The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-02-18

rare emergencies when the authority Of the central
government, Is called in But that central government.
after you have carried your affairs in your parishes,
your municipal boroughs and Ia your countless after it
% admitted that you the most industrious and do
rope after they pat you she back and compliment. you
in all the force OF language when they ask for your
support that same governmenttakes Ell 900 900 this
very year for the purpose Of carrying affairs which
none OF us hardly can comprehend and which, If we
most part entirely Unnecessary. (Hsar, hear)
shall ask you to 60 back with me few years 10 see
what grieyous mistakes we have been making with re
my honorable friend that no body of men ia
hostile attitude should land these shores. (Chees)
would have island TO be net in poetry only great in
truth land OF the free and nvolate; out there
foes Of household in political and national
point of view shall take the liberty Of pointng
OF them out before have done. Go back 10
the time about when Birmingham became pc
litcaliy famous--the year 1880. The expend
the cost IN the collection OF the revenue amounted in
that year to the sum Of sSs 900 600 sterling Of which
millions bad to be set for the debt incurred in all
those vile intermeddlDgs which forefathers had
dertaken in the affairs Of continental Europe. IT, then
we deduct twenty eight millions from the fifty three mil
iioos the actual expenditure OF the in the
twenty live miiops should like you to keep that
in your minds. -Four years afterwards, in the year
Gao 0oO 00o--four millions less than in 1s3o-and
1t remained f4q 900 900 for three years-the years
although you had Parliament constituted as it is now
apparently, yet had only just been so constituted
There had been political agitation; there great
Peacs retrenchment and reform. You Sot partial
reform, and got some retrenchment and SO long
The popular raised, long you found that
the expenditure reduced and kept down to
thing like moderate amount (Hear, hear.) Why
0ers country the o,ld phese there a self 90
,aned people ,clere MS pas expenditure is incurred We
haze not many examples Of self governed people We hare
one IN Eacrs ne reIe Of cna zee hare ore
| ont doau the mott chedply governed Of cras.ed ard
Christian e0.n.ries Tay are those ef ,eaca re
| that are 10 10 found upon the face Of the earth.
Now you recouec that few years after the Reform
became much more powerful in the House Of Commons
and eleven years after tbat they able to get rio Of
the liberal party altogether from office and take office
themselves AT that time the expenses began to creep
and whenever you took your eyes OF It, the expend
re began to RISE and in 1889 1870 and S4l the expen
diture bad risen again to G53 900 Coo the which il
attained previous TO the Reform act 1t rose to
900 remained at that amount, whereabouts,
until 1853 with The exception of the two years 1SsS and
1S49, when, you will recoect, there revolutions
all the Continent OF Europe and government you
know always likes the opportunity OF anything that s
/ gor on upon the Continent to ask you to pay
taxes Qaughter) Now, then, we come to that fatal
wsr was gong to use the o. binary phrase broke out
people have habit Of fancyiug that natural
and inevitable, that they talk Of them just as they
talk Of the scarlatna or the smallpox laughter)-
the CHOLERA broke olt-he Russian broke out. (Re
newed augbter) But The Russian war was much worse
avoided In that year in 1854 the expenditure went up
70 Sos 100000; in 1855 went up to fSs 500 600 and IN
f75,s0OOo0 During those three years there
pcndure Of ESQ 900 600 than the taxation Of the
S s up a " m
| Of that enor mous taxation II is like man taking big
house. having great number Of servants and setting
up carriage, when really he has not got the where
wha to do II continuously and honestly but he finds
extremely difficult to come down to the original expen
dinre Everybody thinks he is rich, and treats him
spch and he has not the humility and rmness to bring
his expenditure to its original and due proportions In
s remained at SIS 600 COO in 1855 It was sss GOO COO
in 1859 it was COO; and ais gear, Including
Je about f7o COO think there can be nobody here,
however much he may differ from any question,
who win say that il not desirable and proper that you
the citizens Of this country, you the constituency and
We your representatives,, should freely discuss this
great question tonieht.-(Cheers) Travel from the
and's End TO Berwick; travel from Yarmouth 10 the
Fast to st. Davids Head Carnarvonshre in the West
going all over this fair land of England and Wales,
waited how many lasorers engaged in its culiureI
don't know the exact number; but there may be
tanning per week per year Of wages taking into &C.
count the periodical sickness and inability to work. the
iae q .re |ea, t, !, ana Other M
and Wales o mot amount 10 pen head Than f25 per
num- ~ les pr tee Fnet be 50, hs ~hoe annual RACES
Of this million labcres employed The cultivation Of the
whole soil Of England ard Wales is not than EOS 0O0
600 per ananm This arour parliamentary rotes
nhole ea7enoac iator, and in the cultivation Of the land
and gOa choose to add Scotland and ireland, and reckon
tm al about ha!f hat you reckon for England you ru
find mat e cost Of the whole of ne labor e,apls;d in dc c
rdt,oa he so in Great Britain and Ireland, the course
q year does NOT amount to more than hab Of the
td1es which your rulers hare The conscience 10 dS, and
| lou ho. The incredible patience TO pay (Cheers.)
want to ask sou is credible that this benccessary?
rational peope-forever tolerate III Would it exist for
single year every member Of the House Of Commons
You would be just as careful about the public cxpendi
ture as you about other matters and your members
Sitting h n that House would Look to what Is necessary for
extent, tighten the burdens upon those whom they
were sent there to represent (Cheers) Htheagrculture
OF England had to bear this burden could not be borne
II is the towns the trade the manufactures, your vast
seats Of population and industry the great consumers of
your excseabe and customs burdened articles they are
the people who pay this vast taxation, and ii them
alone believe we can look for any remedy for these
travagances. (Cheers) But take another illustration
perhaps not less striking Some Of you have been down
in Lancashire You know in that county there is carried
on tho most stupendous manufacturing industry which
the world has seen--he manufacture of cotton.
1t Is so great manufacture, 1t sustans many people,
II creates so much wealth, y pays so much taxes,
said in fact to bear up the very pillars thereof
and whenever that industry is shaken-and whenever
strikes feeling Of anrm IL not terror To- Inc
mind Of every Thoughtful throughout the three king
as a ws o Sos You w take this
whether it be divided into two parts equally and that
one half comes to this country two millions Of bales or
tries In the world conceive that half the labor Of all the
negroes in America engaged IN the production Of cotton
all the shipping that brings the cottcnthe two millions
bales to this countyyau uc results Of all the mills that
are tuin in The United Kingdom for Ae spinning and
manufacturing of cotton, all The warehouses, all TIC
chny oil The capital employed all the rdges paid, oil the
Goals that dregd aud burned 10 raise steam for hat spen
dgs aean po,rer ALT oimot uoounoble cost Of materials
Of ersTy Hind used in this gigantic mongfoere produces
erry year a. his moment f ITS astonishing eytensscnhoc
much do you think per annums-EI0 900 900 seorth Of
yarn, mdngdaurcd doth gray, dyed, printed Ue1chej
or uoeer shape is brought 70 the customer IN the rurious
mcykes IN he word. Well then, that governing class,
your rulers, with the most doce people in the world the
most Industrious and me ST church and chapel going
pic, perhaps-l will undertake to say the most orderly
people in Europe-(hesr, hear) with such people as
this living two ISLANDS with neighbors except
the other side OF great floss twenty miles wide AZ the
narrowes point, your oors1nment ersry year such has
been its past POLICY such us present policy, such wiu
be us future poicy, such as tcdste, ot devss crery
year mofethis lear ctriaiy last gear cert1inihdn s
rho's produce Of The mot gigratc industry that tie ,tod
| has cer seen. (Checrs)
| CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA DESTRUCTIVE TO
BRITISH INTERESTS.
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