The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-08-09
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OF tho hard times ia the United States is
bringing out many strange suggestions.
Inc most striking Is that America Is now
becoming the land OF the absentee For the
meaning Of this word we must go 10 ireland.
where the article fourishes In all its native
iuxuriancs. The entire landed property be-
longs 10 few men, who spend their time
IN London, Paris and Monaco. The ten
ant farmer Ia Ireland, living on seaweed
ana the agricultural refuse Of the country,
mas 10 give all the returns OF fertile fields to
'ne agent" who forwards II to the absentee
,anoiord' This money, squeezed out Of the
nara LABOR OF the starving poor of Ireland, Is
spent practically among the fast women Of
honuon or faris, or stake upon the gambling
,aoies OF Monaco. IL Is no wonder that Ire
iaha' drained annually of her products, with
no return whatever, should be so poor that
her people are fleeing her shores.
Hitherto the United States has been pros
porous because the money made here was
spent here In the accumulation of fortunes
the individual was not alone benefited, but ALI
those who surrounded him, or who were de-
pendent upon him. No matter how LUXURIOUS
millionaire might live. his very extrava-
gahces kept his money In circulation and gave
employment to those who catered to him.
but now all this Is changing. Men like
Astor scour the country for their rents and
dividends, which they carry over to England
ana which they spend there. The property
which they own In the United States annually
presents scene such would be loft in the
wake OF devastating fire. The foolish Brad
icy Martins OF the country sell their daughters
I" foreign husbands and send millions an
hualy AFTER thom TO preserve. their charms and
Ro m lov a
property in the country alo ne sends s7oo,OuO in
dividends to Paris. Thus it is that tbe conn
try Is raked and scrsped for the millions |
which arc to be spent ia Europe. Immense
estates In New England are locally represen-
ted by half-paid caretakers, who forward the |
TAT or the land to the former SUSSEX county |
washerwoman. now trying TO buy a prince for |
her frecklc-faced daughter.
Nor Is this all. 1t Is estimated that So OO 1
Americans cross the ocean annually mod.
crate estimate of their expenses would bs |
$500 each. or S25U00,UoO In all.
just think OF ft-s25, ,0J0,OV0 a year lifted up |
and carried clear out OF the country In ba
spent upon English snobs, Ere nch dudes and
Italian lazzaront. Ii is no wonder that peo-
PIE VINO thus despoil their own country should
be brought face 10 face with financial strin-
gency There Is no other country In the
world that could have stood the drain 90 long.
IL American absenteeism continues TO 9row
al this rate the common people of the coun-
Try VIII, In time. find themselves reduced to
The condition OF Ireland In her worst days,
XIII 1t and Let the Country Prosper.
N. Y. Press
FOR more than eleven months tho tariff |
~reckers have been at work in Washington
inkering sched uies aud unsettling industry.
Nhat has con done? In the way of con-
truction, nothing; in the way of destruction
veryth ing. There have been botches and
% mpromises. intrigues and counter In
rigues, scandalous sales of legislation to
reat trusts. vehement charges OF false
ood ana deception flung from Democrat to
from the President to Senators,
rom the Senate chamber back to the White
iouse. Bnt no result has followed these
ianifold conspiracies, sacrifices Of honor and
ctrayals of patriotism except the one result
Inevitable II tho protective system of this
ountry was to be assailed-ot universal. tre-
iendous, unparalleled disaster.
Ths industry of the whole nation has been
'recked. Uncounted millions of property
ave been destroyed, vast multitudes Of
merican citizens have been heggared, in
=
ort, OF contentmcnt, of the very nccessaries
life itself. More than half tho railroads of I!
ne United States are In the hands of receiv-
70. More than million families are endur-
" destitution because their bread winners
m find no work. Mines are untynxntsd.
actories are idle or working on terms that Y
lfilce to afford but bare subsistence to the e
en and women employed within their walls. |
armers from Maine to California are impov- b
ished. Business men have been made hank II
Ipt by thousands. Trade Is at a standstill. | i
be triumphant march Of industry has been b
ansformed into ruinous retreat. The q
hirr of looms. tho clang of hammers, the q
ar OF furnaces and the hum OF workshop | o
Is been superseded by the silence of q
agnation and the cry Of bitter poverty. | sl
nat Grover Cleveland might pose o.
the great apostle of tariff reform" chill b
on have begged IA vain for bread Of hsg- b
rd mothers who had none to give them. m
lat the greed of foreign monopolists might cl
satisfied, American interests have he m Il
litten with paralysis and American homes "
sde desolate. That implacabs Bourbon
stility to the North might triumph, wrnt
I'd misery and despair have filed every in tr
strial commonwealth. 10
N the name of patriotism. Of justice and of ~
manty. stop this abominable outrage; put "
end 20 this malignant attack on the pillars VI
the Republic; defeat this atrocious con- at
raoy against the welfare, happiness and th
dependence Of the American people. The ds
,plc want neither the Senate bill nor the to
lson bill. They want tho right to work A
honest wages. They want the prosperity or
II is their blrthright restored to them They or
nj the whole crew Of wrcckers. sohemsrs M
4 political pirates beaten and national pro kr
ton upheld In Its integrity. In a word. an
y want all Democratic tariff legislation Of ad
y sort. undertaken under any pretense, put d
ward In any form. rejected. stamped upon tn
Killed. This Is .he highest duty OF he. 70
,lican Senators. The Press, speaking In pr
alf Of the people Of thirty Northern COM lic
nwcclths, calls on them to perform that He
y; 20 shield American homes from fur fol
r poverty. and save the country from con- II
ned disaster BY defeating the Democratic
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