The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-11-07


which is at this moment shaking the foundations
of English credit till they totter again with fear
full threatening it is curious to notice the efforts
of the different politicians in England to account
for the causes of such wide spreading calamity.
It is not our intention to enter upon the
task of feeling the pulse of this big and I'M
wieldy patient, and Of pronouncing our judgment
upon the nature of his disease, or giving pre-
scription for his cure. We can only look at the
giant in the violent fhroes and commissions of
his agony shake our heads, and saw 1--WE pity
you, and are very sorry for you " The disease
under which the patient is suffering we believe
to be very complicated, of very long sanding,
and of very hopeless character, chiefly, how
ever, from the obstinacy of the patient and his
utter repugnance to taking the proper remedies
The chief symptoms of the disease, we notice,
are the following. There is an unnatural plethora
and fullness of blood in some of the smaller ex-
tremities; while general atrophy and tables seem
TO waste away and destroy the great trunk o. body
Of the patient. The head, and some of the smaller
viscera, are much swelled and gorged with
blood, while the more vital parts are sadly
deficient in proper supply and nourishment.-
Thus, in our own private opinion, the disease
consists in an unequal distribution of the vital
and nourshing principle throughout the whole
body; some parts, few in number, have too much,
and are rendered unnaturally turgd and dis
eased, while other parts receive little if any sup
ply, and sink into deadly atony and atrophy.
Such, we say, is our private opinion-but the OBJ
stinacy Of the patient is such, that though we
are confident our advice might cure him, we
shall not press it upon him. As it is, however,
we fear that under his present advisers and
physicians, the patient, if he is not destroyed,
is certain of becoming much worse. We
shall only notice here the opinion of one of
the sapient doctors who are attempting to patch
up the invalid he is called the Tines" and is
among the most dogmatic, pragmatic, and pedan.
tic, of all the many quacks who take the patients
case under their especial care and keeping.
The opinion pronounced by the Times" as
published in our paper of yesterday, was the fol-
lowing &c That the ruin Of the country is ex-
clusively attributable to the inordinate appetite
of the railroad companies to consume capital"
Here we would point out, IN the very statement
and terms Of the opinion, gross blunder and
absurdity " To consume capital" Gould any
| idea be more ridiculous Does not every body
| know that these works distribute capital, and
do not consume it Taking this as granted, AZ
being the fact, then the opinion of the Times,
properly worded, will read thus that "the
ruin of the country is exclusively attribut-
able to the tendency of the railroad COM
panies to distribute capital" Now, when
the opinion of this dogmatic doctor is thus
brought into proper and Ineligible language,
its absurdity and ignorant empiricism be-
come manifest. For, as we stated at the first,
| ho1i fbof IN ho hot he Ia DIV
| ing from the want of greater and more equable
distribution of nourishing capital; and here
comes the Times, and says that it is this very
distribution Of capital which is the eau Of the
disease We think the absurdity and folly OF
the opinion s at once self-evident What hopes
we would ask, are TO be entertained for the sick
and suffering patient, when its best accredited
doctors are so blinded as to believe, or profess to
believe, that the action which alone can cure the
disease, is the cause of the disease We would
advise the patient (but that we know our advice
will not be well receved) to trust no longer to
| such advisers the Times, but to send over to
us here in America, to see our healthy and VI
gorous condition, and to learn the fact-the unde
| nable fact-that 1t proceeds in the operation Of
| proximate causes, from the abundant, copious
| and equable distribution of capital throughout
all the branches. all the vessels, all the parts,
great and small, Of the whole body polite. Let
this distribution cease among us--let monopoly
| aggregate wealth in the hands of the few-let
primogenture do the same-then, in short
time, we should BE- discovered to be in the very
same suffering, languishing and agonising con
dtion az our poor brother and friend on the other
side of the water
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