New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-19
JOHN BRIGHT ON WARS AND VAR DEBTS.

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| Would you believe that If you were 10 Wie
mig of the century and during lifetime OF some tEo-
sands OF people living the expenditure upon Wat
war Kind what do you suppose il tot iou eouia
not guess and If told you, would be no wiser. ~
saw You would be wiser. do not know that We are
any wiser from hearing that man is worth million
what million is. But what are twenty millions, and
what are hundred millions, or what are thousand
Of those great astronomical distances OF which at lee
lures hear much and know SO little Bus III 'h he
much has the real government tine civil government OF
ae 100000 Less than one-fh Of ali eIPendi
ture has been IN civil government more than -FOUR
a s future ask yon them what Of the people
and what OF the millions We find poverty anu misery.
homes of one room to us who several and all
the comforts OF life II means more than can de-
scribe and than will attempt TO enter INTO; anu
"a need begets need so poverty and misery beget pow
erty and misery so, In All our great towns sna no. ~
little in some OF our small towns there are misery ana
helplessness much as have described In iact look
ing the past to me il is melancholy thing to loon AT
ment only horror The fact is there passes before
nv eyes vision of millions OF familiesno indiyidras,
but aliesfathers mothers and children. ghastly and
sorrowstcken, passing In neyer-endlng proeess.ii
you question A friend Of in the corner there
was little stirred because some OF the SUBJECTS on
some one has said that the two things Of ali others
the world that worth considering, worth taking
TO you whether the future to be better than tag
past Do we march, or do We not TO brighter time
For myself IL will not be possible for me TO see "; put
you have before you many OF you, the prospect OF VIII
Messing the transactions of the public policy OF your
country for forty, fifty even IL may be Tor more
years On yOu and snch as you depends greatly
our future. What want to ask you is whether you
will look back upon the past and examine IL careluy
look round then In the present and see what exists; anu
endeayor, II II be possible, TO get better ana gher
tone to national policy for the future. To me u sp
pears that during the last two centuries Il Keep mysen
TO because that time, the public opinion OF
country has had greatly increased nuence) we rol
the footsteps of Cesar and accepted the barpaious
policy OF pagan Rome; WHILE at the same ume Win
and Unconscious hypocrisy We have Dulit lnOu-
sauds of temples and have dedicated them TO the Prince
OF Peace isay with grief and shame that they VINO
ministered at His affairs have for the most part on
these matters been absolutely dumb. Now iass you
question: Shall reverse this policy small We
contve build the honor the true honor and true
happiness OF our people basis OF justice moraIty
and peace plead for the great aud for the ren;
plead for the millions who live in homes OF only one
room. Can you answer me in the words whlch
quoted years ago a somewhat Ike OCCASION words
which fell from the crowned minstrel who left us tne
Psalms: The needy shall not always be forgotten the
expectation OF the poor shall not perish forever.