Show LETTER FROM ENGLAND Improved Coutliltonof the Working CIs s and Other Matter liuuiiNGJLUi England January 10th 1S90 Correspondence of the DESEKET NEVS Since my arrival in England on the 2nd of EUEltnd ut November last I have had the opportunity op-portunity of noting many Items of interest That a vast Improvement has taken place In flue general condition con-dition of the working classes l beyond yond doubt Wages in nearly all the branches of Industry are considerably con-siderably higher than was the case when I left England twentyeight years ag Thu commodious tenements tene-ments erected show an evident desire de-sire on the part of the owners to make the occupants comfortable Food is remarkably cheap with the exception of meat aud In this respect re-spect the importation of American and colonial productions tends t keep down price Clothingisdown toa minimum and yet in spite of all this poverty t ram jout every where superinduced by an excessive use of Intoxicating liquors This consump ton of drink goes on In spite of the great eflorts of tie numerous mission by the churches and temperance tem-perance organizations I goes without with-out saying that this country possesses the elements of 1 comfortable existence exist-ence for all classes but they r neutralized by the demoralizing effects ef-fects of the drink traffic At a meeting meet-ing heLl in Birmingham a short I time ago I was gravely asserted that a largo number of licensed liquor shops nnd akhouwa were owned and controlled by city and county officials and Instances were given where the business was owned a a stock comjauy Christian ministers mIn-isters being amqng thesliareholders Under these conditions it is 11r the eudions i no wonder that tie uneducated clashes will Indulge their propensity for liquor thereby Impoverishing their families and in many cases beIng compelled to seek relief from the cmple Hk relef frm Pie 1 roclnal authorities While in Manchester I visited rome of the largo cotton factories As an example of the importance of the improved machinery introduced Into the spinning departments of tho cotton Industry It Is calculated that under theold method of ngltwheel plniilngonesilnnert by working work-ing fiftysix hours could spin five hanks of No 3 twist With the appliances now at command one cmmut man with the assistance of two boys can produce Imo hauks of tie same description of twkti nine tame time The enormous sum of J 000000 I rcpreonted sa the monetary mone-tary extent of Manchesters trading operations 400000000 yards of cloth being l annually The rapid increase of the putatiou is evidenced bJ the fact that whereas a few years ago the various towns and villagancould b readily defined by the cluster of houses there one I can now travel In almost any direction direc-tion from ManchcKicrand find miles I upon mih3 of streets the lines of the mll towns being defined by I I lc placed in tlio ground I aU enjoying my labors in the i missionary field There is l but little inclination I the part of the masses to listen to ties message wu bear Still we do not feel discouraged but try in our humble way disseminate dissemi-nate the truth of the Gospel by bearing our testimony t the people I distributing tract e My traveling travel-ing companion I Elder Charles Jl Lyman of Parowan Wo are labor lug In the Northampton district the Birmingham Coiiferencejamong a good class of lIIe My sympathies extend most heartily heart-ily to the membere of the Iy t membro Peoples party In Sal Lake who are now struggling K manful t hold their own against those who are teeming t ruin the prospects of our beautiful mountain city God HisJ mountin prosper Ii I 1 work in all lands W G BlCKLEV |