The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-23 00:00:00

REPUBLICANISM IN ENGLAND.
(From the Richmand

The English detuagoguis have taken the stump
against monarchy. A Sir Charles Mike takes the
lead. The staple of his argument is "the expenses of
Royalty "-• which he illustrates by enumerating the
IMMO; Of the officers— the surgeons chamberlain,
cooks, &e. - of the Rival householii. The hits iss amount
for these iille mouths, including the Queen ant Royal
fluidly, is put down at the monstrous figure of--five
milli, ins 14 it Mars ! It is the ridiculous mouse of the
mountain. For the i mkt atil honest got,inumint
which Queen Victoria has bestowed upon the English
people fin. thirty-tald years they might well afford to
pay tea times tie amount. It has not only been
honest anil quiet and prosperous, it has le-en the freest
government on earth. It is an illustration of the
truth that there is nothing in the form of the govern-
ment. The government best adlailliSterCd is best.
We of the I 'Mull States boast of bring the " model
Republic." Mow do we °impure with England in the
expenditure of or Rival householl, awl the results
of administration? We allow our Chief a salary of
25,000 dots., and his subordinates emoluments cone-
sismiling to their position. This is the allowance id
the law—and we Hatter ourselves that we have the
cheapest government in earth. But, in reality, our
twenty-five cents. President is the most costly rolls in
the w0r1d.... The sums stolen every week by Federal
office holders would, at a moderate calculation, greatly
exceed the total annual expenses of the Royal family of
England. The cotton swindle, mentioned by the
Tritunc, alone amounts to thirty millions. That
Was a single operation. How much has gone in land
j mi., in stock-jobbing, and in Seneca Rings, to say
nothing of daily d defalcations, would be rain to inquire.
In the Southern States the roguery has been by tail.
lions. In Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama, and orida the thieving exceeda
seventy-live millions. In Georgia from ten to fifteen
millions, and the fugltive governor in addition stole
the 600,000 dols, appropriated to common schools.
But in the two Carolinas we have the most striking
illustration of Republican rule. In North Carolina
the amount stolen exceeds twenty-six millions, and in
South Carolina thirty two millions. What renders
these two States such shining examples is the feet that
the parties who have thus robbed the people are main-
tained at the point of the bayonet by the Republican
authorities at Wmihing,tos. Grant bolds while his
carpet-bag allies skin the poor people. Both of these
States have been overrun by the military, and the pri-
sons are crowded by their citizens, arrested and confined
without warrant. In all this we have a fair sample
of the purity and justice of Republican government.
The good people of England had better take heed of
it. Queen Victoria, with her five millions, is cheap
compared with Grant and his thievish underlings. She
does not suspend habeas Corpud— the badge of every
free people—and her personal administration is pure
and unstained by an imputation of venality. She
doea not extort presents from her officers ri.s the price
of their appointment, and she is a member of no ring,
granite or stock-jobbing. and she dots, not subject
while districts of her country to merciless dragomules.

Our English cousins had 'better pause. Either ,in
the score of cheap and honest Or Rood government,
they may not improve their condition by substituting
Republicanism for Monarchy—Briullaugh Grant for
Victoria Guelph. The government worst administered
is worst.