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gious, in those governments, and I fear in our own, if strictly analy- 

 zed, will be found lo originate in selfish combinations of those who 

 do not labor, to secure to themselves an undue share of the hard 

 earnings of those who do. And the struggles of party which distract 

 society, are but too frequently mere scrambles for the spoils. 



It is s?ij, that of the thirty-three millions of French subjects, 

 twenty millions live without animal food, a like number never taste 

 wheaten bread, and that eight millions of them are clothed in rags. 

 Yet the poor of France are happy when compared with those of 

 other nations of Europe; and their condition is vastly preferable to 

 "what it was previous to the revolution of 1789. 



Great Britain presents the extremes of enormous wealth on the 

 part of the few, and abject poverty on the part of the many; the 

 richest aristocracy and most wretched laboring population in the 

 Christian world, and the greatest amount of vice and crime, arising 

 from these opposite conditions of society. The world has never be- 

 fore witnessed such useless extravagance and profusion on the part 

 of the rich, and such extreme suffering on the part of the poor. In 

 no other country, in no other age, has so much labor been extorted 

 from the poor for the benefit of the rich, and for so small a reward. 

 In no other country does there exist so great a contrast in the low 

 wages of the laborer, and high wages of the officers of the govern- 

 ment. 



These systems of low and high wages, are mutually dependent 

 upon each other; and when under our free trade we shall introduce 

 the one, it will be difficult to exclude the other. 



Happily, as yet, we are free from both; and long may we con- 

 tinue to be so. 



The annual revenues of the church of Great Britain, are forty-one 

 millions of dollars; nearly twice the amount necessary for the sup- 

 port of our government, economically administered, as it always is, 

 and always will be, in the estimation of those who administer it. 



The charges for the queen and royal family amount annually to 

 three-hundred and twenty-three thousand pounds sterling, equal to 

 one million five hundred and fifty-one thousand dollars. Our presi- 

 dent and his family cost us twenty-five thousand dollars a year, so 

 that the queen and royal family costs the subjects of Great Britaio 



