Show HIS TURN < M OR Savage Replies t His Fair English Critic And in a Pleasant Manner Does Justice to the Occasion Editors Herald While I admire the liberal act o publishing the letter of Elizabett Harrison your fair correspondent i i I England ii professed refutttion 0 certain btatementa of mine in letter written from there last fall I deny that her letter is severe or that she proves any descriptions untrue The I amount of the letter ia this she does not like to have the truth told about the sea girt isle I have no apology to make fur any thing I wrote I stated just what I saw and what was told me I have no enmity against England or her institutions I admire some ot them I Imagine that Miss Harmon id i ota ot-a much traveled lady People of taRt ort have very narrow idea Travel broadens them it would do her good to get further away from home I almost believe I shall have too to-o over there cad eWI her where to go and what to See in her native laud My critic no doubt lives in the charmed circle of the middle classes i that is i so he could have lve a half century in England without with-out knowing the true condition of the lower classes People in England do not mingle on a common level The employer is the master the employ em-ploy the man There is little socia t bility between the two When one i travels in 1 new country he likes to I eeo both upper and lower tendom I did not however see her pet workhouse work-house and I sincerely hope she may never have to do so and stay there 9 There may be pet paupers in England Eng-land I do not deny and they may be I well cared but how about the teeming I teem-ing thousands who are seen upon the streets morning noon and night in pets the large cities who am nobodyi petsAs As to tho low grade of society I muet have mingled with it il my business I could not see England in first class hotels Wealth ia cosmopolitan cosmo-politan We can best judge of the institutions of a country by the working work-ing classes Show me them and I can I tel you what kind of a country i is i I I am very sorry to say that Icannot retract one statement of mine and tell the honest truth I put my name to my letters like a man I did not hide them undera nom do plume I walked and red about like other people but my eyes may have been open wider than some othera that travel I visited the aristocratic quarters of London and the slums I saw the immense gap that can never be bridged over between the ECsailed classes Coming from a land where the working daises aro with eome exceptions on a par with the middle I clesEea of England intellectually i and I otherwise I do not admire the decided I class distinction of the old world and I must be excused for visiting the low grade of people she infers were I my associates in England I presume i the lady had read all my letters she would have seen that I spke of many things that are admirable I admir-able and very pleasing to American j eyes I must now notice a few of her criticisms in detail j As to the dress of the Liverpool police protecting their loins and leaving I leav-ing their back exposed this will speak for itself I cannot help it i they i i think more of their hips than their e lungs And i the lady would rather jump ofl of an English engine than one of American make going at the rate of fifty miles an hour I can not object One may as well slay aboard and take chances as take such a fearful leap going at such a speed unless they are like the famous rubber man I there is any beauty in lines the American locomotive will obtain the premium Now as to fifty miles per hour the the lady 13 out by ten miles forty miles per hour is the average time made on the railroads in Britain Tho English railroad cars are Englsh rairoad very cpi i the laws of nature can be set aside i not those who have used them know for themselves without any description of min how much superior they are to ours As to the umbrelli being 3 put of an Englishmans outfit no one can deny who has ever seen the Eogl sh tourist in our city Thoy all have them and some of them more than one The lady says I exaggerate about tipping I have bilh in my possession posses-sion where the proprietor charges i both for his own services and that of I attendants and i the enlightened lady comes over to America she will find our commonest 25c restaurant superior to many of tho highpriced I ones in Londcn Everybody knows this that has seen the diflerence I WAS in the arislocralip part of Manchester whore I got the shave in the antique chair I think my fair critic will allow that a mans experience experi-ence in gelling shaved ought to weigh against a Jalys who had never had occasion to test the different chops I only know what I eaw She ie entitled to say anything eho likes about a matter she knows nothing about She is a lady As to reaping machines I saw none and traveled through all the counties named but I saw hundreds reaping by hand I Wbs told that the street cars in Liverpool came from America that ia all I know of their origin I the talented correspondent should ever live to enjoy the luxury of a firstclass American cook stove she would think half her life wasted j that I ia i she had been a poor housewife with the little file in the grate and the miserable ovens on each side that I hsve seen in use in the homes of the poor in England She is talking talk-ing again about something she has not had the opportunity of judging about Every English woman in America says it she returned to liven live-n England she would take a cook stove back with her for use As to the price of meat and other necessities and 10 the objection to American product a case has just been cited where an Englishman sold American oyster and did a thriving trade as long as he kept their pedigree pedi-gree from the consumers As soon however aa the fact became known his trade fell f completely Of course Miss Harrison has only her quiot sphere of action to move in and she can hardly judge of what ia i seen indifferent in-different parts but let me here say that in the matter of opening an oytter England is 200 years bihind an American nigger boy in performing perform-ing the feat I saw three ladies in three diQerent places trying the experiment ex-periment and there they were wiggling wig-gling away trying to insert the blade of the knife to the great risk of cutting cut-ting hands for several minute while my niggcr boy would knock oil the edge of the shell on 1 prCjecting ridge of iron in govo ILC blade and it ia done in a twinkle I think i the lady will ask some of her poor acquaintances abe may find thousands thou-sands who can say that meat twice I a week Is a luxury I only know what people told me I did not stay with them one week to verify the fact The fact admitted that English l people have to depend upon either America or Russia only suitJina raj assertion thai i she depended upon her own resources alone for cod the people would starve The lady calla into question my statement that moat of the land in England is cut up into parka for the wealthy Any traveler in with one England wih eye can testify to that fact and what is worse should a poor unfortunate shoot oa hare in any of these parke he is sure of board and lodging at tm f public expense While I was in London Lon-don one of the English papers pub I liahed quite an article detailing thi I facts that a mKn who shot a hare received I re-ceived the same sentence that anothei I did who threw a hahhet and ttruck his wife in the forehead I desire emphatically to stale that while everything looks low and behind the time to American eyes in England there is i 1 great deal for all nations to lirn l of each other and there ia to place where Mia Harrison could learn more in a week than in America No one can fay that the American nation is free from faults They muy have two t one for the British nation but a visitor ftooi this side pees more than a resident More Americans visit the Tower of London than Londoners I am oldand what ia not noticed by residents is quickly seen by strangers I would be wry easy to write in glowing terms of England i the shady side of the picture was left unpainted Dickens wrote a description of America Amer-ica that made Americans squirm but it was truthful and prevailed EO will he truth about England C E SAVAGr |