New-York tribune., 1879-09-19
TIE Address.

THE ADDRESS.
Drt. sueaLiuC Of you and yoar affairs, ] find that.
with Il. your advance IA the comforts aud refine
ren.. of life Won are not pleased VITA tne present
condition uf things. S.nr complain of debts thar
4. seem, di acul. 10 GiscAa-sr. aui most feeI thtt
the profl : fron farms aad labor are too small. In
otner worls. that wur burdens are TOO heavy ia
view Il the inadequate compensation Tor inc pro-
ducts Of you- industry. There NAV be foundation
for COMPLIANT. Alter an. we should De careful ana
not carry II too far. We are apt 20 be depressed
when adv,rs' IS CT hardship is upon as, forgetting
our better GAYS or oar opp'rtnuli whom We hai
better DAYS. We forget that alternate good and
lad tiues-the former rrclominating-come TO III
,aoulc lncy aIc a. sute as the sun IN ITS course.
On The onc side they cone richly iro GIFTED with
gain and ou the other heavily Ia Zen vi loss Al the
one period come additions 20 farms. bci1r houses
Iucr canaecs and more expensive living. and at The
other slniiLilE values, pincnin- Noi@ TO i'"o
tids meet. embarrassment, aud III some cases
failure. From the cXhilar ,on on depression oi r'e
nndf.u. profit and loss, prosperity and adver,iiy'
rone are wholly exempt. I'w There are, indeed
vino ere exempt from the seycrcl trials which are
the o,ing of tine under ST 10 Of human Affairs. II
i-e.,,..ailg trae that the farming community are
now having "a severe oxp.licuec Aud vet Is
ro.,uor.i ny flc.. tnat of the eight % ten thou
tald failures iu tie United states yearly from the
beginning of 1879 to the close Of lS9S. and am
lappy 10 SAY. IN largely lcssenng ratio thus isr
during the present year, but few were from among
t.e farmers. Nearly al were in tAe mercantile ana
monetary pursuits the compafat vs exemption
a. the Lu.banlmaa in this s9sct may ia some
,.e,s,lre he owing to flo nature 81 III. employment
mud property, winch Justify an extension Of debts
un favarlhlo terms. Whether however. because Oh
te stability of tho occupation, there IL less en-
hurassmeut. or that the property of the farmer Ia
is A.etnr. "a, fact rcm,ins-thongh sometimes
tnrely pre-, ,ed-Ac is not oitcn without home 10
i.o.ter lis family.
Tif BURDENS or EUROPE.
II may not he much consol .tinn % yol - know
iat other peopc, at homo ami abroad, are sli ring
more than You. And yet do ease our trouble
somewhat hy the reflection that others are not SO
well "a as ourselves. We somehow feel that il IS
Mt right t. complain Of our lot when 50 many
o,her. would cxpcrin a scnse OF rcliet with only
our burdens upon them. As yoI know was in
Jurop. tha most of the past year. and cannot
forcgo this opportunity to speak OF some gathered
fact. ami personal observations wlole there. can
rcc,ll several periods of hardship in oar own conn
try before this. couspicuously that OF n few years
following tie financial aud commer'isl crises Of
JS37-3s Happily we have pass. d. firmly believe,
the worst of the pr sent one bIt neither the most
rrrcus ycor- of this or any previous one which |
have obs rvcd equals the condition in many Of tho
countries Of Europe. Our already highly-produc-
five aud fresh fields. our vast districts Of yet un-
settled fertile territory and our iuexhaus'iblc min
eral stores warrant tho near approach Of activity in
trade and falr profits 10 every industrial interest.
lrt there j. no such encouraging outlook for the
lcols of the cDuntIi, beyond tho sra.
From tie oppressive effect of large enta'lcd
lardcd estates w England. the mass Of the p-orle
Caurot soon eNu~ct remedy. From tho costly
military systcms n all the European states, the cs-
cape win b, slw at bost. picture of Tie cordi-
e Ia. rf|p. Y fIlf
enormous standing armies which dcVour Tie public
revenues. The people are literally bowed down
under the weight of c&cess'v" MILITARY expenses;
give few figures for your fuller under siandug OF
The gricvouS lOad they are COMPELLED ia bear. In
POUND numbers France ha, 42oOVD men under
nuns. AT annual cost OF fulls ~ 'oOuo.uUo; the
German Empire have. say 100000, az coat of
sIGp.On0OOO To S20uO00Cp0; Grcgt Butein
JI0OnO, ai an annual eXp'nsr oi %'1o'nV'pi
jtalv 100000 men requiring for their naiuten-
a.cc more than Jl40.0pOo0o and. NJ mn th' other
Instances al this OUTLAY drawn from tie hard
earnings of the people. sprak of tie active m IN
tggv force. IT, addition 10 THIS tu!l-pAld regular
s,rce France Germany Ifalv and most of the
Jururcau States have reserve or contingent force
al ,qua or rrcatcr ma Iitude. IL Is not eNsv 10 cs-
tablisa from any reports have seen the aggregate
lu IL is safe 10 affirm that II II above the figures
Lave given. 1t l. not only that the people are sub
ictcd 20 this almost intpleraha burden but that II
D. iu support OF system which hriug' th'in no ad-
Vauta.c. From such burden Won, happily, are IN
large measure eXrnpi, aud IN ms respect ae IN
most others You enter lght-iOOteO IN the race lor
Industrial prosperity.
FNGLANp'~ DIsCOURAGING CONDITION.
But want TO .peak particularly of the state of
ailairs IN England. The outlook for the aboring
classes there am sorry To say. is about rs dismal
n could well be imagined Certainly the depres-
slon and suffering far severe than anything
in or experience Trade has diminished, prices
have fallen and the aborer IS without employment.
The busy wheel~ of this great manufacturing hive
Of Tue nations which at first slowed up now still
while ne fabrics from our country begin to take
the place of their own on the merchants shelves
The canse and the remedy have been thome of dis
CussiOn IN Parliament aud IN most all puhlc ana
private places II 10 J. true, a many think that
)ngla has lost her manufacturing supremacy
See no amellOTalon of the condition oi tfc suueing
u ople except IN a revision Ol her land syseu which
vii put the lands within the reach OF le now lang-
less A n of Won NAV not know that 81 II lanlvd-
uul. hold IS SO J22 acres--a httlrsnOre than one
latf of thr area OF tho United Kingdom, not iucud-
ing the Guy of London. II is also stated upon TIE
authority Of he land returns ordered bV Tie Earl
o. Derby in 1867. think, that of the 72l13,n6l
acres in Eng.aud, Scotland ana lrflanG-vnh
population Of 3j,OOO,OOO-there axe IN ali ONLY
1ITR 724 Ov ufTr OF land. and that almost l.uOlOpO
al these own less than oue-half acre each, Prom
tiis IL viii ir seen that 32OOO.OC0 or 33OOU,OOO
al fhe S3 600 900 of - GOO. 900 of people in tine
limited Kingdom are laudles>. IL follows almost
inevitably. without IctuIn 20 TO productive lni-
pOria Gee which l. gland eujovcd foe many years,
Ina. tbcT- must De Couta ued pilN1tion IL our Satc
there are q little over 80 100000 acres o land, aud
according 10 Tie ia-t state census tnc own rs OF
land number 474 s57 IN population OF 460e,"os.
Inus. ul Eugisnd hardly one-thIriieth part oi tho
pcople Own land at all, wniic IN Newly ork more
an on,-icnth oi the population are land propri-
,tors. In England, nine-iemths OF the owners haye
! 50 an Oue-..a acre each. IN NcW-1ork there
afe over 4iJ. 900 farms of more than twenty acres
each aud hut 2JS of 1000 acre-. ne. lat pub
h.hed report gives nearly e,VoO lndViqnal land-
owners in your county. oI abou' ones KIN OF Your
tmttre number. But few counties or >taics Beyond
the limits of Your own, and 10 country oihcr than
the United states boast of state Of Affairs 50
ft fuu al g. a.