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Show )3 OO j DIFFERENT DEGREES OF I REAL MISERY. J Though conditions are bad in Eu- . jlf ropo and the outlook gloomy, there ,1 have been periods of greater distress 5 RQJ woe, in fact, Arthur Brisbane, by , a . comparative statement, leads one to v3j believe Europe is going through a nat- 3 ural stage of recoil to bo followed by ' S advancement. Ho findB In the hlaton yM. rf the distant past much to console . W those who think things could not bo 1m worse. He says: i:M "Conditions are not as bad as when $m ,he hleck plague killed more than half i:M af all the people in Europe. Not as L'M aad in France as when It was neccs-sary neccs-sary to pass a law to keep peasants , om ealU3g human bodies dead of the fM lague. European conditions are not j9 u bad as thpy were in England when the idle, starving workman that wan dcred from his parlsn, without permission, per-mission, to find work elsewhere, was branded with a red hot Iron; or when In England tho city government, lord of tho manor, bishop and king each had a separato gallowg. and merchants mer-chants bringing presents of fish and pamo waited on their ltncos at the doors of Parliament to beg reliof from too many hangings Conditions are not as bad for Europe as when Attila came marauding with his hordes bnigginR that the gmss never grew again where his horse had put Its foot Conditions have been worse In Europe than at present, for centuries at time. Europe having got over much worse conditions, will get over theso conditions " If there Is comfort In comparing horror with a greater degree of horror, hor-ror, then Europe should have the fortitude to go on enduring until a brighter day is at hand. In the meantime mean-time the countless millions bolng sacrificed sac-rificed can find no consolation in either tho past, present or future. |