New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-22
THE LoAyMoyGERs OF EUROPE.

In order to understand the facility OF raising at
any time immense amounts of money 10 Europe
for the use of Governments and Courts and church
establishments, We must begin by understanding
the peculiar social state and the peculiar ma
chinery called into play in performing such extra
ordinary operations. In the first instance, we see
AL over Europe chiefly in Great Britain, Hol'
land Austria, Prussia, Saxony. Switzerland
Poland Hungary, and Liyonia, and various other
psrts OF the Old World-the accumulated moneyed
result of the peoples labors of ages past, either ia
,ssl estate or invested in Government bonds, still
vested in the hands of the descendants Of the Nor
man robbers, Danish pirates, or adventurous
KNIGHTS and other more or less disreputable brig
snds or warriors Of the dark and feuds ages, when
might trampled on right, and no cant about Chris
tianty or civilization yet existed to create meta
pbysicsl distinctions. The guilt was hardly 80
much in the first robber who built his castle on
his neiRhbor's bones as 10 the law which subse-
ouently sanctioned the burglary by baptizng as
right what was wrong aud surrounding that wrong
with laws of entail and similar intrenchments to
vest for all time to come in the children OF the
descendants of these bandits the bloody spols OF
their forefathers. The masses of men all over
Europe were born not to be men-to assert the
dignity and erjoy the blessings of humsnity-but
10 become the beasts of burden of this jolly prog
eny of clique of robbers.
When English statesmen or English philan-
thropists, even ow-a-days, speak OF the people,,
of their tender regard for "the peoples" welfare,
we have always looked upon such pleasant deceit
AZ an outrage on the manly Anglo-SaxOn idiom.
The masses Of Europeans are no people To call
them so is lie, and one Of unusual corpulence,
though it has grown into an institution. In
France, alone, was vigorous attempt ever made
to break this oppression of the landowners aud it
was a bloody coarse and revolving one. Yet there,
at least the power of the great landowners was
partially destroyed and in other parts of Europe,
as in Russia, slight notifications have taken
place, but substantially AMI practically "the peO-
% ole" of Europe are this day, as some hundred
Years back, out beasts of burden. The name Of
people is mockery, deluson and a snare.
Without any generally diffusve system ofliberal
education except in Holland and Prussia, with
the load of tyranny on conscience aud freedom Of
thought still smothering the progress of civiza-
ton, with laws protecting the ill-gotten property
of the landed and moneyed monopolists of former
ages, the masses of the people still go through this
beautiful world not to toll and labor and live for
their own happiness but for the purpose Of con-
trbuting to'the happiness of privileged class.
No wonder that such contempt exists in Europe
for the laboring classes, when those who labor
have no sense of their own rights, and with
wretched cowardce allow themselves to become
the victims of the night accidentally above them
II is only when masses of human mir DIS are for a
long series of ages unqualified for any mental ef'
fort BY the depressing influence Of remorseless
bodily labor, unreleyed by any intellectual aspi-
ration, unblessed by any human joy, that despot-
isms, church establishments, the rule of Jesuits
over the conscience and of usurers over the pur-
suits of men become possible
This slight recapitulation of these well known
features of European civilization is unavoidable
in order to show how it is possible to raise with so
little difficulty such eItrayagant amounts as we
hear of every day in Europe. The accumulated
wealth of feudal Europe is in the pockets of
small band of landowners and money lenders. In
deed the slow progress which Europe has made
in industry in comparison with our country is
mainly owing to this fact Of the Capitalization Of
wealth in the hands of monopolists; while here, as
long az the country remains free from the curse Of
largely accumulated individual fortunes which In
evitably lead to monopolies, capital will only be
scarce because it is diffused. The bulk Of Eu'
ropean property being heldby comparatively few
persons, it becomes comparatively easy task for
governments to raise money upon it,
Take Austria for instance-a country which suf
fers from a chronic scarcity of cash. What is she
doing at this moment She proposes to raise
money by negotiating the mortgage bonds OF the
landowners of the Austrian dominions. But how
is such an operation possible Through the Jew
ish houses, who, shut out from all more honorable
branches of business, have acquired in this an UNI
enyiable degree Of aptitude There are in Vienna
the Rothschilds, and Arnsteins, rand Eskeles. and
theiJew Greek house of Seria, for whom the man.
sqement Of loan of S10O,0OOOOO is matter of
most easy accomplishment The way they start
the loan is to get all their correspondents to can
yass their business constituencies, and with the
allurements of particular commission, their
correspondents Of course do their best to ensnare
their customers.
The broad facts we have pointed out have nat
urally produced all over Europe, especially in it
Northern, Western and Central portions, where
the incidence which prevails in the Southern part
(as Italy, Spain and PortugsD is modified BY eli
mate, all manner and kinds of capitalists, specu-
lators and jobbers, who have no other business
beyond that of dealing in money. Now there are