Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-21
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4 London journalistic Tietc Of Pre- sident
Arthur's MessaGe.
The London Daily Telegraph of Dec. 5
commented as follows upon the message
of President Arthur: president Arthur
seems conscious that what is called the
grand old party is about to lose the lease
of power which it has already held for
nearly two-and-twenty years, but nothing
in his address of yesterday is calculated to
turn the tide the other way. He is magni-
ficent in his glittering generalities, but
there is hardly a practical suggestion in
the long e.lray of Sentences flowing siioly
from his pen. To begin with. he panders
to the Irish-who, in the opinion of many
sagacious observers, are sure to give the
republic as much trouble as they have
afforded to the mother country-by
facilitating arrangements for carry
ing into effect the bill
prohibiting Chinese immigration. For
four years the western coast of South
America has been turned into a pandemo-
MUM by the exasperated and internecine
war between Peru and Chill; but beyond
the expression of a vague hope that the
appointment of Mr.. Logan as American
minister accredited to Chilli may conduce
to the re-establishment of peace, President
Arthur has nothing definite to offer. Yet
the unchecked continuance of war which
touches more or less the pockets of the
whole human family, and primarily those
of England, France, and the United States.
is a reproach to all the nations, but above
all to the greatest power in the western
hemisphere, which easily .ashes itself into
a simulated fame when so-called Ameri-
can citizens are arrested, with revolvers
and daggers slung around their waists, in
Ireland, and has no word of warning to
utter against the greed aud arrogance of
the intoxicated Chilian nation.
"Happily the pretended complaints of
the chief magistrate of the United States
about the arrest and Imprisonment of
American officials in British jails have no
sincerity in fact. Had two American of
fcials of the rank of Lord Fred Caven-
dish and MIR. Burke been brutaAy assas-'
sinated for political causes in any part of
the Union. the rage and cry for vengeance
emanating from our kin beyond sea-
would have been far more bitter than any
thing that has been heard from this coun-
try. The voluminous correspondence
which has passed between the British and
American governments on this subject will
be read by no ore; and we may proceed.
without further comment, to notice the
amazing magnitude of the revenue which
in times of profound peace is being raised
by a country with no more than fourteen
million to pay annually for
interest upon its national debt.
with an insignificant standing army and
comparatively no war navy to maintain.
with a coast which has no big guns and ex-
pensire forts to keep up. aud finally,
though the boast will soon, we fear. be a
hollow and unsubstantial tction-with no
poor laws and no paupers to provide for.
Possessed of such enormous advantages
over the chief nations of Europe. are the
United States justified in extorting more
then esO,OOO,O0O per annum of revenue
from people Individually poor, although
inhabiting one of the noblest and richest
countrys upon earth? Ten years since, in
one Of his budget speeches, Mr.. Gladstone
expressed the opinion that if the American
government had been satisfied to reduce
their national debt more slowly. and to
relieve struggling people from the
oppressive taxation which was weighing
them down, the policy would have COM
me 1ded itself by its wisdom to the appro-
baton of mankind. When. however, the pres
ident'congratulates the country on it's pros
perity,' are his words substantiated by fig
ures and facts? No country can be truly
pronounced prosperous in which the cost
of living is extravagantly and outrageous
" high; IN which an unnatural tariff is
maintained for protective purposes; in
which the public service is debauched by
rotation of offices and by the exaction
from impoverished civil servants of con-
tributions from their miserable salaries to
be spent in political corruption: in which
'Dorseyism and Bradyism' are represented
by what are called the star route postal
frauds are possible; in which politics are
controlled by'spot-house caucuses and per
sonal campaigns 1t was but the other
day that semi-panic prevailed in Wall
street, caused partly by the existence of
some railway wars, and by the threat of
others, and aggravated by the total aban-
donment of the street on the part of pub
liz INVESTORS WHAT safety NAV :.