The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-06-11
ENGLAND's TROUBLES,

ue uKHt III inc LuGilSu Td-lidmeul
.over the Irish Church Question seems
to have suddenly precipitsted q very
critical issue between the House OF
Commons and House of Lords. This
is, in other words, an indication of Tan
irrepressible conflict " between repre-
sentative and hereditary legislation
The commonalty and the sristocracy
are arrayed one against the other in
fierce hostility. The House of Commons
has passed & bin relieving the people
of Ireland from one great cause of their
sdisafection, the supremacy of the SOW
ereign English Church, and that bill,
going into the House ofLords, is threat
ened with defeat. The people who are
tired of the long continued com N otioD
growing out of lrelan6's oppression and
impatient of the selfish policy of the
sAristocracy, through whom their bur
dens are constantly made more grevous
10 bear, stand by their representatives,
the Commons, and talk of revolutionary
measures if the Lords persist in disre-
garding their demands. Even the Tory
organs admit that the existence of thu
Peerage is threatened. 1t would seem,
indeed, that the aristocratic branch of
the Government were about acknowl
ssdging its responsibility to the popular
will for even the Times talks approx
ingly Of acceding to the prevailing ma
ttional sentiment. This extraordinary
state of affairs is not to be wondered at.
The composition of the English Parla-
,ment itself is an incongruity. 1t pre-
sents the anomaly of a governmental
machine divided against itself-one half
democratic and the other half aristo
cratic. Popular suffrage in England |
goes but half way toward the subservi |
,ance of the popular will. 1t is stopped !
at the door of the House of Lcrds-a |
branch Of the Government whose very |
title, creation and essence dates back to |
and participates in feuda!ism and the |
genius of oligarchy. The 1" irrepressi
bic conflict" Being begun, one or the
other of the opposing forces must sue
cum5. The tendency of modern Eng
land is toward democracy. Year by
year the franchise is extended and year
by year the people gain strength and
aggressiveness. The often expressed
doubt OF the Prince of Wales peace
full sscendancy Of the throne is
not without foundation. Half the leg
isiative power of the Government in
he hands of the hereditary law makers
who have no sympathy with the peo-
pie aud all the lands of England in the
hands on few who came into its per- ,
petual possession by the laws of entail
men. and primogs allure make a condi-
ton which must and will be assailed =
+ the English commonalty are to con- f
.inue to advance in education and the /
self respectful Ideas OF democracy =
Either the masses must retrogrede or
abandon their already advanced posi- s
ions. The attitude as presented to US a
~ the Reporters of Parliament pro-
,eedings and by the tone of the Eng o
ish press lead US to the conclusion that 8
here is no danger of such retrograda- o
ion, no peradventure as to the final :
npshot Of the struggle With her aris-
ocratic institutions threatened by her
common people aud herself hard pressed C
~ the demands of injured America, IL
condition would seem to be
pore critical now than ct any time 9.
ince the days of the first Napoleon's II
continental victories. V