Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-05-18

oH. Ine Douy ana neaQs were
thrown on the. fire and buried. The
braves then made their way to Joe Ali
sons ranch. where they went through
the process of washing the blood from
their hands. The father and squaw Of
FRANK were met at the ranch, but they
were nnmoved by the particulars. of the
tragedy"
ON WAR DEBTS.
The Quaker Statesman, John Bright.
OF War and War Debts.
Peroration on His Recent Address at the
University OF Glasgow.
Would you believe that if you were to
add up all the expenditure in the coun-
try since the beginning of the century,
and during the lifetime of some thou
sands of people 0 living, the expen-
diture upon war and wa debts. the ex-
penditure ofa military and naval war
kind-what do you suppose it comes tor
You could not guess, and if l told you,
you would be no wiser. 1t comes to the
sum of "a ,4l4 ,00O,O 900 sterling of taxes. I
say you would be no wiser. I do not
know that we are any wiser from hear
ing that a man is worth u million, ex-
cept that he is q rich man. We do not
know very well what a million is. But
what are twenty millions, and
what are one hundred mil
lions, or what are a thousand
millions, or four thousand millions? It
is like speaking of those great astronomi-
cal distanceAof which at lectures We
hear 30 much and know 30 little. But If
thnoo M sStoN " A~n0nnnn hnvn ~ ~
"a, 414, 000, 900, how much has the real
government, the civil government of the
country cost during the same time? It
has cost 81, Ol2, 000, 900. Less than n
fifth of all our expenditure; more than
four ffShs have been expended in wars
past, or wars prepared for in the future.
I ask you, then, what Of the people, and
what Of the millions? We find poverty
and misery. What does it mean when
all these families are living in homes of
one room, to us who have several rooms
and all The comforts of life? It means
more than I can describe, and more than
need begets need, 80 poverty and misery
in all our great towns, and
not a little in some of our
small towns, there are misery and help
lessness 80 much as / have described.
In fact, looking at the past, to me it is a
melancholy thing to look at. There is
much Of it which excites in me not aston
ishment only, but horror. The fact is,
there passes before my eyes q vision of
millions of families-not individuals, but
families-fathers, mothers and children.
CHASTITY and sorrow stricken, passing in
a never ending procession, from their
cradle to their grave. Now / have to
put to you q question. A friend of ours
in the corner there was a little stirred
l treated seemed to take a political as
| pect. Some one has said that the two
things of all others in the world that are
worth considering, worth talking about,
are the subjects Of religion and politics.
| want to ask you whether the future is
to be no better than the past? Do we
brighter time? For myself.
1t will not be possible for me to see it;
but you have before You, many of YOU.
the prospect of witnessing the transac-
tions Of the public policy OF your coun-
try for forty or fifty, or even it may be
for years to come. On you and such as
you depends greatly our future. What
look back upon the past and examine it
carefully; look round then in the pres
ent, and see what exists; and endeavor,
if it be possible, to get better and a
higher tone to our national policy for
the future. To me it appears that DUR
ing the last two centuries CT keep myself
to that, because since that time the pub
lie opinion of the country that had great
ly increaeed infiuencel we trod in the
footsteps of Caesar and accepted the bar
barous policy of Pagan Rome;
while at the same time, with
vast ard unconscious Hypocrisy, we
have built thousands Of temples, and
have dedicated them to the Prince Of
Peace. l say with grief and shame that
they VINO have ministered at His affairs
have, for the most part, on these mat
tiers been absolutely dumb. Now I ask
you this question. Shall we reverse the
policy? Shall we contrive " build up the
happiness of our people, on a basis Of
justice, morality, and peace? / plead
not for the great and for the rich; I
plead for the millions who live in homes
of only one room. Can you answer me
in the words which / quoted years ago
on q somewhat like occasion; words
which fell from the crowned minstrel
who left us the psalms: 1.-THE needy
shall not always be forgotten; the ex-
pectation Of the poor shall not perish
forever"