PEACE HATH HER VICTORIES.

Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1183, 29 January 1869, Page 4

PEACE HATH HER VICTORIES.

[This poem will bo of interest to our readers, as being the composition of the martyr, Thomas D'Atcy • U'GreeJ] To people wastes, to supplement the sun, 1 To plunfc the olive where the wild briers grow, To bid rash rivers in safe channels run, The youth of aged cities to renew; To shut the temple of the two faced god— Gvsind triumphs these, worthy a conqueror's car, They need no herald's horn, no liefcor's rod— Peace hath her victories, no loss than War. To raise the drooping artist's head, to breathe The woi'd despairing genius thirsts to heur, To crown all service with its earned wreath, To be oflawkss force the Toe austere; This is to stretch a scaptre over time, Tin's is to jfive our davkling earth n star, And belt with the omcrnld scroll sublime — Peace hath her victories, no less than War. To stand amidst the passions of the hour, Stonu-lnsh'd, resounding tierce from shore to shore; To watch the human whirlwind waste its power; Till drowned .Reason lifts her head once more, To build on hatred nothing ; to be just, Judging of men and nations as they are — Too strong to share the counsels of mistrust —■ Peace hath her victories, no less than War. To druw the nation in a silken bond—■ Or to their highest exercise of good ; To show the better land, above, beyond The sea of Egypt, all who.-o waves are blood ; Tii^sc leaders of the age, th<\-e nrts be thine, All vulgar victories surpussing far ; On these all Heaven'a benignant planets shine— Pence hath her victories, no less than War. •— The Broadway. THE ITr/KMPLOYRP POOR LEAGUE—A NEW COMMUNIST PROPOSAL. A jS'eav "League" has been organised in London, tinder the name of "The Unemployed Poor League."' At a recent open-" air weekly meeting, held at jNTorton, London, the following resolution was unanimously (inrried :—" That, having in view that imperial incubus, the national debt, exceeding £500,000,000, spent in past wars, initiated and carried on by an aristocratic few, for purposes of ambition and selftifrgiv.nclisement, and involving an annual liability and payment of interest of over £20,000,000, wrung from the pockets of tax payers, and by them enacted from the laboring classes, by surcharging the necessaries of life, clothing, and house rental, and by reducing wages for labor rendered : and also having in view the colossal fortunes of certain millionaires, whose annual income is so immeasurably in excess of Iheir legitimate and necessary out-goings, ■which should not exceed those amply met by the liberal salaries of cabinet ministers, judges, and bishops—averaging £5000 Yearly—and also calculating, by way of example, that the present Marquis of Bute's annual income of £300,000. less £5000, leaves an annual excess of £295,000, which capitalised, say at live per cent., would give £s,ooo.ooo—this meeting therefore recommends for the consideration of the next reformed Parliament the imperious necessity of legislatively limiting or fixiug a maximum to individuals incomes, approximating, more or less, to £5000 per annum, and his aggregate wealth afc that amount capitalised at, five per cent.; and also for considering the-, propriety of applying the net aggregate surplus capital thereby realised, in reduction or extinction of the national debt, and the balance, if any, to be applied in the establishment of local depots for works and undertakings of a public nature, and in the relief of the general taxation or otherwise, as may be deemed expedient; and this meeting believes that if honestly and impartially carried out, the above programme will reap Ihe following results:—A nominal taxation, full employment with a minimum of labor :ii:ii jiic'tj.'y of wholesome food, good clothing, mi!! 1 healthy and roomy shelter, including hirlicrlo unknown luxuries; emigration, pauperism, and starvation by-gones ; aeontented, loyal, and happy people, and a progressive, prosperous, and employed nation !"