Year: 1871

he felt under the influence OF the storm then In com
notion He smiled and said; ut was no worse than
l expected There is nothing in the book; it Is
simply compilation, and very incomplete one at that
from the English BlueboOk. l have adopted the Blue
book figures and have taken the liberty OF giving my
own deductions from them. have exposed the sores;
did not them is CALLING no doubt To those VINO
affected to believe that there no sores to nave
them thus ruthessy uncovered, especially Dy an aneh
they term me; but they are rotng away the entre
Body of this once great nation and my duty to the people,
who are my brethren much those of France are i
pes me to take off the covering, that being seen they
may haply find some remedy. This unhappy nation
contains within itself the elements of Its own destruc
ton. Let enumerate few OF Them First, there Is
the national debt the interest upon which amounts to
a290OOO per annum the principal OF which never wiz
be paid till the crack Of doom This interest Is PAID
principally by the working classes not by reason OF their
superiority In numbers, but through most unequa TAXA
ton What tyranny is inflicted upon the Duke Of Port
land when you tax his income Of 100000 per annum at
the rate Of per cent? He still retains sufficient TO graf
ify his widest desires But If you tax almost everything
the poor eats drinks, and wears, the dsproporon
is so great so unjust that wonder the people do not IN
their desperation rise in rebellion against It, and they
certainly win at some future time.


The English breed foxes 900 acres OF waste Crown
lands while their agricultural labOrers so low down
in the scale of humanity that they hardly be called
human. They toll from sunrise to sunset for from hve
ten shiings per week. They rarely marry; they can
not afford to do They cannot read nor write-not
than 10 in 100 They fill the rural districts with
Hegtmate children. They shoud-with England as
with every other natOn-cOnstitute the backbone OF
prosperity and power They her disgrace, perhaps
her danger They supply her armies with men; know
something OF the trust to be put in armies Agn though
England said to be the richest and most powerful ma
tion In the world she cannot feed her people. We're 1t
not for emigration, what think you would become
Of her bOasted pOwerl THIS is her safety-yalye.
She drives away the best Of her skilled
aborers those who still have enough spirit left to
desire to better their social condition Those who have
not neither do her honor yield her profit they re-
main with her only TO burden her. If her people sought
refuge in her Colonies you might reply that 1t was
simply transpanting not diminuton OF power, Dut
they do not boundes are the resources lovely as Is
the country of Australia her people prefer to make their
future homes in America They do not like British rule.
Perhaps strictly speaking all countries of limited extent
viii in time have to cast off their surplus population, but
II they wise they VIII at least give up the breeding Of
foxes before they starve their people.


The apologist Of the English nation sometimes says
that its national greatness depends upon its
mercial and mechanical than its agricultural pursuits
would reply that country is wisely governed which
does not contain at all times within itself ample means
Of support for all the interests which contribute to ma
TONS greatness. Too much attention to commerce may
make England the carrier Of the world to agriculture
the foodproducer to mechanics the toOlnaker
but the time must come when other nations
will enter into competition with her; at pres
ent, her influence is sustained through her colo
MES. The sets her dominions.
This gives her political status with other natOns she is
looked up to, but she is feared than respected She
would not be feared If her actual condition known.
The time viii eventually arrive when this source Of
power will depart from her. Look at America in dan


n4 har
unparalleled prosperity think you it will be lost upon
the wOrldi Men may individually be dull and stupid,
but the logic of such will be understood by the
capacity. The children Of England, nurtured
by her. and protected after fashion, when they feel
their legs win walk away; it is snatural-inevtable.


Then the laws regulating money as medium OF ex-
change necessarily engender Engands periodic panics
Think you they do not weaken her constitution They
make their appearance about every seventh year. II
they only affected the dealers IN stocks and money
changers generally little should care but they sarve
the innocent people and the entire working population to-
day could not exist hours all the wealth they have
created and they and their ancestors as old as Adam
This monetary system tends toward the Capitalization Of
wealth and political infuence-ts accumulation in the
hands of few large farmers employing large number
of slaves afewarge manufacturers and bankers swamp
ing all the minor and healthier controlling influences,
and huge monopolies with dependent servants.
industry is crippled instead of being aided by cap
ta Small fear need England have OF foreign invasion
Her rOck-bound coasts her best protection against
that calamity. But IT, through the withdrawal of for
en trade the decay OF her coal and iron mines and her
terrible taxation never decreasing, her ships should
have 70 rot in her harbOrs for want of that employment
which in time shall be given to another natl IN
tions II her million paupers should increase to two and
II her people, without voice in the making Of the laws
they called TO obey find that the only right true
born Brton possesses is the right TO sarve in country
where the privilege Of work even is denied him, and
rise in blind fury against such iniquity then you
will see something more terrible than the invasion
Of Engands coasts by foreign foe Why, the criminal
population Of this city LOndonl alone, daily the in
crease is sufficient resist her entire army. 1t turks
in the dark alleys 1t saunters up fashionable streets,
it sometimes manages the banks it visits the churches,
it is an army least 100000 strong ii is cOnseienceless
bloody. recess-see that it does not become lawless.
The jals only partially check, they do not stop its in
crease; ii is frghtful danger.


Then there is poor Ireland say nothing OF her. only
that she has lost nearly million Of her people in little
more than year by starvation and emigration. What
can be pitiable, what greater reproach TO the
nation who took by the hand and undertook to guide
her among the nations to prosperity. Any who can
believe in the continuance Of the power Of nation
which possesses all these elements Of decay enacts
all this injustice which is the victim Of all these
and have no faith in Gods mmuable laws Of improve
ment and progress. @.


Wiliamsturgh June 27th, 1871


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