Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-09-28
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Travel letter Of w. Y. Morgan:
I am not knocking on the English.
This condition which seems 80 DIS
tressing to me Il q product OF tneir
conditions and is not the deliberate
purpose OF the people. ! think II
comes from the conservatism OF tne
English character and also from tne
fact that the English workman COM
petes against the world. Englisn
manufacturers and commerce have
been built up because in England
labor is intelligent, high class ana
cheap. / can have a tailor made SUIT
Of clothes for twelve dollars IN Lon
don That's fine for me but how Ii
Il for the tailor? And 1t doesn't heip
the other English workingman for ne
does not have the twelve. ON the
other hand the ability Of the Ameri-
can workman to buy has brought IL
TO pass that he can get Just as good
suit. better fitted and better look
ing at a Hutchinson clothing store
for twelve to fifteen dollars-and ne
has the money and buys! There Is
going to be some discussion Of cloth
ing and the wooden schedule In tne
United States and want to put IN
this testimony. Before l left home !
bought suit in Hutchinson for III
teen dollars. No English tailor-maae
anti for that price looks near so WE'LL
and the way 1t fits and hangs is COM
plimented by the English, The only
kind of stuff that Is cheaper In Eng
land than with us Is that In wnicn
hand labor is employed. Women buy
because they are made by Intelligent
working women who are paid 20 10
20 cents d day. Silk hats are cheaper
hut the same quality hat | BUY al
home cost me just as much IN Lon
don and shirts, underwear, sox' etc"
ore as expensive here as in Hutchln-
son, | am told the same rule appiles
to women's clothes. Americans VINO
come to England and continue to i've
nm the same standard they DO IN
America say that living Is more e4-
nensive here. OF course they can
have three or four servants for the
same price they paid the one nireu
girl at home, and can pose as Deins
upper class"
went to a barber shop, flrst
class one, / was shaved for a "tup-
pence" flour American cents) anu
mad nv hair cut for "tripence'
(six American cents,) ii gave tne
barber tip of penny, for which ne
was very thankful, and then went
out of the shop growing at a coun-
trv where could get shaved SO
cheap and where tailor-made sun
or,v cost S12. In this world OF ours
we are so dependent on each otnef
that YOU can't cheaper one man
without cheapenlng all the rest
asked the street car conductor ano
bo told me he was paid five dollars
week-and he has a family OF SIX
The chambermaid at the hotel WORKS
eor dollar a week and board. A good
coachman or a house man gets one
IN two dollars week and board q
clerk in store does well to pea'
Hva dollars a week, How do they
Iuve9 | don't know but they DO Du'
Ithev have all heard of America anc
Canada and Australia and wouid &c
there IL they could raise the rare o.
II IT were not for leaving family anc
home.
I am getting away from the striK'
subiect. l make myself unpopular
with some Of the English, the wealth
Her people and their footmen, BY IN
sisting that the railroad men ough
to strike and ought to have the'
wages doubled, when ] have to pa!
: more than two cents mile for a sec
; ond class fare, and about twice q
J much for shipping freight as ! woul'
+ in Kansas. And always compar
9 with Kansas. a place most Of then
never heard Of, and I suppose the
I think am describing a fictitiou
: land where the millennium has alread
arrived.
CARROLL DIED WHILE
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