Show LETTER FROM ENGLAND decadence of condition of society etc we are permitted to make the following extracts from a letter written by a missionary now laboring in birmingham ming mingham liam england to a gentleman of this city for aught I 1 discover england occupies precisely her old location there seems however upon her face change chi Luge but nowhere to is it more perceptible than in the agricultural districts in my boyhood luxuriance in farm and field everywhere abounded the hap happy plough boys notes oer hill hill and dale resound ed but bat few farms now ow are highly cultivated most of thew them ate are not considered good enough to warrant it for some cause they mey have retro betro graded to a very infer inferior or grass and weeds presenting a spectacle of wanton desolation consequently for farm laborers mhd peace and contentment once reigned have greatly decreased in number or have become dilapidated being left to the r ravages a va ot the elements and time to I 1 level e v e I 1 t toem ne m with the ground would be farmers have undoubtedly sought pore more protective claims moat children of lat late years eyears are said to be born shop keeps or mechanics of some order and crowd into towns and cities as ants an ui into their bed nearly everyone as you know liao has so something methin 9 to sell from a swift aswill tooted footed toy lizard or penny sewing machine to a ponderous steam engine sometimes it seem nip and WWI tuck asto aa to whether MONEY OR RELIGION makes the mare go the latter appears to be the alpha and omega therom the corn mingling miB gling chime of church bells the tinkling ones ot of dle senters the toot ot of salvation born tambourine and t triangle i and the song im going home to jesus of the half stained beggar on the street as the common bellman concludes hia peroration with god save the qeeen all of these are boing going on the irresistible vender is 9 vociferously hollowing potatoes s six ix pound lor b hapenny 1 la penny and leave one ene won wondering wonderlin derin K whether money or religion makes the mare go despite aili all thia the eale of intoxicants is increasing here drunken men aye and women too revel upon the street so BO lost loat to shame are they that darkness and daylight are well nigh alike to them streets brawls are of common occur ence and from women receiving muscular castigation from their unmerciful lords may be heard almost any saturday night such treatment towards the gentler sex comes with striking contrast and is especially noticeable to a person who has spent one third of a century in the society of the saints so 80 that I 1 may be excused for first presenting the darker side of the picture of course there is I 1 A BRIGHTER SIDE and that apparent injustice may not be done it is gladly presented there seems in very many cases no good reason tor for squalid wretchedness very many many comforts unavailable b le a few years ago now extant which the th e prudent take advantage of landlords 10 rs municipal ordinances compelling I 1 ng are making better provision for t the be maintenance of health in the build ins ing of neat comfortable dwellings etc and the deat denizens zens of towns may now enjoy at a rental what in olden times was only within the reach of families of approximate independence pen dence public improvements of various kinds are constantly going on in sundry localities parks libraries and other and intellectual institutions have sprung into existence androw I 1 must be pardoned for indulging in a few re ro marka which may hardly seem pertinent I 1 had the pleasure of face to face beholding her majesty queen victoria victor is empress of india on the che occasion of her gracious visit last year vear to this manufacturing centre before closing allow me one word upon mhd boom excitement of all the arguments adduced none appear to have A TRUER RING KING than found in an editorial the DESERET NEWS of march oth 1888 it man be taken as an incontrovertible proposition that it the real estate boom to oom will remain an dynas fatrus until an advance is maae in the matter of home manufacturers until that is done it is a myth to tender please my hearty thanks to the editor forthe for the statement and every man who will follow the suggestion tendered will have occasion to rejoice and be glad the wise will do what they can to ench en chance asce home industries nave ave toe the suen sueh in every instinct of my soul and al most daily reflected upon them so forcibly have they been brought home when the poor saints in this land almost languishing for bread confront we me with letters fetters from their recently emigrated friends in Utah complaining of their having little or no employ men tand hence are in a great measure dependent there I 1 it was not so in former days in utah better return to original nal times and let the boom excitement go 0 o to the dogs X k jal X X ja |