The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1844-02-02

read, nut most Oh tiO S""H'N''
receiving the rudlmen's OF education
through the benevolencc Of that lady IN
3, school where she maintained l72 at her
own expense. The scanty appropriation
for the establishment of public schools IS
swallowed up before it reaches It's de'',
nation. Ii was said that seventy thousand
pounds were appropriated at the same
time for the repairs of the Queen s'a"'oS
Whether this be true or not, II "id appear
., motion of Mr.. Williams, in March,
Is43. ,ha, near million Of pounds, that
is. five millions of dollars, had been eX'
pended by government on her different
palaccs and parks, since the year 1888 ;
and vet, during that time two hundred
and forty thousand pounds had been APP
propria,ed for public schools throughout
the entire realm.
The English are, indeed great neo,
ME. They hold two sceplcrs, by sea aad
by land; they have stretched Their
vast dominions TO the outer limits OF the
earth they have reached the summit Of
haman glory bu, it is glory in rags.
or all nations, they arc at once the rich.
est and the poorest; the pToudest ana
the most servie, the wiscst and The most
ignorant. Five thousand persons, tidcd
orright and by courtesy, are provided Tor
by their constitution a few professional
men. manufacturers, merchants and trades
men have provided for themselves. The
great appropriate the soil and its products,
all power and station 10 themselves; they
spend thcir lives in perpetual gorgeous
holiday, while the naked, Teedy multi
tude live in a constant struggle fJr bread.
There are five millions of aborers who
cultivate the earth, and six millions oi
operatives engaged in manufactures. who
possess no land, no, no, molc.hIll no
vote no home but al the will Of land
lord are hungry from morning I'LL night,
and sleep and dlo on straw. II TO these
be added three millions Of paupers fed at
the public charge the bcggars that Ire'
quent the streets and highways; lhGI
poor mechanics and jonrncymen' prostl-
iules and Iaborers Of every description II
may be safely affirmed, that out of the
twenty.six million that inhablt the three
kingdoms, twenty mIlions--mcn. women
and children-daiIy feel the ycarnings of
unsati.fed appetite. There IS nota day
thnt the newspapers do not tell some plc-
Gus tale Of dcs,Itution. and too often has
he surgeons knife proved starvation to
be the cause of death. in 1912, the poor
of Preston cut and cat the flesh of COW
chat died of dcscasc, which they dug up
from the common where it had been bur
led. The fac, was published without
contradiction in all the leading prints Of
the kingdom.
There is no hope Of change for the bet
ter the right of suffrage, which is ENJOY
ed only by a few, is controlled Ivy the
great ianAheldefs, who buy votes as
commodity in market; aud if every seat
in the House of Commons obtained by
bribery were vacated, il is not certain
that quorum would be left TO do bust
ness. The only sound institution in the
country is their judiciary. The Judges,
with some few exceptions, have been an
honor to human nature and the trial by
Jury is the solid column tia, still upholds
he cumbrous fabric.
During the years lsil-2-3, ! entered
1872 cottages in SomeTse,shrc, Devon
shire, Lancashire, Warwickshirc, Shur.
rey. Mddlescx, and Kent, always with
view to understand n subject in which |
felt deep and abiding interest. My first
visit to Somersetshre disclosed the whole
truth had nothing further to learn,
than tina, the same Indebtedness, the
same round of potatoes and salt, the same
appalling picture Of desiitu'ion and rags,
prevailed throughout, the Kingdom.
IN Increase Of Paper Circulation not
an Increase of Capital.-ln 1884, the
mania Of over.banking, everlasting, and
Overlooking, az cxpedienls for increasing
the wealth of community by an augmen-
tation Of its money, namely, by altering
the measure of value, or, to illustrate the
principle by practical application Of i,
TO the measure OF quantity, 10 imaglng
that the value of the cotton crop might be
increased by altering the standard Of
weights. For instance, if we call eight
ounces pound, instead Of sixteen, as il
now done, i, would raise the cotton cror
from 03l 500, 900 pounds, which we no W
estimate it, taking sixteen ounces TO the
pound, to 1868, 100000 pounds accor
Ainn 10 the altered standard OF Meiqhls