Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-09-25

Comments of the London Morning Post.

England us wen US loi i,a '''S '.
est, we copy below the eulIorl'li coihiiieh'S
of the London Morning POSt, conserVa-
tive ORGAN. on one of his recent speeches
M, .,,oaoh of the United States Minis
ne Hpe' S,lo O of The Working Mems
tSr az ,he -, Vol afford The more
Ciuo a.. ~ Shi " o,'r viilore noliticians the
u,u'Ss,,,n;tv ca often desired of seeing
.iPpo,roi,,aS nc they are seen bv others.
h'e,n,;oa IL go nroyerbially the land of
na,,,a ,n' tbnt even some of those who
i DeaoT L% 'phelps to be precluded bv his
,,neitin, IA this country from making a
p ont,,o aramcb may vet have eXUected to
proad baiHvrnn tLe lines the evidences of Il
,,orfar,.id rndicnlism If so. they must
bb.ve hean disunnnintpd. and Mr.. phelps's
almost unconscious revelation of the com
n n, sobriety of American. us com
ppar.d With Engiish radical. politics may
rresIIt in comforting as much instruction
aS III di.nnssinnnt,, view of the constitu-
tionni situation i'm this country ought to
do r,bn pnorr and uniustructcd radical
;s ant to regard America with some
yarinnnss rs The land where all his wild
est theories have been realized, and where
ali thet he is struggling to obtain has
hnan fraeIv Granted His attitude is that
of tho sch1nIbov who builds castles III the
mir concprniup what he will do when
"grown no" The American Minister
sneaks as one of those who have long
since attained to political manhood, and
have fonnd if like everything in this un-
certain world of ours. to be far more
nIeasurable in the authorization than in
The nossession In the United States the
neopIe have manhood suffrage and ample
land for their number, and every other of
those blessings which 50 many of our
conntrvmen are trained to regard as COM
nIete and final. There is, nevertheless, as
we learn from the Minister of that great
Republic. the same steady action of natu-
raj and social causes which retard us here
in orr struggle towards the goal of pros
perity The people of the United States
have suffered, like every other nation,
from fine depression of trade, and demOc-
racy acting under the most natural and
favorable circumstances, has developed
no magic by which the people may es-
cane the inevitable working of economic
laws. Indeed, one of the noticeable por
lions of Mr.. Phelps's speech is chat in
which he refers to the necessity and CON
ditions of industry 1t does not seem to
Occur to people in America that a period
of commercial staguation is necessarily a
time for constitutional or local agitation.
'fPersistent. honest, and straightforw
industry is the only key to success in the
New World. If a man will be idle or
worthless. MIR. Phelps plainly tells him
there is no room for him among the work
ers in that human beehive. Responsible
statesmen are not found there who will
get m and suggest plans for penalizng
Wealth and impairing security in order
that pallperism may be pampered and
6iscontpnt concliated. Political economy
is fortunately for America, still regarded
in American politics. 1t causes almost a
sense of shame TO contrast the United
States Minister'S straightforward analy-
sis of the conditions of industrial labor,
with the iarpon lately promulgated by
Mr. Chamberlain. 1t will be we'll for the
deluded listeners who swallowed the won
derful nromises of giving them 'plenty of
work al GOOD wages" to observe that in
the land of matured democracy, to which
tbey all look ms n pattern. connection is
even keener than IN the conntry which
they are Taught TO deem so unenlghten-
ed
But Mr.. phelps's speech contains other
thinos besides the implied reproof. of
which the sneaker was probably scarcely
aware. to the hare-brained creed of the
RirminUham caucus. Just at present.
when we stand ON the eve of great con
s,itutional change. for so far it has not
VET heen NM into practice. it should be of
sdyantaCe 70 one and all to CLEAN from the
bird Eve noint of view of a stranger the
Derils Which seem TO beset the path. Over