The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-11-16
The Anti-AAonopo1ist.

r perstition among the unhappy native
. that this river possesses virtue or pow
er which they are prone to evoke in the
last extremity So when the monopc
lizing agents of British power taxed mos
OF the rice crops into their own grana
ries, and held them at prices no poo
Hindoo could pay, then came the heca
, tombs Of the wretched people wit
George Thompson eloquenily described
! The exactions of these goddess men kee,
up public scarcity in India, as the SAM
evil men, by their egtortions, keep up Il,
artificial famine in Ireland, that rests OIL
it more or less heavily, each succeeding
year. Eighteen hundred and fortY>sevel
was an exceptional neutrality-suspicious.
only by its intensity-just as the picture
drawn bv Mr.. Thomson was an cxcep.
tional horror 10 India. The slow. search
ing, chronic, scarcity created by British
rapacity is the same III both countries.
But there are premonitions looming
up, just now that change is approach :
ing both. aBoth India and Ireland. Both
at once. One.it may be- consequence of
| the other.
Russia has hungered tor British India
a long hunger, stretching over half a
dozen generations of men. Turkey lay
between her and the prize. The last
offer she made to snatch at it.was when
Austria invoked her help to put down
the hungarian revolt, some quarter
ct /; century ago. At that time the
fierce resentments ofHungary were still
smouldering, and might at any moment
break out into another blaze. Prussia
and the German States presented then
no such united front as they do now;
and they were as likely to declare against
the spoliation of the Turks as in favor of
it. at least without getting such a hunk
of the spoils (territory) as the Russian
could not spare from the compactness of
his reconstructed empire, France and
England were 4 unit in the controversy
a unit for the Turk-and SO the Nusco-
vite had to put off his request tor a sea-
son.
A more promising opportunity arises,
or is made, now. II we look below the
surface q suspicion will grow upon us
that the recent uprising in the Turkish
dependencies was encouraged, if not
planned, by Russia. That those compar-
atively weak and not ~arlike peoples
should throw down the gage OF battle to
4 power so strong, so provided,so fierce,
and SO fanatical as Turkey-,hat they
should do this of their own unprompted
resolve, is by no means likely. It is
not. perhaps, generally known here in
America. but it is q fact nevertheless,
that Russia has produced, and been
controlled by, the most profound states-
men that Europe has seen in the present
century. 1t is not at.ll unlikely that
those may have ioreseen, and with a
policy brought about the
very excuses (massacres) OF the Turks,
in order to enlist the Christian sympathy
of Europe against them. Ii SO,
the policy has thus for been crowned |
with eminent success.
Bat leaving the present complications /
IS they stand, let us return to the sway
)t England among the unfortunate Him
loos-the brothers in. wrong and in agony
ot the oppressed people OF Ireland
In the House OF Commons, about n
hundred years age, Edmund Burke talked
his way OF the younger brothers and
OF the aristocracy that were
sent out to plunder India:
by what means could a small number
II slight individuals, of no consequence
,r situation-without the command OF /
known administration of
eyenues-without profession. without
rade sufficient to employ 4 peddler,
nave, in Il few years, Gas to some even
Il a few montns) amassed treasures
equal to she revenues ota respectable
lingdom?n
And after showing the luxurious ex-
ravagance of these slight individuals
who claimed four millions sterling OF !
iebt from the Nabob OF Arcot, and
wanted England to pay iD. Burke pro-
leeds thus:
What equivalent have they given?
What are the articles OF commerce or
he branches OF manufacture those gen.
lemen have carried with them to enrich
lndia2 What are the sciences they /
out to enlighten ii? What are
he arts they introduced to cheer and to
ldorn it: What are the relic ious or the
moral Institutions they have brought
.moug that people. as \ guide to life or
Is consolation when life is to be no
more, that there is an eternal deot-a
lebt still paying. still to owe,-which
must be bound on the present generation
ii India. and entailed on their mort
jagged posterity forever \ debt of
Millions in favor OF = set OF men whose
James are either buried in the obscuritv |
IT their origin and talents or dragged |
nto light by the enormity OF their
,ripess'
May not the people of America-this
ieuered. deirauded country
ii our own-lock our London creditors
md their accomplices here-look them
n the tace and ask in the indignant |!
anguage Of Burke: what are the
sciences you have beamed out to en-
tighten uso What are the arts 10 adoru
Is? What the religious or moral in-
tituticns you have founded among US.
That this eternal debt OF yours, .s;ill
,aying. still to owe,' should De entailed
IN our posterity forever:'-TriSh World.
At an auction sale OF books in New
York Wednesday night, some rare vo.-
lines brought assonishingiy low prices.