The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-23
FINANCE, FAMINE, AND REVOLUTION

II, under the plea of real or fanced wrong or ,bo
stimulus of an anticipated difficulty we should bear
bankrupt talk hreaenngly to rich powerful and pros
porous neighbour would be apt to set him down az an
indiscreet individual If in addition to bankruptcy We
were informed that he about TO undergo the SUI
ferings of and protraced famine and fairly at
loss to know where to obtain his future supply of bread
and how to procure the means to buy that supply we
should be disposed to regard his incorporate language as
the result of disordercd intellect supernduced by pc
mary embarrassments and anticipated want Not whit
more indscreet, shade less unatc are the threats
and language recently employed by the London Times
towards the people and government of the United States
always supposing--and grant that the case has the
look of entirely suggestions one--ihat the Times
reflects the will and wishes Of any considerable num-
Der of her Majestys ministers subjects The gov
ernments of England and France closely inter
woven, their interests completely joined, and their
alliance for the present perfect to resolve itself
into identity, that, when leading English journal takes
upon itself the of the imposing pronoun eve either by
authority or in seeming authority, disposed to At
tach to it that degree of Importance which the declarations
of two soveregns well calculated secure When
therefore, the Times says we" the plurality Of the word
must be far extended to include ST Cloud with st.
James And with the to be employed to indoC-
rinae stiff necked countrymen into trucr knowledge
of international law. We must therefore, look to addi
ton to the French well to the British naval force in
the Gulf of Mexico and when the Times tells that half
dozen of ships have been sent out to thou
sands Of miles Of coast the inebriatng freak Of seeing
double WILL no doubt prove reality and not halue
nation.
1t is in unworthy spirit Of exuation that we expes
the Acknowledgements we firmly convinced-shas
neither France England is in n condition for even
seeming attempt to make good the ridiculous threats
freely used by be1lgecnt contemporary tbs
ter. England is in hopeessly bankrupt state and sin
feed her tong millions, accept revolution Her
world of debt is her present securtythe barrier between
the throne and overworked and overaxed people
The situation of France is Her repeated rev.
outions have taught her people easy tits to overthrow
their government whether dynasc or electives and ity
be cited something significant than startling
coincidence that every revolution which has taken place
in France within the last seventyGve years has been pre-
coded by short crops and financial cnlbarrassments Wei
have the official records before to prove conclusvy
that this Of things if it did cause ushered in The
revolutions of 1882 1902 $780, ls4s and 1851 The first
Napocons power at home firm and consolidated from
1902 1914 when the short crops and oppressivey high
taxes of that year aided in slight degree the esora
ton of the Bourbons.
In the November number Of Hunts Merchants Magazine
find carefully writen and elaborate article on this
hyintercstng and important subject 1t is entitled
HFnance Food and Future Of France" and is well cacu
lated small share of the attention Of the pub
lie at the present time. The writer adopts the theory
which we have limited rather than endorsed and ae
terrifying himself with startling array Of facts and
figures drawn from official sources arrives the following
conclusion;
In the budget for 1885, that we have already laid before
the reader nothing but ordinary peace expenses included
and in commenting upon it regards the the Cons~
tionne observes 1t Is from public credit that the resources
required for carrying it on will be demanded. Nothing III
just principle for iii true that in fighting for M
maintenance Of the European equilibrium we protect the
teess Of the future it is for that very reason just
future generations should aid support the burden Of
Nothing wsc in fact fer it is good Pccy to shcT
consideration country which has oax s 1aed from ~
revolutionary CRISIS and, above ALL ~ money whore
be procured immenee advantages which the recouns
to public credit presents.
In pursuance Of this policy loan Of $50 o0o 600
iected in March, 1856 before the campaign fairly opened
and the following additional were voted in budget
that was based upon peace footing
Francs.
Interest upon the loan above mentioned ls4o7,ss5
Increase tor army and I6933,H3 L
For Minister OF Finance 20 5s4,2bl f
Other sums 22li,956 L
Making in all, (ater deducting $500 600
taken from The Public Works,) an increase
of so 10000 i
Since this peace estimate made, So 900 soldiers have
been added to the army 80 600 sent to the Cmea part
which paid doubt by Great Britain but stu
the government ut the present te have effected new
loan of $50 oooo francs which will add 600 francs
to the yearly OF France Add to this fact the one
that the floating debt at the time 900 francs
that the sinking fund is suspended, and that 0O0OW
francs will have TO be added The budget of 1885, and We
have idea Of the slender thread upon which hangs tb
tranquility OF France for she is approaching toward imam
cial embarrsssnens that inevitable, and which year
famine viii accelerate and aid in producing and causing &C.
other revolution Ia single month has reduced n
bullion ia her bank IS 600 600, and already commss "a
vusions are beginning to in all parts Of the
One year OF scarcity would be but the precursor to
other revolution Let here remark that the 6cs
of the people that produces these changes results
from the peculiar position of the nation owing the sqbd'
vision Of its landed property.
We have already alluded 10 the Of these division
in 1915, and, Judging from that