The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-30

England has become 50 completely
land of capitalists that the entire
policy Of the country seems to be to
mollify, to protect, to extend the privi-
leges of capital, to make foreign secur-
tiles more secure, to find or make new
fields in which the surplus wealth of
the country may be invested. No ques-
ton of national interest can be carried
forward with any show of interest
without its influence on "our trade"
its danger to sour securities" it's effect
upon profits arising from "Our foreign
investment" becoming the leading,
almost the only, point of Importance.
England has become vast corpora
ton, whose object is to make money.
Parliament is the board of directors,
the Prime Minister is the President,
and all men of wealth are stockholders.
Let any of the sources of profit by
which these capitalists thrive be block
ed, and there is comnlotiOn in Parlia-
ment. Let the policy of the govern
ment be any ways threatening toward
the value of given line OF foreign
securities, and off comes the Minister'S
head. The questions in Ireland are
not as to the liberty and rights Of the
people, but the rights of British capital
invested there. The personal liberty
and comfort of 100000 poor subjects
is insignificant compared with the
rate of interest that some hundred
more or less, capitalists shall receive
on their money invested in Irish lands.
The policy of England in the Egyptian
struggle will not be so much to pre-
serve dignified and manly attitude
as it will to smooth out the difficulty
in some way so that SueZ Canal stock
and the India trade will not be inter-
fered with. 1t seems as though this
were carrying a good thing little too
far. When the question of money in
terests can easily win victory over
questions pertaining to the fundamen-
tai liberties and rights of people,
government will cease to be honored
and supported with love and loyalty.
Governments are not instituted among
men for such purposes. 1t is of great
Importance that the policy of the gov
eminent be so shaped that capital may
act as free and untrammeled as posi-
BILE, but we hope never to see this gov
eminent becoming merely the tool of
capital, sunk to the level of mere
money-making corporation, holding
dear nothing but her trade, her securi-
ties, her sound relations with foreign
governments for the carrying on of
commerce. The growth of country
should rather show an enhancement
of personal rights and liberty; a
thought for capital and compassion
ate interest in labor; an effort to Sc
cure cheap bread and enable every man
to obtain a comfortable livelihood
with frugality and without depriva-
ton. A subservient interest in invest
ments in foreign lands. and the shap-
ing Of its foreign policy to accommo-
date and succor all sorts of financial
schemes, has led England down, step
by step, and, unless some great effort
be made, she will find herself like
Rome-cast high upon shoals, and the
rocks grinding her vast moneyed
structures to dust. The strength of
country is the bone and sinew and
heart and love and loyalty of her sub
jects. These will not be given contin.
uously without they are fostered by
due care and regard for those rights
that are dearer to us than all the
wealth in the world can be to some
bloodless money-loyer. Let any coun-
try neglect these things at her peril.