The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-23
BY zAcK MGHEE.

noon paper here yesterday introduced me to the Lord Mayor as the only | | American have seen who Is not here | | to visit old abbeys and castle walis." have told them all that I came to | see not what their ancestors did. but | what they themselves are doing. '"rhe | Americans" said this journalist. Mir. | l William Cowan of The Bradford Argus. | | who. by the way, is one of the most | | enterprising and capable in England, | | usually spend few hours in West | minister Abbey and the British Museum. go through the House of Parliament, | ride around London in cab or bus.
 run up to Edinburgh. look at the cas-
 tie. then go around for few days. | stopping at tourists hotels and looking | at old castles and abbeys and few | other things which belong to past | centuries. They then go home and | think, and say. that they have seen | England, which, according to them. | | consists principally of old ruins" l With all due respect. and. perhaps. l too. a little envy. of those who con | template only the romantic and his- | toric side of England. when they come | l here, rather suspect that this Eng | fish editor Is right. Now one would not suppose from what have just written that while write I am sitting in old Sam John- | l the burly old chap used himself to sit
 in. and perhaps write for The Tatier | | or The Idler. | And where am I writing in this same | chair? In the Museum. or in the | home of some "juke' or lord? Not at | all. but before the fire in my land. lady,s kitchen, while the kitchen maid | is washing the dinner dishes. l came | in here because 1t Is cold. and took out | of a secluded corner the only rocking chair in the room.
 nAhal" exclaimed the landlady. com- ing in a few minutes later. and do you know what you are sitting inF
 | I jumped up and looked TOT she
 grease.
 .aThat's Dr. Johnson's chair" she said So. if you don't find this interesting just consider where 1t comes from.
 And how came 1t in my landlady's
 kitchen7 She is the daughter or rl silk manufactures, one of whose over lookers' was a descendant of the fa-
 moua and eccentric old lamp.post Il toucher. That's what my landlady
 says. suppose she is prepared to give the answer of old Colonel Sims, once keeper of the treasured historical relics in the State House Of Soutn CAT oIina, when some skeptical man rom Missouri asked him for proof that tne rusty old sword was really the one worn by General Marion. why said the Colonel, "it has never been autnen- | ticallv denied :" But don't ask iin- perttnent questions, and I'm not rom Missouri on this chair business don't want anybody ever to autnentI- cally deny that I am writing m UT. Samuel Johnsons chair' AS ssoH look into the blazing grate to renect' [ cannot but think of that great gos- | neI of discontent the old fellow preach- ed in Rasselas, perhaps some or It from this very chair. Who knows!
 And now I will attend to you. pa Il tient reader" for you are wonderihs how 1t happens that the daughter or Il manufacturer allows me to sit Tn her Kitchen and how 1t comes that sne tsAes boaders. Manufacturing in England Il must he at @ pretty low ebD. eh' TOT vour dea of a manufacturer IS man who lives in a palattal residence nay
 ing perhaps several scattered aDou.. who wears diamonds as pig as yous flat. and whose automobile honks apout .'-,,, acc r,ng people half to death. IT I ha ian't that sort he must be poor
 succeas. His daughter inhertts iarge Il rronerties." and to get into her mousse I one must wear kid gloves and sns- fentinS hat, otherwise clothed Tn me
 raiment and carry protusely oIha
 mented chauffeur and few praSs-Due- Il toned feetmen around under ms WAns, Neutrality YOU have figured out that am not travelling with such impedi- Il ments. ,. .,rai,v Il thinks that England's industries are m pretty bad shape because its manuisG-
 turner's are not all millionalres. ne
 naturally does not think of an econ
 omic aystem the genius of which IS
 nnt to make millionaires at all. but Il actually to prevent the manufacture or this. the great American product The
 "consumer," who. to Senator Lodge
 ia a myth" Is the man who IS pro tected'' in England. protected rom monopoly. Incidentally. he is up Tn
 arms iust now, with u chance of win
 ninr. to get further protection from
 the flchings of the landlords.
 | I>haye been with some of the Weir | to-ao manufacturers over here. been
 with them In their offices, In thel'
 mills, in their clubs, in thelr nonhes They are numerous, proportionately' as' sav. the retail merchants in the aver
 aso towr in America and they bear
 about the same relation to the commu-
 nity. They are good ordinarily hard-
 workinR. prosperous citizens, take tHeIn sTI in all. about like other folk anu not A rich and powerful class 10 tno'
 selves. Above all. there are plenty VI
 them, and they compete wlth one tha
 other. That is, to a large extent tio
 oeasor whv they cannot grow immense
 
 iv rich at the expense of the rest or the
 neople ana why people can buy cheap l clothes. , ,,,ooIan
 ,I1 ot pa tiev. seven miles from Brad
 ford, and about the same distance from
 Leeds. with two brothers who owned
 the mill. It was a little town or soare re l 9E OoO neople. but in sight there Were
 some nfty or more similar mills.
 what difference do you notice peS
 tween this and America?' one or
 them asked. "In America l .t rep.eI'
 .there would be a group Of capital
 ,sts, some half dozen. or more likely
 nne or two men, in an office building
 at. say. Leeds or Bradford who ap wSs.a ,SSsa
 'Sa-,, T ace around here. The group
 oS canitalists would own also the tram
 CtroIleyC car lines connecting these
 towns. They would own the gas
 works. the electric lighting system. the
 v,aterworks and dominate pretty much
 ali other big industries about here.