The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-02-16

1907 100000
1910 100000
The above is exclusive of the product of
loans. In 1914, the. expenditures were ia
millions of pounds sterling, and in one year
they amounted t. more than 1g5 millions, and
the reUenue was about 8O-the rest by loans.
The taxes, excuses, sc. produced 81 millions
in 1926; and about IS millions may be ASST
med as the average peace revenue that will be
required, to pay the interest on the debt and
other charges and burthens on the productive
classes. The public debt, in 1875, at the COM
mencenent of the American war, was 1876
millions. The increase of the tythes and poor
rates paid, has not been SO great,in proportion,
as the increase of the debt-but at present
may amount to 10 or II millions. So that
the dues payable directly to the government,
priests and the paupers, is nearly 70 millions
year, on a peace establishment. These
items will be referred to belOw-but we shall
first endeavor to shew what it is that has ena-
bled i 8 or 10 millions ofpeople,a lat the present
time, to pay 10 millions annually in taxes and
rates, when IS or II millions, lin 1889 were
thought to be almost as severely taxed to pay
g millions. No,o the whole people pay about
81. los. sterling per head-then they paid only
about II. IS This increased ability has grown
tifc power in Great Britain-and in the acant
ofsuch increase and application in other coun-
tries. And if the depreciation of value in the
pound sterling, on the one hand, be regarded,
the appreciated price of subsistence, on the
other, will more than balance it.
Britain, though long before powerful, started
into a new state of existence at about that pc
Rod when the French revolution commenced:
and to the wars which grew out of that me-
mOrable event, may be, undoubtedly. attribu-
ted the progress of her means, to controul or
direct the destinies of nations. While other
countries were over-run with foreign enemies
or desnlated by civil connections, and their
productive population, the labouring classes.
(and these are the only creatures of vaue)
were dragged en- mdsse to the field and made
fighting machines of, or otherwise cast from
the productive into the consuming classes,
while almost every useful occupation was in
terfered with or destroyed by contentious in
arms, and the hum Of industry was hushed by
the shrill blast of the trumpet-B Britain, though
deeply engaged in the bloody strife abroad. had
general peace and security al home, and her
productive capacity went beyond all calcula-
ton as to its extent-power adding to power
without end. so long as market was open to
receive her manufactures. She struck where
she pleased, and " loosed the dogs of war; at
her will-there was no mystery in this-she
became the great mandatory or work shop
of the civilized world-for all other people,
fitted to compete with her, were engaged in
business pertaining to the destruction of each
other; and one man, quietly seated in Eng
land, aided by labour-saving machines, could
produce articles which, in the market, would
sell for as much money as would hire and
subslst twenty, thirty, or fifty miserable
wretches employed to carry and point mus
ket, or pay for their cGrcHsses, if they fell in
battle, or purified in the hospital or camp
This was the practice long time before
The limbs and parts of Hessian slaves had
been purchased in the "shambles," of their
master, as the elder Pitt said, and sent to set
tie disputed rights in America" in our rev.
olution, at the rate of $50 per carcass, if left
to fatten our fields, as many of them were.-
The price of the bodies of men, of the white
slaves of Europe, has since been much redu
ced, and valued at not more than quarter SO
much as that of the woolled races of Grinea.
The petty princes of Germany were generally
subsidized by England-that is they sold the
limbs and lives of certain portions of their
subjects; and even Russia. Austria and Prussia,
furnished men, at 10 or Is pounds piece, to
fight the battles of England; and one copper
money value, equal to the cost of scores of
these Jumps of mortality, after subsisting him.
self and his famy--aye, and obtain the
money to pay for them from the countries
subsidized, through the market afforded by
the diminished industry in them! Herein
was manifested the master-polcy of British
statesmen-and the most powerful monarchs
became tothem only as breeders of fighting
slaves This creation of value in England
may be easily estimated from what is stated
in the s. legitimate" Quarterly Review. in re-
lation to one manufacture-that ofcOtton. IT.
is supposed that only $4,000 persons were
directly employed in this business, yet they
performed quantity of work which would
have required the labor of AZ millions of per-
sons, if in the state in which the world was 100
years ago, and as large part of the people of
Europe yet are, in reference to their progress
in the arts-S5O, 900 against AZ. 900, 900! and