The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-06
DlGsrenoe. Between The Halted s'"'e'


Between h Lnlied STATES
and Great Britain.
In his speech at the Rochdale banquet
lot. B. Porter, in December, Mr.. John
Bright said, in part:
81 was very much struck, In the last
session Of parliament, with q little con-
yersation l had with q member whose
name | need not give, but he is an emf.
nent man Of business and knowle1ge,
and he has occupied a prominent poslIioh
before the country. His opinions on pc;
litical affairs have very much changed OF
late years. He has become much more
liberal and democratic; and what, ne
asked, has made me changer, why, US
obserying what has been done In the
United States. [Cheers.l These people,
he, said, have paid of Gl5O,OOO,OOO
II debt In thirteen years and have re-
duced their annual interest by the
amolnt OF ElS,000, 900. 1t appears
TO me- he said, sometimes that they
ialk a good deal Of nonsense'-and there
are people interested in telling US a go9u
deal of the nonsense and much less oil the
wisdom rcheersl-'but," he said, you WIZ
observe that they always act very wisely
-TOheers.l And so he had come to the
opinion that his former views with regard
IN liberal doctrines and policy and demo-
cratic institutions were erroneous ahu III
had abandoned them for views much wiser
and better. This country am talKing
about differs q great deal from the GoNh'
tries OF Europe. There is no d6ubt, q
great difference between the United States
and these countries in Europe. with the
exception OF France. They differ in be-
ing q republic.
LET Us he THANKFUL"
Mr.. Potter says he only saw four drunk,
Ell men in the United States, but he did
not sec the emperor-[laughter and
cheersl or empress, or king, or queen,or
imperial or royal princes and princesses'
fCheers.l These high dignitarics, to
whom we pay such great and often well:
deserved respect-[cheersl-were not to
be found in that country-tcheersl-and
I have no doubt that where men are in
telligent enough and moral enough to sus'
tain q government like that they have in
The United States, though there msy be
in some particulars great perils, yet on
the whole the government IL. one that Is
entitled to their entire confidence. Hear,
hearr1 ! think some one said that
they had no great army. lCheers.
There are persons WHO come to this
country from Germany, France and Rus.
sia WHO are surprised and perhaps de-
lighted to find how few soldiers are TO be
seen in England compared with some Of
the European nations; but in America
they 'disbanded their great army OF a
million men-they now have a torGe OF
about twenty-five thousand men. 1t Is
not maintained for the purpose OF war
abroad-[choers nor is It maintained for
the purpose Of suppressing liberty at home.
[Cheers. And yet there is no country
in the world which is more universally
respected throughout the globe than the
United States, and there Is no country
where, on the whole, tho laws are bette'
obeyed and public order more constantly
maintained. Another thingi in which they
differ from us well, is thatthey have almost
no political treaties. [Cheers. Washing
tor, the first great President, advised them
to have no political treaties. Commercial
treaties IL you like much trade as you
can-haye with all countries They have
not followed his advice in that so much as
| should like; but with regard to political
treaties in the main, they have followed
his advice; and yet ] believe there is no
country with which all other countries are
more friendly ut this moment than the
United States. [Cheers.] They have no
bishops in thei: Senate. Laughter
have no doubt there are people in this
country who commiserate their position
in that respect, but l don't. Laughter
and cheers.1 They have not constructed
a machine, mostly political and part
" religious, in which the state holsters W
religion on the condition that religion will
bolster up tho state. They have got nc
favored government, church or organi2a'
ton which lends to the crimes Of mon
archs and statesmen, sanctioned by the
simulated voice OF God, an approval, and
by which the voice Of Christianity is de,
moralized and degraded. [Cheers. ]
have said also that they have no land mo
nopoly and no system OF law which is in
tended TO maintain great families in the
possession OF vast estates. We have con
| ltIltu upbllk uS9C bitAtAANS haStt lSAAhASNA
powers, which may be used-and have
been almost always used in opposition
TO the true rights, interest and freedom
Of the people. [Cheers. They have
not preferred as We have pre-.
ferred in this country-to maintain o
thousand great houses and great properties
when we might have had hundreds oil
thousands Of comfortablea and happy home:
steads to adjoin the land. [Cheers. ]
spoke OF France as q iepuDlic es the
United States is a republic. II you have
read history and considered you will find
that the wars and extravaganza OF Louis
NV and the proflisacy Of his successors
laid the foundation OF the French republic
and you will iud that the folly, the tyr.
amy OF George III and his ministers, and
the perverse obstinacY Of their majority in
parliament laid the foundation OF the
North American Republic. ["Hear, hearl"]
| wonder whether it occurs eve 10 the
crowned heads OF Europe to think what
will become of the policy they are now