The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1878-03-16 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1878

LOCAL GOVI;MNIVIEN P.

A people's possession of the privilege of
managing its own affairs has been in all ages a
highly-prized and valued one. and attempts to
strangle or to suppress it have given rise to
sown of the fiercest wars which history records.
We might go bAck to the earliest times for Are
truth of this proposition, bat prominent illustra-
tions of it will at Once occur to the mind.
When Rome, in her proudest and most paiwy
days, ()venal the known world, and conqhered
as much of it as was deemed worth having, the
conquest of every people and every tribe was
strenuously resisted, because they resented
the idea of a strange government being placed
over them. It did not signify to them that the
Roman Emperors would institute a better
system of administration than they could ever
have organised for themselves, that roads
would be made, agriculture encouraged, and
internal resources developed. The distant na-
tions could not see matters in this light. They
rasher rule themselves, however badly,
than be governed by the flreigner. Whether
the Romans nude their conquests in Europe,
ksin, or Africa, the predomidadt fieling was
a'ways the same in the oreasts of tile
v..equisbed. Tee sentiment was the sams
udon the shores of ihe Sle‘iii:errartean, or upoo
t'.e chaiky coast-line of t zglsi Chanuei.
And so it came to pass that, when Johns Cat-
wade his f,nions descent upon _Britain. he
_

!ound the roelc. and (!iffs covered with arraitd

oen to oJpc hiM hini;ing. What car; !hose
iturd, stv-jr•rq Ikyrtdicea th.o.
. . .

tion f, :flowed in 7 ht; ,r to of tho Rowan arxiei ?
What interest was it to those rude warriors to
know that citiys would spring up on the banks
of rivers, that cornfields would take the plat),
of the briar and the thistle, and that the con-
struction of a system of Roman roads would
give easy means of communication between
different parts of the country? The life which
they had led had suited them -very well; they
wanted nothing better; indeed they would
rather live in their humble cottages than dwell
in palaces constructed by Roman architec s.
They wanted, in short, to rule tgemselves, and
that has been the universal sentiment amongst
conquered peoples.
When the Goths and the Visigoths, the
Vandals and the Huns swept down from the
centre and east of Europe, and destroyed the
Roman power, the civilization of the world was
thrown back for centuries. To this day the
term " Goth " or " Vandal " has associated
with it memories of pillage and destruction
The fabric which Rome had supported for a
thousand years was suddenly swept away, and
the peoples which had been governed from the
fmperial Senate House at last got what they
wanted—self-government. The Roman cohorts
, were withdrawn for the defence of the capital
of the empire, and with the disappearance of
the last of the legions the subjugated tribes
and nations were free to role themselves. The

consequences were disagremneuts and civil
wars at home, too often ending in their being
overrun by hordes of barbarians
.stronger than
they were, Had the Roman empire possessed
the essential elements of strength, had it not

relaxed its :discipline when its conquests were
ended, had it not given itself up to luxury, at
last sinking, beneath the wei4ht of its own
magnificence, no such a time as the Dark Ages
worCd ever have been known. But the savages
who at last swanned upon its walls, crowded
its treets and squares, and worked their wil
ripen its marble palaces, could not replace tLa
w6ieh they destroyed; they wire adepts at
casting down, but they .were totally unable to
nuiid up. The - reign of ignorance and. super-
stition for conturies was the result. Peoples
were an easy prey to any- savage 'norde that
-c3red to invade them. Ruthless tyrants like
Tamerlane overran some of the fairest lands
upon the surface of this earth, not bearing With
them emblems of light and progress like the
Romans, but carrying with them only devasta-
tion and ruin. Thus it Was that the .seven
churches in Asia, described in such -graphic
language in the book of Revelations, and
flourishing enough in the days of the Romans,
.w.-,ra successively sacked and burned by
Tamerlane. Ephesus and Smyrna, Pergamos
and Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, .and
Laodices, fell a prey to this instrument of

destruction, and to -thii clay most of them are
wretched villages with unrecognizable Turkish
names. The difference between the Russiqn
and the Turk was wide • and marked. The
former promoted agriculture and built towns ;'
the latter laid
_waste everything in. his way,

and boasted that wherever a -Turkish hors-e-
-tr/r1 " grew reither grass, nor shrub, nor
tree." _ _ _ _

Two striking instances of the desire for self-
government will occur to all who know any-
thing of the, history of the closing generation
of the last century. One was the revolt of the
American colonies. and .the establishment of
their independence ; the other was the French
Revolution. The government ag,)iTst which
the people (If France rose was one of the worst
in the worij. The !masses were heavily taxed!
without being represented; exaction and op-
pression ran riot in every department of the
State; and less than a hundred years _ago the
System of athniniAration across the Channel
.would have disgraced a heathen land. No
wonder that an infuriated people at last
-turned upon its. tasknisters, although the
most frightful excesses were committed in the
name of Liberty and Justice. England has
been wise in time. The attempt to govern the
nation and to levy taxes without the consent
!of Parlitunent, ended disastrously enough in
1649, and this was sneedily followed by the
Revolution and the Bill of Rights. The Re-
Act (If 1832 strengthened the Grmstitution
widening its bl.si 4, and aiimitting a-consider-
al -number of the people to political power.
The Municipal Cerporationi Act three years
hter estab;i3Led a sy -outr looal government
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