The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1886-08-18

PARIS, FRANCE, AMERICAN EXCHANGE,
30 BOULEVARD DEs CAPUcINEs,
June rs, 1886.
Trusting that the continuation oj
a correspondence giving some sketch
es 0. the travels and wanderings ol
one of Pope county's native born,
now in foreign land, will not be
deemed out of place, and of sufficient
interest to be accorded a place in
your most excellent journal, / again
address you.
In the cities through which | have
recently passed, but more especially
ir that Of London, are to be found
the high and the low, the rich and
the poor, both transient and station.
ary, of all nationalities, grades, char.
acters and tongues, some of whom
are luxurlating in all OF the splen-
dor, munificence and grandeur which
the almighty dollar can com mand,
unconscious, unmindfnl and regard
less of the wants and sufIerings oi
the countless thousands of toiling
and miserably abject poor who sur.
round them on every hand, and
whose utter destitution and necessi-
ties are constantly appealing to hu-
manity with plteous and imploring
cries for relief, yes, even for the
scanty crumbs and morsels which
fall from the ovcrladen and sumptu-
Gus tables of their naughty aristo-
cratic lords. The poor man may we'll
and truly exclaim in the language Of
the immortal poet Robert Burns,
whose soul was always full Of gener-
osity, love and pity for his fellow
man:
"If Pm designed your lordlings slave
By Natures law designed
Why, was an independent wish
Fer planted in my mind?
Ii nor, why am / subject to
His cruelty or scorn?
Or, why has man the will and power
To make his fellow mourn ?"
There is to day perhaps in the city
Of London, (Which have so recent
| IL left) within the radius Of s or 10
miles square from Charing Cross,
"more wealth and misery, more lux
ury md pauperism, more sin and
suffering, than can be found within
tic same circuit and bounds, any
where else, under the whole canopy
of heaven" The poor and laboring
class to day in this great Metropolis
are completely subseryient to the
exactions and expressions Of wealthy
monopo!ies and inhuman tyrants,
their dredgery and servility to the
will and power of their sLordly fel-
low Worm is hnmiliatlng and grind
ing, and their fate not unlike the
poor horse on the tread wheel whose
returns for the servitude, furnishes
neither dignity or emolument."
Why, Judge Caldwell's anaconda
Mortgage with the terrible des-
cription given Of it in his address
before the Little Rock bar associa-
tion, is nothing to compare with the
utter destitutlon and wants OF these
starving poor. Indeed, it is very
sad spectacle to behold on every side
in this vast Metropolis. the squalid
misery and seryility Of the human
race, subjected to the oppression,
exactions and conditions of monied
aristocracies. How shall we better
it is the all absorbing question. Phi
lanthropists must lead and point out
the way. And God the giver of all
good must direct their wisdom and
Judgment in all its undertakings and
solution, peaceabIy, honestly and
equitably, If possible. 1t is prob
lem which will employ the intellects
of our greatest, wisest and ablest
statesman, that Of equalizing capital
and labor and amcliorating the con
ditlon of that class of men who are
in rags and whose cravings for food
drive them from door to door asking
for employment to sustain life hon
orably, only TO meet with repulses
and naughty scorn from the princely
occupants whereby he looscs all his
self-pride and BEGs, with, however.
no better success, when in his des-
peration lie forgets and banishes
from his mind the advice ana lessons
of honesty, integrity and virtue Civ
en- him N his youthful days by his
sainted Ole mother around the sacred
firesidc OF home, and he plunges in
to the deepest and darkest depths
of lnfamy and shame. How much
Of this element now fills this world
of ours God alone knows, and when
and where it shall end, time, and
perhaps eternity, alone can dcterm'
inc. Forgive me for this dlsserta
tion upon the poor mans troubles,
misfortunes and fate. Every days
observations here and elsewhere IN
my travels, keeps this matter vividly
before me, and I am unable to ban
ish 1t from my mind.
Now again to Paris, her beauties
and wonders. l visited to day The
Hotel Invalides, the tomhs OF Napo
leon, Jerome and Joseph Bonaparte,
the tombs and altars are exceeding
" fine aud costly and as elegant and
imposing as possibly could have been
erected. A strong adherence Of the
more wealthy and influential char
acters OF the Imperial Dynasty still
cling TO the memory Of Napoleon,
ak.ott., .nreh;, ut hia shrine