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

my, which, IT - admitted, can nf
put more than fifty thousand me
in the field. than it did to keep o
foot the enormous forces OF Gel
many when it had six hundre
thousand men ready for war. Gel
tainly we have advantages in on
army which the armies of the Cor
tinent cannot boast of. We hay
one hundred and fifty Colonel!
receiving salaries extending froI
| 10000 upward per annum, VIII
never visit the, regiments the,
command, and whose only dutie
consist in the receipt of their sal
aries. With such advantages nat
urally our force may be pioud O
its efficiency. @
| Take, again, our pension list
1t would be impossible to. g
through the whole of its items
and I viii therefore only select on
or two extraordinary illustrations
We pay $4,000 a year to the Duk,
of Wellington, whose only right Il
a pension is that he inherited
about three quarters of million
pounds from his late father. Their,
are many persons in England. aBs
probably here, too. who wonld b
willing to accept a similar inheri
lance for a much less pension.
We pay $4,000 year to thu
Duke Of Marlborough. The frs
Duke of Marlborough was tn,
brother of King mistress, anC
received f400,OO0 in hard casl
from the Nation, and, it is said
stole double as much. These are
the only merits emitting the Mari
borough family to this pension.
We pay to the Rev. Mr.. Thur
low about three thousand pounds
per annum, his only title to thai
allowance being that he is the
nephew of his uncle.
To the Earl of Amherst we pay
three thousand pounds a year, the
only justification for this subven
ton being that the first Earl oil
Amherst made large fortune by
the skillfui management of Gov.
eminent contracts Nor has even
the last administration of the pen.
sion list been of a more satisfac.
tory character. It is scarcely
twelve months since we awarded 8
pension to two gentlemen who
had been robbing the country OF
E22, 800 n year, solely for promis,
ing not to do it any more.
Another reason for our move,
ment is the condition of our Ma.
tioIal Indebtedness. One hund.
red and thirty years ago the Ma,
tional debt of Great Britain did
not exceed fifty million pounds
sterling; to-day it is eight hAndred
millions in England and one hun,
dred and ten millions in Ireland,
for which England is responsible.
Some National debts may be Justi-
fed, when they have been incurred
for the development of the COM
merce, or the improvement of the
condition of a Nation, but ours
has no such palliation to be plead
ed for it. The greater portion OF
it is war debt, a war debt of q
shameful and not glorious eharac-
ter. Under George the Second we
spent f155, 100000 in two wars, the
first to humillate the King OF
Prussia, the second to prevent
some one else from humiliating
the King of Prussia. Under
George the Third we spent f119,-
000,000 on q war, of which, in this
place need say nothing, and FL
10000 in the endeavor, which was
unfortunately but too successful.
to crush out the rising liberties
of France. The cost, the mere
personal cost of George the Third
and of George the Fourth, to the
Nation, amounted to eos, 100000
1t is said by some of your journals
that / should not attack the royal
family, because they are dear to
the Nation. They are dear-to
our pockets, if not to our hearts.
These points, however, subside
into insignificsnce beside the one
have now to submit to you, the
one which includes SO much, and
which is and will be The one battle
ground upon which the struggle
for English independence will be
Fought mean the English land
question. Toyou, with your wide
lands, this may be a small and
trivial matter, but to us, in oul
little sea bound island, it is of the
gravest Importance.
First, we urge that between 1870
and 1912, that is, in one hundred
and twenty two years, seven mil
lions of acres of land have been
stolen from the poor and added to
the estates of the rich. l object
that the landed monopoly of Eng
land is utterly destroying the vi
tality of England. / do not dis
cuss how many land-holders there
may be in my country, but / main
tain that one hundred and sixty
families own half of England, hall
of Wales, more than halt of Ireland
and four-fifths of Scotland; nay
that twelve families own more
than four-fifths of Scotland. One
result of this has been ably shown
by Captain Maxse. 1t is that WI
have more than fifteen millior
acres of cultivable land in Grea
Britain and Ireland now in an IN
cultivated state. 1t has been alsC
admitted in the House of Com
mons that, from the popularity o
our system of land tenure, muel
of the land which is returned al
cultivated is susceptible of ia
greater cultivation, but that cult
walton is hindered because of tn
manner in which the estates ar
held for life only. 1t is not tn,
question, the mere cultivation o
the land, although this is sufIi
GENTLY grave. The condition o
our agricultural laborers is involv
ed in it. Take their waees-and
Espeak now from evidence laid be
1 fore parliament, which may b
reached by any one who take
the pains to apply for it. ES
cept in the counties of Eng
land of Northumberland, DuI
ham, and Cumberland, the labor
ers' wages are from as low as seve
shillings sixpence per week to, i
the highest case, fourteen shilling
and sixpence a week Their dive
lings are admitted to be disgrac
to a civilized country. About 81
years ago report was laid upo
the table of the House Of Con
mons, the reporters being job
Frazier, the present Lord Bisho
Stanhope, Conservatives, Mr.. He
: ley, a conservative, and others {
| the same class. Bishop FraziG
: gives the following picture of tt
laborer's dwelling, in Docking,
II Norfolk. ts1ne small chamh her