The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-27
BY ZACH McGHEE.


 cohing hEaFp0o oversge Asg celtic our of 0es sss White Star Line--there was an ex- ceedingly congenial and jolly party sports on the deck-quoits. bull board shuffle board, and some more bolster ous ones. all the way from pussy '.pillow-fights" to hurdle races. tug of war. and cricket. We ran also our jokes on one another. some old. some incased sanitary" tooth pick into his mouth lighted 1t, and wondered why the cigarette" wouldn't draw, to a certain Senator aboard who saw the and said four dollars was too high Since arriving here I have seen nu- merous things In the stores listed that way when any American should be ex- cused for thinking 1t meant dollars The rental on the steamer rugs, four shillings. was one dollar. To be ex- sort of matter. you should get four | shillings and a penny for an Ameri- can dollar. To see an all-wool suit of clothes. the kind you are ace9stomed 9st aeS listed at 20 shillings, or even at l5 or eighteen shillings is little con fusing. It even dazes you at first, visitor to England of your acquaint- ance talk about the exceedingly low price Of clothing over here. l am not awhile. It is mentioned here only to show the force and yet take away much of the point of the joke on the
 But with all the fun and frolic on the boat during those delightful eight days there was much serious conYer. sation and interchange of ideas. Next to me at table sat a young Catholic priest z He wasn't always serious, for l he was a native Irishman, and was ma ma ger-in-ch of all the "deviltry' sports. But he was strict in his piety and very earnest in his devotlon to the welfare of humanity. He is serv- ing now in London. and knows power l ty and distress and sorrow among the | humble Eng g,and is suffering from this free trade" he said to me as we walked around the deck one beautt- ful moonlight night: And Tor more than an hour he told me of the prob, | lem of the unemployed in London, and of how it could be solved by Eng tection. He was very earnest and cyl. dently very sincere In the belief that a small duty on a few articles Of manufacture would give emhployIment h n1 pioyed in London, with whom he came
 You see," said this young priest. we have two million more people in London than can maintain themselves. Now we buy in England twelve boxes | of matches, these small boxes you un- l deFStanQ. approximately cents: "tupReencc ha- penny" he pronounced it. These matches are made in Sweden. The swedes are superior ,nd match,maKegS. h,,m t6a;, matches If we should put small tariff on imported matches, they could not do that. you see; and match iac. tories would spring up in England to give employment to this surplus popu-
 ii Why don't they go to Sweden and make matches?" I asked, half in q
 On" he answered seriously they
 Would they tP Tbtf the o1eston mstf5 dd not ask, and I shall not attempt even a suggestion of an answer until ] know Something about these people at This Fl I do know at first hand. that the match with which I have just lighted my calibash ppe-mark you. getting to be h'English"-is labeled Made in England" The box cost me one penny, and It contains a few less matches than you onta can 31y 3tSe in wa Wash n match, this English made one. more carefully made. the wood more easily With til' about three, instead of dozen. It is furthermore put up in better box There is match factory here in Liverpool nave not been lntO IL. put have wandered around the village or section where the 800 girls who make matches live, and In and out of the shops in the vicinity, where, they or their parents buy their bread. grocer les, and some of their clothes. These girls work by the piece" and they earn from 15 to 20 shillings Cor from $3.75 to $5.00) a week. They never work Saturday afternoons and some times they have all day Saturday hol- iday.
 On my table. furnished by my land lady (though I shouldn't call her that in hEnglanl, I believe), Is another box which used to contain matches have just taken 1t oyer across the road-mind you, road" not street Street" means the row of houses lin Ing the "road'--to the grocer from whom the matches were purchased.anj