Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-11-10
SHAMS! SHAMS!

mires beneath; only the ftful rockets
glare, casting birthstone radiance on
the blackness all around Our polish
refinement, the bloomy rind of Dead Sea
apples, enclosing in rosy beauty the
ashes and worms of rottenness. Even
our religion, .tco often the gilded mantle
of sel6shness and lust the green moss
and fragrant violets. that clothe the
.'dead mems bones and all uncleanli-
ness" of moral sepulchre.
All Europe has been, for fifteen months
on holiday frolic. Sovereigns of long
hostile realms have been galivanting
and hobnobbing in every capital. Fetes,
expositions, gorgeous receptions and re-
views, have followed each other, like
scenes in magic lantern with the world
| for its canvas, and sun, moon and all
the heavenly host for illuminators. The
Car of Russia disports himself in the
palaces of Kaiser Wilhelm. Eugene is
the guest of Victoria. Francis Joseph
bankrupts Austria to entertain, with a
magnifcence that would have busted the
exchequers of Olympian Jove and all his
associate gods and goddesses, every 9TH
er prince, potentate and royal dominica
beneath the snickering heavens Even
the beastly, injun-rubber-hided Shah of
Persia wallows IN celestial debauch and
plutonian filth from Constantinople to
St. James. Myriads of fatted calves
are slain. All creation seems one grand.
glorious, brotherly hand-shaking, hug
ging and outgushing of slobbery affec-
tion. Holy-eyed nincompoops point to
it, and snivel of the beauties Of our CIV
ilization-the toning down of old ami
mosities-the sweeping away of barbar-
Gus antipathies and prejudices-the uni
versal reconciliation-and the millennial
peace to come
Bah shams shams, all Today,
right in the midst of this wide, long.
fraternal bumfuzzle, the whole earth
rings with the clamor of coming slaugh-
ter! Mighty forges are rushing day
and night the death foretelling prepara-
tions. England is fitting out her navy,
testing new cannon and steel-plated ar
NOR. buying powder. gun-cotton and
lead and assuring everybody that she
is earnestly. tenderly. for peace. France
{ is straining every nerve in her wonder
full empire, to pay off her German in
demnity, pushing every manufactory of
arms and munitions, and with lightning
like rapidity organizing and training a
= new host of 100000 men: and desires
it understood that she is always for
peace. Prussia is converting all the
metal of Krupp's giant founderies into
enginery of hell, daily drilling her count,
less legions, strengthening her border
posts, and levying pirate contributions
, on her tributary domains and vehe-
v mently protests that she is for peace
: pure, unmingled peace. Russia is drain
ing the storehouses of every land upor
the habitable globe, of artillery, breech
!, loading rifles equipments and provisions
r and pushing her barbarian hordes fal
down towards Persia and India ;-ane
n begs to state. that she is emphatically
n for peace. Turkey is arming and man
: : ming the fortresses on the Danube
+ equipping her Black Sea fleet, and buy
ing limitless herds of horses to noun
,e her cavalry and meekly declares her
1t self for peace, now and forever. Al
l. Europe is being converted into one vas
! i armory and powdcr-magazine. TIL
r. whole strength and genius Of the cont
d nent, are being expended in inventin
and manufacturing newer and more hol
ut rible implements of death and destruo
ton. Seven great empires are taxin
;s their gigantic murder-mills to their ut
to most capacity. Crowned rufians NEE
ne touch glasses, and swap Jokes and chea
courtesies, IN front of the foundry door
r where all the powers Of pandemoniul
e are forging the dread machinery Of the
mutual devastations. They give I'll
Joab kiss with the lip, while they pr
pare to smite under the fifth rib wit
a! the dagger A few years hence at ia
10 thest, will see the whole earth tremblir
% beneath the tread Of embattled host
lr- The very heavens will be rent with Il
an clash and din of Titanic conflict, SUI
,aI as the last fifty years has never witnes
~ ed or dreampt-of. Every sewer in E
rope will run red with clotted gor
or Coming events already cast their da
ey and lurid shadows before. And ''peac
d. peace is the rallying-cry of the ag
lor Oh, hideous, horrid mockery-the boas
,on ed civilization and enlightenment of t
nineteenth century! How much bett
ms, is it than barbarism = A revolving
Old fe instead of club, a mittrailleuse
stead of bow. breech loading cam
nS .uS instead of javelin, bomb-shel and c
md plosive bullets instead of pebbles a
ch slings Modern refnement-onlym nj,
as der, massacre and havoc in more scis
ing tifc and polished styles Modern p
tbe gress-ouly improvement in engines a
the methods of slaughter!
he Oh tho cbanri tho hnllnu haartla