Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-12-17

you IND upholstery and pictures and
Instruments of music. His children are
educated at the best schools. His life
is insured. so that in case Of sudden de-
mise his family shall not be homeless.
Let all American workmen know that
while their wages may not be as high
as they would like to have them Amer
lea is the paradise of industry.
National Honesty.
Again, there is no land on earth
where the political condition is so satis-
factory as in ours. Every two years in
the state and every four years in the
nation we clean house. After a vehe-
ment expression of the people at the
ballot box in the autumnal election
they all seem satisfied, and if they are
not satisfied at any rate they smile. An
Englishman asked me in an English
rail train this question: 'How do you
people stand it in America with a revO-
luton every four years? Would it not
be better, like us, to have q queen for a
lifetime and everything settled?' But
England changes government just as
certainly as we do. At some adverse
vote in parliament out goes one party
and in comes another. Administrations
change there, but not 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.
It 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 chance to steal, while
in other lands a few people absorb SO
much that tAe 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 q nice
little salary of SS,21O,OOO. The emperor
of Austria has yearly salary Of 81
100000. Victoria, the queen, has a sal
airy of $2,2OO,OOO. The royal plate of
st. James palace is worth S1O,OOO,OOO.
There is a host of attendants, all on
salaries, some of them $4,000 a year,
some $4,000 a 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 equer.y, 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
eight ladies of the bedchamber, and SO
on and so on. All this is only a 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
errmental 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 OvertaEed
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 individ-
uals, are building such OyertOwering
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 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 OPP
preston abroad. Just look at the &C.
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
pope's income is SS,O00,OOO a 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
abOmnatiOn.
Ireland today one vast monopolistic
visitation. About 100000 people in
Great Britain, and yet all the soil
owned by about $4,000. Statistics
enough to make the earth tremble.
Duke Of Devonshire owning 10000