall upon which |
ire the words, benjamin Franklin |
once lived here" stumbled across
statue OF George Peabody, our first |
charitable millionaire back Of the Bank |
II England yesterday, and when l en-
tered Westminster Abbey shortly be-
fore II was closed 20 prepare II for
King Edwards coronation, found on |
! yellow card laid on one OF the tombs
4 quotation concerning the beauty Of
The place frdnl Oliver Wendell Holmes.
soon drilled into the poets corner