The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-07-22
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OF bigotry throttled invention; when
it was a crime TO be bright. And it
was this ever-increasing debt that bo-
came the patron of advancing thought
and created the j nferial destiny Of
England.
The succeeding reign decreased the
debt. This was GEORGE l. This de.
crease of the debt had its era marked
by decrease Of power. That fat
Drained economist bent all his narrow
soul to the tack of diminishing every
thing liberal. There was nothing large
about him except his gluttony. His
successor, however, was 'blessed"
with the "Seven Years" war,
and in 1853, at the close
of that war, England owed
G13S, ss5 4S0, bearing per cent. inter-
est with 2 per cent, ADDED, owing to
the system of borrowing, 80 that sctu.
ally por. cent was the interest paid
that year.
Itwas during the reign Of GEORGE
IL, that tho dobt rolling bocame &C.
celebrated after tho retrenchment
periSd succeeding the Seven Years
war.
Tho war against tho colonies, resu It.
ing in the catastrophe to British arms
st Yorktown, increased tho
debt to G2l9s5l, Cos and when,
at prodigious cost, all Europe
combined under the pay OF
England, against NAPoLEoy l, the
debt began to increase again so thaton
Waterloo Day it amounted to Gs4S, 49,
Az, and this was so great that Old
ROTHCHILD became frightened. II
was larger than any sum n nation over
owed. Ii is much smaller now. Eng
land will, perhaps, never owe so much
or have such power as was the case on
tho day that WELLINGTON got tho
credit that belonged to BLUcHER-of
NAPoLEoN's defeat.
Thus ii is shown that the Little Cor
poral of Lodi, during his career, cost
England GGOS, 932,3l9. A portion OF this
sum was evidenced in the "consolidat.
ed 3 per cent. reduced annuities," call
cd consols, and thus were consols Gre.
ated. 1t is in some sort a legacy OF
"the lonely man who died at st. Hel
ena." But greater portion OF Eng
lands debt exists in other forms, all Of
1t bearing interest at to 80 per cont.
Last year England owed e62S,5O0, coo,
of which 100000, 900 is consols.
Since the overthrow OF NAPOLEON l.,
England has reduced her debt G2l0 ,70O,-
OOO,but she persists still In the "balance
OF power" doctrine, and in subsidizlng
other nations, rulers and ex-rulers.
The deposed Khedive of Egypt, two
ex'kings OF African tribes, Arab Boy,
Hehehr Pasha and one or two Tai
ping Veterans Of tho ever Victorious
Army" are on her pension list. ABDUR
RAHMRN KAHN, Amoer OF Cabul, and
tho Persian SHAH draw pay from
England. Tho Sublime Porte gets her
gold end many bright calico presented
by q thick-lipped negro prince to his
tat iavorile, and many a jewel pre-
sented by an oriental opium sot to the
star of his harem is bought with money
gathered by the tax collectors from
Lac laboring classes OF the United
Kingdom. II Russia fail to reach
Herat, English gold win prevent it. II
The Bosphorus continue guiltleBs Of
Russian war bottoms, It will he tho
gold Of England and rot her canGons
that will prevent it. England is
earth's great anomaly, Isn't it remark
ablo2 She has always Numbered and
every blunder makes her greater. She
is now 80 great that she has nothing
to do but mako a mistake in order to
hurl Russia back on Orenburg and
krgsnovodsk.