Litchfield enquirer., 1875-03-04
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 furnishing his idle workmen with free with gratitude therefor. Mir. Barnum shows more iberality than most employ CTS and should receive due credit. But after all the question will arise, How did he get his money and to whom is he in- debted for it? Before the abolition of negro slavery in the South, slave-own were obliged to support their slaves. It's little different here in the North. We are not burdened with that kind of sla- very and our contributions go under the softening name of charity. Quite differ ence you see. Much greater freedom and decidedly more to our taste. Can it be possible that there is ''screw loose" in society? Here is one man with more money than he knows what to do with, and all around him other men, just as in- telligent, just as industrious and just as economical, who can't get enough to keep them from starving. - Winsted Press.
 If our Democratic neighbor is not care ful he will be Radical, yea Commun- ist, before he knows it. The spirit of the foregoing is the spirit that made Paris very hot for the clergy of the Holy Ro- man Church, and for opulent and respect able laymen like MT. Wm. H Barnum. Yet there is real food for reflection in the idea suggested. Is our boasted American freedom and progress to lead to the accu- mutation of the property of the country in the. hands of few merchants, manu- lecturers, and railway kings, upon whose bounty is to exist proletariat like that of Salisbury?
 One advantage Mir. Barnum has over the Democrats of the old raginae,-over the Masons, the Davises and the Tombses which the Press forgets to mention. His grateful laborers can all vote. Not that Mir. Barnum, or his agents, ever men, tion the ballot in connection with the barrel of flour. It is not necessary that they should. 'As rule," says. the Vest minister Review of January last, ''no land lord will accept tenant who does not profess to be 8 Conservative in politics and member of the Church of England. |" The political relations of the laborer and tenant to the man who houses, employs, and feeds him are as we'll understood in Salisbury, Connecticut, as in Salisbury, England.
 France has its Constitution, or the l chief features of 1t at last. The Senate is | organized on rather cur1ous plan, but an excellent one in that it avoids the usu- al French weakness for centralization. It is to consist of three hundred members, seyenty-ive of whom are to be appointed by the Assembly and hold their positions for life. The remainder are to be elected for terms of nine years by conventions composed of deputies to the Assembly, members of local councils, and delegates from the municipalities. In other words the French Senate, like ours, is to be chosen by officials who are themselves chosen by the people. The Radicals unit ed with the moderate Conservatives in voting down all insidious radical proposi- tions offered by the Bonapartists. On test votes, like those organizing the Sen. ate and impliedly recognizing the Repub- lie, the coalition had about 435 yeas to the 262 nays of the opposing Legitimists and Imperialists. This is much better con stitution than we had ever expected from such a convention of fossils as the Frencl Assembly; and if McMahon will onl, give it fair chance, France will sool have a reasonably popular government.
 We see it stated that MT. Barnum gay, his vote in the House Railroad committee of which he is member, Tn favor of Ton Scott's Texas Pacific railroad subsidy, ye when the bill came before the House hi vote Is recorded against the measure This is matter that will bear explana tion.
 l TWISTED holds an Agricultural Conven tion at Camps Hall, on Friday afternoon and evening. Professors Johnson and At water, Mr. Augur and others will lectur, 1 and answer inquiries. A question bo, will be provided by Sec, Gold.