Connecticut western news., 1879-07-23

t1on In any maLIeTS peHIdluAnS lo oAA AAo1itooo for the parade, and that the name of the mem- Der be communicated to the AdJutant-General before August 1st, if possible.
 CHAUNcEY HOWARD, Comptroller,
 EDWARD KIRKLAND, Adjutant-Gen.
 LEvERETT W. VESSELS, Quartermaster Gen'
 -.Westward the star of Empire takes it's way" This is not only true as matter ot fact, ,but it is in pursuance of law as inexor- able as fate. Down through long centuries it has pursued it's steady but irresistible march. Time nor tide can stay it's progress. It sweeps away old governments, old sys- tems, old prejudices; it's influence and power are felt everywhere. England is just now ex- periencing them in an unusual degree. The great Western Empire is even carrying coal to her Newcastle and there is dismay in the land. American food and manufactures--our wheat, meat butter, cheese, cotton cloths are delivered in England cheaper than they can be produced there. Even our cutlery is being sent to Sheffield, and the cry comes be saved" The best thing is to put your house in order recognize the inevitable, and adapt yourselves to circ instances like men. Royal commissions can't help you. There is higher law which even Parliament cannot abrogate or control, and there is an ir- repressible confctl now going on between that and your old effete social system, your relics of barbarism. That is what's the matter. It is not the "vagaries' of Golden, but the in- telligence, the enterprise and energy of the American people, who recognize the fact that God did not create one people alone but all peoples alike. The subject of the industrial and agricultural depression, by singular CO., incidence came up in Parliament the 4th of July on motion for a royal commission to inquire into the causes of the depressed con- dition of the agricultural interests, and gave rise to an interesting debate. MT. Chaplin, the champion of the farming interest in the house, in the course of his speech said:
 What they really wanted to arrive at was, what was the least price at which American food, including cost of freight and transport, could be supplied here with profit to the inn porter That was the price they would in the future have to adopt as their own. If it were one,which would fairly remunerate the English producer all well and good, and the depression would pass away. If on the other hand it be found that America could supply food at price cheaper than they could produce it, he did not know how it was possible for them to resist the statement that English agriculture must pass away unless the country took steps to prevent it It would be nothing less than the ruin of the country, for agriculture was by far the largest national industry. This was not question ot CLASS, Dut 8 nAGlOuh1 Quebbluu OI tue Rr6aGSSl and largest importance. It was certain that there would be no harvest at all unless it paid to produce 1t. How far that was likely to be de- pended upon whether America could undersel them in food in future in their own country, He admitted that there was much speculation in any opinion formed on the point, but it was significant that in 1875 330 head of cattle were imported from America, l, 100 in 1876, 30, 900 in 1877, 68, 900 in 1878, and he found that the i'm portation had reached 10000 during the first A-,o~ 4ha aaA &6axyx pko fho NR %hr present year notwithstanding the order in Coun cil that all cattle were to be slaughtered at the port of debarkation. Opposition cheers)
 MT. Bright spoke in reply, and we take he following very interesting extract from his speech:
 The gentleman I spoke to the other day was chairman of one of the most prosperous and best managed railways in America, and he said that the change that had taken place in the cost of transportation had been aston ishing to him, and it must be astonishing tc everybody who looks into it. I know there are some people who do not like to hear these things. A farmer who was very much troubled and distressed on the subject, said ''Well, you know wish that cursed scountry had never been discovered" Daughter The fact is that the country has been dis covered, although they are now trying to fnC out where the discoverer was buried. Blu Columbus lived and discovered America, anc from being peopled by savages the country now has nearly fifty millions of our own Eng lish-speaking people on the northern cont nent, and it will increase in the course o thirty-ive years more, in all probability, to not less than ono hundred millions. Now, will tell honorable gentlemen opposite, and i will not add to their comfort, that the growtf in the Western states is such that land in th' TN.z ., loa B., is one reason for it which is not here. Ther, the protective system of the United States had diverted all capital in the Eastern states into the manufacture of protected article: with the expectation of getting increased profits, and the capital has therefore been tt 8 large extent withdrawn from those States and, therefore, you find in the New England States and in New York, and 1 believe tt some extent in Pennsylvania, that there i much land which men do not now think i worth while to plough, and which is annual, lessening in value and going gradually out o cultivation. If these Western States hat had so much effect on land near them wha will be the effect on land in this country?
 EUROPE CANNOT STAND AMERICAN COMPETITION
 When they have loo, O,0oO,OOO of population they will have paid their debt; their taxe
 will be at a minimum; they have almost n army ana no navy, as we nave Ill Europe they have no spirited foreign policy Qaughtere retaxes, in proportion to their pop ulation, will grow less and less; and ho, England and Europe will stand the competi- ton of America in regard to the policy c European nations, with regard to armament and taxes, anybody might try to imagine il but will not try to describe it. There ar farmers in America, as you know, who hav' no rent, no tithes, no poor rate. You hay all these. With you labor has risen. Labo is very dear in America. You are glad tha the laborers are we'll paid; they will have t be still better paid.
 You complain of the education rate and tn schools The effect under the present state c things must be to drive the educated aud spir ited young men from the country into tn towns or to emigrate. These are matter which trust this commission and the Hous will we'll consider. Your laws as they nov are would make laborer's condition perpet ual. In America as a poet has expressed ii
 "They till the land who own the land the
 till" That is the great difference betwee
 the land and it's cultivation in America ant the land and it's cultivation in this country Now, would ask honorable gentlemen oppo sjte not to be afraid of these questions and q