Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-01-01
submitting without murmur to the
inc xorable military conscription sys-
tenn. The army has been

tenn. The army mas Doen
ENTIRELY REORGANJZED
since the conclusion OF the war. The
worthless officers have been weeded
out a stricter discipline has been in
troduced; and the muster-rolls no
longer bear the names of fictitious SOL
pay and rations for those imaginary
warriors, as was the case under the late
Empire. The German system of tao
tics and combinations is being care
fully studied by the light of the late
disastrous experience. The National
Guard of Paris is lisbanded, and the
whole population disarmed, so that
there may be no future fire-in-the. rear
from the unshot members of the late
Commune organization, which pillaged
Paris and burnt part of it.. In short,
everything is being done which seems
possible to arm, discipline, and pre-
pare the nation for the
NEXT sTRuGaLE WITH THE GERMANS,
for the recovery of the dismembered
provinces. The French say that Bis
marck and Moltke, and other great
leaders, will die before long, as they
are old men and that Germany will
enter upon the next war inflated with
vanity and pride, half-prepared and
half-marshaled, as France was in 1870,
which will result in series of defeats
and humiliations. This may or may
not be the case; but one thing is GER
tain, that the fighting witnessed during
the late war was
| MERE cHILD's PLAY
compared with the fighting that will
be done in the next war by France,
who will enter upon it with oil the
fires of q volcano burning in her breast
All that rage and hatred, added to
valor and discipline, can accomplish,
will be achieved. If France is beaten
next time. it will be in despite of the
most careful and perfect preparation,
AMI after her mightiest efforts have
been exhausted.
have spoken of the wonderful ease
with which the people of France raised
the money to iquidate the German
indemnify" and given some expla-
nations thereof; but there remains one
reason not yet named, which should
not be omitted. The bulk of the
money was contributed by the French
farmers, and they were able to SUBJ
scribe it because
THEY OWNED THE LAND
they cultivate, and pay no rents to q
landed aristocracy, snch as that which
monopolzes the land of Great Britain
and Ireland. The money which the
British and Irish farmers have to pay
to the landlords, the French hold in
their possession, and were able to loan
it to the government in the day of need.
Suppose the Germans had invaded
Great Britain and conquered it, and
then exacted ransom of several hun
dred millions of pounds sterling in
gold-how much of the money could
the English and Irish tenant farmers
have subscribed and paid to liberate
the island2
SCARCELY A SOVEREIGN
tor the simple reason that they have
not got it to give. The merchants,
manufacturers, and bankers would
have been obliged to raise the money.
OF all the debt of England, but the
merest fraction is held by the tenant
farmers, and not shilling of it by the
laborlng serfs; whereas, in France,
the farmers and common people hold
nearly the whole of the bonds repre-
senting the national debt. Thatshows
the difference in the effect of the two
systems of land tenure in light that
requires no further comment or eluci
dation. The English system divides
the people into three classes: first, al
oligarchy Of a few thousand bloated
land -monopolists; second, 200, 900 ten
ant.farmers, who have hard work K
pay rents, taxes, and hire of laborers
third, 1000, 600
utterly without property. money, edu
cation, knowledge, political rights: o.
anything else not enjoyed by beasts O
burden. The French system produces
: 5000, 600 independent, prosperous yeo
men, every one owning the farm HI
cultivates, who can take his rest undcl
his own shade-tree, and eat the grape,
and drink the wine of his own produc
} ton and, when his country is il
trouble, he has a son willing to fgh
for it, aud bag of gold which he cal
spare and is willing to contribute to
wards the cost of the war.
Now, which is the better system fol
the national ono6 in time Of rnaca nj