The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1882-03-30
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Congressman Cox's Dissertations in For.
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HonI'S.. S. Cox passed me on the street
lastnigh and stopped to talkla minute, l
asked him what it had cost him to see
Europe , &c t'cost Just my Congressional
salary Ief $4,000 to pay mine and my
fWife's expenses, and make a Journey of
eight months around the great circle Of
Europe ANeIwent to. .Constantinople,st ito
Egypt, to Palestine, to Russia, to Nor
way and Sweden, and of courses went
where rs we liked in middle Europe. O Fer
that amount of money we stopped at the
sversfbest hotels had she best rooms and
attendants, and had the best commissions
aires to show us about. -
folNerelyou a goodsdeal troubled with
vermin, bed-bugs, etc, ,?po4..l IT az.
Well, some. ALI the south of Eu-
rope, the northaofIA Africa and Asia. of
courses have their pests. You. begin. to
feel it at 'Constantinoplea. T think we
were plagued more by a sandsffy along
the eastern coast of. the Mediterranean
than by tleas. Those spiteful flies s Kept
mywife iifas a great state of exasperation
as she ever shows"
Speaking Of the mail Service, Mr.. Mr. Cox &
saids.IE' Inswrote aGgood( many news
paper letters and all of them, came
through safely but that one Il s. in 4 which /
hay presep ptatibnI rtu fhesSaltang
Il vas the most interesting that wrote.
|. That never came to hand, and I never
1 could write il again. Lew Wallace, souf;
minister. obtained the. presentation for
me, willie my wife was allowed, without
my epmpanN however, to 3goI to- the
seraglio, and to see the female life. of the
.fSultans household.o % Io3i aaSs 20 aiFiEI !
How did you find the consular serss
ice OF the United States, Mr.. Cox?n
"Iwas' very agreeably Surprised BIT its
excellence, 0M feonsals all along, that
coast, as far as / observed, were obsery-
ing,d shrewd, good fellows, MANY Of
them badly underpaid. Gen. Lew,Wal-,
lace IS man ofiteraRy Wand worldly
talents, and makes. a very goodIminister.I
| could ind nothing O, our consulates in
St fPetefsbufg? Tone of the best; fel-J
lows | found was at Christiana,, Norway.
He was getting only 5000 wear out of
his fees Since Iicafie back / have had
him raised to 81 900 a year. We fin;
lshed the foreign service bilPlast Satur-
day.i Lam on the appropriation 'conirl
mittee, YOU, know.l' \.
What do You thin think 81 ii Russia Il 81 pIffr' Nfr
! yCoxal't ,g7st5id qoH rs vbausr 9 aFqf
y .Well, Russia is in very badconditiony
arising from want Of an industrial and
selfssapportihg Ifsociety 8 'RTheiigo4eaa-a 0
pent asain has if. plsked Eout persons, ip every,
province m Russia and educated them
thoresighly sogivenot them fine technical
for its war purposes, in the
engineering Schools, in the languages,a :
SO as to make them accomplished tools
OF the Gar. Now these men have no
occupation in Russia after they are eduSl
Gated: There is literally nothing to do
where theyTfeside9 They have no. Bds
mess experience, Consequently they,
become hihilist. Nihilism il Russia M 3
the .ieffervescencep ofttiie infeliectg de-
mandipg 1more and, better; institutions
than naked despotism, demanding q ca
reer, eongenial occupation, .sfseedom off
speech and of -actions-in- -sshert, it is ed
ueatlon ldetesting Eahsolgtism and idle /
ness: Inc common people Of Russia
are heroted to the Gar. TKey calf him
their father. The scabman thai drove l
us around, the laborers, all the bottom
STRATUM OF Isoeiety, are 1oyals'tB the soul,t /
and viii Kill q lmanTif he saws ANYTHING
against their holy and dead master, the
Gar. But these educated, unfiinchino>l
mean to transform that society.
to the likeness of Europe and Ariierica,
or to peftsh WlLh lt.stEd NAM Ssani2ud
Mr.. Cox, do any of them in Europe
live ass Weln las wye do in oiUniteds
States?'' 81 a !.
mo; there is country like this
anywhere, yet the wholly commercial
character of our life sometimes fatigue
the brain. saa-sGdth. Jlff79as9 sasn67I 81