Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-04-07

America, instead or q subject or GreaS
Dri,ain. because you have got 10 be
rich or be hungry here. and if you are
TOO rich you have got no appetite.
You have heard of the roast beef Of
old England. but nobody eats it but
the dukes and bankers The working
men never even saw q picture of
roast beef, and yet We look upon all
Englishmen as beef-eaters, but three
fourths of the people In this town look
hungry and discouraged. and they
never seem to know whether they are
going 10 have any supper.
] went -own to market this morn
ing where the middle class and the
very poor people buy their supplies,
ard Il would make you sick to see
them. They buy small loaves of bread
and pcnny's worth of tea. and that Is
breakfast. AID ii a man is working he
lunch, and the wife or mother buys a
carrot or a quarter Of cabbage. and
maybe a bone with q piece of meat
about as big as a fish tait. and that
mat es supper. with GROWER of beer.
Say, the chunk of meat with a bone
that an American butcher would throw
1T dog that he had never been intro
duced 10 would be a banquet for
large family over here.
! have been dow into the White
Chapel district, which is the Five
Points OF London. and Of the thou
sands of tough people saw there was
not man but loo.ed as though he
would cut your liver out for a shilling,
aud every woman was drunk on gin.
What there Is about gin that makes it
the national beverage fer bad people
beats me. for 1t looks like water.
tastes HE medicine and smells like
cold Storage eggs. At home when q
person takes q drink OF beer or whisky
he al least looks happy for a minute,
and maybe he laughs. but here nobody
laughs unless somebody gets hurt, and
that seeas to tickle everybody in the
White Chapel district
The people look mad and savage
they were only lcoi ing for an oppor-
tunity to commit murder. and then
wien they taae q drink OF gin, instead
OF smiling and smaching their lips as
though 1t was coed and braced them
up. they look as though they had been
stabbed with a dirk and they, put on a
look OF revenge. as though they would
Il e to wiring child's necA or cut holes
In the people they meet
Two drinks o. gin nal es man or
woman look as though they had swal-
lowed a buzz saw. / always thought
drins ing liquor made people think
they were enjoying themselves, or that
they took 1t TO drive away care and
MI. them forget their sorrows, but
when these people drink gin they seem
to do 1t the way an American drinks
carbolic acid, TO end the whole bust
LESS quick.
At home the drinker drinks to make
Elm feel like he was at picnic Here
every drlnser acts like suicide. Who
only hopes that he may commit MUIR
der before the gin ends his career.
And there are hundreds Of thousands
of people in this town who have no
ambition except to get bit of bread
to sustain them till they can get a
drink of gin. end gradually they let up
en- bread eniifely and feed on gin. and
look like mad dogs and snarl at every
body they see. as much as TO say:
what are you going 10 do about liz"
A good square American meal would
give them fit. and they would 20 to
q hospital and Gle ii tie meal could
not be got out of them.
Gosh, but l was clad to get ont of
the White Chapel district, and I kept
lco..ing back for fear one of the men
or women would slit me up the back
with butcher knife. and laugh like
an insane asylum inmate.
Do you know. thcae people who
drink gin and 60 hungry are different
from our American murderers. Our
mnrderers Will assault YOU with q
smile. rob you with johe on their
tongues eng. and give you back car
fare when they holu yoa up, and II
they murder you they viii 90 il easy
and lay yoa out With your hands
coroner, bat your Nhise Ghapel MUIR
lerer vans 10 dfsempovel yol and
cut you up mo cn1nl ), and throw
your reHai.-s Lead .-rsl into something
nasty, and ii you have mcaey eaoagl
on your person 10 buy a bottle CT ela.,
your murderer Is as va sals..ad as
though he cot rob. Soins laen Ia our