The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-12-19

ii This territorial aristoeracy hav
j welded for nearly one hundrci
j and fifty years the entire poiitiea
force of England. If they hat
II governed wisely, q class govern
ment, one in which the majorit,
II of the people had no voice, woull
! still he one to which we would
, have a right to reject. Naturally
, they are honest men. This i
/ shown by their apportionment o
} taxation In 1927 land paid one
! fourth of the entire taxation o
Great Britain; to-day it pays less
THAN one seventy sixth part. Six
ty years ago the landed proprie
4 tors Of England and Wales receiv
| ed in chief rents f22.500, 00e; to
day they receive for the same
lands ElO0.O0O,oO0. On the f22,
100000 they paid f2,030,000 O
land tax; on the fl00,000,O0(
they pay less than f1,000. 900
| Nor is this the worst. Our terri
torial aristocracy are born legisla
tors. I have been told by some
lof your journalists here that in
this country men take to politics
/ as to q trade; but If this be so al
'any rate men who take to politics
as u trade or profession have some
ability. In our country, men who
are born to the profession are
some times fools. You may think
this word too strong; perhaps il
is; but among the items of our
expenditure we have one of be-
tween sixty and seventy thousand
pounds a year, for which we were
made responsible by my Lord
Dudley. 1 do not object that he
was not fitting representative OF
a Monarchy, but he had one weak
ness; he believed his back parts
were made of glass, and sat down
most carefully. By the operation
of and practice of primogeniture.
all the property, as well as the
power, goes to the eldeet son.
But there are younger sons to be
provided for. OF the clever ones
and there are sometimes clever
ones among the aristocracy OF
England-they make Judges and
colonial Governors. OF those not
quite 80 clever, who don't mind
show, until last year they made
Colonies and Generals. and things
of that sort; so that a mans valor
was marked not so much by the
battles he had fought as by his
balance at Coutts d. Co.'s Or CoX's.
OF those who have but little brain
we make rectors and Wears and
bishops, and things of that kind.
OF those who have no brains at
all we make ambassadors, minis
tiers plenipotentiary, and foreign
Office attaches. Our House of
Lords represents the landed inter
ests alone. l do not object to a
second chamber. There are mon
in my country-good men, too,
like r. A. Taylor and Henry Faw-
cett-who do logically object to a
second chamber, but I do not OBJ
ject to a Hose of Peers. But 1
want that they should be real
peers-peers of intellect, peers of
endeayor, peers who have marked
their own foot-prints-not peers
who owe their patent of peerage
to n pretty face which pleased
Charles the Second, or to fl5,000
paid for u rotten borough in the
reign of George the Third; not
peers of a parchment and wax
seal I object to Bishops in the
House of Lords. They legislate
for the next world, and ought to
be there before they legislate.
Take one fact. In the debate
on the disestablishment of the
Irish Church the Archbishop of
Canterbury said: 1--WE are here,
my Lords, to combat the principle
of religious equality The
House Of Lords has opposed all
good legislation. They object,
that we are ignorant; but with
their party strife, until lately, they
closed the doors of our schools
against all legislation. They i'm
posed taxes on knowledge and
they fettered our press. They re-
sisted reform in 1882 until Bristol
was the scene of riot. We have
determined that political life shall
be reality. One other reason is
that we find no ground of loyalty
to the reigning house. George
the First never spoke our Ian
guage. Mr.. Disraeli and Others
have pleaded for the example of
the family. Take their domestic
virtues. George the First hated
George the Second-said he was
not his son. I think here, George
the First was mistaken. Every
law abiding Englishman admits
that Queen Victoria is the lawful
Queen of England. But she is
only so because she is the daugh-
ter of the Duke of Kent, who was
the brother of William the Fourth,
who was the brother of George
the Fourth, who was the SON OF
George the Third, who was the
son of Frederick, who was the son
of George the Second, who must
have been the son of George the
First. Otherwise Queen Victoria
would have no right TO tho throne
II the statuary evidence of the
legitimacy of George the Second
be not enough, l have no other tc
give. George the First hated
George the Second; George the
Second equally hated George the
First. George the Second bitter,
ly disliked Frederick Frederick
contemporary spoke of George
the Second. Frederick haC
no love for George the
Third George the Third had little
love for Frederick. Words CAM
express George the Thirds dislike
for George the Fourth. Georg'
the Fourth Knocked as well as hated
George the Third. George tht
Fourth quarreled with the Duke o.
York, the Duke of Sussex, and tia
Duke of Kent, and this IL the fam
|, lily your American journalists asl
me to to be loyal to. George tn
First did not bring Us his wife t.
whom he was married, but brough
US q couple to whom he was not
One of them we call the Duchess o
Kendall, and gave her E7.5O0 yea
! for her virtue. In our country W
have no corruption. The other w
, call the Countess of Darlington
and her pension best testifes to he
, merit. George the Second wa
. much like Solomon-I do not meal
in his wisdom--but in his ofhe
msuners and customs. Laughte
and applause- We gave one @
! his unmarried wives FL 800 = veal
? aud we gave her husband ELI, 900
year to say nothing about il. Ar
f plause.J Frederick, his son, his viz
p turs have been embalmed by Thack
. airy IN this epitaph:
Here lies Fred.
Who was alive,