New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-01-04
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X serp earse audience gathered il Assoc
citation Hall TO listen to Mr.. Wendell Phil
lips Sectsre ose' Glasses Abroad Nre Phil
lips saia6
Ladies' and GerSfemen-It e7as remark
of Professor Tyndali at the close Of his
chemical lecture in Boston last season
substantially Thus: IL wish every Ameri,
can could know England, and l wish every
Englishman could know America; for" said
he, my experience in these Stfees has con-
WINGED me that national quarrels arise most
ly from misconception, from ignorance, one
nation of the other, and, said he, what
ever brings nations acquainted with each
other that is the largest stride toward
peace had the same idea III ny mind
when gathered the materials for this hour s
talk-this glance at Europe-and en-
deavOred to gather up some Of the traits
and tr1es that make US better acquainted,
and able to prognosticate perhaps better
the future aud the next generation. Amer
lea has been for the last seventy years the
focus of the worlds interest, and the chan
mel in which the world is moved mainly has
been that Of material growth. With the single
exception of our having worked Oft the poi
son of the slave system, the growth OF this
country for the last seventy years has been
material. 1t has added nothing otherwise
to the philosophy of government; it has
thrown little or nolight on social questions;
the last fifty years have shown us material
growth such as it is impossible that any
other fifty years will ever show. If | were
to say that the last seventy-tive years in
the world has shown progress such us three
centuries previous could not show, should
not overstate the truth because this lavish
1avaInNmppt Of steam mower and talppranh
and the immense development of the CO.
operative effort of wealth-moulding pro-
duction, facilitating production, cheapenlng
production. These four great elements of
material progress have made such an exhi
bltios of mental force as it is not at all
likely that any two centuries will ever see
againa But foe these the British govern
ment would have ceased to exist at least
generation ago. The next century viii
show US social changes not material in my
opinion. Great changes in the relations of
capital and labor: great changes IN the po-
sltlOn of woman; changes in the nature of
government, III the relations of Church and
State-these are to be the prominent facts
of the next hundred years IT they come.
well. Ii they do not come that boy
is born 20, day whos Ike Gibbon. when he
wrote the s'Decline aud Fall of the Roman
Empire'-that boy is born to-day that Will
write the decline and fall of the American
6ep9blicu Because TO any thoughtful man
Sc is evident chat the grasp of associated
wealth IN an age when the sin OF not being
Sich is only atoned foe by the effort to be-
come sos hegrasp of associated wealth Of
bank aud railroad and manufacturer on
legislative independence ON the possibility
of individual independence is So rigid and
despotic and inevitable that unless we
evade is by some great social changes it
won't be possible &ur THIS republic to sur
vivee We seq a powes infinitely greater
than tnat of the teudal barons of 900 years
ago, infinitely more irresistible than that.
To-day Mr.. Gladstone said, speaking of the
rch-the establishment of the Eng
lish Church-'We can not trust the Church
beyond the clasp of the governments hand;
els a rival power welding $50 zoo, 900 sterl-
sng it is too grave charge chars to the British
government" 200, 0000 600 $3.50, 900 600
toe grave a charge for the British govern
meuta three times as strong as ours; and
yee one man, the head ot the Pennsyl-
san1b railroad, Mr% Scott, yields 5 10000
Oooe and the very sweep OF his garments as
he marches east from San Francisco to
Philadelphia is more than sufficient to sweep
down legislatures as he goes. l look for no
safety here except liz great social changes
| believe hat the day is gone by in this
country when you can get half a mans
was possible 200 years ago. Ignorant, short
sighted, narrow viewed, the dependent
saooring class accepted the hese they had
offered them, and lived from day TO day,
and hardly overlooked the margin of an
other week; they were eonsented With the
SYSTEM But intelligence, education, re-
sponsibility, the ballot, share in the gov
eminent, has dispelled all that content, and
unless we have cooperation, unless we have
Ia ia mi ut pfy hi I'll,
capital, labor will tear capital to pieces
That is in the future. | believe that We at
home are to see another great social
change, so to speak God forbid that we
should ever return to that delusiOn of spe-
Gle payments; do not think that the Amer
lean people will ever wander back to those
Egyptian flesh pots; il is deusion long
since Glspelled by the practical expe-
renee of the world. We have the best
currency in the world MOVE and | don't
believe the utmost effort of any minority
will ever bring us back to the old channel.
hope it never will. | look forward to a
currency double in volume, resting only on
the credit of the government applause /
with no check and balance of commodity,
wheat or gold, to disturb the natural rela-
ton of it's volume. l look forward to the
result from that, that shall bring down the
interest of money in this country to the
as to shut out the necessity for tariff and
deprive wealth of half of its desire of in
crease, and put within the reach of the
masses all the fruits of the earth Today
the Englishman puts 81 ,000,0 900 in land, out
of which he gets eight per cent in money
and three per cent in aristocratic social in
situations, and is content. Unless we launch
our vessel in the same chanael and fight
Great Britain with her own weapons wa
shall on ndpr kou fbaua cha 81
impend over US are impending over Europe
L think the republic in Europe is much
nearer than many imagine. The republic
IN Great Britain IS much nearer than any
imagine. There is but one great bulwark
to day in the way, and that is land There
is nothing in the church or the State or the
lords that could delay for twenty years the
advent OF the republic, because the same
change has come over the masses there as
exist here. Arch and Bradlaugh. and the
masses behind them, they understand hui
man nature, and the claims of every man
born on the soil to recognition better than
people think or allow. The moment they
break down the aristocratic bulwark of the
land owned by 800 900 men, the waters are
put and the flooding sea; down in the vast
abyss go the turrets and towers of old in
situations, and the frigate Of the British re-
public is anchored forever on the Thames
Applause | believe, too. in the nearer
advent of republicanism in France than any |
imagine. There is no Bonaparte left. thank |
God, and hardly Bourbon left to rally
lnder. The Due d'Aumale's character and |
private views are the best introduction of |
my of the family, but even he can not drag |
France to the Bourbon dynasty, and the |
7ery necessity of the hour will bring France |
back into the arms of great soldier or a |
,reat statesman. German arrogance looks |
'ver the border and Frances pride has
worn the deepest oath that another gen.