St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15

deficient. The more we look into
life. the more do we find that no one in
dlyldual, no one people, abSOrbs all the
good nor all the evil. AS rule, discOn-
tent seems to increase with intelligence,
and the more we have the more we
want. In a certain degree certain
amount of discomfort is essential to en-
terprise and progress. But when it is
carried to the point of producing envy,
bitterness and acrimonious agitation, it
becomes diStemper, advantageous
neither to the individual nor the state,
writes s. G. w. Benjamin in the Louis
vile Courier journal.
In our country, which affords to the
wage-earner greater opportunities than
the world has ever before offered, the
discomfort, strange to say, is the most
bitter, the most thoroughly distributed
to be seen anywhere. And yet, the
wage-earner in America may become a
land owner, may rate as free citizen,
may become legislator if he have the
industry and intelligence-the latter a
motter over which he has no control,
and for lack of which no one is to
come presidents, and possibly arrive at
the exalted position of alderman?
How much better off is the American
wage-earner, if he but reasoned fairly
about it, than the laboring man or wom-
all in Persia.
But even in that country the op-
pressed peaSantry, or the wage earners,
have compenSatiOns, and would not at
once change places with their brethren
in our country. 1t may be of profit,
therefore, to look into the question of
labor in that PARKWAY Eastern land,
which was great nation matter OF
$500 years before Columbus was born
One statement shall make in regard to
the PerSlans is that there are only two
men in the empire who are absolutely
free ;these are the shah and Hadgi Mollah
Alec, the head of the religion, or pope.
The power of these men is apparently
ledual. and they agree to get along har-
emon;OuSly. But if the shah should, in
!, tao open and deliberate manner, pro-
tceed in defiance of the laws of MOham-
mechanism, he would be deposed by the
authority of the hlerarch, and is, there
fore, obliged to respect his authority
EXACTLY as the SOvereignS of Europe, in
the itark ages, bowed 10 the pope's au-
'tnority of Rome. This must necessarily
{ ne tile case in all nations which are
thedcratic, or where chuch and state
are associated.
But if the Shah of Persia has to yield
: t tie supreme authority of him who
: txpount.o me religious law. his author
-ity Is in turn supreme above all below
tiIilsi they are all his property, his serv-
arts The shah is the slave of God, and
,.tft. PerSianS are the slaves of the shah.
This is no more legal or conventional
phrase; it is the fact. Laws there may
I've. and codes and judges in order to
simplify the machinery of government,
and relieve the crow from an intoler-
allie and crushing amount Of labor. But
should the emergan " occur, the shah
may at any nom mt order off the head
OF aiy one in the emnire. from the high
est to the lowest. and degrade him or
ie.' rom the post Oh Of prime minister
10 that of he st r, or from the seraglio
as a fav0r:te wifi. 70 the embraces of an
unWas led begGar,
.ip'iiy. tt; present shah does not
. e. iv;sii ;}imselt OF such extreme
ne; -,.r :, cv il VI ei required. al
t..li,-,, -:;:nj:c:l aai, hardly be said OF
\. al .la $50 ecaSSorS. Bat there is
no power To prevent him if he chooses
Thus every Pes u holds place like