The Placer herald., 1857-03-28
A Monarchy and a Republic.

The arrival of the Presidents Message in
London, called forth the following observa-
tons from democratic journal, the Peopje's
Poper, edited by Ernest Jones. The con
trast between the English Monarchy and the
American Republic must strike with force
the most superficial reader:
''IIere we have an old Monarchy with a
German Royal family costing one million
pounds per annum-a national debt of 500
millions pounds sterling, costing twenty
eight millions per annum, and entailed by
that German royal family, through German
vars, for German interests; a hereditary land
ed-aristocracy, drawing rental Of 100 mil
lions yearly, from the people; State Church,
robbing the same people OF eleven millions
more every year; apOorrate equal to the re-
venue and pauper population equal to the
inhabitants of some continental kingdoms
and debt, royal extravaganza, pauperism
poor-rates, taxation, and land rental, in
creasng constantly. That is what we have
here.
''On the other side Of the Atlantic, there
is young Republic, with a native President,
who costs only $4,000 per annum; a national
debt of only seven million pounds, which
might be paid off in one year, without the
revenue of the country feeling any material
drain; an income so large that the Executive
seeks to reduce it by ten million dollars; no
hereditary aristocracy drawing the life e-blood
from the peoples veins; no State Church
spelling the people, as the lsraeites were
told to spoil the Egyptians, we are informed,
but for a far less excusable motive; no pau
pers and no poor-rates worth mentioning;
no foreign interests predominant in legisla-
ton; no war undertaken for the interests of
an alen-descended family; no decay, no de-
cline, no threatened ruin; but, on the con-
trary, prosperity, wealth, economy, happiness
and contentment. That is what they have
there
"Why is this difference? Because in the
one country there is franchise restricted to
one-seventh of the population, one-half of
which seventh returns seventh-tenths OF the
representation: combined with that useless
mischievious, and ridiculous institution called
'monarchy.' Because in that country there
is Universal Suffrage, and Republic That
is the difference between the two institutions,
as seen in their results. Could there be a
more striking comment on the relative value
of the two!
"President Pierce's last message, just given
to the world, presents picture of prosperity
and good government-such as no other
country in the world can show.
similar prosperity might exist here under
similar government The resources of
America are, it is true, greater than our
own, but the resources of Great Britain and
Ireland are more than great enough to pro
duce Identical results. The cause Of the
difference lies in the difference between the
institutions of the two nations.
"Take case in point. Holland was once
a republic; it is now monarchy. When it
was republic, it was rich, prosperous, and
happy. Its commerce filled the world; its
fleets swept the seas; it had no debt; its trea
sury was filed to overflowing, and its people
were the envy and admiration of the world.
1t became monarchy, and its commerce de-
cayed; its fleets vanished; its prosperity dis
appeared, and it sank as low as once it rose
Pre-eminent. You may say the rivalry of
England produced those results; but, in the
tace of that rivalry, the United States rose
from small beginnings under arepublic, while
under monarchy, Holland sunk from con
summated greatness