The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-08-17

America, instead OF a subject of Great
Britain, because you have got to 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 a picture Of a
roast beef, and yet we look upon all
Englishmen as beef-eaters, but three
tuurths Of the people in this town look
hungry and discouraged, and they
never seem to know whether they are
going to have any supper.
vent GOWN to a market this morn
Ing where the middle class and the
very poor people buy their supplies,
and 1t would make you sick to see
them. They buy small loaves Of bread
and a penny'S worth Of tea, and that is
breakfast, and if a man is working he
takes some Of the bread to work for
lunch, and the wife or mother buys a
carrot or quarter of a cabbage, and
maybe bone with a piece of meat
about as big as a fish bait, and that
makes supper, with a. groWler of beer.
Say, the chunk of meat with a bone
that an American butcher would throw
Ga dog that he had never been intro
tused to would be banquet for a
large family over here.
! have been down into the White
chapel district, which is the Five
nlnts Of London, and of the thou
@ads Of tough people saw there was
ad man but looked as though he
WOULD cut your liver out for a shilling,
@d every woman was drunk on gin.
Haa there Is about gin that makes it
us national beverage for bad people
Nas me, for it looks like water,
NSIes like medicine and smells like
ua storage eggs. At home when a
sisOn takes drink of beer or whisky
" y least looks happy for a minute,
@a maybe he laughs, but here nobody
nusas unless somebody gets hurt, and
S ms. seems to tickle everybody in the
waite Chapel district.
Inc people look mad and savage
sasa 'ney are not drinking, as though
wy. wy were only looking for an oppor-
.uli'S 70 commit murder. and then
slsa they take drink of gin, instead
~ 0mlhng and smacking their lips as
MOusa It was good and braced them
s y aey look as though they had been
,eas with a dirk and they put on a
~, WA o. revenge, as though they would
sAs y wiring a child's neck or cut holes
: sne people they meet.
asO drinks Of gin makes a man or
l. Sasa look as though they had swal-
S,iss ivy O ,! saw. always thought
,S.s e liquor made people think
tbs ~ we're enjoying themselves, or that
n.s. o0S 1t to drive away care and
~ 49, !, .aem forget their sorrows. but
h = aese people drink gin they seem
ss,S - i the way an American drinks
Slic acid, to end the whole hroi-
asas quick. 'n "no'e OuSi'
sls !. rome the drinker drinks to make
srs,s s's y ake he was at a picnic. Here
o.ls ofinker acts like a suicide, who
a. h a.pea that he may commit a muir.
Ana s the gin ends his career,
3 o. aste are hundreds of thousands
snss sle IN this town who have no
t ,s. ~ except to get bit of bread
d. sal them till they can get a
s,..s sln, and gradually they let I'D
losk IIs saurely and feed on gin, and
n. ass mad dogs and snarl at eye nTs
nm ss see, as much as to saw.
ss s'e you going to do about it?"
d. 1 ~ square American meal would
as,s., : ut and they would 90 to
s. and die II the meal could
wy vas glad to get cut Of