The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-08-19
7RE OLD 7VoRLD AND TIE NEW.
WHAT SENATOR coNKL,xe HAS TO SAY {:

recently been travelling in Europe, wa
given a grand reception upon his return Il
| Utica last Tuesday. In his speech he said
We suffer just now from hard times ant
depressed industries; you zee all this ant
| more abroad. We think England rich il
! the ocean carrying trade 40 she ls Bu
many of her best ships are idle. Stesmship ?
liues, in some Instances, alternate witt
each other, running only half of the time
Manufactures are depressed everywhere
Workingnen here are dissatisfied with
wages, and unwise and lameBtable counseli
have recently led To lawless sc.s. from
which, in the end, no one will suffer as
much as their authors and abettors, aod
those they assume to represent. l wish
they could all go to France and England
aud see what the wurkmeu and Women do
there and hear of the wages they receive.
England, excluding the twelve counties of
Wales. is not larger than the State Of New
York. 1t ontains "a GOO 600 people. and OF g
or two bupdred men own half of England.
Their estates are princely reservations for
game and pleasure and opulence. One man
may ride thirteen miles in one direction
and nearly as far in the other on his own
estate, and WHEN he dies his eldest son
takes it all. The State of New York has
less than ), ,9a9, eco people there
were five times as many, and then that one
half of the State were given up to the
monopoly and pleasure of one hundred and
fifty noblemen. Suppose, in addition, men
and women labored in the fields and mines
and that the wages were only those paid
in England. Suppose only one man in
three had a vote or q voice in pu bic affairs,
or IN making laws; or that the great body
Of workingmen were wholly excluded from
all part In choosing the members of tie
House of Parliament the sests of hich are
not hereditary. Then suppose taxation TO
maintain q standing army, in which com
missions are sold for money, or given to
sons and relatives, and tlthes taken to
maintain established church in which
lvings are sold to the highest bidder OF be-
slowed as patronagef What would the
workingmen of Pennsylvania and Ohio
think OF such conditions9 We are al!
woIkingmen in America. No class has a
monopoly OF the right to call itseif the
working class here. l have always worked
aud have always been compelled to work,
aud my eympatbies are all with honest
labor. l believe in its dignity and in alIits
rights, but when the tidings of the strike
reached me in Paris, under my own eyes
was a spectacle which seemed to heighten
the madness of what men in America were
doing. The Government of France was
borrowing money, and on the curbstone Of
the street sat men all night to get each his
turn in the morning to lnvest in the loan.
They were workmen, who, living as work
men do not and need not live here, and
working for wages which American work
Inea would scorn, had by hook or by crook
saved fifty francs-each fifty francs make
ten dollars-ard these ali.nght watchers
were there to buy ten dollar bond on
which they were to get four per cent. inter
est. There sat the woIkingman of France
amid the luxury of the more fortunate, con
Tented with what fate had sent Rim Can
il be that liberty and prosperity have
spoiled any portion of the American peo
pie till tEey cspnot endure their share in
season OF common adversely Another ad-
vantage of every class il America i'm
pressed me-the fact that we have no near
and dangerous neighbors on the banks of
Dsuube. Russians and Turks are killing
each other-thls does not endanger or affect
US, except that 1t creates more market for
the things we have to eel. How ia it with
the Old World, where nations adjoin each
otherf Every people are in danger every
taxpayer and every workibgmaD and work
ingwoman is Involved. Great Britain must
have road to India, where she governs
one hundred and eighty million human
beings with the bayonet. Russia, Turkey,
Austria, Germany, France and others are
interested in these came things, or in what
they call the balance of power. On the
Judgment or caprice of kings and rulers
depends the question whether men must
nght aud die, and women must toll and
reap in half the kipgdoms of the earth
Our country stands apart by herself in the
amplitude of her own dominlons. 1t is
said the American flag is not to be seen as
often as other hsgs floating from m astheads
in foreign ports. This is true. 1t ought
to be otherwise it must be otherwise.
But, without meeting it often Oh the sea,
you know aud feel that the starry flag is at
home, and that from home 1t makes its in
Auepce and power felt around the world
You see and feel that 1t shelters and pro-
tects more liberty, more individual pros
peri'y, more of human right and more
bright promises for the future than can be
found in any otter land. KiDgsbiP, mon
archy, nobility, sristOcracy may be good
things, good for the few within The charmed
circle; out give me land of equal rights !;
land where there is no law making few,
and where no man is even called OF to obey
any law which lie has not his full share in
enactlDg and charging. Give me q land in
which it is the night and duty of every man
to take part in all the elections, and all the
proceediugs by which government ls con.
sttuted and directed. This was the grand
idea Of our fatheTs. On this corner stone
ts.N- fcr, a a D.