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

cigars, and every other man you meet
has short brlarwood pipe In HIS
mouth. This is especially so OF the
poorer classes, The British are great
smokers. They consumed $3.50 900
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
1886, and later on II 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 l. 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 ruinatlon Of the
Virginia tobacco industry and the rebel
lion or 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 up the egactions Of the past
| don't know the amount Of capital
possessed by the Imperial Tobacco com
pany, but II runs high into the tens OF
millions. The American Tobacco COM
pany, INCORPORATED I'm 1890 had capt.
tai of S25, 900 COO and IN 1901 II had so
added to It's holdings that rs outstand-
ing securities aggregated $40 900 000 The
Continental Tobacco company organic
ed In 1898. has carital stock and Sc
curitles Of about slOO0OO00O, and there
are other companies which represent
millions more. II Is safe to say that the
tobacco companies Of America alto
gether have a capital Of at least Sl-O,-
100000, and that most OF them are more
or less interested In this fight
AMERICAN TRACKS ON OLD LAND
MARKS.
Everywhe'e I go in London | see the
footsteps Of the ubiquitous Yankee. He
Is either on the streets with his car
petbag and samples, I'm 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 ether well known American writer's
are as popular here as at home and
their books are sold by the thousands.
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 10 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 a stationer named Poole, / |
asked him for his best lead pencils |
and he showed me two. which were APP
Inrently just alike, but one Of which |
cost twice as much as the other. The |
expensive lead pencil was made In Aus |
trie, costing 10 cents, and the other was |
almost q fac-simile for cents but on |
the back OF the second I noticed O
stamp showing that It was made by the
Eagle Pencil company OF New York !
4 I've oldliOHtT lOlu me lHhts nluCu VI |
his paper came from America. This is
so OF the cheap kinds, the |
most OF the newspapers being printed |
on paper made of American wood pulp. |
YANKEES IN WESTMINSTER ABB
BEY.
Speaking OF printing, Benjamin
Franklin did some of his first printing |
In London. I came upon his old home
In one Of the houses Of Craven street |
this morning. II is within a stones
throw of Charing Cross and there V |
marble slab on the wall upon which /
are the words benjamin Franklin |
once lived here" ! stumbled across |
statue OF George Peabody, our first |
millionaire, back Of the Bank |
Of England yesterday, and when l en-
tered Westminster Abbey shortly be- |
fore II was closed TO prepare II for |
King Edwards coronation, | found on |
a yellow card laid on one OF the tombs |
n quotation concerning the beauty OF
the place franz Oliver Wendell Holmes.
| soon drilled into the poets corner