The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1870-10-16
A British Republic.

A British Republic.
1 The waves Of revolution are surgine
4 upon. the shores of Great Britain. The
Ipeople Of the fast. anchored isle are begin.
ming to feel the impulses that throb through.
out the rest of the world. Men reflect il
England as elsewhere upon the great prob
lens of the day, problems which the his
tory and condition of our own country
have set before the world for solution.
Have they any use for nobility IL
there any advantage in royalty They
see in operation q constitution which
confines the wealth Of the nation with
il narrow limits, and reduces the popu-
lation, as a mass, to poverty. Pow
| erty is the sore which has eaten into
English society until it has become un-
bearable, and some remedy must be sought.
Poverty is there, not because England is
poor, for England is the richest country of
the world. Her conquests and colonies
embrace nearly one hundred and City mil
lions of men, and their trade is made tribu-
tary to her wealth. The fruits of their
labor ill her ships and warehouses with
treasure. But poverty has placed it's iron
hand upon the hearts of nine-tenths of her
population, because Of legal and constitu-
tional restrictions which prevent enter
prise, labor and wealth from pursuing their
natural channels and attaining their natural
results. For several centuries the people
have groaned under the increasing weight
Of these evils, while zealously holding that
they enjoyed the fullest freedom and the
best balanced government of any people in
the world.
These loyal decisions are, however,
fast vanishing before the bitter sufferings
of the population. Men are growing FESTIVE
at being treated as clods of dirt, while gild-
ed nobility roll by in pampered state with
oct vouchsafing a notice of their existence |
This would all do very we'll some decades
of years ago, but there are SO many men
nowadays who have seen how humap
nature is respected in other countries,
in America, that new ideas on
hose subjects are beginning to diffuse
themselves among the people. There are
some who cannot see why plebeian is not
Is good as a lord, in fact what right any
me has to be lord except by his
'wn merit and ability. This class of
hinkers appears to have been gaining
apidly of late, while evidences of dislike
o the reigRing family multiply as rapidly
3 do proofs of personal independence
mong the untitled. The Prince of Wales is
lissed, and the Queen is advised to abdi-
ate.
If the Republic succeeds in France it
annot be long delayed in England. We y,
nay say that royalty is the established g,
orm of government there aud ought not to
70 overturned unless by some grievous i
7rong it has forfeited it's claims, but it I
lay be replied that royalty and nobility in
'ngland are both responsible for the afro f
ious wrong of deadly poverty and suffer- t
,g under which the masses suffer. The v
eople cannot suffer more than thew do. a
hey would have more to eat and wear
nder the despotism of the Russian Gear >,
ian they have in enlightened England, ri
,erefore any change would be welcom to p
lem.
republic in Great Britain would be the T,
est solution of the Irish question and re
erhaps it might be arranged to the mu- B
ial advantage of both sides of the channel, VI y.
} form confederation. 1t would give q,
rength and security to the whole, form A
g nation which would be able to en- &c
rec respect for its rights in every quarter n,
the globe. If the French war continues 81
UGH longer we may see something of the III
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