Arizona republican., 1902-01-21

The advantages under which Ameri- can workingmen live are never SO
 vividly brought out as THE when compared with ! ENGLISH the conditions under 1 WORKMAN. which the laboring classes abroad grow up and spend their lives. A writer in the Engineering Magazine. MT. Percy Longmuir, contributes an interesting study of the environment of British workmen. which leaves no room for wonder why the American is far su- perior to his competitor abroad. and
 why the United States is becoming SUI preme in the trade of the world. Speak ing of the surroundings O. the English laborer, Mr. Longmuir says:
 Bred and born for the most part in what thirty years hence, it is hoped. wnl be regarded as congcsted slums. the child grows or, more correctly speaking, is allowed to grow, in the same rut as it's parents and grand parents. The street is it's nursery, q crowded kitchen its dining room, and for sleeping accommodation it has a share of a bed in a room crowded to excess. Is ic wonder that. reared in an atmosphere Of this kind. the com ing artisan lacks originality, and that stamina and vital forces alike are low?
 Conditions similar to those described are not familiar to the smaller manu- featuring areas, but in the larger ones. and also in the larger coal mining and iron working communities existing as semi-towns in various parts of the country, these conditions are very real. An examination of four typical cities say Glasgow. Manchester. Birmingham and Sheffield-will bear out this asser- ton.
 Mir. Lonsrnuir says that the educa- tion the children receive. good in it's way and given in fairly weli-equipped schools, by efficiently trained teachers. is seriously discounted by the home surroundings, and especially by pa rental interference.
 The future workingman of Britain in the majority of cases is handicapped from the day of his birth, left-if q younger child-to the care Of elder brothers or sisters, allowed to get his moral training in the streets, and put to work as an errand boy CT shop lad just at the time his schol training is beginning to be effective. At fourteen CT fifteen he is placed in works and put to trade for which in nine cases out of ten he has no aptitude or inclina- ton. At eighteen or twenty little re mains Of his early and somewhat linn tied education. He marrics early, rears q family, in which his own training is repeated, and generally follows in the steps of his forbears. If he has any guide at all, tradition ls the only one followed. Therefore. as it is traditional to regard the capitalist from an antag- onistic point of view, he follows his guide most blindly in this respect. and Improvements effccting increased or more economicaI production he regards as an indication Of future lack of em- ployment to himself or his children. and therefore does his best to minimize what to him may seem 2 personal ir- jury. His interests and anusements are few and do not tend to widen his scope of observation. At the theater mauGiin sentimental plays giving q false estimate of life are his favorites; the one afternoon he has free he gives to football. and that unfortunately as d spectator and not a player. Horse racing and various forms of betting complete the list. It therefore happens that the page of q daily paper most familiar to him is the sporting one. and if of slightly developed type he may