Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-24 | Page 4 | Local News

A recent report on the "drink bill" of Groat Britain, made by Frank W. Ma-hln, Ma-hln, U. S. Consul at Nottingham, England, Eng-land, to the Department of Commerce and Labor, puts the total at $S48,93790S, a decrease of $25,000,000 nearly, compared com-pared with 1902. Scotland consumes nearly twice as much spirits as England, Eng-land, per head, and England consumes per head, four times as much beer as Scotland, while Ireland consumes slightly more spirits per head than England does, and far less beer. The average drink bill, per head, for all, was $20.03 In 1902, which Is an onormous sum, when all the non-drlnkers (moet of the women and children and many of the men) are counted out. Rev. R. D. Stlnson, Chancellor of Morris Brown college, Atlanta, thinks that there are too many nfcgroes In Chicago Chi-cago by thirty thousand, and that these should be started for tho South at once. At the same time, he says none but tho "green, unsubstantial, ignorant herd of brutes from the South came yelping up to Chicago, where they have free bars, free street cars, free hotels, whore they can go where they pleaee, talk as they please," and generally turn things up side down. "The heft negroes stay in the South," he said. All of which may cause reflection; and one might well ask if the Southern white men lynch so many of "tho best negroes" as they do, who stay in the South, what In the world wouldn't they do to "the Ignorant herd of brutes from the South" who "come yelping up to Chicago," If these also slnynd In the South. Is It not quite possible, ao a matter of fact, that It was something elr-e than the attractions of Chicago that drove thoso negroes out of the South? That In fact terror lent wings to Ihc-Ir flight?