Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-09-23
absolute despotism. The object of the
Norman invasion of Britain was plum

The first conquest of the cOnquerer
wai the soil of England, after subduing
the inhabitants. In order to fort Y
himself in the possession of his whole
sale plunder, he, after appropriating to
himself the lions share, divided the
balance among 700 of his chief cap
tains, upon whom he conferred noble
titles. These estates and titles were
made inalenable, to pass only by in
heritmce to the eldest son of each
brigand and their tenure contingent
upon the loyalty of the recipients to
their chief. AS all the wealth of the
nation was thus contracted in the hands
of 700 robbers, it was absolutely neces
sary that sovereign power to retain pos
session of it, and to enforce submission
on the part Of the robbed, should also
be vested in the same persons. In or
der to insure perfect safety for all time
to come, it was ordained that no man
should be clothed with the law-making
power except he represent as baron,
duke, earl, or viscomt, a certain amount
of stolen lands, and to prevent the diff
fusion of the estates and political pow
er among the people, the law of primo
geniture was enacted, which made the
eldest son of every robber a born lord,
and the sole heir to his fathers titles
and estates. At the present time the
house of lords numbering 53S members
consists Of five peers of the queens
family, two arch-bishops, five bishops,
2Ol dukes, marquises and viscOunts,
26l barOns, Ii Scottish and % Irish
| representative peers, all of whom, eX-
cept the last named were born to their
positions, and to hold them for life.
Great Britain contains about 100000
acres of land, including cities, public
highways, parks, rivers, lakes, hogs and
waste places. OF this land 3S,0lS,54S
acres are owned by 2,1l3 persons, whose
annual income, or rental, according to
the almanac of the financial reform as
sOciation, amounts to e12S,62S, ,l64, or
S643, l40,S0O a year. These two thou
sand individuals constitute the nobility,
the wealth, and governing aristocracy
Of the empire.
They hold by the might of law, the
soil which belongs of right to 100000
600 souls.
They continued their plumdrring
practices of their Norman amcestors,by
tilching annually from honest industry,
without consideration, $643NOO,O0O,
which was honestly earned. and justly
belongs to 30,OOO,0O0 of tolers.
They are enabled to perpetrate these
outrages and to repeat them year after
year, through the monopoly of sovcr-
eign power, which they usurped from
the people, leaving them destitute Of
the means Of redress.
Under Il Republican form Of govern
ment, where every citizen has Il voice
in national affairs, whose rulers are
chosen by the people, and whose Oili-
cial tenure is contingent upon such wise
and humane legislation as will result
in the greatest good to the largest num-
her, how long would two thousand |
persons he permitted to rob and cnslavc !
thirty millions? Under no other form
of government than that Of Great Brit |
ain could such damnahle outrages he
tolerated and perpetuated.
In no manner can colossal fortunes
he accumulated by the few, while the
masses remain poor, except through |
unjust and inlluman lcgiSlatlonand I'M
der no form of government can the few
continue to absorb the wealth produced |
by the many,eycept the sovereign power
of redress he taken from the many and
conferred upon the few to protect them
in their diabolical schemes of plumber.
Hume, in his history of England,
says "rhe immense fortunes which
the conquerOr bestowed upon his chief
captains, served to make them fOrmid-
able to the sovereign. As power nat
urally follows wealth, this alone gave
great security to the Norman chief"
4 hydra-headed aristocracy like that of
England has taken root in the soil of
Columbia.
y llOuSdllu law HlllllOllulltS
have sprung up in the United States
where not one existed before the ac-
cursed IIamiltonan financial policy was
established by the Republican party.
Wealth begets wealth in the ratio
that the snowfall gathers strength at
every revolution on its passage down
the ALPINE slope.
Eight men in New York absorbed
$4,000, 600 of the products of last years
labor. Next year it may he twice
eighty millions. The ball has started;
its descent is rapid; while unconscious
of danger repOSe in uncOncen the mil
lions Of toi,ers and wealth-producers on
the plains at the mountains base. The
people must move or they will be over
whelmed The course of the destroyer
must he checked, or liberty will he
buried in an avalanche of deSpotism.
Great God! why do men sleep, when
death and destruction are on their
track? Either the monster which is
threatening liberty and labor, absorbing
everything good in its course, must be
destroyed while the people possess the
power and the means to protect them
selves, or it will deprive them of such
power and means for its own protection.
Said Pitt in the British Parliament
nearly hundred years ago: LET the
Americans 60 into their funding system
and their banking institutions, and
their boasted independence will he a
mere phantom"
Our funding and national banking
system is n hot-bed for the sprouting
and growth of Il monied aristocracy. A
monied aristocracy can not flourish in
an atmosphere of democracy and liber-
ty. They are incompatible elements.
One must yield to the superior power
of the other. The banks and bonds
must 80, or the people must make up
their minds that in a shorter period
than they are aware, their liberty and
their substance will follow the political
and pecuniary fortunes of the serfs of
Britain. ,,
VIM. II. English is about to empty
his "bar'l in Indiana. Mr.. English can