Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-12-22


and i'm comes another Administrations
change there, but rot as advantageous
ly as with us, for there they may
change almost any day, while with us
a party In power continues in power at
least four years.
1t Is said that in our country we have
more dishonesty in the use of public
funds than in other lands. The differ
ence is that in our country almost ev-
cry official has a chance to steal while
In other lands few people absorb so
much that the others have no chance at
appropriation. The reason they do not
steal Is because they cannot get their
hands on It, The governments of Eu-
rope are so expensive that after the
salaries Of the royal families are paid
there is not much left to misapprOpri-
ate. The emperor Of Russia has n nice
little salary Of $S.210.000. The emperor
Of Austria has n yearly salary Of S4.-
100000. Victoria the queen, has sal
airy of s.. 100000. The royal plate Of
st. James palace is worth S1O,OOOOOO.
There is host of attendants. all on
salaries. some Of them $1,000 year,
some $4,000 year. Comptroller Of the
household. mistress of the robes. cap
tain Of gold stick. lieutenant Of silver
stick. clerk Of the powder closet. pages
Of the back stairs. master of the horse.
chief equerry. equerries in ordinary,
crown equerry, hereditary grand fai-
coner, vice chamberlain. clerk Of the
kitchen, groOms in waiting. lords in
waiting, grooms Of the court chamber,
sergeant-at-arms. barge master and
waterman. eight bedchamber women,
eight ladies of the bedchamber, and so
on and so on All this is only type Of
the fabulous expense of foreign govern
ments. All this is paid out of the sweat
and blood Of the people. Are the peo-
pie satisfied? However much the Ger
mans like William and Austria likes
Francis Joseph and England likes her
glorious queen. these stupendOus gov
ernmental expenses are built on
groan Of dissatisfaction as wide as Eu
rope. If it were left to the people OF
England or Austria or Germany or
Russia whether these expensive estab-
lishments should be kept up. do you
doubt what the vote would be? Now,
IS it not better that we be OyertaXed
and the surplus be distributed all over
the land than to have it built up and
piled up inside of palaces?
Freedom From Oppression.
Again. the monopolistic oppression Is
less in America than anywhere else.
The air is full of protest because great
houses, great companies, great indiyid-
uals, are building such Overtowering
fortunes. Stephen Girard and John
Jacob Astor. stared at in their time for
their august fortunes. would not now
be pointed at in the streets of Wash
ington or Philadelphia or New York as
anything remarkable. These vast for
tunes for some imply pinchedness. OF
want for others. a growing prOtuber-
ance on a mans head implies Illness OF
the whole body. These estates of dis
proportionate size weaken all the body
polite. But the evil is nothing with us
compared with the monopolistic opr'
preston abroad. Just look sat-the ecr
clesiastical establishments on the other
side the sea. Look at those great ca
thedrals, built at fabulous expense and
supported by ecclesiastical machinery.
and sometimes in an audience room
that would hold a thousand people 20
or 80 people gather for worship. The
popes income is $S.OO00O0 year. Ca
thedrals of statuary and braided arch
and walls covered with masterpieces of
Rubens and Raphael and Michael An
gelo. Against all the walls dash seas
of poverty and crime and filth and
abominatiOn.
ireland today one vast monOpOllstic
visitation. About 45,000,000 people In
Great Britain, and yet all the soil
owned by about $4,000. Statistics
enough to make the earth tremble.
Duke of Devonshre owning $4,000
acres in Derbyshire. Duke Of Rich
mond owning 100000 acres around
Gordon castle, Marcus of Bredalbane
going on journey of 100 miles in
straight line all on his own property.
Duke Of Sutherland has an estate wide
as Scotland. which dips into the sea on
both sides. Unfortunate as we have 1t
here. it is a great deal worse there.
The majority of the people of the
United States are on their way to for
tunes They will either be rich them
selves. or their children will be rich. If
should put to some men the question.
"Would you have a fortune and let
your children struggle all through their
lives in the same kind Of struggle that
YOU have had to make" scores Of men
would say: II am willing to fight this
battle all the way through. but give
my children chance. | do not care so
much about myself 1t is only for ID or
20 years anyhow. Give my children a
chance" If there is anything that stirs
my admiration. it is a man without any
education himself sending his sons to
college and without any opportunity
for luxury himself resolved that though
he shall have it hard all the days Of his
life his children shall have good
start. And | tell you that though some
Of our people may have great CONNER
cial struggles there is going to be a
great opening for their sons and daugh-
ters as they come on to take their
places in the world.
Continuing this international compar-
ison, have to say to you that we have
q better climate than IS to be found in
any other nation. We do not suffer
from anything like the Scotch mists or
the English fogs or the Russian ice
blast or the typhus of southern Europe
or the Asiatic cholera. Epidemics in
America are exceptional, very excep-
tional. Plenty of wood and coal to
make a roaring fire midwinter. Easy
access to seabeach or mountain top