The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-12-02
The British Anti MOnarchica Move.
ment---Free Discussion Invited.

" HlO NIL. Dl-AOA ttAN LILO
friends at Birmingham are pre-
pairing to call the House of Lords
to account, Sir Charles Dixie
has been overhauling the mo-
amid the applause of a
crowded assembly, at Newcastle
on-Tyne. Nothing is sacred to
our political sapeWs. The strength
which is spent in assaulting the
mechanism of govern
ment might far more profitably
be directed in obtaining through
it the political and social reforms
which are essential. There is
little good in burning down the
house in order to boil our eggs.
At the same time; if men choose
to discuss the usefulness of an
hereditary chamber, or even the
value of the monarchy, by all
means let them do SO. TO depre-
cate ample and even hostile criti-
cism, still more to meet the
critics with gross personal abuse,
is insidiously to betray the cause
which is ostentatiously defended.
What Lord Salisbury said in and
of tho House of Lords is true of
every English institution, even
the highest, that if it can not
prove it's utility against impug-
ners it has no claim to existence.
In a free constitution, there can
be nothing which is too holy for
examination. Let men know in
detail tho price Of the monarchy,
that they may learn whether or
not they get proper value for it.
If that price is more than is
necessary properly to symbolic
tho dignity of the State, the bar
gain of tho nation with the
Grown maybe revised on fitting
occasion. In the meantime, if
the monarchy in England costs
us something it saves us some
thing. 1t would DO difficult to
reduce to a pecuniary estimate
the annual loss in wasted ener-
gies of the election every four
years of a Chief Magistrate in
the United States, and of the
wholesale and minute jObbing
which the organizations for this
purpose keep up.
ENGLAND DIssTINE TO BE A REPUBLIC
Prom the London Spectator I4ib.) Nov. III
We have never concealed our
belief that this country is, by the
of it's people, by their
history, and by their
insular genius and manners, moro
fitted for an aristocratic common
wealth than a monarchy that
the divergence between her in
stincts and her political circum-
stances is q permanent source of
weakness; that one day it may
be imperative on our statesmen
to modify our Institutions, with
the consent of the sovereign and
through the regular constitution
al forms, in the republican sense !;
but VIC utterly despise tho argu-
ment which seems for the mo-
ment so attractive to the masses
of the North.
Hon. James Brooks, dating
from Pekin, says: "What a field
this would be for Mrs. Cady Stan
ton and the other bright, strong
ladies, who, in America,
are for reforming the world-for
woman is not of the least account
here, save to DC pretty and well
painted with white powder and
vermilion, hair long, sEcwered,
and we'll glued, so that a gale Of
wind cannot be disturb 1.-THE
whole standing upon two little
props, looking like birds claws
done up in sandals, and here call
ed feet Alas woman fashions
are equally foolish everywhere I!
I bet in Japan, once, the wo-
mans hair was her own, and was
in the bet. I would not
bet on anything about a woman
in China, now, from her head to
her foot-claws-from her long
nails to the color of her face. Cop
per I should have called her col
OF, but I SEQ so many powdered
and vermilion faces that I am
not certain now the woman race
is not.white with red checks, or
cheeks n little Redeemed. Above
the brows is often painted red,
with the eyelids, too
n large company of ladies and
gentlemen in Bridgeport got up
Il surprise few nights since.
They carried an almost unlimited
quantity OF provisions, expect
ing to have fine supper. After
their arrival, the goodies were
taken by the lady of the house
and deposited in the pantry,
nrohahlN SrnnOSinW they were