The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1831-12-14
From the London .NerO Monthly Magazine.
ANTI-INNOVATOR.


g L was boy? What do the poole mean h
|, the progress of events and the march of in
;, iellect What good ever came ly changes
> How is it possible that any man can be wis
n er than his father? where can aman get hi
/ wisdom from, but from his father !? and hi
father cannot give him more than he has 90
, to give An dear ah dear! rememiIe
! the time when the parish beadlt was maj
of some consequence, when lord was
thing to be stared at and sigh. to be talk
ed about-and the King! WIN no man il
, his senses ever thought of tie King. bu
with the profoundest respect. Every da,
after dinner as soon as my fuller had sail
grace, he poured out a bumper of port ane
drank "Church and King" 1t did one,
: heart good to see and hear him; it was a,
j good as sermon. The wine tsel: seemed
conscious OF the glory its destination 10 he
! swallowed not unblest, and it looked brich,
{ In the glass and seemed 20 dalce with ca.
gerness to meet his lips. But now o. DAYS
II venture TO toast Churc!iand King, | al
forced to do it in hurried. irreligious sorI
OF way, with kind ofsneer, as much as to
say, It's all in my eye; or my hoy Tom will
laugh at me and drink the majesty of the
people. The majesty of the people indeed
should like to see il. There used to he
some reverence shown to lords in former
times, but how are they treated now Spub-
bed at by the newspapers, elbowed in the
streets, quizzed in epigrams, peppered with
pamphlets, shown up in novels, robbed of
their boroughs, and Threatened with ami
hilation. People call that the march of in
tellect-I call it the marct of insoence.
When | wac hoy, all the hooks we had in
the house were the Bible ami Prayer Book
and the Court Calendar tn, first two con-
tanned our religion and the last our politics :
as for literature, what did We want with it ?
1t is only the means of tuning the world
upside down, and putting lotions into peo-
pies heads, that would nevtr get there with
out.
All the evil that is in tie world came by
innovation and there is n, par: of the world
free from innovation, ne her the heavens
above, nor the earth heneath, nor the wa
tiers that are under the earth. What bust
ness have men up in the air with balloons {?
What good can they get there? What do
they go there for, but nicely 10 come down
and perhaps break their n,cks? They would
be much safer on dry gr,und. Our ances-
tors used TO be content With The sun, and
moon, and stars, AMI for or five planets,
now forsooth the impertient ones must be
poking their telescopes Up to the sky and
discovering new planets limos. every night
as if we had not got as many planets al
ready as we could do with.
Steam Engines-l do not think we should
ever have heard void about Parlamenta-
ry Reform, if it had rot been for steam en-
gines. hope Mr.. Coburn will not have
his magazine with this article printed with
steam press, for ifle does, shall not dare
TO read 1t TOR lear OF aeing blown up. What
did we want with steam engines? Did we
, not beat the French without steam engines !?
10 be sure we did hate innovations.
should Just ike to Know what is TO become
I OF all Inc hackney coach horses, If we are
10 nave steam garages. The poor beasts
look half starved as is; they will be ten
times worse II they are turned out to make
room ior steam engines: and what shall we
10 LOT cog meat II there are no horses to
Guy up Then we must have Maeadamlzed
roaus 100 our ancestors did very well with
OUT Maca"ainizeo roahs Ihey TOOK their
llme 10 travelling from one place to another,
ana II tney happened to be too late TOR the
Stage they mad nothing TO do but run after
1,'a eaten IL. Let them try to DO SO now.
buildings too! did ever any mortal see
su 81. an oVergroWn place as London is now
mere Is nor oirty ditch within hve miles
OF London that has not got some Paradise
now, or mount Pleasant, or Prospect Place
STUCK into II. why can t the citizens live IN
me city as they used to do, and stick to their
SHOPS lhere is no such place as the coun-
Try now, II is all come to London. And what
sort OF houses do they build Look at them
f "a bundle OF matches for the timbers and a
haske, OF bricks Tor the walls.
/ haIi hoads-a pretty continuance, for
sooth 10 PICK the pockets OF the good old
. wagon horses, ana the regular legitimate
Goach noises That had stood the test OF ages.
fray what Is TO become OF the farmers IT
, mere are no horses TO eat thelI oats? And
, now are the rents to be paid, and the taxes,
! ana the tithes, and the poor rates? and VINO
5 10 pay the interest of the national debt
f ana what VIII become of the Church if hors-
! es DO not eat oats to enable the farmers to
pay thelr tlthes and feed the clergy! Man
) chester ana Liverpool were quite near
, enough without the assistance of rail roads
and ifthe building mania goes on much long
er there will he no need Of road from one
to the other, for they viii both join, and the
people may be in both places at once. PEG
, pie are talking now of rail roads suppressed
ing canals, the good old canals, half of whicl
are already three-quarters full ofduck weet
ana dead cats.
: What did the Wellington ministry meal
by opening beer shops Why could no
I they let the good old gin shops alone ant
, stick to the regular legitimate public hous
es! Our ancestors could get as drunk n
heart could wish at the genuine licensed OH
fashioned pot house.