Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-29

capitalist never got q glimpse of in most eX.
cited mld-summer's night dream. While we
sympathise with the present hardship, we
pr0phesy the coming rescue.
Nhle those holidays find so many out oil
employ, there Is not land where so many
have work. While many have their wages
cut down, at the reduced figure these wages
| are higher than the ordinary rates in other
| lands. In some parts of ireland s cents q
| day. In England 81 day is good wages.
| In other lands so cents day and 25 cents a
| day clear on down to starvation and squalor.
| An editor OF a prosperous paper in England
| told me that his salary was $3.50 year. Look
| factories of England and accompany them to
| their home and see what privation the hard
working classes on the other side of the sea
| suHer. Inc laDOring classes here are 10 per
| cent better off than in any country under the
sun, 20 per cent, 40 per cent, so per cent, 20
! per cent. The stone masOns, and carpenters,
and plumbers, and mechanics of all styles in
| America nave liner residences than the ma
| Jorlty OF professional men in England. You
| enter the laborers residence on this side the
/ sea and you find upholstery and pictures and
! instruments of music. His children are edu-
| Gated at the best schools. His life is insured
| so that in case of his sudden decease the
| FAMILY should not be flung homeless. Let all
American WOrkmen know that while their
| wages may not be as high as they would like
| dustry.
We are in better political condition than in
any other land. Every two years in the State
| and four years IN the nation we clean house.
After the vehement expression of sentiment
at the ballot-box, in tsA autumnal election,
said to me IN an Engli rail train "How do
you stand it to have a evolution every four
years? 1t is better to have Queenfsor life
and all things settled" But, my sliends,
England changes government just as britain
ly as we do. At some adverse vote in3Parlia-
ment, out goes Disraeli and IN comes Glad
stone, and after awhile there will be another
admOnitory vote in Parliament, and out viii
go Gladstone and in will come somebody else.
Administrations Ichange there, but not as ad-
Vantageously as here, for there the change
may come almost any day, while here a
party IN power continues four years in power,
1t is said that in this country we have more
political stealing than in other lands. The
difference Is that in this country almost every
official has q chance to steal, while in other
lands few people absorb so much that the
others have no chance at appropriation. The
governments of Europe are so expensive that
after the salaries of the royal families are
paid there Is not so much left to misappropri-
ate. The Emperor of Russia has an annual
salary of $S,2l0,000; the Emperor of Austria,
S4,O0O00O; Victoria, $2,2000C0 salary. The
royal plate of st. James palace is worth So
C00,000. The Queens hair dresser gets $IO,0 900
year. There is host of attendants, ali on
salaries, some of them $4,000 and So, 6,000-mas-
ter of buck-hOunds, $500; grand falconer,
$4,000, and SO on and so on, dd i9l1SnitW11, dd
nGQSedna, until it is said that the Queen some
times suffers from thirst because it takes so
much machinery to get her glass of water.
of foreign governments. All this paid for by
the sweat and blood of the people! Are the
people satisfied? However much the Ger
mans like William and the Spaniards like
their young King and England likes the
Queen, these stupendous governmental ex-
penses are built on grOan as wide as Europe.
If it were left to the people of England, Spain,
Germany, Austria. Russia, whether these eX-
pensive establishments should be kept up, do
you doubt what the vote would be? But
these questions are not there left to the ballot
h14r S1s L. l.
and the surplus distributed all over the land
among Legislatures and congresses and lobby
men than that the people should be taxed
and have it piled all up inside yard of
palaces? In our case there is more prospect
that the surplus some day get back TO its law
full channel
Then again, find we are better off in re-
gard to monopolistic oppression. The air is
full of protest because great houses, great
companies, great individuals are building
such oyertowering fortunes. stephen Girard
and John Jacob Astor of olden times, stared
at in their day for their august fortunes,
would not now be pointed out on the streets
OF Philadelphia or New York as ANYTHING re-
markable. These vast fortunes for some i'm
ply plnchedness, OF want for others. great
protuDerance on mans head implies the ILL
ness OF the whole body. These estates of dis
proportIoned size weaken all the body polite,
but the evil is nothing as compared with mo-
nOpOllstic oppression abroad. Great ecclesi-
astlc m0nopolies. The Pope's income is eight
million dollars year. Cathedrals of statnary
covered
masterpieces of Rubens and Raphael and
Michael Angelo. Against all their sides dash
Ing seas OF poverty and crime and filth and
abomination. Ireland one vast monopolistic
devastation. About thirty million people
In England, and yet all the soil owned
by about thirty-tWO thousand. Duke
of Devonshire owning 5000 acres, Mr.. DERBY.
Duke of Richmond, 100000 acres at Gordon
castle. Marquis of Bradelbane goes on a
journey of a hundred miles in a straight line
and all on his own property. Duke of Suth-
erland has an estate as wide as Scotland, and
reaching to the sea on either side. Bad as
we have 1t here, 1T is thousand times worse
there.
Beside that, if here a few fortunes over
shadow all others we must remember there is
vast throng of the people being enriched
and this fact shows the thriftiness of the
country. The most of people here will be
rich themselves, or their children will he rich
Beside that, the domains of Europe and Asia
are already full, every place occupied, unless
1t be desert or volcano or condemned barren
ness, while here we have plenty of room, and
the resources are only just opening. In other
lands If fortunes fatten they must fatten on
others, but here they can fatten out of illimit-
able prairie, and out of inexhaustible mines.
We have only just begun to set the family
table of this country. We have put on one
silver fork, and one salt cellar, and one loaf
of bread, and one smoking platter. Wait till
the fruits come IN from all the orchards, and
the meats from all the markets. and the yege-
tables from all the gardens, and the silver
from all the mines, and the bell rings out,
saying: Come, all the people from between
the two oceans! Come from between the
Thousand Islands and the Gulf of Mexico
Come and dinep
This Christmas finds us more thoroughly at
peace than any other nation of the globe. At
least l5,O0O,OOO men belong to the standing
armies OF Europe. Since our war on this side
the sea, on the other have occurred the Zulu
war, the Afghan war, the Egyptian war, the
RussO-Turklsh war, the German French war,
and they have no certainty about the future.
All the governments of Europe watching each
other lest one of them come to much advan-
tage. Diplomacy all the time nerVouslY at
work. Four nations were a long while watch
ing the SueZ canal as carefully as four cats
watch one rat. In order to keep peace inter-
marriages OF royal families, some bright
Princess compelled to marry some foreign
dign1tary, in order to ensure the political
balance of power, the illy-matched pair fight
ing out On small scale that which would
crowded, cities crowded, governments
crowded, learned institutions crowded. ma
tlons crowded, packed in between the
Pyrences and the Alps. packed in between the
Rhine and the Danube, packed in between
English channel and Adriatic, so closely they
cannot move without treading on
each others heels or toes, Sceptres
clashing, chariot wheels colliding. The
nations of Asia and Europe wondering what
next. But on this continent plenty OF room
and no one to fight with. Eight million
square miles in North America, all but one
seventh capable of rich cultivation. Imply
ing what fertility and what commerce, four
great basins pouring their waters into At
lantic, Pacific, Arctic and Mexican Gulf shore
line OF 29,969 miles. The one State of Texas
with more square miles than all France, than
all Germany. Peace ali over this continent.
sumter and Moultrie and Pulaski and Fort
Lafayette and Fortress Monroe, and all the
other shaggy lions OF war asleep on their iron
paws. Gunpowder out of fashion save for
sporting purposes. The land IS struck through
and through with peace. By intermarriage
the North and the South united as never
before. The child of the coming generation
half Mississippian and half New Englander,
and to make any division between the North
and the South possible you would have to do
with the new child as Solomon proposed with
the child brought to him-divide it with the
sword, giving half to the North aud half to the
South. No. No! The hardest thing in the
world to split is a cradle. Intermarriage will
go on and consanguineal ties will be multi
piled, and the generations to come will
wonder that we of this generation could have
got in such an awful Wrangle as that in which
few years ago we engaged.
But while we thank God that amid so many
allevlatlng circumstances this nation keeps
holiday, wish you an especial happy time in
your households. Merry Christmas for all
your homes! Let middle and old age during
these seven holidays rally all their sprightly
feelings to put themselves in accord with the
young. Make such days for them a bright
memory. They will soon have to put their
shoul iers under the burdens of life and har-
ness themselves for the worlds battle. Help
them gather up now asurplus ofexuberance for
the time when life shall become as serious for
them as it.has become to MS. PrOlong their
bOyhoOd and girlhOod days as much as pOss
BILE. Clear the way for them as long as you
can. When we are through with the struggle
and the holidays of the far future come down
let not our children think of us as grouty and
dull, sitting round with sour Visage discours-
ing of our aches and pains when we ought to
have been sympathetic in the merriments of
the holiday. And when these times of house,
hold reunion and gift bestoWment shall have
gone for us and gone for them, and we no