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Show EDWIN JAMES ON OUR GOVERNMENT. GOVERN-MENT. Mr. Edwin James, of Hudson city, formerly M.P.for Marylobone, England, gave his personal recollections of Napoleon Na-poleon ILL before the Young Men's Christian Association of Bergen, on Monday night. He thus referred to the government of our country : "We have a republican form of government, but, with great respect, I don't think just now that our republican republi-can form of government is calculated to carry any great weight by force of example to monarchial countries. Hisses I mean what I say, and I dou't care whether you hiss me or not. Hissea repeated. Let me explain. I say (bat the government of this country is not the same as it was that the republie of America in 1ST! is not the pure republic it was in former days. Applause. When my friend Sir Charles Dilke was lecturing upon the expense of royalty to the English people, I took the opportunity to tell him (and what I state here I intend to state publicly in England soon) that if he took the robbery and corruption of the government of the United States into consideration, also the robbery rob-bery and plunder of the municipal rings, and then took the enormous amount of taxation we bad to pay, he could not sing the praises of our republic re-public very much, and blow down to royalty an account of its expense to the nation. This country, which was once the freest from taxation in the world, is now the most heavily taxed in the world; and if you debit with this all the corruption of the country, all the corruplion and plunder and robbery of its government and municipal rings, 1 think you will say that a monarchial government is carried on with less expense ex-pense to the people than the government govern-ment of this country." |