Evening journal., 1911-04-20
in Is STATES,
THEN ABROAD
W. J. Hogan Says Wilmington
Is Just as lear to Him
as Ever
BELIEVES BRIDGEPORT
THE PRETTIEST CITY

William J. Hogan spent Easter
Sunday and Monday in Wilmington
after an absence of more than eight
months. Speaking of his experiences
in the different places he visited
having gone pretty we'll through fif-
teen States, as we'll as making quite
an extensive tour of Europe-among
other things Mr.. Hogan said: ''Wher-
ever I went an ever-present longing
for Wilmington would not down.
never appreciated the brick and NOR
tar that gives Wilmington its shape.
its people, newspapers, especially
THE EVENING JOURNAL and the
dear old Labor Herald, and the Insti-
tute Free Library so much before.
MY first stop was week in Phila-
delphia, where / spent much time
studying the conditions of labor
There I saw the sweat shop carried
10 an extreme with a vengeance;
there saw a mother and FIVE little
children stitch hooks and eyes on
cards, the youngest of the children be-
ing three years old, while the Oldest
was perhaps twelve. And this family
was typical of thousands of others
through the entire districts. Oh, but
the slums there are a blight on this
civilization
"Of all the cities ! visited in fifteen
States, found Bridgeport, Conn, 70
be the prettiest; York, Pa. the clean
est and the Institute Free Library OF
Wilmington to be the best governed
of all ] entered libraries in at least
forty cities, but in none of them we're
the opportunities offered students to be
classed with those which obtain In the
Wilmington library Best wishes to
Mr. Baily.
And in few Of the cities of its class
will the trolley traveller find the
trolley service as good as that which
obtains in Wilmington.
Wilmington Markets ExceI.
Il would say a few words concern
ing the markets, the places in which
the good housewife should spend her
money for supplies. Wilmington is
the dearest city ] know of in this re-
/ spect. and It is important that those
who toll. 10 earn the money that the
women must spend for supplies.
should learn the causes Of high prices.
Ia no city that visited did 7 hear
so much complaint about high prices
as I have heard in Wilmington. It
was noticeable to me that the prices
Of foodstuffs were lower in most other
places than in Wilmington and there
must be a fundamental cause. II is
true that supply and demand FIX
prices, and when we consider the
farm-garden territory from which
Wilmington can or should draw its
supplies Of vegetables. reasonable
prices should obtain In Wilmington,
as we'll as I'm other cities unless there
is an artificial scarcity created by
middlemen or the laws they have en-
acted so that they may acquire q
monopoly
Il will quote some Of the prices at
which I bought foodstuffs in Balti-
more during the months of January
and February and let the buyers. OF
Wilmington ask themselves why they
cannot buy in this city al equal prices
Onions. A. and cents a quarter
peck. white potatoes, II cents peck
sweet potatoes. 16 cents a peck. heads
of cabbage ranging from TO IL
pounds. at 5 cents. turnips, radishes
Southern tomatoes. cucumbers, green
peas and beans of various kinds ai
equally reasonable low prices.
Round steak, II and II cents
b Mound: porterhouse steak, 10 cents
picnic hams. S cents: sugarcured hams
Is cents. lard sold at O. 10, and /
cents q pound Strictly fresh eggs soil
at 70 cents a dozen during February
e don't believe that the wage scale
. in Baltimore are more than ten pc
, cent. lower than in Wilmington an
adelphia--certainly not the OF
eanized crafts Indeed, II Is a hard mat
ter to secure a job at a trade in Bal
timore unless you carry a card
' WouId Welcome Political Upheayal.
"Ip almost every community l Wis
tied found the people ready for
political upheaval. In a great man
towns II seemed to me, the indepen
! dent vote and some dissatisfied Reput
lioan votes would go to the Democratic
ticket next year, particularly dow
east but during the good weather las
fan 7 had no trouble kicking up
Single Tax meeting wherever l went
II visited a number of dry cities an
had little II any difficulty in securin
a nip, even in Maine.
Takes Trip Abroad.
. did get seasick crossing tn
: ocean? Well. / might were 1t not fc
L the fact that supplied myself with
little stimulant. -,
+ II don't want to bore you with
long-drawn out tale Of travel throue
? Furope. which might be interesting
2 that. but I will say that / looked care
!, fully for the pauper labor of EuroI
! as l travelled through ireland, Ems
: land. France, Germany, Spain an
. Italy. But the nearest approach
could find to II was a sturdy yeC
: manry. or peasantry, whose move
: ments at work we're as slow as the
wages were low. But in Europe. as
u America, observed that the colle'
!, ton of ground rents found work PEE
pie down to the lowest level it wa
possible for them to live az and sti
produce more wealth. Talk about II
! generosity Of employers here or ther
= the whole raft treats work peop'
much the same as a fireman treats
steam boiler. II it is necessary
= shovel more coal in order to keep II
steam up. the coal goes in. If no
II doesn't
The work people of Europe-tho'
Z Of England and Ireland excepted
have but a very small opinion of tt
United States OF course this
, caused by the narrow-chested systel
of education which obtains over ther
Patriotism is worked night and da
by the landed class of Europe.
seems to work itself. here