The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-30
Written for the Pioneer ond Democrat. s.
Tho Philosophy Of Politics. Teaching
by Example.
NUMBER TWO.


NUMBER TWO. =.
Tropical Produc.s-servie Labor-England and the
United States Rivals-How England Rules the
Policy of other Nations
of (says the Edinburgh Review, of last
month, October, 1867 the question is
frankly put to any sensible and instructed
man in England, what we ought to care
most about of all that is going on in the
world outside of our own country, be
will answer, the conduct and fortunes OF
the United States"
And why is it that every " sensible and
instructed man in England" feels SO deep
an interest, at this particular time, in "the
conduct and fortunes of the United States 2"
1t is, as the article shows, of which the
foregoing quotation is the first paragraph,
because upon " the conduct and fortunes
of the United States now depends the
solution of the irrepressible conflict be-
tween the North and the South and
upon this single issue the future posi-
tion of England among the powers of the
earth.
AS observed 10 the same article, " the
subsistence of four millions of our Eng
lisbl people is implicated with the cotton
growing of half the States of the Union. "
And to avoid this implication, England
has been making the. most earnest but un-
successful efforts, during the present cen
fury, to obtain supply of cotton, from
India and now she looks for the accom-
plishment of this her desideratum, to the
supposed cotton lands of Africa, where her
success will probably be no better. Were
it possible for her to seize upon our cotton
states, her whole history shows that she
would not be slow in finding pretext for
that grand contamination of her policy-a
monopoly Of the great cotton fields of the
world. And could she supply her looms
with cotton from her own possessions, she
would not be slow in her efforts to aid the
North to destroy the institution Of Ameri.
lean slavery.
England has grown rich On the trade and
servile labor Of hot climates. She has
overpowered every competitor in this field
of enterprise, but ope-the United States,
already dangerous rival, which she can
not oppose by war without ruin to herself
This is irritating, humIiatipg.
She perfectly comprehends that the foun-
dation of her prosperity is the servile labor
of hot climates, where the industry OF white
men cannot flourish.
English statesmen understand we'll enough
why the continental nations are 30 much
poorer than their own. The history of their
own country and of the world, demonstrates
that the nation of the temperate ATTITUDES,
which most successfully controls and mo-
nopolizes the trade and industry Of the hot
climates, must enjoy the highest civilization,
prosperity and power.
They have learned from authentic history
that when the greatest commercial people Of
the worldwide controlled the trade of the
tropical climates with Europe, were the
Italians, then the most refined, the best ed
ucated, ard the most wealthy people Of
Ohristendom that there were hundreds of
Italian merchants. who were richer in ready
money, than the Kings of England that at
that time the English had no tropical colo
nies-no dark races to labor for the support
OF their Anglo-Saxons, and that but for
Hindoo, Coolie and Negro servitude, since
acquired, they would not now be in better
circumstances than the other Norman and
Gothic races Of the continent.
During the age of Italian prosperity, the
King of England, Henry the Third, lin
1850 found it to be impossible to raise an
adequate revenue from his own subjects, to
provide a decent support for his household;
and WAS compelled, following the example of
| preceding Kings, to resort to downright
robbery of the Jews, then sojourDing in
| England, to raise money sufficient to meet
his current expenses.
He demanded from this oppressed race,
| 5000 marks, and threatened to hang them
| if they did not pay the amount. They re-
monstrated, told him how they bad been
oppressed and robbed by his predecessors, to
which the King replied:
, How can remedy the expressions you com.
| plain Of. am myself beggar. am spoiled
| / am stripped of all my revenues. ! owe
| above two hundred Thousand marks; and If
had said three hundred thousand, l should not
exceed the truth. am obliged to pay my son
| Prince Edward, fifteen thousand marks year.
| have not farthiDg, and must have money,
from any hand, from any quarter, and by any
| means.
| He then (says the historian) delivered over
the Jews to the Earl of Cornwall, that those
whom the one brother had fayed, the other
might embowel.
| King John, his father, once demanded ten
thousand marks from Jew of Bristol; and on
his refusal, ordered one of his teeth to be
drawn every day, until he should comply. The
Jew lost seven teeth and then paid the sum re-.
quired OF him. One talliage laid upon the Jews,
! in 1913, amounted to sixty thousand marks: a
sum equal to the whole yearly revenue of the
| Crown.
With the inferior races the English have
been more successful than with the Jews.
They have not only deprived the millions
OF India of their gold, and silver, and pre-
cious Jewels, the accumulations OF long
ages; but have also drawn their blood, in
torrents to make them pay money enough
ito prevent England from becoming beg
gar. Our mother country has made great
improvements in the art of extortion, and
financial tooth pulling, since the days OF
King John.
| When the English were SO poor that
| they had to rob the Jews to maintain the