The Montana post., 1868-12-11
THE MONTANA POST.
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The importance OF the issues Involved
lin our recent campaign and tlseArejoic-
ings consequent upon Republican sue
cess. has partially eclipsed the greatest
and most successful effort England has
made IN favor Of Liberal reform. bur
their contest. involving principles simi-
lar in many respects to oars, and result-
ing in a not less brilliant triumph of the
progressive party. is cause for equal ex-
ultation from all lovers Of liberal gov
ernment So keenly has the Prime
Minister, Disraeli. felt the rebuke of the
people. that he las thrown down the
baton of power. Ms impetuously as did
his predecessor Mr., Gladstone, in 1866.
What a pity IL is that government off,
GERS on this side the Atlantic are devoid
OF such fine sensibilities. The incoming
of the new parliament with Mr.. Glad
stcEe as Premier and sweeping Liberal
majority in the House of Commons. with
John Bright as leader. insures as one of
its first measures the dis-establish nent
tant which, probably more than auy
other has melted the Irish people To
embitteIed hostility toward England
In this and kindred Irish reforms, Feni-
anism has its triumph and perhaps it's
death, While all the world sympa-
thised with that people in the harsh
severity and injustice OF English rule,
they are few who believe that the inde-
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can have equal rights, privileges and
immnnities as part OF the British gov
ernmeEt The result of :he election is
royal step toward that object. and
although we believe fear WAS the incep-
rion oi the popular tide that has swept
over England. it has been turned To
practical advantage by those eminent
Liberal statesmen, who have been moral
heroes fighting caste. and oppression in
the very jaws ot the lion. This radical
reform in Il government adherinS so
tenaciouslv 20 old established ideas,
cannot but be regarded ~ civil revo>
tuition as significant as that which threw
Spain in the hands ot the revolutionists
and sent Isabella IA fugitive 10 the court
of France. Where will il endy Will
the English people hesitate i'm the work
they have begun, and Gladstone escape
the issues he has invoked as he has
indicated in his pamphlet or
will this initial step be followed until
England is Republic as our own. 1t
is said revolutions never turn back ward.
and il is equally true there is no prac-
teal peoples government except Re
public. The masses ot England. en-
tranchised by the hundred thousand at
the last tern oi Parliament. have spo-
ken. They evidenced their sympathy
with and admiration o. our government
in the late rebellion, by many signiii>
cant deeds, and have elected the strong
est friends and admirers OF the Ameri~
can government To represent them in
the Commons. America is teaching
England lessons in government, how
ever arbitrarily it may condemn the
declaration, and those who have drifted
into power on the flood tide ot liberal
sentiment will have TO shape their in~
stitutions and measures on the Ameri>
can pattern. or evidence their hypocrisy
and deceive their constituents by a
treacherous surrender to the non>re
formists This will, not. canpot. be
done while Bright and Mill and Glad
stone champion the way To lop of the
centu-y>grown wrongs of aristocracy.
The English elections are a reflex of our
own and the triumph is one that be-
tokens the fires of freedom, which have
spread their resplendent glories over
this continent, are burning brightly on
the other. May they never pale until
republics belt the earth and all nations
join in the anthems of the free.