San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-01
BRITISH GOLD.

gold in the politics of our country,
and the danger is not less now than
it was then though foreign invest
ments here have taken a different
form. Late dispatches tell of i'm
mense investments by English syndi-
Gates in American elevators, brewer
les, lands and flour mills, and it
is also disclosed that the purchasers
and their agents have carefully and
successfully evaded the laws of this
country in their purchases. They
have formed gigantic corporations,
bought realty and hold their shares
o. the stock as personally. BY this
means they are in position to almost
literally dictate the price of American
products and thus the rate of Ameri-
can wages.
What English capital will do for Us
may be judged by what English capt.
tai has done for England, and of this
fortunately the world may know for
asking. Gladstone and Bright and
Carlyle have told in trumpet tones
the political crimes perpetrated in
that land OF mammon, and we quote
from Carlyle as the highest authority,
living as he did in an intellectual
atmosphere, far removed from the as
perities of political contest.
He says: "The condition of Eng
land, on which many pamphlets are
now in the course of publication, and
many thoughts unpublished are going
on in every reflective head, is justly
regarded as one of the most ominous,
and withal one of the strangest, ever
seen in this world. England is full
of wealth, of multifarious produce,
supply for human want of every kind,
yet England is dying of inanltion."
Quoting from a critic he writes
the word hell, says Sauerteig, is
frequently in use among the English
people, but 1 could not without
difficulty ascertain what they meant
by it. He'll generally signifies the
Infinite Terror, the thing a man is
infinitly fraid OF, and Shoulders and
shrinks from, struggling with his
whole soul to escape from it. There
is a hell therefore, if you will con-
slider, which accompanies man in all
stages of his history, and religious
or other development: but the bells
of men and peoples differ notably.
With christians It'll the infinite terror
of being found guilty before the just
Judge. With old Romans / conjecture
it was the terror not of Pluto, for
whom they cared little, but of doing
unworthily, doing unvirtuously,
which was their word for unmanfully.
Andnow how is it ifyou pierce through
his courts and so forth-what is it
that the modern English soul does in
very truth dread infinitely and con-
template with entire despair? What
is his hell? With hesitation, with as
constituent I pronounce it to be:
The terror of not succeeding,
not making money, or fame or some
other figure in the world.-chieiy of not
making money" To all of which Car
lysle adds, Eyes, o Sauerteig it is very
singular, but if we do not succeed,
where is the use of us? We had bet
ter never been born" But the sue
cess of getting money by the one I'M
scrupulous class, is the loss of it to
the other, the working and non-self-
asserting class, and how the rich
main tain the ascendancy is revealed
by Carlysle in Past and Present" in
the chapter on the Bribery Commit
tee. He says: I'm the case Of the late
Bribery Committee, it seemed to be
the conclusion of the sOundest
practical minds that bribery could not
be put down that pure election was
thing we had seen the last OF, and
must go on without as best we could.
A conclusion not little startling, to
which 1t requires practical mind of
some reasoning to reconcile yourself
at once. 1t seems We are then to
hencefOrth get ourselves constituted
a legislature, not according to what
merit We may have, or even what
merit we may seem to have, but &C
cOrding to the length of our purse,
and our frankneSs, impudence and
dexterity in laying out the contents
OF the same.
Our theory, written down in all
books and law books, spOuted from
all stumps and barrel heads, is per-
feet purity of franchise-absolute sim
certify of question put and answer
Overland our practice is irremedia-
BILE bribery. What legislation can
you get out of a man in that fatal sit
uatiOn? None that will profit much
one would think And is it come to
this? And does our venerable parIia-
ment announce itself elected and eIig-
ible in this manner? Ye are no
parliament. In the name of
God, go. In sad truth, once
more, how is our whole existence in
these present days, built on Cant,
Speciosity, Falsehood with this one
serious veracity in it:one mammonism
Here, if no where else, is the human
sOul still in lhOr0nnh aarnant. Sinooro