The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-10-26
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Italy, 100000
$4,000, 900
With this fearful array OF soldiers, still
the ruling powers cry for more, for larger
armies, for larger navies, for more mas
sive and costly Notifications, for new
guns and implements OF war, for new
bills of taxation to meet them.
THE HOUSE or LORDS.
In England the people have decreed
that Ireland shall have system OF home
rule. The classes assembled in the ira
ditional house of lords bids the people
defiance and invites the destruction III
the coming conflict Of all the tictions OF
their very existence. In the lace OF pop
ular suspicion and discomfort the pro-
fessional politicians everywhere continue
to loot the public treasures, and more
and more the governments OF the present
regime are brought into contempt.
In France recently the sickenlng revela-
tons OF the Panama gang showed con-
clusivey that there were men at that
time in the nation intrusted with power
who did not have their price in dollars
and cents When the test OF ali election
came, the monarchial party, expecting
to profit by this fact, was unceremO-
niously swept out of existence: The
party of the masses, the hated and
maligned socialists and their allies, sud
denly appeared in power as the on y OPP
ponent of the conservative republicans.
In Italy the power Of the government
has been weakened by revelations OF
official corruption.
In Germany the honesty OF high Off
Gals has been impugned before the peo-
pie and no successful answer given to the
arrangement.
CONGRESS SCORED.
In America, the present congress has
demonstrated its general worthlessness
in a manner that has sOwn the seeds OF
revolution in thousands OF men hitherto
little moved by politics.
\ description of the last congress Is
typical of the average session. Listen a:
At a time near the conclusion OF
the session of the late congress
the house of representatives appro-
priated sd 100000 in one bill after
an hour OF debate No opportunity
tunity was allowed to offer amendments
to this bill. There was no time for dis
cussiOn or amendments.
Congress had been i'll session three
months, but at the last moment the
money of the people had to be bestowed
for various objects, which may or may
not have been entirely worthy, at the
rate of 500, 900 minute, for want OF
| time for longer consideration.
Our solemn senate is Just now busy
| digging the grave of its traditional pride
and courtesy by demonstrating it
exhaustless capacity to do nothing ii
| the hour OF nation peril
How long the people in their silent SUI
| fering millions will stand the tomfOolery
of tradition ridden governments il
Europe and America who can tell?
| And strangest of all is the faulty with
which the present rulers pursue the even
tenor of their way.
| WEALTH STRUTS AMID sQUALOR.
Sccond-We observe it in the heart
and methods of the very rich of our day
1t is day of lavish expenditure AM
vulgar display.
I'm the midst OF hunger and cold an(
even starvation among thousands, tn
rich are busy amusing themselves.
There has been no time since the day
of the,Emperor Nero when wealth strutte'
| amid squalOr with greater contempt TO
its surroundings and with vainer displa
OF all its vulgar trappings OF gold an
silver. The palaces OF the rich in tn
days that preceded the fall of Rome wer
pigpens compared with the marvelOu
piles of architecture and decorative ar
with which our modern cities are full
The banquets given by the great glu
tons OF Nero day are not to be com
pared in cost or display to the claborat
fairs of the year of our Lord 1898, g
Il time when 10000, 600 of the hunla
race are in Il starving condition.
TailOrs are busy inventing costume
for dogs, while children freeze for clio the
Servants are busy airing the poodle
OF fashionable women who refuse to hay
children, preferring the affection of dog
and the gay rounds of a decaying sOci;
order. While thousands toll, half fe
and overworked, and fight for the ha
pay and overwork, the rich are bus
preparing divorce papers and solicitin
new partners as the results of ha
drunken social debauchees at the
palaces. The men who give largely t
the community of their great wealth a.
fewer and fewer compared to the numb'
OF very rich.
GOULD AND AMES.
Mr.. Gould not only did not leave IL
community n dollar of the wealth
created, but gave it Il parting kick as
did by creating Il perpetual trust for Il
Gould Millions
Mr.. Ames, the richest man in BostO
I died the other day and left not Il sing
| dollar to the community that create
t his fortune. And note this-that viii
such men as Gould and Ames die evel
day and clutch their millions with spa
f modic grasp in the hour of death, I'll
, seeming Inconsistencies of the fact thu
they live among men whose lives a
, bound up with theirs, the restless million
r about them curse with deeper emphas
the grave of every man who thus prov
: traitor to his social trust. 1t used to
e common to say only good things abo,
e | the dead.
t The rich man who dies the death of
e hog to-day is roundly cursed by ever
| | body without fear or favor. Will ii
! rich take note of this fact? The rapacit
t | OF the great freebOOters of modern cor
= merce seems rather to increase in Or
: portion to the discomfort and oppo.
1 ton among the masses. With threa
= ened labor uprisings in many nation
{ the money kings Of the world have iu
= precipitated one of the greatest PAM
t OF the nineteenth century. They ha'
$ made billions of dollars But a few mo
such victories and they are lost. 4
Y they all fools or are they born lido
: when confronted with the problem
/ selfish gam on the one hand Justice {
the other?
THE CHURCH AND THE PEOPLE.
Third-We observe the fact in Il
: habits and methods OF the modern eccl
o siastical machine.
t In the past the church has been Il
n bulwark OF society against every rev
luton.
, Napoleon used it to maintain his crow
after he had walked over it to mount h
$ throne. Will the chhrch now be able
hold IN check another revolution?
e 1t is exceedingly doubtful. 1t is
: question ii the church have not alreaC
t lost her divine opportunity The rev
luton at the Vatican and the arousi1
: of hundreds of Protestant ministe
5 within the past few years may havecon
t too late. We hope not But we fear i
: Certain it is the church as vet sits calm
by In stupid Indifference, or, worse sti