The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-01-29

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ursr INTESTINE OF LEvIArHAS."
Ter Earth IMPOVERISHED By THE SEA-
x,or;s throws five millions year INTO the
Coo and this without metaphor. How, anu
IN what p,annerf Day and night. WIN
what object? Without any OBJECT. WIN
what thought? Without thinking oil 1t. FOR
what return: For nothing. BY means OF
,yhot organ? by means OF its intestine
What is its Intestine? Its sewer.
Five millions is the most moderate OF Tue
approximate figures which the estimates o'
special science give. .,,
that The most fertiIiZipg and the most cnecl-
i've Of marures is that Of man.
Tbc Chinese. we must say to our shame,
know Il before us. No Chinese peasant,
Eckcbero tells US, goes TO The city without
corr,iro back. at the two ends OF his ham
hoo. Two ,,ucke.fu!s Of what we call NTH.
THANKS TO human fertilization, the earth III
China is still as oung as in the days OF Aura
ham. Chinese wheat yields hundred-and-
twenty. fold. There is no guano comparable
in fc,tilizing power to the detritus OF capi-
tel. 4 great city is the most powerful OF
stercoraries.
To employ the city to Enrich the plain
xyouId be sure success. II or 1otd as
an, on The other hand our film as gold.
what is duue with this JttM-gotd? 1t Is
swept into the abyss.
WE fit out conveys Of ships at great eX-
pense to gather up, at the South pole. the
1troppings of pctrels and pcnguins; ana the
incalclllablc element OF wealth when We
have under our hand we send to the sea. All
the human and animal manure which the
world loses, restored TO the land instead OF
being thrown into the water, Would suffice
TO nouri$h the world. =.
These heaps of garbage ut the corners OF
the stone blocks, these tumbrils OF mlrc .loi
ing through the streets at night. these bolrld
scayengers' carts, these frtid streams OF SUI
terraaean slime which the pavement hldes
from you-do vou Know what ali Tins l.: ii
10 Tho Towering meadow: it Is the green |
grass : il is morioram. and thyme, ana sage !; |
i Is game: it is cattle Il is the satisfied low
of huge oxen at evening; 1t Is perlul.eu
l,ay: il is golden corn it is bread on your
table: il is warm blood in your VEINS II l. |
health: il is Joy it is life. THUS wills that
mrstcric,,s creation which is transformation
unor earth and TRANSPORTATION in heaven.
Put that into the great cric!blc: your
abundance shall spring from it. The nutr'- |
ton of The plains makes the nourlstlment OF
men, You have The power TO throw away |
.his wealth, and to think me ridiculous into
The bargain. That will cap the climax OF
your ignorance.
=. Statistics shoe that France alone makes |
liquidation Of ahundred nn'honS ete7,yyem' |
into the atlantic from the mouth o. hcrHterS |
Mark this: with that hundred millions you |
might pay q quarter Of tie expenses Of the |
Government. The clcycrneSs of lnan is such |
that he prefers to throw this hundred mil |
lions into the gutter. Ii Is the very SUD- |
stance Of the peop,c which is carried away
here drop by drop, there in tloods-by the
wretchcd vomiting OF our sewers into the
rivers, and the gigantic collection OF our
rivers into the octan. Each biccough OF our
cloacn costs lis 4 thousand francs. From
this, two results tue land impoverished ana
the water affected. Hunger rising from Tue
furrow. and disease rising from the river. IL
is notorious, for Instance, that at TINS couf
tie Thames is poisoning London.
As for Paris. ii has been necessary, within
a few years asst, 10 carry most of the mouths
Df the sewers down tie stream below the last
bridge.
A double tubular arrangement, provided
with valves and sideways, sucking up ana
flowing back; a system Of elementary DRAM
age us simple as the lungs OF man, ana when
is already in operation in several villages III
England, would suffice to bring into our
cities the pure water OF the fields and send
back into our fields the rich water Of IT,"
cities and this easy see-saw, the simplest in
ahe -sorid. would retain in our possession the
hundred millions thrown away. We are
thinking of something else.
The present system does harm IN endea-
yorinp TO do good. The intention is good
mi N nj. N
ing the city-tbey are emaciatipg the popu-
1ation. A sewer is mistake. When drain
aoe everywhere, with its double function re-
storing what IL takes away, shall have re-
nlaced the sewer that simple, impoverisli-
inc waships-then, this being combined with
the data of a new social economy, the pro-
dncts of the earth will be increased tentold,
and the problem of misery will be wonder
fully diminished Add the suppre sion oil
Darasttisn, it will be solved.
In the mean time the public wealth runs
off into the river, and the leakage continues.
Leakage is the word. Europe is running her.
self in this way by exhaustion.
AS for France, we have just named her
figure. Now, Paris containing a twenty
fifth of the total French population, and the
Partisan guano being the richest OF all, we
are within the truth in estimating ut i've
millions the portion Of Paris in the loss OF
the hundred millions which France annually
throws away.
These five millions employed in aid and in
enjoyment would double the splendor OF
Paris.
The city expends them in cloata. So that
we may say that the great productivity oil
Paris. her marvellous fete, her Beaujou folly,
her orgy, her full-handed oulpourins OF gold,
her n.peapt her luxury, Der mGgnifcence
is her sewer. 1t is in this way that, in the
BLINDNESS of d vicious political economy, we
drown and let float down stream and be lost
in the depths the welfare of all. There
should be ST. Cloud nettiDgs for the public
fortune. Economically, the fact may be
summed up thus: Paris leaky basket.
Paris, that model city; that pattern OF
well.formed capitals Of which every people
apdeayors to have copy; that metropolis
OF the ideal; that august country or the mi
tiatlve, OF impulse. and enterprise; that cen
ire and abode OF mind; that Batlon'cEy ;
that hive Of the future; that marvellous
compound Of Babylon aud Corinth, from Tue
point Of view which we have just indicated,
would make peasant Of Fok-iau shrug his
shoulders.
Initiate Paris, you will ruin yourself.
Moreover, particularly in this immemorial
and senseiess waste, Paris herself initiates.
These surprising absurdlties arc not new;
there il DO young folly In this. The ancientS
acted like the mederns. The cioaca Of
Rome" says Liebig, Subscribed all the we'll
being of the Roman peasant" When the
CaiDpagna Of Rome was ruined by the TO.