| Show k DAI TAI K A POLITICAL balk jj with t lie 11 lloy t alty of difference IN PRICES some instructive observations made by dr br F FD D bickford Bio kford of provo I 1 correspond ence there thera is ia but one london it if athia profound prof cund opening assertion of mine referred erred to name only then indeed would I 1 bs talking paradoxically five months nao I 1 would hare bate said 11 talking through my hat bat as the sweetest most expressive american slang phrase I 1 could have called from my vocabulary of bathetic Ta expressions express ioni thanks to three weeks intimate association with ray my warm personal friends the queen pr premier mer prince and other high baries I 1 have bato learned better manners and besides as the queen remarked last evol evening ning at tea while eri engaged gaved in pouring out ray my third cup of 01 cocoa she considered such expressions vulgar and D personally ally requested me to utter titter only aly which is ia quite english while ner guest and under her roof roaf I 1 rose aroe very del deliberately ibera tely coul dalt pon poa ably do otherwise at close of an eug lish liah meal and assuming a chauncey Chaun Chaunc cay ev M depew ater attitude I 1 says to her bar aa aada a I 1 lady you are quite richt bv jove I 1 it was an alexi ex cee dinely happy I 1 hit on my my part as lady and nd by jove are viry very enz ens hah BO is ia quite proceeding nearly i emy efery other word uttered on britain toil soil the queen smilingly approved my eloquent remarks mr gladstone nodded a salutation of assant and the prince of wales well he say ray much being as usual too full for utterance his hia mother was aa quito alarmed and said she was afraid she see would yet live and bv the way tho the prince told me privately that he be was very much afraid too to see sea her darling boy a physical wreck moral and financial wreck I 1 thought though was nearer the truth but I 1 kept my ei silence lence knowing it be english to volt volunteer inteer ny amen amendatory delory remarks she said bald the thae arduous intricate state duties imposed upon liidi v cere ere for from being corn com gensu tte ite witti i a tender years vears and expert P onla that morn morning fing had he been caled from his royal coach at the unreasonable hour of eleven a continental billi billiard aril match five hundred pounds sterlind ater ster lins linz on a silo si lo 10 and KI K ae I receipts to the winner provi diw an unbroken rua ran L i of one ona hai hundred dred wai made duriac deriu the conteri beitia no f spott possibly the s f aitor may have to retie the above e adt at the words ars ara as nearly verbatim as I 1 can remember now in in my conTe on with the tha queen she further farther said that tuey always called caled lipan the prince to nin umpire dire such like amu leuta aab hadt ticha opita tion fr fairness lair nese be dides heiny being so eo adverse to gambling linc an and hy bv teeby tha by bafo before a it escapes my mind site requested trio me to enclose in ia i thi correspondence her kindest most incero I 1 I 1 regards t ti tur till EsQuiR ER I 1 judye judge jont jonts s george sutherland dr simmons simmon herbert pyne L ex mayor mavor baboth and other leading republican publican n satellites of off brovo and ask aek them thern what they would take eith either er in english gold or southern confederate boada bands and notes of which lauar latter they have a surplus to let up writing and tal talking ring republican doctrine and for the balance of the cam campaign work lr for the election of grover graver cleveland and other Dm cratic nominada nomi she farther said that there wasa waa a lowborn low born miserable ra little upstart up start of a man in the tha in a of eiland by the narna of Vc Kinley who lived in ohio and really whereat she opened her bar eydi anu unu dually wide be seemed to think ta tare mire re of his hh coant country rv and the pro castins of her than trie foster fostering I 1 tig of England En glands 8 industries she conti continued aued to say with more behem price and apparently v bat excitedly cit eilly edly that she ehe just juat could not nat unde riland why it wail waa the united states should have it in for fo Enz land only last week ribe che in in forand me of one of their largest and heaviest exporters of cheap fc hoddy all wool t ready made suits auita with its thirty some odd branch stores had failed the primary cause hang being the mckinley tariff lariff law shy she asked roe me if I 1 did not think it was imposing a great burden upon and a rank injustice to the poor laboring men of my own country I 1 told her I 1 had investigated this subject to my own satisfaction at least when visiting ll 11 chicago and now new york city before sailing ai I 1 ha hal 1 priced v various ar grades of ready read v made clothing I A month laar I 1 had inspected and made ganv inquiries in a larue large clothing house in beilin of which and brwn of philadelphia Philadel nhia were the Lea heaviest outside buyers principally of knelp cowap suits ranging from twenty five fite to forty marks hut since the mckin mckiney y bill became u law their shipments had bad been reduced to a high and dear class of wool goods gooda and even this branch of their industry hail had suffered a diminution oi of about fifty per cent learning their retail figures ald add comparing them with those 1 I had obtained in the american I 1 wile was actually surprised at the little difference eai especially J 4 in a the raw raa material A cheap bo 0 o s suit bait or one adapted or lor a a bonni man costing say sav teu ten dol its ira in new york would bear a figure f about eight doihara in berlin I 1 urther told her that I 1 considered this disparity lis fis parity of figures in faor fanor oi of the berlin house largely due to the fact f that tle tie laborers engaged in the manuial tare of these goods received higher wages in the united states than in germany m any and as this thia excess of wages need not all be expended in clothing or other articles arti clea effected hy y the MeX ialey inley hill bill I 1 could not for the life of me see hw it could oe ne into an ini injustice ustice or I 1 burden hur dau to the laboring man furthermore when in berlin I 1 but bat but at this thia point my remarks were ware rudely broken in in upon and interrupted by ane queen who apparently did not favor my answer to her question aad visibly manifested her displeasure by abruptly rising from her sitting posture and stamping the marble maible floor of 0 the dining room quite vigorously with one of other her delicately encased little royal feet which alich by the way frightened mr gladstone nearly to death poor man hi h is ia very weak and nervous sine since 9 hi his a wife organized the new cL cabinet binet and then he had bad hardly recovered from his recent unfortunate accad accident of last thursday in hyde park said she hd no nut t div give e a continental langu language ave which shocked me very much ch com comini I 1 f n z from the source it lid did for berlin 0 was not ro referring ferring to berlin 1 I own dear En easland Ens land aland dihe sai eai i much use for germany anyhow her bar I 1 nephew included they Admal ad maltreated mal treated her pet daughter and eiten her favorite favori faveri I 1 ite throat doctor dr mckenzie was waa called to german germanas germanys Germ anys ys capital to consult with prof bergmann and others in the fatal allne illness se of the late emperor they had bad misused him too the university students even gathered en masae at th the depot to hoot and hiss and possibly do him bodily injury but thanks to a kind friend lie he had been d and leaving for or potsdam on a night train had escaped the indignity intended with thia rather lengthy interlude she again interrogated me asking if i I 1 knew anything any about ready reada made wear ing app apparel arel ju in england au and d how it compared with protection america I 1 told her she ehe was asking me a great many questions that I 1 made no pretension to being a politician or politico economist I 1 was nothing but a poor door common every erv day dav doctor if she wished to know th the doze of jalap rhu barb epsom salts etc I 1 could tell I 1 her but I 1 was not posted in politics in I 1 facil had always been of the that politics aud and pills pilla form rather an incompatible mixture but as she had bad asked me a fair question I 1 would try to the best of ray my ability to answer her intelligently I 1 must confess that by this time I 1 was getting just a little b bit it earnest and when the queen resumed her former position in an easy rocker I 1 commenced I 1 told her tha for the past two days I 1 had done nothing bul rummage every nook and comer corie of hope bros Cen central trl the london that hops hope bros carried the largest line lina of linen silk and w wool ool goods in in I 1 london it if not in europe twelve immense places of cf business represented fir firm mintha in the city while branches had been estabi established ish dan Jn nearly every important ta t city of ef the united K kingdom I 1 again discovered the fact that in ene hind as in germany there is but slight difference in cheap linen and wool goods in favor of course of england just about enouen to account for the differ difference epee in wanes and were it not for this protective measure these countries coun trips would abundantly supply our dEni demand and in those goods unless we reduced the laborers wages to the scale adopted here bere I 1 continued to remark as the queen wait waa listening attentively that as I 1 passed through the cutting basting baa ting sewing measuring and various depart departments mens my heart ached and beat warmly war calyin in sympathy with the hundreds hun dreda yes thousands of young girls wo men and men who were cofoed up op in those unwholesome rooms breathing vitiated atmosphere six long days in the week I 1 asked the clerk who conducted me tj to compensations received the queen here moved tines uneasily in her chair ss rs she knew what was coming e me 9 a girls girl pointing inting out some engaged in hemb tro eb ching ing handkerchiefs K on en and underwear were receive aig one english shilling 25 23 acts per day women erigan engaged ed in more experienced work two tn j shillings while many gaad first class men menta tailors ilora were e earning arn from eighteen to twenty four shillings per week As I 1 peered into their pale pinched ditched unhappy faces I 1 observed lay ibay god forbid that we should e ver t experience En glands free boast t id d worlds mercantile mer camile relationship if it brings our oar workingmen within the pale of Eu En ropes pauper wages and I 1 nol I 1 yet vet the tha fruide looked quite displeased pleased dia when I 1 expressed surprise at wages received cei veil aad informed inform od ms me tuat tha thair ir house hoase the very highest prices to ta their in in excess ot of any simbar establishment in the city and their surroundings andings were fine he significantly aldal that he could take me that indeed would astonish me after this explanation I 1 could read ity by understand a and n d did not doubt the i supplemental I 1 on octal remark which a clerk 01 W waya ays makes in ia attempting a sale eale to W customer that it ia a ai I 1 chand wa main or hand aked rk ed because ban i kere is if cheaper than machine laa chine I 1 libor ibor in america the queen nw now began to Imani feet combination symptoms of nervo nervousness fear and aurer but restraining restrain iol r self she asked me with a degree of cui r m desure concerning high grade odb I 1 told here that there was about a abne one third reduction of prices in favor 0 engl eckl sla bh make particularly in fine dress and superior business suits underwear etc as these there goods required about three times the labor expended upon the cheaper articles necea necessarily rily owing to the vast difference in laborers wages in ia favor of america the finest goods manufactured must bear a correspond angly lower figuro the queen now partly arose and with a look 1001 of confidence and an of now I 1 have hav ayou you asked me how it was with kid gloves silk lira and att the same saine time nodding com toward sir mr gladstone tone my readers may have wonder wondered won derad 01 ol slightly why the lately made premier took no active part in the conversation and preserved such indifferent tranquil 1 l silence the facts were I 1 had bought him off early in the evening before tea the queen had excused h herself to repair to to the kitchen kachen to see if the biscuits cul its were done and to turn the loread 1 read over in in the oven thereby leaving lea diug mr gladstone and alone with exception of the prince who lay on the tha sofa mutter muttering jug in his hia sleep eo so about placing pla cink at another iother twenty pounds on the brown horse against the field mr glad stone atone then came to my side and whispering in in my ear asked me how I 1 per 1 regarded his hia pet scheme and life work the elevation and liberation of the idrisu race through the instrumentality of his home rule kule bill I 1 told him I 1 was head body end heels in in favor of it so BO was america at large and when I 1 returned I 1 would personally head and circulate a subscription paper pape r for the defrayal of his bis recent campaign e expenses en sea he shoo chook k me ma warmly by the hand band and zaid he hoped I 1 would return by next sailing which I 1 hardly know to anis day whether to accept as a campli ment or not my promise in in a measure I 1 thought kepi him from actively arraying him belf against me and I 1 noticed that when ere the queen looked in nis direction for a sign of approval he ha nur avoided her gaze and his eyes would invariably wonder in the direction of a life sized painting of the tha late premier lord salisbury and I 1 mistrusted his mind was dwelling upon epou the words of f the que queen en in her bar last mesba hessaa s to parliament just before its ita di ol ution when she stated she very much regretted that the results 0 f the ger general teral election demanded the resignation of lord salisbury and the reinstate itie ui nt of one who had repeatedly been tried and whose accomplishments concis ed mainly in his ability to stir up s sl j i ife fe diser dissatisfaction and disloyalty pos sibly thoughts of those remarks might have influenced him to at lenit least occupy neutral ground during the evening when the queen referred to sil lk ties kerchiefs and kid hill gloves it was mv my turn to look weary and nervous for visions of six 8 ix dozen satin ties silk kerchiefs and ladies kid gloves snugly packed pac Ledin in the bottom of mv trunk floated in vie the field fiela of my vision day I 1 and night mentally causing me much disturbance and conjecture as to how I 1 was to assume an indifferent careless expression when confronted b by y the sew new york custom house officers however after a moments delay I 1 informed nf ormed the queaa that the articles just mentioned could be bought very cheaply indeed possibly for halite half the 6 price r ic charged for the same annew in new york k tha the queens happiness knew no bounds and she fairly danced around my chair saving she knew all the time our protective lauds lands particularly the bated mckinley bill worked to the disadvantage a of our laboring laborin g men by this time 1 was getting just jast a little mad besids my lunza were wera acco ac commo nimo dating themselves yes to the inhalation of royal atmosphere I 1 told her that her premature exuberance of spirits in fact her questions and arguments were extremely for foolish ilish puerile much after the illogical reasoning of our democratic friends home in their buncombe game of attempting to brinz brine the american laborer to the deplorable lure ol 01 his brother across the sea bea I 1 explained to her that 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